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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How the U.S. Lifted Children Out of Poverty and Then Threw Them Back Into It</strong> - After the expanded child tax credit expired, America’s child poverty rate doubled. Why was that policy so successful, and what can be done to fill the gap? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-the-us-lifted-children-out-of-poverty-and-then-threw-them-back-into-it">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The World According to Elon Musk’s Grandfather</strong> - What happened to antisemitic rants before social media. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-world-according-to-elon-musks-grandfather">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Nikki Haley’s Consensus Appeal</strong> - A canny establishment conservative may be Biden’s greatest threat in 2024. But can she solve the Trump problem? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/nikki-haleys-consensus-appeal">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Republican Support for the U.A.W. Is a Big LOL</strong> - When the G.O.P. was in power, it consistently sided with employers and blocked legislation supported by labor unions. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/republican-support-for-the-uaw-is-a-big-lol">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Freedom for Five Americans Doesn’t End Flash Points with Iran</strong> - The prisoner exchange will almost certainly not stop an Iranian tactic that has spanned more than four decades. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/freedom-for-five-americans-doesnt-end-flash-points-with-iran">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>We cut child poverty to historic lows, then let it rebound faster than ever before</strong> -
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<img alt="Two women, each holding a young child, stand outside the US Capitol in support of the child tax credit on December 13, 2021, in Washington, DC. One holds a hand-lettered sign that reads “Congress must continue the child tax credit!”" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/pwd52Yz1nOPFmxOugc3dII9IAmw=/323x0:5486x3872/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72671942/GettyImages_1358862098.0.jpg"/>
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The expanded child tax credit was a well-tested solution to child poverty. Bring it back.
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During the past two years, child poverty in America set new records — one for the better and one for the worse.
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In 2021, the child poverty rate — as measured by the <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/3/10/23632910/poverty-official-supplemental-relative-absolute-measure-desmond">supplemental poverty measure</a> that incorporates the value of government benefits — took a sharp drop to its lowest point on record: 5.2 percent, so that 3.8 million American children were living below the federal poverty line. Then, as a <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-280.html">report just released by the Census Bureau</a> found, it experienced the steepest rise in its history in 2022: a hike of 139 percent, or more than double, to 12.4 percent. <a href="https://www.childtrends.org/blog/5-million-more-children-experienced-poverty-in-2022-than-in-2021-following-expiration-of-covid-era-economic-relief">Five million kids</a> fell back into poverty, pushing the number of kids whose parents were struggling to meet their basic needs up to 9 million.
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To anyone following the politics of poverty in America, the jagged rebound was entirely unsurprising. The child poverty rate was like a loaded spring being held down by pandemic-era <a href="https://www.vox.com/social-programs">welfare programs</a>. Chief among them: <a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/gains-from-expanded-child-tax-credit-outweigh-overstated-employment-worries">the child allowance</a>, which expanded on the existing child tax credit (CTC) and sent monthly payments to all parents <a href="https://www.vox.com/poverty">in poverty</a>, helping to <a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/policymakers-should-expand-child-tax-credit-in-year-end-legislation-to-fight">cut child poverty by 46 percent</a> in 2021. Release the spring — or let the expanded CTC expire, as <a href="https://www.vox.com/congress">Congress</a> did — and of course it will shoot right back up. The child poverty rates settled right back around pre-pandemic 2019 levels.
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<br/>The main innovation of the expanded child allowance in 2021 was to do away with the <a href="https://www.niskanencenter.org/work-requirements-and-income-requirements-explained/">income requirements</a> that kept full CTC benefits from reaching <a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/year-end-tax-policy-priority-expand-the-child-tax-credit-for-the-19-million">19 million of the poorest American children</a> whose parents had little or no earnings. When the expansion reverted back to the old CTC at the end of 2021, all those families who had received the benefit were once again excluded by the income requirements.
