The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.
If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.
Medical Residency Application Rates Fell in States That Restricted Abortion
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The judge will rule on the preliminary injunction in the case filed by the AAP and APHA against RFK Jr. before the next ACIP meeting, which is scheduled for March 18-19.
It would be an enormous victory for public health and the people of the United States and if the judge stops RFK Jr.’s ACIP.
A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.
The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.
But since we are there, having some uses for accessibility does not make it accessibility tech because accessibility includes thoughtful, transparent affordances for safety, wellbeing, privacy, and autonomy.
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Because to repeat my point, “adhd influencers are sliding into promotion Claude to ‘fix disordered brains by uploading all of your data archives” into the platform.”
Now that is the point. It is a true statement. Anything else you infer is probably about you and not me or what I said.
7/ Vaccines have worked so well that many parents have never seen measles firsthand. That success makes it easy to forget how devastating this virus can be. Fortunately, two doses of the MMR vaccine are ~97% effective at preventing hospitalization & many of the negative consequences of the infection
04.03.2026 14:44 — 👍 42 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 06/ And even after recovery, measles can erase immune memory. It can weaken the immune system for months or even years, making survivors more vulnerable to other infections because their body has forgotten how to fight them.
04.03.2026 14:44 — 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 24/ Measles can also infect the brain directly. About 1 in 1,000 children develop acute brain swelling called primary measles encephalitis, and another 1 in 1,000 develop a different form of brain swelling caused by the immune system known as acute disseminated encephalomyelitis or ADEM.
04.03.2026 14:44 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 03/ About 1 in 20 children who get measles (most of whom are unvaccinated) develop pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death. When the lungs can’t get enough oxygen into the bloodstream, the brain suffers. That oxygen deprivation can cause lasting cognitive damage.
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Oksana saw her children suffer at Dilley for roughly 4.5 months. She said they found worms in their food. Her 4-year-old asked if they were in jail because they were bad people.
But Oksana said the release process was one of the worst experiences yet.
Writing is thinking.
03.03.2026 22:00 — 👍 263 🔁 54 💬 8 📌 0I worry about reducing complex, thought-driven processes like "research" or "evaluating sources" or "coding data" to a series of discrete tasks to be outsourced, when there's so much that goes on cognitively both between and after the steps of those processes.
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A new study reports a broad, rising trend of inadequate sleep among high school students, to 77% in 2023. With puberty, teens' sleep-wake cycles shift and they fall asleep and wake later. Other research suggests that later bell times mean students sleep more and report fewer depressive symptoms.
03.03.2026 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In this panel, the PJM market monitor states plainly that data centers are almost exclusively to blame for high and rising wholesale electricity costs in the Midatlantic. It's not EVs, heat pumps, or industrial electrification. Data centers. Panel discusses how to make Big Tech pay their fair share.
03.03.2026 13:32 — 👍 30 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 2One of the main reasons I don't use AI is that you have to fact-check every single thing it gives you and by the time I do that, I could have just done the research myself.
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This feels like a helpful primer for understanding AI in general. It makes programmers more efficient on the front end because they can generate more code. But it makes them less efficient afterwards because it vastly increases the amount of time they spend tweaking and fixing bugs.
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And for those outside the wage system altogether, it's even worse. If you're disabled and rely on SSI, payments are currently capped at $994 a month nationwide.
*Nowhere* in the country is that enough to afford even a modest one-bedroom apartment.
The numbers are staggering:
Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters.
Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.
Nearly eight years ago, when I began reporting on the "working homeless," it was treated as an edge case, a tragedy at the margins.
That fiction has collapsed.
Housing insecurity is now an ever-widening sinkhole, swallowing not only the poor and working class but entire swaths of the middle class.
Citing reporting by @propublica.org and others, nearly 4,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals sent a letter to DHS Sec Kristi Noem calling for the immediate release of all children currently in immigration detention. Full letter: tinyurl.com/yz2amueb 1/
02.03.2026 20:10 — 👍 567 🔁 236 💬 5 📌 13I've repeatedly said this in the past: the end goal of all AI is surveillance, specifically to influence and control
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HBV elimination is uniquely fragile because you only get one chance to prevent perinatally acquired infection i.e. the day of birth. This is just the latest example of how the aggressive anti-vaccine rhetoric promoted by RFK.Jr led HHS is eroding public health gains.
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If sustained, we should expect:
- ↑ perinatal HBV transmission
- ↑ pediatric chronic HBV cohorts emerging in ~5–10 yrs
- reversal of U.S. HBV elimination trajectory, widening disparities (declines typically concentrate in vulnerable systems)
When national vaccine messaging becomes inconsistent, the first measurable signal appears in newborn vaccination programs historically the most stable coverage domain.
This declines in uptake for effective and proven vaccines is a warning indicator.
Parents increasingly question:
“Why vaccinate if mom is HBsAg negative?”
That argument ignores several important points:
1. Imperfect prenatal testing,
2. Documentation gaps,
postnatal exposures,
3. The fundamental population-prevention logic of universal birth dosing.
Over four decades, tree richness across the Andes and Amazon has shifted unevenly. Some regions are losing species while others, like the northern Andes, are gaining.
Researchers say precipitation and forest fragmentation drive the trend, and limiting deforestation could help protect diversity.
December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. 🔥🔥🔥
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Graph with heading that says: Beef caused at least 4 times more deforestation than any other food in the last two decades The top 15 most forest-destructive foods, ranked by the scale of deforestation they caused 2001-2022, in millions of acres. Beef ~120 M acres Oil palm 20-30 M Soybeans 15 M Corn 15 M Rice 10 M Cassava 10 M Cocoa, sugarcane, beans, sorghum, coffee, plantains, peanuts, wheat, bananas, all 0-10 M.
The study found that beef has driven about 120M acres of forest destruction globally between 2001 and 2022, mostly in the tropics. This is an area larger than California.
Oil palm was in a distant second place between 20-30M acres, followed by soybeans, corn, rice, cassava...and others.
