{"id":33600,"date":"2024-11-18T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/monday-headlines-doing-things-to-do-things#id33284"},"modified":"2024-11-18T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:17:00","slug":"monday-headlines-doing-things-to-do-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/monday-headlines-doing-things-to-do-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday headlines: Doing things to do things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In trade journals, agriculture experts worry Trump&#39;s combination of RFK Jr. and tariffs could chill their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/11\/17\/nx-s1-5193867\/farmers-agriculture-experts-reaction-trump-rfk-jr-tariffs\">$1.5 trillion industry.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ NPR<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: Under Trump, the future of Medicare drug price negotiations&mdash;one of Biden&#39;s key domestic policy achievements&mdash;is <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2024\/11\/15\/future-of-medicare-drug-price-negotiations-murky-under-trump\/\">now uncertain.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Roll Call<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Polls indicate Americans favor deporting undocumented immigrants&mdash;but only when the question doesn&#39;t mention people who&#39;ve lived here a long time, work, and have no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/17\/politics\/mass-deportation-trump-polling\/index.html\">criminal record.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ CNN<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apparently some people think it makes us look like Nazis.&#8221; Trump allies have been told to stop referring to their planned immigration detention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/trump-allies-migrants-camps-miller-homan-1235168998\/\">facilities as &#8220;camps.&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Rolling Stone<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There must be merits to boredom; after all, examples abound for all the ways capitalism treats it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/theflaw.org\/articles\/whos-boring-now\/\">threat to society.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Flaw<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: From an OSS handbook, how ordinary citizens can disrupt enemy operations&mdash;or, the art of <a href=\"https:\/\/zine.kleinkleinklein.com\/p\/self-sabotaging-innovation\">doing dumb shit.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ ZINE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are just too many people walking too slow, filming themselves, or waiting on long lines that I have to push past because they want to try some mid bagel place.&#8221; Missing a <a href=\"https:\/\/meltedcheeseonwhitefish.substack.com\/p\/whit-stillmans-gloriously-lonely\">lonely New York.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Melt<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s estimated that around four percent of the world&#39;s population hear the Hum&mdash;a persistent, rumbling noise that remains a mystery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/the-hum-listeners-rebecca-hall-mystery-noise-b2647826.html\">to scientists.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Independent<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A new solar-powered desalination system provides drinking water at lower costs by adjusting to changes in sunlight, requiring no <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2024\/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteries-1008\">extra batteries.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ MIT<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Genetic analysis of the quaking aspen tree Pando, one of the world&#39;s largest and oldest plants, shows it&#39;s between 16,000 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-03570-4\">80,000 years old.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Nature<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fifty years after scientists transmitted the Arecibo Message to prove a radio message could traverse the galaxy, it&#39;s still on its way to the star <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/the-arecibo-message-fifty-years-later\/\">cluster Messier 13.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ JSTOR Daily<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a single day, more music is released now than it was in all of 1989, and music software companies are cashing in through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/music-industry\/more-music-is-being-released-today-in-a-single-day-than-was-released-in-the-calendar-year-of-1989-how-the-music-production-industry-has-taken-note-of-the-huge-number-of-self-releasing-artists\">recurring subscriptions.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ MusicRadar<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: Re-listen to the Hood Internet&#39;s mashup of 50 songs from 1989 into a single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H6N1G-z4dCc\">three-minute track.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ YouTube<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clips from TV pilots that didn&#39;t make it past the first episode, even with some really big <a href=\"https:\/\/ironicsans.beehiiv.com\/p\/let-s-visit-some-alternate-timelines\">names attached.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Ironic Sans<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Screenshots of personal epiphanies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dirt.fyi\/article\/2024\/11\/notes-app-epiphanies\">Notes app.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Dirt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/monday-headlines-doing-things-to-do-things\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    In trade journals, agriculture experts worry Trump&#039;s combination of RFK Jr. and tariffs could chill their $1.5 trillion industry. \/ NPR<\/p>\n<p>See also: Under Trump, the future of Medicare drug price negotiations&mdash;one of Biden&#039;s ke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33601,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600\/revisions\/33601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}