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mitchbob··on What Are the US Midterms
https://archive.ph/lb5r1
mitchbob··on 'We came back from hell', say Ukrainians after years in Russia-occupied city
https://archive.ph/kAzkb
mitchbob··on Proton to 'Re-Interview' Staff About AI to See Who Gets to Keep Their Job
https://archive.ph/6pywD
mitchbob··on How Corruption Got This Bad
https://archive.ph/mezCY
mitchbob··on The Fall of Scientific American
https://archive.ph/r2j08
mitchbob··on Nine-Inch Snails
https://archive.ph/ZRKnp
mitchbob··on Should You Put Your Books in the Freezer?
https://archive.ph/xNkLl
mitchbob··on White House Says Access Is a 'Privilege' in Court Filing Defending Media Ban
https://archive.ph/h6h43
mitchbob··on Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley
https://archive.ph/IsMB6
mitchbob··on Getting your hands dirty is good for you
https://archive.ph/MWUcR
mitchbob··on And Yet It Warms: Federal Judges and Climate Change
> A new edition of a manual that helps federal judges understand scientific subjects included a chapter on climate change that was withdrawn after attacks by denialists.

https://archive.ph/KVjSG

mitchbob··on Foreign business owners leave Japan in droves under tighter visa rules
https://archive.ph/881Ne
mitchbob··on El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1k years
Here's a recent article in the New Yorker about just that:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/24/the-end-of-the...

https://archive.ph/41yRC

mitchbob··on AI is hurting US politics. Here’s how candidates could use it for good
> The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters, as examples from Japan and Scotland show.
mitchbob··on Some Scientists Have 'Magic Hands' in the Lab. This A.I. Is Learning Why.
https://archive.ph/fKi16
mitchbob··on The Great Floating Homes of Los Angeles
> In the city's burnt neighborhoods, rebuilding is brutally expensive. Now residents have turned to a lost art: moving entire houses to their vacant lots.

https://archive.ph/GXTQD

mitchbob··on China probes use of formaldehyde to keep cabbages fresh
https://archive.ph/mg2OT
mitchbob··on The Control of Nature: The End of the European Summer
> As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand.

https://archive.ph/41yRC

mitchbob··on Harvard's A.I. Clones Will Hear Your Startup Pitch Now
> To create a new $699 bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. versions of its faculty.

https://archive.ph/r35DL

mitchbob··on Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)
https://archive.ph/74i4J
mitchbob··on Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
https://archive.ph/YpyHu
mitchbob··on Missed shifts were costly to this McDonald's. An app has fixed the problem
With you there, but a huge challenge to make work in car-dependent suburbs. Best IMO would be to pay a living wage, so workers can afford reliable cars or all the Waymo rides they need.
mitchbob··on The Mystery of Dark Oxygen
> Scientists once thought that life-sustaining oxygen existed only near Earth’s surface. Then they detected it deep underground.

https://archive.ph/w6xmO

mitchbob··on Are You a Human?
> From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative.

https://archive.ph/2oCAj

mitchbob··on McDonald's built a 515-page dossier on one customer
> I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase.

https://archive.ph/q0qdR

mitchbob··on Why Normal People Aren't Using AI Agents
https://archive.ph/Bj2wj
mitchbob··on Hannah Arendt's American Education
> The writer's political ideal - citizens appearing before one another as equals, engaging in dialogue and debate - had a counterpart in her spirited gatherings on the Upper West Side.

https://archive.ph/v1hok

mitchbob··on DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People's Homes
https://archive.ph/aKBFQ
mitchbob··on The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia
https://archive.ph/DeWVL
mitchbob··on 'We Did Our Best': Metaphors of Parenting and AI
https://archive.ph/94ArU
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