We're Toast 12

This post is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. It is part of an ongoing series of posts.

Climate Change and Environment

• Climate change could more mercury in seafood. The threat of mercury in seafood was curbed with regulations, but climate change could drive levels back up.
• Arctic Permafrost Is Thawing Fast. That Affects Us All. One of the scariest climate-related articles I've read in a while.
• A Supercharged Marine Heat Wave Is Roasting the Pacific. Is this why salmon are so scarce this year?
• The Amazon Has Seen More Than 100,000 Fires This Year, Causing Spike in Air Pollution. Bolsonaro fiddles while the Amazon burns.

Politics

• The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism. This is the real World War III and we're losing it.
• The Decline and Evolution of the School Librarian. Cutting librarians is being penny wise and pound foolish.
• Tensions at the US southern border are putting scientists and their work at risk. All bow down before the mighty wall.
• Donald Trump's Bad Tweet Is Tearing NOAA Apart. Now he's going after the weather service. Is nothing safe from this idiot?
• How Britain Plunged Into Its Worst Constitutional Crisis in 400 Years. I am boggled at how anyone could support Brexit after the Yellowhammer revelations. 

Technology

• Scammer Successfully Deepfaked CEO's Voice To Fool Underling Into Transferring $243,000. This will not be the last time we see this technology being used for scams.
• A Breakthrough for AI Technology: Passing an 8th-Grade Science Test. I know a lof of adults who would flunk that test.