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How the AI Industry Profits From Catastrophe

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By Karen Hao archive & Andrea Paola Hernández MIT Technology Review It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed […]

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How Russia and Right-Wing Americans Converged on War in Ukraine

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By Sheera Frenkel & Stuart A. Thompson The New York Times After President Vladimir Putin of Russia claimed that action against Ukraine was taken in self-defense, Fox News host Tucker […]

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A New Germany: How Putin’s Aggression is Changing Berlin

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By Sudha David-Wilp & Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff Foreign Affairs Within a week, Germany has undergone a dramatic transformation, shedding its reluctant and dovish foreign policy and committing itself to drastically increase […]

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Omicron: The Variant that Vaccine Apartheid Built

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By Matiangai Sirleaf Just Security In January 2021, Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS warned, “We are witness to a vaccine apartheid that is only serving the interests of powerful and […]

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Xi Jinping’s Terrifying New China

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By Michael Schuman The Atlantic China’s social media was briefly aflutter this fall about an impressive feat in the popular online fantasy game Honor of Kings. A player had completed a […]

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The Moon is Full of Money: Capitalism in Space

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By Pope Brock Nautilus I was slung in my favorite deck chair, drink in hand, having a gawk at the night sky. Andromeda, Pisces … I trawled the constellations, mind […]

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Can We Survive Extreme Heat?

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By Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone On a scorching day in downtown Phoenix, when the temperature soars to 115°F or higher, heat becomes a lethal force. Sunshine assaults you, forcing you to […]

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The Time May Finally be Ripe for a National Climate Service

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By Chelsea Harvey Scientific American As the George W. Bush administration was drawing to a close, Scott Rayder faced a tough choice. Should he push to fund a new national […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

U.S. Army has Hidden or Downplayed Loss of Firearms for Years

24 June 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Kristin M. Hall, James Laporta & Justin Pritchard Associated Press The U.S. Army has hidden or downplayed the extent to which its firearms disappear, significantly understating losses and thefts […]

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Vaccine Privilege in America and COVID-19 Inequities in India

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By Madhushree Ghosh Longreads Seventeen years ago, I receive the call most immigrants dread. It is inevitable, and yet. The call announces that my Baba, my indefatigable, extroverted, positively enthusiastic […]

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