{"id":33535,"date":"2024-09-30T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/monday-headlines-the-medium-is-a-mess#id33252"},"modified":"2024-09-30T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:34:00","slug":"monday-headlines-the-medium-is-a-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/monday-headlines-the-medium-is-a-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday headlines: The medium is a mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death toll from Hurricane Helene has now reached 91 as Asheville, isolated by floods, struggles to get supplies airlifted to emergency workers.<\/a> \/ Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n

Every time a climate disaster like Helene happens, insurance companies gouge customers, who complain to politicians, who claim climate disasters rarely happen.<\/a> \/ How Things Work<\/span><\/p>\n

Leonard Leo led the right-wing takeover of America's judiciary. Now one of his organizations is trying to block the efforts of a group that educates lawyers and judges about the climate crisis.<\/a> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n

See also: Using an absurd legal basis, a Leo-funded think tank is suing the Consumer Product Safety Commission, arguing its structure is unconstitutional.<\/a> \/ Rolling Stone<\/span><\/p>\n

From inside Shein warehouses, gig workers—who don't have the same protections as full-time staff—are posting videos to expose grueling working conditions.<\/a> \/ WIRED<\/span><\/p>\n

“Perhaps this is appealing to you, but I find this revolting.” The future of your Instagram and Facebook feeds is Meta's own AI-generated content.<\/a> \/ Pixel Envy<\/span><\/p>\n

Why AI is like the advent of the microwave oven: It's good at certain tasks and underwhelming at others—and just try to convince its advocates otherwise.<\/a> \/ The Atlantic<\/span><\/p>\n

Hardly a surprise, but according to a new FTC report, social media companies are gathering data far beyond users' expectations, sometimes with thousands of attributes per user.<\/a> \/ EFF<\/span><\/p>\n

See also: Ireland is fining Meta $101 million for “storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.”<\/a> \/ Ars Technica<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a new study, “There will never be enough computing power to create AGI… because we'd run out of natural resources long before we'd even get close.”<\/a> \/ Radboud Universiteit<\/span><\/p>\n

When AI scores higher on an IQ test than a third of people, have we “reached peak human?” That depends on whether “more” is necessarily “better.”<\/a> \/ VentureBeat<\/span><\/p>\n

See also: The case for having lots of kids.<\/a> \/ The New Yorker<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of a legal dispute with a copyright group, a vast swath of popular music is currently blocked on YouTube.<\/a> \/ Variety<\/span><\/p>\n

Postcards were the memes of their day a century ago, replete with cats and everything.<\/a> \/ BBC<\/span><\/p>\n

How the 1937 hoax photo of a man holding a giant grasshopper—that later became a popular postcard—came to be.<\/a> \/ Boing Boing<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, the Chicago White Sox lost their 121st game of the season, the most for any Major League Baseball team in modern history.<\/a> \/ ESPN<\/span><\/p>\n

In a list of the world's 38 coolest neighborhoods, Marseille's Notre-Dame-du-Mont tops them all.<\/a> \/ Time Out<\/span><\/p>\n

Unrelated: A collaborative map for anyone interested in urban fruit harvesting.<\/a> \/ Falling Fruit<\/span><\/p>\n

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