How sea kayaking sustains me. By George Monbiot, published in the New Statesman, 26th July 2023 There’s one question I’m asked more than any other. How do you cope? Like other environmental journalists, I spend my life rolling in the excrement of humanity. Every day, I must think about the terrible things we’re doing to […]
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What could go worng? Again. HAL: I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you. We’ve been here before. We’ll be here again. We’re here right now. Savey Meal-Bot has the greatest enthusiasm for its mission and wants to help you (Ars Technica): When given a list of harmful ingredients, an AI-powered recipe suggestion bot called the Savey Meal-Bot returned ridiculously titled dangerous recipe suggestions, reports The Guardian. The bot is a product of the New Zealand-based PAK’nSAVE grocery chain and uses the OpenAI GPT-3.5 language model to craft its recipes. PAK’nSAVE intended the bot as a way to make the best out of whatever leftover ingredients someone might have on hand. For example, if you tell the bot you have lemons, sugar, and water, it might suggest making lemonade. So a human lists the ingredients and the bot crafts a recipe from it.
Like the OAS in South America and ASEAN on the Asian continent, ECOWAS serves as a cudgel for US power projection in Africa, and as Alan Macleod reveals, it is now being leveraged against Niger.
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One of the limitations of economics is the restricted possibility to perform experiments, forcing it to mainly rely on observational studies for knowledge of real-world economies. But still — the idea of performing laboratory experiments holds a firm grip on our wish to discover (causal) relationships between economic ‘variables.’ If we only could isolate and […]
Norman Solomon, a longtime peace activist, explains America’s magician’s trick.
The post How the U.S. Makes Its Wars Invisible appeared first on The Intercept.
Who will step up and say so? It’s 4 a.m. Not another car in sight. No headlights in the distance. The light is red and you’re in a rush to get to the airport. You run the light. It’s against the law but there’s no one to enforce it. Is it still the law? That, essentially, is what scholars of the Constitution, William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas, ponder in their paper examining Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment initially passed to prohibit Civil War participants from holding office. It reads in full: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, un-der the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
Penny Pepper explores how she encourages disabled people to reclaim labels – to twist and refute them
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. Toujours la meilleure chanson dans les presque 70 ans du Concours Eurovision de la Chanson. Le style unique de France Gall et sa capacité à transmettre des émotions authentiques ont fait d’elle une artiste vénérée, capable de toucher le cœur de chacun de ses auditeurs. Je l’ai vue pour la première fois en 1965 […]
“Jenin is a not a bomb factory.”
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How is a shopping site operating in the UK able to market knives seemingly at school kids without sanction? Katherine Denkinson investigates.
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Here’s one of those mildly boring updates about when and where I’ll be reading poems over the coming months. First, a couple of new shows to announce for March 2024. Tickets have just gone on sale for CHESTER (Storyhouse) and LINCOLN (Theatre Royal). Earlier this week, tickets also went on sale for a couple of…
Biden is "practically" declaring a climate emergency.
The Nib's Inkwell members tell us.
As readers will remember, I didn’t think much of the other cases against Trump, not because he isn’t likely guilty, but becaus none of them were the important thing he did: try a coup.
They also violated the cultural rule that elites don’t get indicted for such things. Of course, they should, but doing it only against Trump and not against other very senior politicians who have clearly committed crimes is likely to cause an escalation of intra-elite fighting, but that’s a minor thing.
The US isn’t much of a democracy, but to the extent it still is, protecting what remains is important, and there’s little question in my mind that Trump did try to overthrow an election which clearly went to Biden. (I didn’t endorse either Biden or Trump, this is not a partisan question to me.)
So I’m pleased to see this indictment.
Preparation time: 10 min.Baking time: 25 to 30 min.Oven temperature: 325°F Here is a springtime dessert of tangy-sweet rhubarb and cool, creamy yogurt. Rhubarb, the traditional “pie plant” combine naturally with yogurt. Cinnamon and toasted almonds top this low-calorie dessert. For 4 servings you will need:1 lb. rhubarb½ cup sugarCinnamonPlain yogurt or vanilla yogurtToasted sliced […]
Donald Trump is requesting that the judge order the government to build a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago so that he doesn’t have to make a trip to the courthouse to review all the classified documents he stole. It’s awfully inconvenient for him to do that . All the TV lawyers are puzzled by this because a judge doesn’t have the authority to order anything like this and it would be unusual, to say the least, to allow the documents to go back to the place where he previously stored them in toilets and ballrooms and refused to give them back. He’s very busy, you see: He says that Biden has the IQ of a first grader…