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The deadliest roads in America The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles has increased in the U.S., with road infrastructure and inadequate safety measures among key contributing factors.

Pedestrian deaths have surged amid neglect and lack of investment - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

"They were concentrated on multilane roads, with the largest clusters of deaths occurring on thoroughfares that cut through economically distressed neighborhoods and had fading commercial strips, according to the Post investigation." - The Washington Post

"City by city across the United States, the surge — from 4,302 in 2010 to 7,314 deaths in 2023 — largely occurred on roads with a few things in common.

"Now, even those with nothing useful to say can tell the whole world exactly, or more often vaguely, what they think." - Lane Brown, New York Magazine

"so lots of stupidity stayed local, and everyone else could happily overestimate the average person’s intelligence because they saw less of it. But then we connected everyone on the planet and gave them each the equivalent of their own printing press, radio station, and TV network.

"Not so long ago, the dolts among us were free to think their thoughts quietly to themselves with no easy way to share them. At worst, a person would usually just embarrass himself in front of his own family or bowling team. Bad ideas had a harder time scaling and reproducing,

A Theory of Dumb What if the cause of Americans’ collective cognitive decline is, simply, each other?

"For most of us, our phone has become both an external hard drive, storing everything we used to remember, and a portable Las Vegas, ensuring we never have to suffer a boring minute."

A Theory of Dumb: Why Are IQ Scores Suddenly Falling? nymag.com/intelligence...

AI Is Writing Performance Reviews. What Could Go Wrong? JPMorgan Chase & Co. has blessed the practice, with some restrictions on how its chatbot can be used.

Why Bosses Are Using AI for Performance Reviews - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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

“All our tech businesses are turning awful, all at once. We remain trapped in their rotting carcasses, unable to escape.” - Cory Doctorow

How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick | The New York Review of Books www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Cloudflare down: Company blames 'unusual' spike in traffic before outage errors OpenAI's ChatGPT and Elon Musk's social media platform X appear to have been affected by the Cloudflare issues.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/c...

'I am deeply ashamed': Larry Summers to step back from public commitments after new Epstein emails Sen. Elizabeth Warren had called for institutions affiliated with Summers, who was treasury secretary during the Clinton administration, to sever ties with him.

'I am deeply ashamed': Larry Summers to step back from public commitments after new Epstein emails www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump’s Epstein files reversal NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including President Trump’s U-turn on the release of the Epstein fi...

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump’s Epstein files reversal | PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Trump’s Epstein Humiliation Grows The president saw defeat and ran. But that doesn’t mean the fight over releasing the files is over.

Trump’s Epstein Humiliation Grows www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...

ICE Agents Raid a Church With No Explanation Operation “Charlotte’s Web” continues.

ICE Agents Raid a Church With No Explanation | The New Republic newrepublic.com/post/203321/...

Vladimir Putin has no plan for winning in Ukraine Fighting in Ukraine will grind on in 2026. Vladimir Putin will continue to throw away Russian lives pointlessly, but sooner or later a reckoning is coming

Vladimir Putin has no plan for winning in Ukraine www.economist.com/the-world-ah...

Indiana homeowner charged with manslaughter in killing of house cleaner that went to wrong address Maria Florinda Perez, a 32-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, was killed on Nov. 5 after she mistakenly went to the incorrect home in the Indianapolis suburb of Whitestown.

Indiana homeowner charged with manslaughter in killing of house cleaner that went to wrong address www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

‘Humbly, I’m sorry’: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s turning a new leaf after years of divisive comments www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

15 definitive rules for the airport bar If you don’t see a jigger, don’t order a martini, plus more unspoken guidelines from travel pros.

15 definitive rules for the airport bar - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/...

The President Who Cried Hoax Republicans went after Epstein only when it was politically useful.

The President Who Cried Hoax - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Trump Unloads on Republican 'Friend' Amid MAGA Civil War Pressure from the unfolding Epstein sex-trafficking saga seems to have the president lashing out at former allies left and right.

President Donald Trump Unloads on Republican ‘Friend’ Indiana Governor Mike Braun Amid MAGA Civil War www.thedailybeast.com/president-do...

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Weekend Update: Government Shutdown Ends, Epstein Email Says Trump "Knew About the Girls" - SNL

(183) Weekend Update: Government Shutdown Ends, Epstein Email Says Trump "Knew About the Girls" - SNL - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=SesR...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Botulism cases lead to widespread recall of infant formula

(183) Botulism cases lead to widespread recall of infant formula - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJyc...

The Nick Fuentes Spiral The reckoning with the white-nationalist influencer’s rise is only getting messier.

Republicans are at odds about how to handle the white-nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes’s encroachment into their ranks, @alibreland.bsky.social writes. He asked Fuentes about being the center of a crisis in American conservatism:

I Lived in Total Silence for 10 Days. It Changed Everything I Knew About Noise. Would a long stay at a meditation center reframe my thoughts—or send me spiraling?

I Lived in Total Silence for 10 Days. It Changed Everything I Knew About Noise. www.esquire.com/lifestyle/he...

"The United States now exhibits all the indicators of late-stage democratic erosion."

Donald Trump’s path to authoritarian rule is wide open - Salon.com www.salon.com/2025/11/13/d...

Niela Orr | Mamdani at the Crossroads The percolating instrumentation of ‘New York’, Ja Rule’s piercing 2004 posse cut, was playing on my TV, and Zohran...

Niela Orr | Mamdani at the Crossroads www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

YouTube video by Salon JD Vance’s marriage: Why Erika Kirk’s hug backfired

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