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Which is what makes this frustrating: policymakers saw this coming, watched it happen, and were able to do nothing about it. It wasn’t for lack of effort: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was the swing vote that <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/167108/democrats-joe-manchin-child-care-tax-credit-bbb">blocked</a> the rest of the Democratic Party’s effort to make the program permanent, on the empirically <a href="https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/617631468001808739/pdf/WPS6886.pdf">refuted idea</a> that unconditional cash to low-income families will get <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-joe-manchin-suggests-child-tax-credit-payments/story?id=81865740">spent on drugs</a>. The <a href="https://www.cbpp.org/blog/9-in-10-families-with-low-incomes-are-using-child-tax-credits-to-pay-for-necessities-education#:~:text=Poverty%20and%20Inequality-,9%20in%2010%20Families%20With%20Low%20Incomes%20Are%20Using%20Child,to%20Pay%20for%20Necessities%2C%20Education">data shows</a> that for the year the program was in effect, parents spent most of the money on food, clothes, utilities, rent, and education costs.
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But politics aside, the fact that child poverty rebounded so sharply even while the <a href="https://www.vox.com/economy">economy</a> is doing really well — even though inflation hasn’t completely settled down, wage growth at the bottom <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/americans-are-finally-getting-raise-thanks-lower-inflation-rcna93844">has been outpacing it since June</a>, and <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE">unemployment is historically low</a> — holds an important lesson. No matter how well the economy performs, generous welfare programs that reach everyone in need are our most effective tool against poverty.
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A strong economy remains weak on child poverty, apparently
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For months, the economy has been surprisingly strong by many measures. The last time unemployment remained this low was <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE">the 1960s</a>. Real median household income is fluttering around its highest <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N">peak on record</a>. The wage inequality that widened over the past few decades <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31010/w31010.pdf">is shrinking</a>. Black Americans — who continue to <a href="https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/ccf4dbe2-810a-44f8-b3e7-14f7e5143ba6/economic-state-of-black-america-2020.pdf">suffer the legacy</a> of being cut out from economic gains — are also seeing <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252884600Q">big upswings in earnings</a>, and historically low <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000006">jobless rates</a>. The economy continues its streak of <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf">creating jobs</a>. And so on. “Things are going great, I swear,” Annie Lowrey <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/us-economy-labor-market-inflation-housing/674790/">writes in the Atlantic</a>, already hinting at the dissonance between statistics telling of a strong economy and the reality of both high inflation eating away at those earnings and 5 million kids plunging back into poverty.
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The economy is strong, including and especially for low-income workers, but when Congress failed to extend the expanded CTC, none of that mattered — and child poverty surged back. To be fair, there’s probably a lag to be expected between an economy flexing its muscles and downstream benefits to things like child poverty. Historically, a stronger economy that <a href="https://www.childtrends.org/publications/lessons-from-a-historic-decline-in-child-poverty-influence-of-economic-demographic-trends-on-changes-in-child-poverty">translates</a> to lower levels of unemployment and wage growth for lower-income workers has played a significant part in bringing down child poverty. That describes a lot of what the US has experienced over the past couple of years, and maybe, if the economy stays strong, we’ll see reductions in the child poverty rate in a few years, or more. But when you have a program as effective as the expanded CTC was, why wait to find out?
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One reason that’s held some sway for decades is the idea that the long-run economic harms of <a href="https://www.opml.co.uk/blog/unconditional-cash-transfers-reducing-poverty-vulnerabilities">unconditional cash transfers</a> — or no-strings-attached payments like the expanded CTC, or <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/17/15364546/universal-basic-income-review-stern-murray-automation">universal basic income</a> — would erase any short-term benefits (like huge drops in child poverty). The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/opinion/child-allowance-credit-romney.html">concern</a> is that giving out money to people in poverty without requiring them to work in exchange will ultimately create communities where dropping out of work is both widespread and accepted. Cash with no strings attached “gives up on work,” as one conservative analyst <a href="https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/are-we-ready/doar-universal-basic-income">put it</a>.
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While there have always been disagreements about that view, increasingly, the evidence is against it. Unconditional cash transfers in low-income countries have been found to <a href="https://www.economicpossibility.org/sources/general-equilibrium-effects-of-cash-transfers-experimental-evidence-from-kenya">stimulate economic activity</a>. In a pilot program for guaranteed income in Stockton, California, recipients of unconditional cash <a href="https://www.stocktondemonstration.org/employment">were quicker to find full-time employment</a> than control groups.
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Looking specifically at the impacts of the expanded CTC, <a href="https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/publication/child-tax-credit/research-roundup">there was no evidence</a> that receiving the benefit reduced work, and <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29854/w29854.pdf">economists at Columbia University estimated</a> that making the program permanent would deliver a more than tenfold return on the investment of about $100 billion per year — a major boost to the economy. That means in addition to solidifying the massive drop in child poverty and giving millions of struggling <a href="https://www.cbpp.org/blog/9-in-10-families-with-low-incomes-are-using-child-tax-credits-to-pay-for-necessities-education">American families continued support</a> to pay for food, school supplies, utilities, and rent, taxpayers would also save money in the long run.
