By overruling the decision that led to Chevron doctrine, the Supreme Court just upended federal agencies' authority to interpret laws. / SCOTUSblog
Related: The ruling could have a major effect on environmental regulations and the speed with which agencies can react to scientific findings. / Yale Environment 360
Drought and inflation have hit prairie states particularly hard, with farm income expected to be at its lowest since at least 2010. / Reuters
India is set to embark on a massive project that would link several of its rivers in hopes of balancing areas prone to flooding and those prone to water shortages. / Hakai Magazine
By allowing hemp sales but bungling the legal limits of THCa, Texas inadvertently created a massive drug market that understaffed regulators can't contain. / Texas Monthly
After Roe was overturned, the rate of young women getting sterilized doubled in America. / KFF Health News
If anything, AI search can offer a starting point when looking for answers, but humans still outperform bots in discerning the accuracy of information. / Vox
See also: Microsoft AI's CEO calls online content “freeware” for training models—except for content that's produced by anyone with lawyers. / The Register
“Something else to know about Jane's friends and coworkers is that they all use two spaces after periods.” Plundering Jane Appleseed's emails from an Apple Store. / Escape the Algorithm
Caity Weaver on Frontier House, the PBS reality show that remains unmatched in its unhinged authenticity. / The New York Times Magazine [+]
Considered the first horror film, 1896's three-minute The House of the Devil established some of today's horror-movie clichés. / Boing Boing
“I feel myself stepping into the role of the critics who went after the magazine in 1974.” What happened to People magazine? / Culture Study