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Things have deteriorated so much that the average American now has the same healthy life expectancy (years lived in good health) as someone in Blackpool, the town with England’s lowest life expectancy (by far), synonymous with deep-rooted social decline ft.com/blackpool

The End of Recommendation Letters theatlantic.com/technology/arc… via The Atlantic

Sounds like a Better Off Ted episode with Veridian Dynamics...... Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It vice.com/en/article/qjv… via Motherboard

Just who's being radical now?

HomeVestors Praised ProPublica’s Reporting, Then Tried to “Bury It” propublica.org/article/homeve…

GOP: Balance the budget! So repeal Trump’s $2.1T billionaire tax cuts? •GOP: NO! End Corp welfare? •GOP: NO! Audit military budget? •GOP: NO! So balance the budget how? GOP: Cancel Vets healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SNAP, Meals on Wheels, & school lunch

Bill Hader perfectly illustrated America's diseased gun culture with a single, utterly terrifying 30-second-long scene in Barry

Eastern philosophy says there is no “self.” Science agrees bigthink.com/the-well/easte…

The most lucrative majors? Some community college grads can outearn elite university peers latimes.com/california/sto…

How I used ChatGPT to develop a prompt-engineering class. slate.com/technology/202…

A political gap in excess COVID deaths widened after vaccines arrived : NPR npr.org/2023/07/25/118…

New Healthcare Breakthroughs Provide Hope That Baby Boomers Will Never Leave Positions Of Power theonion.com/new-healthcare… via @theonion

Struggling to figure out how 8 billionaires who want to replace workers with robots are losing the narrative to 10,000 professional storytellers and the 150,000 hottest people in the world

The Hidden Brain Connections Between Our Hands and Tongues quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-bra… via Quanta Magazine

As it turns out, ChatGPT is a C student. slate.com/technology/202… via @slate

What New Terms Like ‘Goblin Mode’ Reveal about Work worklab-int.azurewebsites.net/what-new-terms… #worklab #futureofwork

I'm sorry but none of your aurora pictures hold a candle to the one my friend took in her yard

I feel guilty asking for an extra pack of Biscoff cookies …