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States are stepping up, but that’s no replacement for a federal program
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In the absence of federal action, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/7/27/23806695/child-tax-credit-ctc-poverty-families-refundable">states are stepping in</a>. Since the expanded CTC expired at the end of 2021, 11 states have passed their own versions, each without the income requirements that kept benefits from the poorest Americans. For these “fully refundable” CTCs, even families with $0 in earnings receive benefits.
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Under the conventional CTC, which was “partially refundable,” households needed to earn a minimum of $2,500 per year to receive any benefit — a barrier that effectively screened out unemployed people. After that threshold, even if a family did not owe any income tax (the CTC is a tax credit, which is usually deducted from taxes owed), they could still receive a portion of the CTC benefit as a partial refund on the expenses of raising children. (A non-refundable credit would mean that if you do not earn enough to owe any income taxes, you wouldn’t receive any benefit.)
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Now, fully refundable CTCs that reach all Americans in poverty — not just those who already have some earnings — are passing in states with Democratic majorities, though plenty of Republicans are on board with the idea as well. An <a href="https://jainfamilyinstitute.org/state-guaranteed-income-ctcs/">analysis</a> in July by the <a href="https://jainfamilyinstitute.org/">Jain Family Institute (JFI)</a>, a nonpartisan think tank, found that 40 percent of Republican state senators voted for fully refundable child tax credits. A <a href="https://economicsecurityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/D-14605-National-Tax-Survey-CTC-Sept-12-Slides.pdf">September poll</a> by Hart Research and the Economic Security Project found that 60 percent of Republican voters support a fully refundable CTC.
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While each of these state CTCs are fully refundable, the rest of their policy designs are varied. Benefit amounts range from $180 to $1,750 per child. Some are designed to reach only low-income families by starting to phase out benefits at low levels of income (<a href="https://jainfamilyinstitute.org/state-guaranteed-income-ctcs/#maryland">Maryland</a>, for example, immediately phases out all benefits after $15,000 of annual household income), while others stretch into the middle class before phasing out. Still others (like in <a href="https://jainfamilyinstitute.org/state-guaranteed-income-ctcs/#massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>) go universally to all families with children younger than 12 regardless of income levels.
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At best, though, state programs are a stopgap in the absence of a federal child allowance. The main reason is funding: states face tighter constraints than the federal government, and wind up financing smaller benefits as a result. Even the largest state CTC, <a href="https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/childrens-cabinet/child-tax-credit-summary.pdf">in Minnesota</a>, offers only $1,750 per child, about half of what the expanded CTC did.
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“Put simply,” said Jack Landry, a researcher at JFI, “the federal government has more fiscal firepower to pass a truly transformative child tax credit.” Relying on states to fund CTCs means those state governments with bigger tax bases could afford better programs, while poorer ones could be left with comparatively meager benefits. “A federal CTC that raises taxes from all 50 states and then distributes them without regard to geography is more equitable than every state financing a CTC on its own,” he said.
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Child poverty does not have to be normal
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The past two years of child poverty shocks — a 46 percent drop, a 139 percent rise — were significant departures from the prior 50 years. Just as economists talk of there being a balance in the economy that produces a “<a href="https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/110th-congress-2007-2008/workingpaper/2007-06_0.pdf">natural rate of unemployment</a>,” the decades since the US official poverty measures began in 1967 <a href="https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/historical-spm-data">show</a> what looks like a natural rate in the decline of child poverty. It rarely budges more than 1 percent per year.
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Economic booms and busts can nudge the annual rate a little higher or lower, which raises further concerns in the absence of strong programs like the expanded CTC. Some economists still warn of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/business/economy/economy-soft-landing.html">a lurking recession</a>, which would raise the prospect of a double bind in our future: a slouching economy, and less effective protections against child poverty. That rates rebounded so sharply even during historically excellent economic conditions shows that the economy, on its own, can only do so much.
