That was quick…

“Research published last week in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine found that states with abortion restrictions had a 16% increased infant mortality rate.”

https://jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-every-day-101723

From: @JoshuaHolland
https://mastodon.social/@JoshuaHolland/111239837762823249

Okay people, it's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling"

My latest "LINKFEST" newsletter has dropped 📬

Includes:
- 🏗 moving a 1930s building while everyone in inside it
- 🕹 "Reverse Tetris"
- 🎾 the "marshmallow shot" returns
- 🧱 Brutalist Italy
- 💻 the $2.98 computer library
- 🐱 the world's oldest continually-functioning cat door

Read it for free online: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-10/

Subscribe here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson

My article at Forbes has been updated as the WebP zero-day issue is moving fast. 1Password and Signal join web browsers including Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi in issuing emergency security updates. I expect a lot more non-web browser applications will follow…

#Infosec

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/09/14/new-emergency-chrome-security-update-after-critical-ios-1661-release/

Mastodon's Mastodon'ts.

There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon....
https://jwz.org/b/ykC_

"Perhaps the first rule of everything we endeavor to do is to pay attention. Perhaps the second is to be patient. And perhaps a third is to be attentive to what the body knows."

Barry Lopez on the cure for our existential loneliness https://t.co/wHbPAfosgi

This line from The New York Times this morning kind of blew my mind:

"The game industry now accounts for significant chunks of the economy. It is larger than music, U.S. book publishing and North American sports COMBINED. Microsoft’s game division and Activision Blizzard *each* make more money annually than all U.S. movie theaters."

(Emphasis mine)