"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.
It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...
going to try coining a new term
there's a genre of LLM usage side-effect where someone will start being ever so slightly more impatient, less curious, less able to think critically (by which I mean examine problems from multiple perspectives, use empathy, use doubt as an interrogative tool), more reliant upon LLMs for basic tasks. it's subtle but I think it's pretty clear in a lot of cases. but calling this "AI psychosis" is hyperbolic and probably pretty inaccurate.
may I propose: "vibesick"
Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!
Graphic from https://wrcc.dri.edu/my/
To conserve power and to extend the life of the mission, one more instrument on the venerable Voyager 1 probe is being shut down - the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment (LECP).
The shut-off command was sent on April 17; it will take 2 days to receive confirmation.
The table below shows the status of the major instruments on the two spacecraft.
The 49 year old probes could operate with at least one science instrument into the 2030s.
Every time an app serves you an ad, it broadcasts your location into an ecosystem that surveillance vendors harvest and resell. Penlink's Webloc system turns that data into three years of tracked movement for ICE, the US Army, and dozens of police departments nationwide.
https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/phone-ads-government-surveillance
'Wing and his colleagues measured a 10-fold concentration of lithium atoms in the upper atmosphere around 20 hours after the uncontrolled re-entry of the Falcon 9 rocket. Increasing amounts of metal, such as lithium...are beginning to alter the chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere'
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