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When we talk about child poverty, we’re talking about parents being unsure whether they’ll be able to keep up with their utility bills enough <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23056876/expanded-child-tax-credit-poverty-american-families-impact">for their kids to take a bath</a>, or afford a backpack for school, or whether they’ll be able to feed them enough to keep them healthy. Since the expanded CTC ran out, Megan Sandel, a pediatrician, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/09/15/1199753605/child-tax-credit-poverty-pediatrician">told NPR</a> that she’s already seeing 3-year-old children lose weight because their parents can’t afford to feed them enough.
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But as the short-lived success of the expanded CTC showed, federal welfare programs — when they include all children in poverty, not just the working poor — can almost immediately forge a new normal in the level of child poverty, no matter what’s going on in the wider economy. With all the abstract talk around pandemic-inspired “new normals,” cost-effectively cutting child poverty in half is a pretty decent pillar worth moving toward, and may even help build momentum to simply ending it altogether.
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<li><strong>Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do</strong> -
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<img alt="An illustration of a young man with a worried expression on his face sitting at a laptop, from which a menacing phantom is emerging" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/q8CgNzQoGp09kTAEkyb8FZrU8zo=/234x0:8169x5951/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72671874/GettyImages_1356431097.0.jpg"/>
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Growing up as a “digital native” doesn’t come with immunity to the dangers of being online. | Getty Images/iStockphoto
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The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.
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Anyone can get scammed online, including the generation of Americans that grew up with the internet.
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If you’re part of Generation Z — that is, born sometime between the late 1990s and early 2010s — you or one of your friends may have been the target or victim of an online scam. In fact, according to a recent Deloitte survey, members of Gen Z fall for these scams and get hacked far more frequently than their grandparents do.
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Compared to older generations, younger generations <a href="https://20740408.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/20740408/CYBSAFE-Oh%20behave%20report%202022-220927%20MS%20-%20V1.pdf">have reported higher rates</a> of victimization in phishing, identity theft, romance scams, and cyberbullying. The <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/telecommunications/connectivity-mobile-trends-survey.html/#explore">Deloitte survey</a> shows that Gen Z Americans were three times more likely to get caught up in an online scam than boomers were (16 percent and 5 percent, respectively). Compared to boomers, Gen Z was also twice as likely to have a social media account hacked (17 percent and 8 percent). Fourteen percent of Gen Z-ers surveyed said they’d had their location information misused, more than any other generation. The cost of falling for those scams may also be surging for younger people: <a href="https://socialcatfish.com/scamfish/state-of-internet-scams-2023/">Social Catfish’s 2023 report on online scams</a> found that online scam victims under 20 years old lost an estimated $8.2 million in 2017. In 2022, they lost $210 million.
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“People that are digital natives for the most part, they’re aware of these things,” says Scott Debb, an associate professor of psychology at Norfolk State University who has studied the cybersecurity habits of younger Americans. In one 2020 study published in the <a href="https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=ijcic"><em>International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Cybercrime</em></a>, Debb and a team of researchers compared the self-reported online safety behaviors of millennials and Gen Z, the two “digitally native” generations. While Gen Z had a high awareness of online security, they fared worse than millennials in actually implementing many cybersecurity best practices in their own lives.
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So, why? Why is the generation that arguably knows more about being online than any other (<a href="https://www.insider.com/skibidi-toilet-gen-z-alpha-memes-internet-culture-outdated-old-2023-7">for now</a>) so vulnerable to online scams and hacks?
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There are a few theories that seem to come up again and again. First, Gen Z simply uses technology more than any other generation and is therefore more likely to be scammed via that technology. Second, growing up with the internet gives younger people a familiarity with their devices that can, in some instances, incentivize them to choose convenience over safety. And third, cybersecurity education for school-aged children isn’t doing a great job of talking about online safety in a way that actually clicks with younger people’s lived experiences online.
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“I think Gen Z is thinking about it. We have to live with these threats every day,” says Kyla Guru, a 21-year-old computer science student at Stanford who founded a cybersecurity education organization as a teenager. When she teaches classrooms of students about email safety or phishing or social engineering, she said, there’s often an instant recognition. “They’ll be like, ‘Oh my God, I remember getting something really similar.’ Or, ‘I’ve seen a ton of these kinds of spammers in my Instagram DMs.’”
