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"flying cars are the future" they said
https://gothamist.com/news/1-dead-1-critically-injured-after-helicopters-collide-midair-in-south-jersey-reports-say

1 dead, 1 critically injured after helicopters collide midair in South Jersey, reports say
The helicopters crashed Sunday morning near Hammonton Municipal Airport, according to federal officials and local reports.

Malik Davis reflects on first career 100 yard game: 'It's a great feeling' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/malik-davis-reflects-on-first-career-100-yard-game-it-s-a-great-feeling

"When you focus on growth in GDP as your primary goal without any concern for whether what creates that growth is of real value rather than simply being capable of being counted, whilst being indifferent to the distribution of the gains, those already vulnerable are bound to suffer as a consequence... The policy failure this chart exposes is not an accident; it will be achieved by #Labour by d…

Labour is failing people by hidden design. Reform would do so explicitly.
As The Guardian notes this morning: The country’s most deprived neighbourhoods will have higher crime rates and worse unemployment by the end of the parliament, according to a report written at the request of No. 10 Downing Street. No. 10 has apparently focused its attention on what are called

AI Whistleblower Initiative says OpenAI recently updated its whistleblower policy, addressing 8 of 13 recommendations and going further than Anthropic's policy (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-one-ups-a…

OpenAI One-Ups Anthropic with New Whistleblower Policy
OpenAI recently updated its policy for handling whistleblower complaints, following concerns about AI startups ignoring what are standard rules applying to all companies. It follows similar steps from Anthropic and could pressure other AI companies to follow suit.Federal government rules mandate ...

He has labored in the fields every summer and on weekends during the school year since he was 11 years old to help his mother, who also picks berries.
His siblings, uncles and cousins — four of them minors — work in local strawberry fields.
Jose said that some days he didn’t fill many boxes and earned less than minimum wage for the hours he worked,
Awhich would be a violation of state child labor laws.
He described toiling under the hot sun in fields where employers f…

California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.

I made a point of filling in the heart in the health app which wasn't easy on a day like today in a city like Milwaukee.
It was a little cold and snowy out there.

Somehow I've got that problem that just reading a book feels like I'm neglecting "important" work. My task list is long and there is always some "productive" stuff I could do. I intellectually understand that reading is important and not just a recreational activity. Also I understand recreation is important. Still there is this nagging feeling when I pick up a book and read.
Do you have the same issue? How did or would you address it?

We’re at a point where these sorts of simple genetic disorders are going to be falling to CRISPR-Cas9 treatments one after another in an accelerating fashion until we run out of targets.
They raise troubling questions about access to care and cost. Ask why we still have people with active Sickle Cell disease, years after the CURE was demonstrated.
The reason is that no one is stepping up with the megabuck per patient. @…

Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. “Brisk” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Still, I am a freak and love this weather. It felt good to be out moving. #TeamShorts of course.
Walked briefly twice to bring my HR down a bit and then stopped to mug at this beautiful Great Blue Heron looking for their lunch. 🐟