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New Guest Gist: Empires of Certainty
Dermot Casey responds to "The Age of Diagnosis" and its suggestions that there are just too many ADHD people around these days. This is the Gist.
https://www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-empires-of-certainty/

Yesterday I finished reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao. I won't try to summarize or review it here, but it's an excellent book and I recommend it.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/
This is one of tho…

Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657508 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An Instant New York Times Bestseller “Excellent and deeply reported.” —Tim Wu, The New York Times “Startling and intensely research...

Google announces 30 Gemini AI tools for educators, like "Gems" which help students on specific subjects, included with Google Workspace for Education accounts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Google embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and more | TechCrunch
Google will give teachers the ability to create interactive study guides using the AI research tool Notebook LM, along with their classroom materials.

The Other Side Of Addiction: Stories From The Family Empowerment Program
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-other-side-of-addiction-stories-from-the-family-empowerment-program/…

As Florida’s Republican government moves to construct a sprawling new immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, environmental groups and a wide range of other activists have begun to mobilize against "Gater Gitmo"
Florida’s Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced last week that construction of the jail,
at the site of a disused airbase in the Big Cypress National Preserve, had begun.
According to Fox 4 Now, an affiliate in Southw…

Environmental and Indigenous Groups Mobilize to Stop 'Alligator Alcatraz' | Common Dreams
"This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect," said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.

#ArabieSaoudite : l'enfer des prisons utilisées pour enfermer des femmes bannies par leur famille ou par leur mari. Conditions de vie «infernales», flagellations hebdomadaires, des enseignements religieux forcés et l'absence de visites ou de contacts avec le monde extérieur.
#FIFA

Raising awareness of the unseen environmental impacts of floods #environment

Raising awareness of the unseen environmental impacts of floods
Just recently, the world watched as many people were injured and dozens died after a torrential flood swept through a Texas town early in July.

How Scientific Empires End (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/science-empire-america-decline/683711/?gift=NOCMQ5ngQ0TP3ARV7MGFu8e03NwJI7Noj_2-JqbsMpY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p28#a250731p28

Slovenia becomes first EU country to impose arms embargo on Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/1/slovenia-becomes-first-eu-country-to-impose-arms-embargo-on-israel?traffic_source=rss

California Rolls Back Its Landmark Environmental Law (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/california-environment-newsom-ceqa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE8.B0UZ.zKi4gTibOf4R&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p161#a250630p161