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The kinds of scams that target Gen Z aren’t too dissimilar to the ones that target everyone else online. But because Gen Z relies on technology more often, on more devices, and in more aspects of their lives, there might just be more opportunities for them to encounter a bogus email or unreliable shop, says Tanneasha Gordon, a principal at Deloitte who leads the company’s data & digital trust business. Younger people are more comfortable with meeting people online, so they might be targeted with a romance scam, for instance.
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“They shop a lot online,” Gordon said, “and there are so many fraudulent websites and e-commerce platforms that just literally tailor to them, that will take them from the social media platform that they’re on via a fraudulent ad.” Phishing emails are also common, she said. And while a more digitally savvy person might not fall for a copy/pasted, typo-riddled email scam, there are many more sophisticated, personalized ones out there. Finally, Gordon added, younger people will often encounter social media impersonation and compromised accounts.
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Older Americans also date, shop, bank, and socialize online. But for every generation except for Gen Z, the technologies that enabled that access weren’t always available. There’s a difference between someone who got their first smartphone in college and someone who learned how to enter a password into their parents’ iPad as a kid — the latter of which is much more the experience of a Gen Z or Gen Alpha, the generation following Gen Z that is rapidly approaching teenagerhood. Millennials, particularly older millennials, had occasional access to computers in school, but younger generations may have been issued laptops by their school district to use in the classroom at all times.
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Taken together, these differences have led to some educated speculation on what that shift might change about how people approach cybersecurity. If online mayhem feels like part of the cost of being online, might you just be a bit more accepting of the risks using the internet entails? This generational difference might lead younger people to choose convenience over security when engaging online with their devices, according to Debb.
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Social media apps like Instagram and TikTok are convenient by design. Install the app on your phone and you’ll stay logged in, ready to post or browse at a moment’s notice. The app will send alerts with updates and messages, designed to get you to open it up. Debb offered a hypothetical: If Instagram made users log out every time the app closed and re-log in with two-factor authentication in order to reopen it, then Instagram would probably be more secure to use. It’d also be extremely frustrating for many users. Older generations might be a little more accepting of this friction. But for those who grew up with social media as an important part of their self-expression, this level of security could simply be too cumbersome.
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But Gen Z’s online experience isn’t really a black-and-white choice, where convenience lives behind one door and safety the other. Instead, online safety best practices should be much more personalized to how younger people are actually using the internet, said Guru. Staying safer online could involve switching browsers, enabling different settings in the apps you use, or changing how you store passwords, she noted. None of those steps necessarily involve compromising your convenience or using the internet in a more limited way. Approaching cybersecurity as part of being active online, rather than an antagonist to it, might connect better with Gen Z, Guru said.
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“We’re the ones changing the scene in the future, right?” said Guru. “We’re the ones doing activism around climate change or reproductive rights. And so I think your threat model changes the moment that you take on those kinds of responsibilities or those roles.”
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There’s another factor here, too: Many experts say that the responsibility for remaining safe while using these apps should not fall solely on the individual user. Many of the apps and systems that are designed to be convenient and fast to use could be doing a lot more to meaningfully protect their users. Gordon floated the idea of major social media platforms sending out test phishing emails — the kind that you might get from your employer, as a tool to check your own vulnerabilities — which lead users who fall for the trap toward some educational resources. Privacy settings should also be easier to access and understand.
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But really, Guru says, the key to getting Gen Z better prepared for a world full of online scams might be found in helping younger people understand the systems that incentivize them to exist in the first place.
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“Why do these scams happen, who is behind them, and what can we do about them? I think those are the last synapses that we need to connect,” she said.
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<li><strong>Devastating photos reveal how an extreme heat wave is wrecking Florida’s coral reef</strong> -
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<img alt="Elkhorn corals (Acropora palmata) that were planted about 3 years ago." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/fo6foWhkUi4mDJiT_lP-hrYvKcI=/0x256:2048x1792/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72671775/05_JennyAdler_Coral.0.png"/>
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Jennifer Adler
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Photos from before and after record temperatures struck Florida show the wrath of climate change.
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The image above was taken at a coral reef in Florida called Pickles in the spring of 2022.
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Here’s how that same reef looked earlier this month:
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0d3l5D3BoSFsasnIhX09E1P2xhY=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24936227/adler_6788.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
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A cluster of bleached elkhorn coral in Pickles Reef on September 7, 2023.
