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.
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| During totality, looking towards the edge of the shadow |
- Becoming Plastic People on a Plastic Planet. "Plastic pollution linked to increases in inflammatory bowel disease, cancers, obesity, infertility and heart disease."
- As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice. "General Mills warns of ‘food shaming’; dietitian influencers promote junk foods and discourage weight loss efforts."
- ‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe. "An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem." It's past the time to be worried; it's time to be scared. This should be front page headline news.
- The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con.
- The urban-rural death divide is getting alarmingly wider for working-age Americans. ":The cause is unclear, but poverty and worsening health care access are likely factors."
- Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists. "If the anomaly does not stabilise by August, ‘the world will be in uncharted territory’, says climate expert."
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