mitchbob

> A new edition of a manual that helps federal judges understand scientific subjects included a chapter on climate change that was withdrawn after attacks by denialists.

https://archive.ph/KVjSG

Here's a recent article in the New Yorker about just that:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/24/the-end-of-the...

https://archive.ph/41yRC

> The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters, as examples from Japan and Scotland show.

> In the city's burnt neighborhoods, rebuilding is brutally expensive. Now residents have turned to a lost art: moving entire houses to their vacant lots.

https://archive.ph/GXTQD

> As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand.

https://archive.ph/41yRC

> To create a new $699 bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. versions of its faculty.

https://archive.ph/r35DL

With you there, but a huge challenge to make work in car-dependent suburbs. Best IMO would be to pay a living wage, so workers can afford reliable cars or all the Waymo rides they need.

> Scientists once thought that life-sustaining oxygen existed only near Earth’s surface. Then they detected it deep underground.

https://archive.ph/w6xmO

> From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative.

https://archive.ph/2oCAj

> I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase.

https://archive.ph/q0qdR

> The writer's political ideal - citizens appearing before one another as equals, engaging in dialogue and debate - had a counterpart in her spirited gatherings on the Upper West Side.

https://archive.ph/v1hok

> AI output, because it has distilled the most pedestrian, noncontroversial conventions of human expression, offers a baseline against which we can measure our own attempts to capture the inherently spontaneous and unpredictable nature of thought.

https://archive.ph/6VEiO

> In "Don't Be Evil," Claire Stapleton, a former Google spin doctor, tries to make sense of her time in the industry.

https://archive.ph/MP5CV