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There's a place for everyone
This is, I think, the unspoken fault line that divides all ideologies. If you trace arguments about marginal tax rates or soybean tariffs or whatever back to their origin, you will usually find a disagreement about whether our ideal world contains all of the inhabitants of our current world, or whether reaching Utopia will require us to toss some folks overboard. We don’t talk much about this, because if the people on Team Overboard were honest about who they plan to purge, none of their intended victims would be friends with them, let alone vote for them.
I’m on Team Nobody Goes Overboard because I believe every human has equal moral value—that’s the axiomatic, “no evidence for it” part. But I don’t just believe that there should be a place for everyone. I also believe that there is a place for everyone, and there’s plenty of evidence for that belief, and there are some unfortunate reasons why not everyone believes it, all of which I present to you now.
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How to spot deepfakes and AI-generated images - New Scientist (No paywall)It can sometimes be difficult to spot AI-generated videos such as deepfakes, in which a person’s facial expression or speech is generated or altered. Deepfakes’ potential to misinform or disrupt democratic processes is huge, especially given we are entering an era where anyone can create them with just a simple text prompt. Andrea Hickerson at the University of Mississippi and Edward J. Delp at Purdue University in Indiana discuss the rising threat from AI-created content and what we can do about it.
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2024's Comedians You Should and Will Know - Vulture (No paywall)The comedy industry is undergoing a metamorphosis in 2024. Name-brand comedy venues are opening new locations, beloved local venues are being bought out by megacorporations, and streaming-service-helmed comedy festivals are usurping the old-fashioned ones. Post–WGA strike, TV-development execs are growing green-light-shy; other streamers are entering the stand-up fray; and YouTube specials are becoming just as, if not more, worthy of watching as Netflix specials. A comedian asking an audience member what they do for a living is transforming from age-old stand-up cliché to heated (and mockworthy) comedy debate, and platforms like Instagram and TikTok, which only a few years ago were looked down upon, are now churning out some of the most consistently talented performers on the internet.
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NATO nation scrambles aircraft during Russian attack on LvivWarsaw has been forced to scramble its fighter jets on multiple occasions throughout the war as part of measures to protect its airspace during large-scale Russian missile strikes on Ukraine. Poland has said that Russian missiles fired at western Ukraine entered its airspace several times. Moscow has said incursions were accidental.
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The hidden cause behind your miserable flight delaysIndependent journalism is more important than ever. Vox is here to explain this unprecedented election cycle and help you understand the larger stakes. We will break down where the candidates stand on major issues, from economic policy to immigration, foreign policy, criminal justice, and abortion. We’ll answer your biggest questions, and we’ll explain what matters — and why. This timely and essential task, however, is expensive to produce.
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Your Cynicism Isn't Helping AnybodyWhen I describe “cynics,” you might conjure up a certain type of person: the toxic, smirking misanthrope, oozing contempt. But they are not a fixed category, like New Zealanders or anesthesiologists. Cynicism is a spectrum. We all have cynical moments, or in my case, cynical years.
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Death, Desperation, and Dollars: The Walkathon Craze of the 1920s and '30sEddie Lopez, his face drooped in a mask of misery, didn’t look up. He could not do much more than allow himself to be dragged along by his partner, Mary Martin. Ahead of them, another couple walked around and around in circles, an emcee calling the turtle-like race from a microphone. “It’ll be over soon,” he said. “Eddie’s going fast.”
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How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles | Quanta MagazineThe discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 confirmed what we particle physicists had long suspected: that there is a field permeating the cosmos that generates the masses of elementary particles. Unfortunately, physicists have found it challenging to explain to everyone else how this so-called Higgs field accomplishes its mighty task.
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How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices | Aeon Essaysis professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Madness: A Philosophical Exploration (2022) and The Madness Pill: The Quest to Create Insanity and One Doctor’s Discovery that Transformed Psychiatry (St Martin’s Press, forthcoming). He also writes for Psychology Today on different paradigms of mental illness.
