Sunday Snippets: Third grade

My son starts third grade this week. Time is a fickle goddamn thing because he was just a baby.

Take Five

Chef José Andrés warns of multi-year world famine from Iran war

What Is Freedom: Elissa Altman

Dog Days

State fairs forever (data centers never)

Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff?

Sherrill Administration Announces Statewide Housing Resources Ensure No Veteran Has to Go Homeless

The Family Physician Talking You Through Your Abortion

A Year of Confinement in Delaney Hall, With No End in Sight

I went to more than 20 yard sales last weekend

Cumulative access to print books improves literacy achievement: Evidence from a five-year randomized trial in high-poverty schools

Air Florida Flight 90 Tragedy: Blizzard, Heroism, and the Potomac’s Icy Waters

Cynicism and Naïveté in the Summer of a Thousand Fires

A Federal Judge Says the Constitution Still Protects Abortion

AI has captured a third of research discovery. Study sets out actions required for publishers to make content visible via new channels.

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate war zone

When data centers come knocking, counties should have a ‘wish list,’ officials say

If one thing was clear after the second major panel focused on the issue at the Maryland Association of Counties summer conference, it was that data centers are not going anywhere — at least not any time soon. So counties should start preparing.

“Counties willing to negotiate can extract meaningful investment in their community’s futures while mitigating impact to their communities and residents,” Ullman said. “New schools, road upgrades, community centers, long-term support packages for local initiatives — it’s all on the table.”

Sooooo we just negotiate with captors in hopes of better cages? The fuck is this bullshit?