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The difference between the two images tells a clear story: Coral in the Florida Keys, home to the largest reef in the continental US, <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23868423/florida-coral-reef-bleaching-heat-wave-climate-change">is dying</a>. The ghostly white appearance of the coral above is due to a phenomenon known as bleaching. Coral, an anemone-like marine animal, gets most of its color and food from a kind of algae that lives within its tissue. When that algae disappears, the coral appears stark white. Bleached corals aren’t dead; they are starving to death.
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</p>
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/5AGaigfhxS7Kvs2Pv_09AFlFqfA=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24937482/adler_5524.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
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A small fragment of staghorn coral, a threatened species, at Pickles Reef.
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What happened between those two snapshots is extreme and unrelenting heat. Since July, a <a href="https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/extreme-ocean-temperatures-are-affecting-floridas-coral-reef">record-setting</a> heat wave has been cooking waters in Florida and parts of the Caribbean, at times pushing water temperatures above 100 degrees. This excessive heat causes the relationship between coral and those symbiotic algae to break down; the algae leave the coral, though it’s not entirely clear which initiates the breakup.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="qZJym7">
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The result of this epic marine heat wave is a devastating bleaching event that stretches across the Keys and much of the Caribbean, threatening the future of the region’s coral reefs. That in turn threatens human lives and well-being. These ecosystems — which were already <a href="http://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/mission-iconic-reefs-noaa-aims-restore-florida-keys-climate-resilient-corals#:~:text=Since%20the%20late%201970s%2C%20healthy,self%2Dsustaining%20levels%20by%202040.">under siege</a> well before this summer — protect coastal communities <a href="https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/23046997/hurricane-ian-coral-reefs-climate-change-hurricanes">from storm surge</a>, support fisheries, and drive tourism.
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“It’s absolutely devastating,” said Rachel Morgan, a senior coral biologist at the Florida Aquarium, an aquarium and conservation organization. “We’re looking at a mass extinction.”
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</p>
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Underwater photojournalist Jennifer Adler and I went scuba-diving in the Florida Keys before and after this marine heat wave. What we saw is a stark reminder that climate change is not a distant threat; it’s destroying ecosystems today.
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The heat wave is burning up years of restoration efforts
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Diving on a reef with bleached corals is always a bit grim, like walking through a forest after a wildfire. What makes this crisis especially harrowing, however, is that it’s undoing years or perhaps even decades of work to revive Florida’s reefs through restoration.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="M8nMU4">
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“This is heartbreaking to a lot of people who’ve dedicated their lives to restoring reefs in Florida,” Morgan said. “It sets us back significantly. It stings.”
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The images below, from 2022, show pieces of coral growing in a nursery near Key Largo run by the Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF). The organization raises corals on “trees” made of PVC and fiberglass, and then glues them onto degraded parts of various reefs in the Florida Keys to create new habitat.
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</p>
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<div class="c-wide-block">
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<figure class="e-image">
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/YbFnYb98uAJDnGoIC76IHO0aYSU=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24937483/adler_updated_9570.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
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<figcaption>
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The Coral Restoration Foundation’s Tavernier nursery, located off shore from Tavernier Key in the Florida Keys, on April 7, 2022.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Hv75hP">
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You can see bits of elkhorn and staghorn corals in Adler’s photos below — two threatened species that help build reefs. The vibrant browns and oranges indicate that they’re healthy and their symbiotic relationship with algae is intact.
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</p>
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<div class="c-image-grid">
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<figure class="e-image">
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/sbXr5Pg2jJBPZifMEAvNGTsYfkw=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24937485/adler_updated_9593.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
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A coral “tree” in Tavernier nursery on April 7, 2022.
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<div class="c-image-grid__item">
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<figure class="e-image">
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/r7Gv5Bj4i9Uzp437Dt7FVglF_kw=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24937487/adler_updated_9630.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
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<figcaption>
|
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The nursery contains multiple trees of staghorn coral, shown here on April 7, 2022.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="7SfE3U">
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Here’s what that same nursery looked like in September.
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<div>
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<div class="c-image-grid">
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/hmKdWB1lurKhPVNvLSWUtFUQ7zQ=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24937488/adler_updated_7878.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
|
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<figcaption>
|
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Bleached elkhorn coral in Tavernier nursery on September 7, 2023.
