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Carbon, cattle, and hummingbirds.
Voluntary carbon credits should be credible says the White House
5 takeaways from the House farm bill draft | Agriculture Dive
Post Holdings says bird flu hit nearly 14% of egg supply | Agriculture Dive
In case you didn’t know, bird flu is destroying millions of birds this year. We grow billions which is why this is a big deal.
Cattle-Aided Mental Health Therapy Shows Promise in New Study (nyu.edu)
We should all be hugging cows more.
Why Do So Many Maple Syrup Bottles Have a Tiny Little Handle? (mentalfloss.com)
Maple syrup manufacturers had started to add little handles to their glass bottles by the early 1930s. This, apparently, was a bit of a marketing tactic. “Maple syrup companies weren’t so much retaining an old pattern of a jug as reinventing it and wanting to market their product as something nostalgic”
What “we’re seeing” - Sherwood News
Nobody really wants to listen to corporate executives talk for very long.
Sure, every once in a while, they say something interesting. But it’s rate, especially on the conference calls that typically follow quarterly earnings reports.
And even when they have something to say, it’s easy to miss. Because those bits of actual information are usually buried under thick blankets of business school jargon, slippery phrasing, and self-promotional spin.
Lucky for you, dear reader, I’m about to share a secret that I stumbled across during my roughly 15 years of of eavesdropping and eye-skimming the transcripts of these calls.
Simply search for the phrase “we’re seeing ...”
WINGED PRISM Prize "Fundação Casa da Cultura Macedo Miranda" - Museu de Arte Moderna de Resende MAM - RJ Brazil Sacred Modernity showcases "unique beauty" of brutalist churches (dezeen.com)
Want the best sunscreens this summer? The FDA is blocking you.
Americans traveling in Europe do not hesitate to use European sunscreens, rapid tests or cough medicine, because they know the European Medicines Agency is a careful regulator, at least on par with the FDA. But if Americans in Europe don’t hesitate to use European-approved pharmaceuticals, then why are these same pharmaceuticals banned for Americans in America?
Mystery of where Mona Lisa was painted has been solved, geologist claims
Singapore writers reject a government plan to train AI on their work - Rest of World
Despite the writers’ criticism, “this level of proactive consent-seeking is quite rare,” according to Nuurrianti Jalli, an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University who has studied multilingual LLMs. “Most LLM developers have taken the stance that web-scraped data is fair game to train on, without getting permission from individual copyright holders,
Teaching my White Boyfriend to eat "Ethnic Food"
Impressed by how thoughtful this list is.
