"Rumor had it that these machines were once the Prince’s servants, whom he murdered and transformed into anatomical displays. Scholars showed otherwise."
"At least 189 people are dead and hundreds more remain missing after catastrophic flooding hit large swaths of western Europe, with tens of thousands unable to return to their homes and many still left without access to power and drinking water… The flooding, caused by unprecedented rainfall, has hit parts of western Germany before shifting to neighboring Belgium and the Netherlands."
"But when Curiosity took two samples of ancient mudstone, a sedimentary rock containing clay, from patches of the dried-out lake bed, dated to the same time and place (3.5 billion years ago and just 400m apart), researchers found that one patch contained only half the expected amount of clay minerals. Instead, that patch held a greater quantity of iron oxides, the compounds that give Mars its rusty hue."
"Erratic winds and dry lightning added to the dangers for crews battling the nation’s largest wildfire on Monday in parched Oregon forests, just one of dozens burning across several Western states."
"Los Angeles County continues to see a resurgence in the COVID-19 pandemic that has seen local case rates and hospitalizations skyrocket -- with the latest numbers showing another 1,635 cases and four additional deaths… Sunday was the 10th consecutive day that at least 1,000 new cases were reported."
"In the last week, the seven-day average of confirmed COVID-19 cases has jumped 69% to 26,306, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Deaths have risen 26% to 211, and hospitalizations have risen 36% to 2,794."
"As two camps in the Greater Cincinnati area are dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks, the Ohio Department of Health is updating its guidance… The department says they're now recommending layered prevention tactics at camps that have campers who are not vaccinated… That means wearing masks, social distancing, washing hands and increased cleaning."
"As top health officials warn that COVID-19 has become a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated,' recent figures from states and cities throughout the United States reveal the extent to which the virus is impacting people who are not fully inoculated."
"British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will spend 10 days self-isolating after contact with a confirmed coronavirus case, his office said Sunday — reversing an earlier announcement that he would not have to quarantine after facing an uproar."
"Lifting all coronavirus restrictions is 'reckless', Sir Keir Starmer has said, as most legal limits on social contact are eased in England… He argued that some rules, including mask wearing in certain places, should remain mandatory… The Labour leader also attacked the PM's character saying it 'causes chaos and his leadership causes mayhem'."
"This meta-analysis showed that greater nurse-to-patient ratio was consistently associated with higher degree of burnout among nurses… increased job dissatisfaction… and higher intent to leave…. With respect to needlestick injury, the overall effect size was 1.33 without statistical significance." And you know what most healthcare managers will take from this? "Well, they aren't injuring themselves more, so we're fine." (Grokked from Cassie Alexander)
"Furthermore, nurses working shifts of ten hours or longer were up to two and a half times more likely than nurses working shorter shifts to experience burnout and job dissatisfaction and to intend to leave the job. Extended shifts undermine nurses’ well-being, may result in expensive job turnover, and can negatively affect patient care. Policies regulating work hours for nurses, similar to those set for resident physicians, may be warranted. Nursing leaders should also encourage workplace cultures that respect nurses’ days off and vacation time, promote nurses’ prompt departure at the end of a shift, and allow nurses to refuse to work overtime without retribution." You know what working 10-12 hour shifts are popular? Because that means the nurses supposedly get 3 and 4 days off a week. That is anecdotal, but I can tell you that is what I hear when I talk with them. The problem is, they're not getting those days off, or the days off are not together. (Grokked from Cassie Alexander)
"California began renting hotel rooms throughout the state for the unhoused, but those were always meant to be temporary. Officials had to come up with a plan for what would happen next. The state then launched Homekey, to buy some of those sites and turn them into permanent housing. Marin County bought an 18-room hotel called Casa Buena. That's where 73-year-old Michele Griffin Young has been living for the past four months."
"A gunman who shot at paramedics, firefighters and police at three locations in Tucson, Arizona, Sunday afternoon killed a civilian and left four others injured… In what Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus called "an extremely complex series of incidents," another person was killed in a house fire and two or three children were missing."
"The investigation by the Guardian and 16 other media organisations suggests widespread and continuing abuse of NSO’s hacking spyware, Pegasus, which the company insists is only intended for use against criminals and terrorists… Pegasus is a malware that infects iPhones and Android devices to enable operators of the tool to extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones."
"OPEC and allied nations Sunday agreed to eventually raise the production limits imposed on five countries, ending an earlier dispute sparked by the United Arab Emirates that roiled global energy prices."
"The Biden administration on Monday blamed China for a hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software that compromised tens of thousands of computers around the world earlier this year."
"The Biden administration has transferred its first detainee out of Guantánamo Bay, leaving 39 prisoners at the facility on the American base in Cuba… The Department of Defense announced the transfer of Abdul Latif Nasir to his native Morocco in a statement early Monday."
"For years, Mexican fisherman have crossed into U.S. waters to illegally catch high-priced red snapper. It has become a multi-million dollar black market, the Mexican cartel is involved, Texas fishermen are outraged, and the federal government can't seem to stop it."
"The Biden administration will begin evacuating thousands of Afghans who worked for the US government later this month, ahead of an August 31 deadline for the end of US military operations in Afghanistan… Current and former Afghan translators, interpreters, and others who have worked with the US government in Afghanistan are facing deadly danger as the US drawdown continues and the Taliban reclaims territory once controlled by Afghan and coalition forces."
"Denying Republicans a quorum to enact voting restrictions will cost Texas Democrats north of $1 million, according to the state legislator leading the fundraising effort."
"Across a vast swath of the American heartlands, the anti-Biden backlash is being replicated in Republican-controlled statehouses in what Ronald Brownstein has described in the Atlantic as a 'collective cry of defiance'."
"Michigan Republicans want to pass a blitz of legislation that restricts the right to vote in the key battleground state — and they have an audacious plan to get their ideas enacted, even though they have to contend with a Democratic governor who could ordinarily veto their bills… State lawmakers proposed 39 different bills targeting elections, including ones that restrict absentee voting, a bill that could prevent the state from certifying elections, and a pair of bills that would give ordinary poll workers a simply extraordinary amount of power to restrict voting."
"The task force reviewed 2,858 presidential polls and found they were off by 3.9 percentage points nationally and 4.3 percent at the state level. The numbers for President Biden were fairy accurate, about a point higher than his final vote count, but Trump's 'support was understated by a whopping 3.3 points on average,' Politico reports. 'The polls of Senate and governor's races were off by an even greater margin: 6 points on average.'"
"What few people said they saw in Pence, however, was the Republican nominee for president in 2024."
"An NPR analysis of social media data found that over the past year, stories published by the site Shapiro founded, The Daily Wire, received more likes, shares and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher by a wide margin… Even legacy news organizations that have broken major stories or produced groundbreaking investigative work don't come anywhere close." I'm still a little fuzzy on how "engagement" numbers translate into actual dollars except in roundabout ways. However, high engagement numbers do mean that the platforms are not going to mess with them (after all, the platforms do make money directly from engagement numbers, as they can sell both ads and your personal information).
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