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<div class="c-image-grid__item">
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<figure class="e-image">
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/_tYwLHocjFYhNVp488H62xtWaK8=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24937490/adler_updated_7986.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
|
||
<figcaption>
|
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Beth Vessels, CRF’s director of marketing and communications, swims through trees of bleached staghorn coral in the Tavernier nursery on September 7, 2023.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="pBGbPK">
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Much of the coral in this nursery, the world’s largest of its kind, has bleached. The situation got so bad that earlier this summer CRF rescued hundreds of pieces of coral from their nursery, transferring them to tanks on land so they wouldn’t perish in the brutal heat.
|
||
</p>
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Xff9Pk">
|
||
CRF’s nursery also yields a bit of good news: Some of the corals growing there are proving to be more resistant to bleaching — they maintain their color. Scientists believe these thermally tolerant corals may hold the key to building reefs that are more resilient to future warming events, as I’ve <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23868423/florida-coral-reef-bleaching-heat-wave-climate-change">previously reported</a>.
|
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<div class="c-float-right">
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<h3 id="hY07A4">
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Some of Florida’s reefs have almost no healthy coral remaining
|
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</h3>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="yBo2yE">
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In 2022, Jenny and I watched CRF’s former science program manager, Amelia Moura, shown below, glue bits of staghorn coral to Pickles Reef. To date, the foundation has planted more than 43,000 pieces of coral here.
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||
</p>
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||
<figure class="e-image">
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||
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/EvUHkYREvvgMXpboTjORtlUV60Y=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24937491/adler_updated_0013.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
|
||
<figcaption>
|
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Moura plants a healthy fragment of staghorn coral on the reef substrate on Pickles Reef on April 7, 2022.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="4eIVNe">
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Today, many of those planted corals are bleached.
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</p>
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<figure class="e-image">
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||
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/vlpKUbdpnpZg4rWv4dpEl59if5E=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24936271/adler_7301__1_.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
|
||
<figcaption>
|
||
Bleached fragments of planted staghorn coral in Pickles Reef on September 7, 2023.
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We saw even more bleaching at a reef near Key West called Eastern Dry Rocks, another hot spot of restoration. The photo below shows a bleached piece of elkhorn coral that CRF had previously planted (the tree-like structure in the center) next to some bleached soft coral (on the left).
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</p>
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<div>
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<figure class="e-image">
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/uVQoKodwA5vEPVwRDbVkUL5OBsc=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24936290/adler_4807.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
|
||
<figcaption>
|
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Bleached corals in Eastern Dry Rocks reef near Key West on September 6, 2023.
|
||
</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="G6gIVw">
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The heat has been so severe in the last few months that some corals have already died, like this colony of staghorn coral, seen below. Algae has grown over the dead coral fragment, giving it a green tint. (In some places, the water was so hot that corals didn’t even have a chance to bleach; their tissue just sloughed off their calcium carbonate skeleton.)
|
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</p>
|
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<div>
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<figure class="e-image">
|
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8V0diVFIKH69VITkjUB3_urQZTw=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24936289/adler_5244.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
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A cluster of dead planted staghorn coral in Eastern Dry Rocks reef seen on September 6, 2023.
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</figcaption>
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Also disheartening: Even corals that have been growing on the reef for decades have bleached. Coral grows incredibly slowly — for some species, it’s on the scale of millimeters a year. This colony of lobed star coral in a reef called Looe Key, shown below, is likely more than 100 years old.
|
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</p>
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<div class="p-fullbleed-block">
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<figure class="e-image">
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/GZ4etrv9jtpn3C5v5O0wo8jxaP0=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24937494/adler_updated_5692.jpg"/> <cite>Jennifer Adler</cite>
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A large bleached mound of lobed star coral at Looe Key reef.
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Since summer, the water has cooled down a bit, but it’s still <a href="https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/data_current/5km/v3.1_op/daily/png/ct5km_ssta_v3.1_florida_current.png">unusually warm</a>, and the threat of severe bleaching is <a href="https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/data_current/5km/v3.1_op/daily/png/ct5km_baa-max-7d_v3.1_florida_current.png">still present</a> — now and in the years to come. The world’s top climate scientists <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/chapter-6/">predict</a> that global warming will make marine heat waves more common and extreme, which raises frightening questions about the long-term outlook of this iconic ecosystem and all that it supports.
