Friday, July 30, 2021

Reading archive 2021-07-30

Opinion: In vaccine-resistant Alabama, hospitals face a two-front war

These self-described trolls tackle climate disinformation on social media with wit and memes: Environmental activists, researchers, lawmakers and others are haunting corporate social media feeds to push back against greenwashing - "Oil and gas companies spent decades privately researching the effects of global warming and adapting their businesses, extensive research has shown. Publicly, giants like Shell, BP, ExxonMobil have sown climate change denial and portrayed themselves as allies of the environment while knowingly acting against its interests, said Genevieve Guenther, founder of the advocacy group End Climate Silence."

CDC study shows three-fourths of people infected in Massachusetts covid-19 outbreak were vaccinated but few required hospitalization

Opinion: Is D.C. wasting money on violence reduction programs? - "If recent events were not enough justification for such spending, the numbers should be: D.C. has seen about a 10 percent increase in the year-over-year homicide rate for the past three years. There’s only one problem. That same data shows that the city’s violence interrupter programs, one run by the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, and Cure the Streets, run out of the Office of the D.C. Attorney General, aren’t doing what they claim: preventing violence. Rather, they may be merely dispersing it, spreading the killings to nearby areas that previously did not have any."

China built the world’s largest facial recognition system. Now, it’s getting camera-shy.

Opinion: The Chesapeake Bay’s menhaden are in trouble

Trump to acting AG, according to aide’s notes: ‘Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me’

Disney blasts Scarlett Johansson over Black Widow streaming lawsuit

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