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This ChatGPT Pizza Is A Hit — Here's What's In ItIn case you missed it, in Dubai, the restaurant and delivery chain Dodo Pizza added a new ChatGPT-created pizza to its menu â and it's flying off the shelves like hot cakes, according to the BBC.
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What makes Europe so liveable? - The Economist (No paywall)EVERY YEAR the EIU, our sister company, ranks a big group of global cities on their liveability. This year’s rankings have seen quite a bit of movement. But the top of the index remains dominated by the continent that best combines stability with a high quality of culture and the environment, education, infrastructure and health care, all of which the index’s authors aim to measure objectively. When the scores are done, Europe can take another bow.
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The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America - The New Yorker (No paywall)In fiction and nonfiction, the author Danzy Senna focusses on the experience of being biracial in a nation long obsessed with color lines. Now that Kamala Harris is the Democratic candidate for President, some of Senna’s concerns have come to the fore in political life. Donald Trump attacked Harris as a kind of race manipulator, implying that she had been Indian American before becoming Black for strategic purposes. The claim was bizarre and false, but Senna feels that it reflected a mind-set in white America. “Mixed-race people are sort of up for debate and speculation, and there’s a real return to the idea that your appearance is what matters, not what your background is or your identity,” she tells Julian Lucas, who’s written about Senna’s work in The New Yorker. “And, if your appearance is unclear to us, then we’re going to debate you and we’re going to discount you and we’re going to accuse you of being an impostor.” Senna talks about why she describes people like herself and Lucas using the old word “mulatto,” despite its racist etymology. “The word ‘biracial’ or ‘multiracial’ to me is completely meaningless,” she says, “because I don’t know which races were mixing. And those things matter when we’re talking about identity.” Senna’s newest novel, “Colored Television,” follows a literary writer somewhat like herself, trying to find a new career in the more lucrative world of TV.
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Different, Together - Scientific American (No paywall)In 2015 a woman posted a poorly exposed photograph of a striped dress on Tumblr. Immediately there was disagreement that spread across the Internet: some saw the dress as blue and black, others as white and gold. Remarkably, once you see the dress as either blue/black or white/gold, it may be very hard to change camps. That people could have such different perceptions of the same lace-trimmed dress is a good reminder: each human has a unique brain, influenced by their environment and developmental experiences. Dress-color disagreements aside, research is revealing that humans have a rich diversity of minds. And when they come together, they can conjure fresh insights and innovations.
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Court handcuffs employees with non-compete agreements -- againI hate non-compete contracts — and I’m not alone. They restrict workers’ ability to move from job to job, which in turn reduces salaries. The only way I ever got a significant raise during my career was when I changed employers. So, when the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned non-compete agreements, I, and a few million employees, were pleased as punch.
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A Democracy With Everything but a ChoiceAmid the feverish handicapping of an election often called crucial to the future of American democracy, Missouri tells a different story, repeated time and again across a deeply polarized country where it can feel futile to run as a Democrat or Republican in a stronghold of the other party. In half of all races for partisan offices, candidates are elected — often multiple times — without opposition.
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An Agonizing Dilemma: When Obesity Prevents a Joint ReplacementLess than half of orthopedic surgeons in a survey published last year said they would operate on a patient with a B.M.I. over 40 — more than 22 million American adults fell into that category in 2017-18. Only 11 percent would operate on one of the 3.9 million Americans with a B.M.I. over 50. And patients with a B.M.I. over 55 would be rejected almost everywhere. Just 3 percent of U.S. orthopedists would operate.
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As Groups Have Shifted, Has It Become a 'Normal' Election?The Democratic lead among young voters is back. In high-quality polls over the last month, Vice President Harris leads Mr. Trump by an average of 20 points among the youngest reported demographic cohort (whether that be 18 to 29 or 18 to 34 in a given poll). The same polls showed Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump tied among young voters in July. Older voters, meanwhile, have barely edged at all toward Ms. Harris. Put it together, and the usual generational divide in American politics has returned.
