DS #123: Back At It Like a Crack Addict Didactic SynCast

Hawaii's Tragedy, UK Beer, Floreda Psychology, and 50 Years of Hip-Hop
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First Things
Hello, Floreda!
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
Current Events
Hawaii and climate change
Biden administration announces $1.2B in funding for projects to pull carbon from the air
IEA flags risk of higher oil prices, cuts 2024 demand view
The 2024 US Presidential Election
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is barred from running for office until 2030

Coup in Niger
Operation Lone Star 
Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution."
It is not illegal to seek asylum in the US
Economics
UK alcohol tax changes
Linda Yaccarino says brands are coming back to "X"Elon Musk and unions

Education
Florida now says AP Psychology allowed in schools
DeSantis and New College
Killer Robots, etc
Robotaxis in San FranciscoSEIU Local 87 President Olga Miranda in favor, most other labor leaders against
War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
The Smart Wife

Hip-Hop
Kool Herc’s first block party was 11 August 1973Call of Duty “celebrates” 50 years of hip-hop