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West Coast Ports Brace for China Tariffs to Dent Import Volume Within Days (Gift Article) Large importers, including retailers and manufacturers, paused imports from China this month amid an escalating trade war. Ports are now poised to feel the fallout.

And we thought CO₂ emissions from shipping were hard to abate. 🙃

“The number of containers scheduled to arrive at the Port of Los Angeles is anticipated to drop more than 35 percent next week compared with the same period last year…”

The International Court of Justice Takes On Climate Change Thanks to the maneuverings of the tiny nation of Vanuatu, the entire industrialized world is effectively on trial in The Hague.

I wrote about how the tiny island nation of Vanuatu has put the industrialized world on trial: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

As I said -- only a matter of time before news orgs lashed out at Apple's lackluster (and evidently dangerously wrong) AI summaries of their work. This is shambolic and the BBC has every right to be furious about it.

US FTC nominee Meador signals continued headaches for Big Tech, consolidation

Meador's nomination signals the President-elect Donald Trump’s intent to maintain rigorous antitrust enforcement, particularly in the tech sector.

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Patients Couldn’t Pay Their Utility Bills. One Hospital Turned to Solar Power for Help. - KFF Health News Doctors in Boston got tired of writing letters to utility companies asking for assistance for their medically vulnerable patients who need power and heat to stay healthy. So a hospital decided to shar...

Great story & needs to be duplicated en masse: hospital uses solar energy to pay its patients utility bills.

Boston Medical Center installed solar & uses 1/2 of the energy generated to power the medical center.

The other 1/2 produced goes to patients’ utility bill as monthly credit of ~$50.

Letter from lawyer Alex Spiro to the SEC

Elon Musk just posted a letter from his lawyer saying the SEC is preparing "numerous counts" against him.

Luigi got them shook.

Cameo and the pitfalls for members of the House Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) made a brief foray into the world of being an online influencer this week when she started a Cameo account.

What are the pitfalls of a member of Congress having a Cameo account?
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hot take: deep skepticism of institutions and authorities has been (and will likely continue to be) the driving force behind the decision-making of U.S. voters

until AI is capable of emulating the efficacy of a man-made Boolean query (it won’t!), Google search is here to stay. still, i wonder if the long-term utility of AI will be its ability to weed out irrelevant info, as opposed to trying to pinpoint the “right” info

very few journalists are reporting on the stark consequences of the data center boom like @justcalma.bsky.social

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