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Death toll passes 900 in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka floods Officials in Indonesia say more than 442 people have died, while Sri Lanka suffers worst natural disaster since 2004 tsunami

What an increasingly dangerous world worsened by a maniacal economic system to benefit the very few: "In the latest example of the impact of the climate crisis on storm patterns and extreme weather, heavy monsoon rains, exacerbated by a tropical storm, have overwhelmed parts of south-east Asia..."

Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption

It's not pointed out quite enough that, very often, "investors" is just another way to say "easy marks."

“A big part of the high stock prices is not a reflection of high future growth,” he said. Rather, it is a sign that A.I. is expected to boost productivity and shrink employment. “The firms all think they’re going to shed a lot of labor, and that’s why the profits will be high,” he said. And while the construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence is fueling economic growth now, these centers, once built, employ skeleton staffs.

The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

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🇮🇩 🇹🇭 🇲🇾 The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in Southeast Asia has climbed past 370 as clean-up and search and rescue operations got underway in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.
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Indonesia, Thailandia, Malesia: nel Sud-est asiatico almeno 350 morti nelle alluvioni
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Inondations en Asie du Sud-Est : le bilan humain grimpe à 350 morts Le bilan des inondations provoquées par des pluies torrentielles en Indonésie, Thaïlande et Malaisie s'élève à près de 350 morts samedi, selon les derniers bilans des autorités locales.

Inondations en Asie du Sud-Est : le bilan humain grimpe à 350 morts

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications

The latest grim news

Refugees heading north from baking, waterless, southern Europe, will meet those heading south from a cold, crop-less northern Europe as the AMOC shuts down

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Painting of a gallery of paintings. Beneath, central, men in dark clothes and two dogs playing.

NEW ESSAY — In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. Thea Applebaum Licht charts the course of this alluring aesthetic tradition: publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...

Gaza: The Threat of Partition | Sari Bashi On Monday the United Nations Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace plan for Gaza, which creates a “Board of Peace,”

"Palestinians will struggle to remain even in the 47 percent of Gaza still accessible to them. That may well, in fact, be precisely what the current reconstruction plans are meant to achieve."

@nybooks.com
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‘Flood after flood’ hits Thailand and Vietnam, with Malaysia next in line Scores have died and entire communities displaced as a late-season monsoon surge overwhelms fragile flood-management systems.

Long-term warming means persistent rain and the ensuing widespread floods, like the kind inundating southern Thailand and other parts of SE Asia right now.

Nighttime view along 8th Street, looking east from 6th Avenue, New York. Parked cars & neon signs

Fred McDarrah’s shot of 8th Street at night, looking east from 6th Avenue, 1950

Greenwich Village, near Washington Square.

A laptop at a desk behind bright windows

A large, rectangular space with desks in the middle, and sofas in the foreground and white walls lined with shelves full of books

There's a new writers' space in Brooklyn. I've written and read a good amount here, and can verify that it's as wonderful as it looks. Find out more and contribute here: app.thefield.org/home/donatio...

Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson · What’s in the junk? Genetic Effects We still only partly understand the relationship between genes and cognitive abilities. Over the last fifty years or so...

‘Possession of the same genetic variant may contribute to an increase in intelligence in one person, decrease it in another and do nothing in a third.’

Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson on the flawed logic of selective gene editing.

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AMIT MAJMUDAR Invasive Species The bees are Africanized. All elm disease is Dutch. The carp is Asian, the python of the Everglades specifically Burmese. The plague bacillus sailed from India to Europe. Europe coughed khaki back at India. Everything is alien, especially star thistle with its spurs and bursts, unearthly, mapping its home galaxy like a foundling with a fleur-de-lys foot tattoo. Though even lilies hitchhike— every ditch lily was once a tiger lily, treasured in the garden of a Mughal. Everybody thinks the Mughals Indian, but Mughal comes from Mongol. Invaders make themselves at home and home remakes them into natives. Everybody comes from someplace else where they were royal refugees. We flower where we flower, flinging roots like ropes from runaway hot air balloons to snag a city's skyline. It never feels like an invasion when you're doing it. It feels like parenting, like cooking what you've always cooked, like dancing with your grandma at a noisy wedding But then you turn to see the horrified park rangers staring at you, calling in the experts-look at this, what do we do, they're everywhere. You wonder who they mean, but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.

You wonder who they mean,
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.

-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.

CP toned black-and-white photo of a short haired, tabby cat sitting up for a professional photo portrait. The cat has a fancy metal collar with a bell and a light colored bowtie to it. Text at the bottom reads the family pet. In the lower right corner there’s more text that reads copyright by CE Bullard 1902.

“The Family Pet” Postcard from my collection, mailed 1910.

Chicago has had one 9/11 worth of people disappeared since the attacks began in September. Los Angeles has had two 9/11s since June.

Now this is a reporter.

Kudos to Mary Bruce for fearlessly standing up to Khashoggi's killer and the president who was fine with it.

Welcome to Trump’s America! A place where people can’t afford to call an ambulance | Arwa Mahdawi How are people expected to handle increased health insurance costs when everything else in life has become more expensive? I think the answer is: they’re not, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Welcome to Trump’s America! A place where people can’t afford to call an ambulance | Arwa Mahdawi

Drought and heatwaves lead to second worst harvest on record, analysis shows England has suffered its second worst harvest on record after a year of heatwaves and drought, according to ECIU analysis of Defra figures.

The three worst English harvests in order - 2020, 2025, 2024

One year's worth of bread has been lost in the last 5 years

Not hard to see how shortages and ultimately rationing will become evident as climate breakdown bites ever harder

www.edp24.co.uk/news/2553206...

AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Before CPR there was... blowing tobacco smoke up the bum. One of the recommended procedures for resuscitating "persons apparently dead from drowning", from a 1787 booklet by the Humane Society. More here: https://buff.ly/3FSaQjs

Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...

‘It is abundantly clear that corporate social responsibility was and is a myth. Even if firms claim to recognise their social and environmental responsibilities, profitability always trumps them when they clash.’

@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.

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THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem

How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick The Internet was not meant to suck.

Tim Berners-Lee’s original “design for the [world wide] web was an antidesign, refusing to impose particular structures, leaving space for unanticipated uses and possibilities.” —@around.com

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Head for Another Record in 2025

Another year, another record for carbon emissions:

A silver van for a 'pest management' company. Inside a ginger and white cat sits patiently.

He gets the job done.

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.