{"id":33435,"date":"2024-07-22T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/monday-headlines-caught-in-the-rot#id33200"},"modified":"2024-07-22T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T17:41:00","slug":"monday-headlines-caught-in-the-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/monday-headlines-caught-in-the-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday headlines: Caught in the rot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at Truman and Johnson&#39;s withdrawals and subsequent electoral defeats for Democrats, historians say Biden&#39;s circumstances differ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/21\/us\/truman-johnson-president-stepped-aside.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E0.ObVF.IygcHpkKeNcH&amp;smid=url-share\">quite a lot.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Drug-resistant bacteria often spread in war zones; as conflicts proliferate around the globe, the risk of superbugs reaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/war-zone-conflict-bacteria-pandemic-1235064261\/\">civilian populations rises.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Rolling Stone<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pool itself [was] rendered unusable by fallen glass, concrete, plaster and assorted debris.&#8221; Ukrainian swimmers train for the Olympics amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/article\/2024\/jul\/21\/i-felt-the-water-tremble-ukraines-olympic-swimmers-train-as-bombs-fall\">Russian attacks.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Crowdstrike outage is a direct result of the Rot Economy, where profit is absolutely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresyoured.at\/crowdstruck-2\/\">valued over people.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Where&#39;s Your Ed At?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related: A 12-hour timelapse depicting the number of US flights grounded due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/US_Stormwatch\/status\/1814268813879206397\">CrowdStrike outage.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ X<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to its ancient technology infrastructure, the MTA has been running normally during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curbed.com\/article\/mta-tech-outage-countdown-clocks-oldest-kept-going.html\">Crowdstrike meltdown.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Curbed<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As more content owners restrict their data, AI companies are quickly running out of new material to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/19\/technology\/ai-data-restrictions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E0.0kYd.HHAKrhknOrKu&amp;smid=url-share\">feed their models.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated: It&#39;s apparently quite common for Americans to shoot at <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/walmart-delivery-drone-shot-down-guns-1851575709\">delivery drones.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Quartz<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps, amid a deluge of AI-generated jingles and podcast music and pop songs, we will all search even harder for the human.&#8221; AI can&#39;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2024\/07\/generative-ai-music-suno-udio\/679114\/\">make music.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Atlantic<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: The top 18 albums of 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/andrew.ghost.io\/the-top-albums-of-2024-so-far\/\">so far.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Andrew Womack<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What it&#39;s like to attend a &#8220;predatory conference,&#8221; a disorganized event with little quality control that&#39;s designed to make its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-02358-w\">organizers money.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Nature<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I told a friend I was revisiting <em>The Gods Must Be Crazy<\/em> 40 years later, he said, &#39;Oh, I remember that movie! 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