{"id":33495,"date":"2024-08-30T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/friday-headlines-one-mans-trash#id33232"},"modified":"2024-08-30T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T17:17:00","slug":"friday-headlines-one-mans-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/friday-headlines-one-mans-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday headlines: One man\u2019s trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Please note: We&#39;ll be off for Labor Day, and back in your inbox on Tuesday&mdash;see you then!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of California officials have been convicted of corruption in the past decade&mdash;analysts say a political supermajority and little oversight have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/29\/us\/california-corruption-huizar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G04.9Sk7.mCdqpGv1igU5&amp;smid=url-share\">encouraged wrongdoing.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Embroiled in a lawsuit after he broke a story about a player&#39;s alleged abuse, a top tennis writer is now disillusioned <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3ALre8M\">by the sport.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Washington Post [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Multiple Gaza healthcare workers allege torture, abuse, and mistreatment while in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2024\/08\/26\/israel-palestinian-healthcare-workers-tortured\">Israeli custody.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Human Rights Watch<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#39;re labeling some aerial image that&#39;s produced by a drone, are you training a toy airplane, or are you training a military drone?&#8221; Investigating the murky corners of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/sam-blum\/a-scale-ai-subsidiary-targeted-small-businesses-for-data-to-train-an-ai-entrepreneurs-threatened-legal-action-to-get-paid.html\">AI training.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As AI content proliferates, it&#39;s more likely AI will ingest that same content, which can dramatically degrade future results&mdash;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/08\/26\/upshot\/ai-synthetic-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GU4._IrS.WU_AXYULhxBT&amp;smid=url-share\">here are examples.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: From 2014, &#8220;The Triumphant Rise of <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-awl\/the-triumphant-rise-of-the-shitpic-e25d8e5af9bc\">the Shitpic.&#8221;<\/a> <span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Awl<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Likely due to faulty return instructions, a Denver man keeps receiving Trump &#8220;Chillin Like a Felon&#8221; shirts <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/man-keeps-getting-unwanted-trump-chillin-like-a-felon-jerseys-in-the-mail-2000492747\">in the mail.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Gizmodo <\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: &#8220;Amazon is using my grocery purchases to sell me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/technology\/369302\/amazon-one-medical-pharmacy-prescription-drugs\">prescription drugs.&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Vox<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To intentionally design something like, &#39;Let&#39;s make this worse.&#39; It&#39;s like, wait, what?&#8221; The thinking behind satirical <a href=\"https:\/\/embedded.substack.com\/p\/the-evil-genius-of-cursed-app-design\">app design.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Embedded<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch: A short documentary on the &#8220;Dumpster Archeologist&#8221; who sleuths out the stories hidden in <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1001621004\">people&#39;s garbage.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Vimeo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meet the music obsessive behind Pop Music Activism, which organizes music fans to persuade labels to make forgotten tracks available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgl7ld1glk3o\">for streaming.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ BBC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Moon now has its own time zone, &#8220;rather than having clocks gradually drift out of sync with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/moon-time-zone\">Earth&#39;s time.&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Atlas Obscura<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oakland&#39;s new fleet of electric school buses act as giant batteries that are capable of sending power back <a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/transportation\/oakland-electric-school-buses-battery-storage\/\">to the grid.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Grist<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children&#39;s ability to wait for a treat&hellip;changed markedly depending on the context.&#8221; 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