On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed, by Emily M. Bender

if large language models are in our future, then …How do we train them to be good citizens? …when humanity itself can’t agree on basic facts, much less core ethics and civic values?

Le Pen’s more radical positions are “a blessing for Macron,” (distracting from his own Islamophobia)

“And by the way, no more drilling on federal lands, period. Period, period, period,” Mr. Biden told voters in New Hampshire in February 2020.

Panic! On the Editorial Page - by Michael Hobbes

“Mississippi Masala” at 30: Revisiting a Film Classic in Authoritarian Times

How Macron has become the champion of the far right

How Russia rescued the ruble

But critics say that even two years into the pandemic, the WHO hasn’t clearly communicated the risks from airborne transmission.

Presenting the Hadzabe as “living fossils” to sell fad diets

China tightens restrictions and bars scholars from international conferences

Putin’s Fascism - The admiration of religious traditionalism and hatred of cosmopolitan liberalism is part of the Kremlin’s fascist ideology

Hong Kong’s Completely Avoidable Covid Catastrophe

Italian study shows ventilation can cut school COVID cases by 82%

“Roma are the largest undocumented group in Ukraine” Stop the segregation of refugees from Ukraine!

Bad Economics - How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance

If you skip past the bothsidesisms at the beginning, this article makes an important point: that people who objected to the more selective targeting of the BDS movement are now endorsing much cruder blanket boycotts against Russians. bdsmovement.net/Hypocrisy

Lessons From Operation “Denver,” the KGB’s Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign

When Marlee Matlin Accused William Hurt of Sexual Assault (2017)

Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

The idea of “official” Chinese street names, however, opened up a novel issue: What Chinese names to use? (Also a nice detail about the handwritten calligraphy.)

The Covid Lab Leak Theory Is Dead. Here’s Why the Animal Origin of the Virus Matters.

The families losing their loved ones to hunger suicide in Afghanistan

Ukraine information and Resources: UT Austin

Theory About U.S.-Funded Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine Is Unfounded