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Synthetic compounds have catapulted the United States’ overdose crisis to global distinction. With nearly 108,000 deaths from overdose in 2021, the US now has an overdose mortality rate that’s about 20 times the worldwide average. bit.ly/3bFmLIk
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"Textbook publisher Pearson plans to profit from secondhand sales by turning its titles into non-fungible tokens (NFTs), its chief executive has said."
theguardian.com/books/2022/a…
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Hackers drain nearly all of the ~$190M in crypto from the Nomad token bridge, which is backed by Coinbase and OpenSea, over a long series of transactions (@newarbrian / Cointelegraph)
cointelegraph.com/news/nomad…
techmeme.com/220801/p19#a220…
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"If all hell breaks loose, you can come here and you'll be OK." In New Mexico, a 312-acre property built for survival is listing for $30 million. wsj.com/articles/in-the-new-…
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Howells told @thisisinsider he's put together an $11M proposal he hopes will convince Newport's city council to let him excavate the local dump.
The council has denied Howells' requests to let him try to dig up his hard drive for almost a decade.
businessinsider.com/james-ho…
ALT Photo shows James Howells standing outside and looking into the camera.
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Already, parts of the lake popular with kayakers, beach-goers and tribal members have dried up.
Fierce dust storms blow off the exposed lake bottom and cloud the skies with some of the nation’s worst air pollution. sfchronicle.com/climate/arti…
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My latest with Chen Shalita of Shomrim: In Israel, slain soldiers are becoming dads thanks to a technique called postmortem sperm retrieval. Critics call it planned orphanhood bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @BW
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Interesting. Apparently, for some conservationists, the cause of biodiversity loss is not linked to deforestation, mining, and other corporate interests, but it's population growth in Africa and all of this will be sorted out if you give them more money 🤔 theguardian.com/environment/…
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Looking for a DIY project? Try making your own coffin. “We just had so much fun.” on.wsj.com/3zdcb4k
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Stories of job discrimination against recovered Covid-19 patients have gone viral on Chinese Social Media.
Since then the SH government pledged "equal career opportunities to recovered COVID-19 patients" but I think the original stories are worth highlighting:
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All-seeing eye for thee but not for me: Chinese surveillance vendors now offer "red lists"—people who are invisible to security and monitoring systems. nytimes.com/2022/06/25/techn…
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Research generated in academic institutions like NYU’s School of Law provides the ideological scaffolding that cops use to support policies avowing the acceptability of police violence.
bit.ly/3bwRQgU
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China is building a new modern marvel. It's not a dam or a high speed rail, it's the most sophisticated domestic surveillance system in the world.
The scale of data collection is staggering. No biometric frontier is neglected. This is how it works: nytimes.com/video/world/asia…
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Zoos cannot provide enough space for animals. Big cats such as tigers and lions have around 18,000 times less space in zoos than they would in the wild.
Think before you make that next trip, do you really need to see animals in a cage?
Your one day out, their life of misery!
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New meaning to the “Chinese wall”between research and banking. LOL. Of course it’s JPM.
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IFF has amassed influence largely by a tool it calls “The Freedom Index,” a system of scoring and ranking lawmakers. If a GOP legislator’s score falls too low for IFF’s liking, that legislator can expect IFF to back a primary opponent. huffpost.com/entry/far-right…
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From our compound's WeChat group, taken at the entrance gate. People coming back from their stay at a quarantine center are sprayed with some disinfectant before they can enter.
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Social media has enabled the neural hijacking of trait empathisation and the weaponization of empathy at an unprecedented scale.
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By @TMclaughlin3: "By self-censoring, cowering, and hiding behind empty platitudes, the FCC risks carrying on as little more than a decorative carapace that serves to conveniently disguise the corrosion occurring inside." theatlantic.com/internationa…
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Nice to see Japanese folklore get so much attention, but one thing drives me nuts about the coverage: the translations. Sessho-seki is “Life-taking Stone,” not killing. And a ninetailed fox is not a "demon." She's a yokai. Here's why that's important (1/12 nytimes.com/2022/03/18/world…