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Gazans Grapple With Prospect of Israeli Presence PostwarThe latest high-level effort to reach a cease-fire agreement in Gaza ended on Aug. 25, with Israel and Hamas, the group that governs the enclave, remaining far apart on several critical issues. One of those, according to an American official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations, is whether Israeli forces will remain on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt, and if so, how many.
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Deregulation and Dishonesty Led to Deadly Grenfell Fire, Inquiry FindsAmong the companies that came under the harshest criticism was Arconic, an American aluminum maker formerly known as Alcoa. It sold the cladding for Grenfell, the report said, but “deliberately concealed from the market the true extent of the danger” of using it in a high-rise structure.
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Iowa Lt. Gov Adam Gregg resigns in surprise announcement"However, as Scripture reminds us, for everything there is a season, and there is a time to every purpose under heaven," Gregg, 41, said in the statement. "I feel my time in public service must come to a close. This season of my life needs to be focused on my family. My kids are growing up too fast, and statewide elected offices force me to miss more of their lives than I can accept. While difficult, the decision to resign from this role allows me to honor my most important commitment ― my family."
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Teenager charged for allegedly shooting San Francisco 49ers Ricky PearsallIn the US, teenagers are more likely to be shot by an adult than a peer, however the increase in homicides in recent years has reignited fears about young people committing crimes like robberies and shootings. And while the share of juveniles arrested for violent crimes in the US increased from 8.7% in 2021 to 9.9% in 2022, people under 18 remain responsible for less than 10% of the non-fatal violent crimes in the US, according to an April analysis of crime data by the US department of justice.
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Traders Weigh 'Buy the Dip' Opportunities Amid Stocks Selloff“Today’s fall is just a reaction to big drop in New York shares overnight. Given that the US market had been rising, the decline of this size is not a surprise,” he said. “We have lots of events in the run-up to the FOMC on Sept 17-18 and markets will likely be range-bound this month. But once uncertainties around those events are cleared, we are likely to see a rally in share prices toward the end of year.”
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Trump's Federal Election Case to Go Back Before a No-Nonsense JudgeBefore Mr. Trump’s immunity appeals put the case in limbo, Judge Chutkan, who was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama, oversaw it with a stern hand and an expeditious manner. She often worked through the weekends and evinced little patience for the persistent strategy by Mr. Trump and his legal team of seeking to delay the case at every turn.
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UK shares down after Nvidia plunges almost 10%“[Nvidia] did report results last week where it alluded to a natural and expected deceleration in growth: from having delivered 122% growth in the second quarter it expects to deliver 80% growth in the third quarter,” she said.
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Barratt: Biggest UK housing firm to build fewer homesMr Thomas said the firm welcomed the government\'s proposed reforms of the planning system as a \"key lever to increase house building, drive economic growth and tackle the chronic under-supply of high-quality, sustainable homes\".
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It's Party Time on the Stockholm-Helsinki FerryA buzz rippled through the crowd as the 11-deck ferry carrying cargo, cars and 2,000-plus passengers gently pulled away from its berth. For the next several hours, the ship would thread its way through the Stockholm Archipelago, a dense constellation of skerries and forested islands dotted with barn-red wooden cabins and fluttering blue-and-yellow Swedish flags, before crossing open stretches of the northern Baltic Sea.
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Japan's Era of 'Free' Mortgages Is Coming to an EndAs a result, households are expected to find ways to cut back on other spending — a shift that could be a drag on Japan’s economy, which has already faltered over the past year because of weak household spending.
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U.S. Market Slump Fuels Global Sell-OffAnticipation of that report has reignited concerns about a potential slowdown in the U.S. economy. It could also provide clues about how aggressive the Federal Reserve will be in its expected interest rate cut later this month.
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