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Why do headlines phrase "can be given access to" as "has access" when they *know* there's a lot anxiety about both AI and third-party access to personal data?
> Perplexity Can Now Access Your Apple Health Data to Answer Medical Questions
https://www.macrumors.com/…

Perplexity Can Now Access Your Apple Health Data to Answer Medical Questions
AI company Perplexity today introduced Perplexity Health, a suite of connectors that allow Perplexity to access your health data. Perplexity...

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer is leaving the company, as the data center developer faces issues in securing an anchor tenant and construction delays (Amy Harder/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/ai-data-center-project-troubles-texas

Trump-branded AI data center megaproject stalls, CEO departs
Fermi America is emerging as a high-profile test of ambitious AI data center projects.

#BloodInTheMachine is also an excellent book, btw. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

Many Americans with student debt are again facing future upheaval
after a federal appeals court recently ordered the end of a Biden-era student loan repayment program,
known as the Saving on a Value Education (Save) Plan,
-- a move that coincided with another grim revelation:
🔥new education department data shows that by the end of 2025, 7.7 million borrowers had defaulted on $181bn in federal student loans.

Is It From the Birds? Stephen Sondheim Asked the Right Question About Music and Then Preferred Not to Hear the Answer
In November of 1997, Stephen Sondheim sat in his Manhattan townhouse with Mark Eden Horowitz, a senior music specialist from the Library of Congress, and said something extraordinary. Not extraordinary in the way that most Sondheim quotes are extraordinary, which is to say technically precise and laced with a craftsman's impatience for imprecision.…

Is It From the Birds? Stephen Sondheim Asked the Right Question About Music and Then Preferred Not to Hear the Answer | David Boles, Blogs
In November of 1997, Stephen Sondheim sat in his Manhattan townhouse with Mark Eden Horowitz, a senior music specialist from the Library of Congress, and said something extraordinary. Not extraordi…

NFL Confidential: How is Dexter Lawrence Trade Impacting Draft? Execs, Scouts Weigh in https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-confidential-how-dexter-lawrence-trade-impacting-draft-execs-scouts-weigh

Surely this is the most confusing metaphor they could have gone with?
> House of Lords has ‘signed its own death warrant’ by stalling assisted dying bill, says MP
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/m

House of Lords has ‘signed its own death warrant’ by stalling assisted dying bill, says MP
Kim Leadbeater joins protest against delaying of bill to allow assisted dying in the UK and says people are ‘extremely angry’

Bra artikel kring vad ultraprocessad brukar betyda och problemet med någon form av regler mot det utan att man ändra den definitionen.
Men ändrar man definitionen så gäller inte längre forskningen som finns direkt på det man reglerar mot.
https://www.politifact.com/ar…

What is ‘ultraprocessed’ food’? Brazil has an answer
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised the U.S. would have a definition of “ultra-processed foods” by April. Experts have long disagreed about the term, but Brazil might have an answer.

Richard Mauer, who covered suicide and alcoholism among rural Alaskans, the Exxon Valdez spill, political corruption in Alaska, and more, died on Feb. 23 at 76 (Richard Sandomir/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/business/media/richard-mauer-dead.htm…

Richard Mauer, Reporter Who Probed Corruption in Alaska, Dies at 76
He routinely took on the powerful and was part of a Pulitzer-winning team at The Anchorage Daily News that investigated alcoholism and suicide among Native Alaskans.

Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyr…

The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says
The generative AI models used in classified environments can answer questions but don't currently learn from the data they see. That could soon change.