{"id":33475,"date":"2024-08-16T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/friday-headlines-mid-or-evil#id33221"},"modified":"2024-08-16T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T19:11:00","slug":"friday-headlines-mid-or-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/friday-headlines-mid-or-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday headlines: Mid or evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US officials say that Israel has done all it can militarily against Hamas in Gaza, and any further actions will only risk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/14\/us\/politics\/israel-military-gaza-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU4.ZBE4.TdR6JrYE-rQu&amp;smid=url-share\">harming civilians.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: How Israel&#39;s finance minister is using obscure policy to connect a new West Bank settlement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/israeli-finance-minister-west-bank-jewish-settlement-9f2307ab?st=6y269xl9zxv92fe&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">with Jerusalem.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Wall Street Journal [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the future, we might look back and see the most important difference between the Biden and Harris campaigns is their level of trust in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.editorialboard.com\/kamala-harris-is-taking-power-back-from-the-press-corps\/\">the press corps.&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Editorial Board<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why California&#39;s new AI legislation is so controversial: It&#39;s not just the tech companies who don&#39;t want oversight, it&#39;s also academics who say the law will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.platformer.news\/california-ai-bill-sb-1047-wiener-controversy-changes-lofgren\/\">hamper their work.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Platformer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: This week, a district court judge ruled a group of artists can proceed with a lawsuit alleging their art was used to <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/943250\/judge-says-artists-can-sue-ai-companies-for-using-their-work\/\">train Stable Diffusion.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Hyperallergic<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#39;s mind blowing to think that Russian fisheries could capture in one week what one of the biggest seafood companies in the US forecasts for the year, but that is exactly <a href=\"https:\/\/whyisthisinteresting.substack.com\/p\/the-alaskan-salmon-fisheries-edition\">what happened.&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Why is this interesting?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By controlling land and financing, a small group of home builders artificially restricts the supply of new homes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebignewsletter.com\/p\/its-the-land-stupid-how-the-homebuilder\">in America.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ BIG<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Global banks aren&#39;t living up to targets to cut their financing of activities that are directly fueling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-08-14\/global-banks-are-nowhere-near-reaching-their-co2-targets?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyMzc2MzkwMCwiZXhwIjoxNzI0MzY4NzAwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTSTNNV0dEV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI2NzY3OUMxNTY5RkU0RDU3OEMxNDE5MkFERDIzNzZBRCJ9.4MWwx8QP8N_V9FHytr4e0NsLvqiTr5ioti7ATpydO9s\">climate change.&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Bloomberg [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Out of print since the legal settlement over its album art, <em>Kind of Bloop<\/em>&mdash;the chiptune remake of <em>Kind of Blue<\/em>&mdash;will be available for preorder on vinyl <a href=\"https:\/\/waxy.org\/2024\/08\/kind-of-bloop-15th-anniversary-vinyl\/\">starting tomorrow.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Waxy<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Forget Brat summer; 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