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<em>Want to learn more? Check out </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23868423/florida-coral-reef-bleaching-heat-wave-climate-change"><em>the first story</em></a><em> in Vox’s series on the coral bleaching crisis in Florida.</em>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>National Car Racing Championship to resume at MIC with over 50 entries</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>River Of Gold, West Brook, Invincible and Multisided excel</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>PM Modi to lay foundation stone of international cricket stadium in Varanasi on September 23</strong> - The international cricket stadium, to be built in Ganjari, Rajatalab, will be developed in more than 30 acres of area at a cost of about ₹450 crore</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Persons with transplanted kidneys to gather</strong> - ORMA, a collective of persons who underwent kidney transplant in Palakkad district, to celebrate fourth anniversary</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Nagorno-Karabakh: Conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenians explained</strong> - The region is at the heart of a long-running conflict between ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijanis.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Poland no longer supplying weapons to Ukraine amid grain row</strong> - Mateusz Morawiecki’s remarks come as tensions escalate over Ukraine’s grain exports.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>King Charles given standing ovation in French Senate</strong> - His speech, delivered in French and English, touched on climate change and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Where Ukraine’s army of amputees go to repair their lives</strong> - Orla Guerin visits a hospital and clinic in Ukraine, where 15,000 lost limbs in the first half of 2023.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Permission denied for reentry of Varda’s orbiting experiment capsule</strong> - The FAA says Varda launched its vehicle into space without a reentry license. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1969942">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>OpenAI’s new AI image generator pushes the limits in detail and prompt fidelity</strong> - With better response to details and text, DALL-E 3 hopes to make prompt engineering obsolete. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1969719">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work</strong> - Linux’s six-year long-term support was meant to help embedded devices. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1969634">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Move over, Cordyceps, there’s a new “zombie” parasite to haunt our dreams</strong> - The lancet liver fluke controls infected ants with a temperature-based on/off switch. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1969792">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>T-Mobile users saw other customers’ personal data due to “system glitch”</strong> - T-Mobile blames “temporary system glitch” during planned update. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1969887">link</a></p></li>
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Mother: “But he could be your father…”
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Daughter: “Age doesn’t count for me, Mom!”
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While they were there, the mother in law passed away.
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The undertaker told them you can have her shipped home for $5000 or you can bury her here in the Holy Land for $150.00.
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The man thought about it, told him he’d just have her shipped home. The undertaker asked why would you spend $5000 to ship your mother in law home when it would be wonderful to have her buried here and spend only $150.00?
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The man replied. A man died here 2000 years ago. He was buried here. Three days later he rose from the dead.
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A woman is at her boyfriend’s parents’ house for dinner. This is her first time meeting the family and she is very nervous. They all sit down and begin eating a fine meal.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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The woman is beginning to feel a little discomfort, thanks to her nervousness and the broccoli casserole. The gas pains are making her eyes water. Left with no other choice, she decides to relieve herself a bit and lets out a dainty fart. It wasn’t loud, but everyone at the table heard the pouf. Before she even had a chance to be embarrassed, her boyfriend’s father looked over at the cat that had been snoozing at the woman’s feet and said in a rather stern voice, “Bubbles!”. The woman thought, “This is great!” and a big smile came across her face. A couple of minutes later, she was beginning to feel the pain again. This time, she didn’t even hesitate. She let a much louder and longer fart rip. The father again looked and the cat and yelled, “Dammit Bubbles!” Once again the woman smiled and thought “Yes!”. A few minutes later the woman had to let another one rip. This time she didn’t even think about it. She let rip a fart that rivaled a train whistle blowing! Once again, the father looked at the cat with disgust and yelled, “Dammit Bubbles, get away from her before she shits on you!”
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“What a strange place,” said one of them. “I went to check out the stock exchange yesterday, and it turned out to be all about soups and sauces. Very disappointing.”
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“You think that’s disappointing?” replied the other. “I went to check out the brothel!”
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He was very surprised, and when he saw the St Mary sign, he turned of and stopped in the parking lot.
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He knocked on the door, and an elderly nun opened it. He said, “I am here for the brothel.” The nun just nodded and took him down a long and winding corridor.
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At the end, next to a door, there sat an even older nun. She said nothing, and just pointed at a small sign saying $200.
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He paid, and the nun opened the door and pushed him through.
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As the door locked behind him, he saw he was back in the parking lot, and in front of him a small sign: “You have just been screwed by the nuns of St Mary.”
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