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Last week’s US elections showed voters may welcome an anti-AI message, as winning candidates pledged to curtail the boom in data centers. / The New Republic
See also: Data centers are cropping up in the wrong places in the US, with some areas having far too many, and sometimes in water-scarce regions. / WIRED
“After browsing more tenants in common properties (TICs)—and talking to the tenants who were evicted in order to sell them—I would come to refer to the dusty slate blue as the palette of displacement.” / Los Angeles Review of Architecture
The middle class and those on fixed incomes are beginning to migrate away from the coastal US due to rising insurance costs. / NPR
The US states that have the biggest cartographic egos—that is, the most streets named after themselves. / Dactile
In what may be the largest study on the topic, a significant link has been identified between chronic exposure to fine particulate matter and neurodegenerative diseases. / KFF Health News
In 2024, deaths from antibiotic-resistant bacteria spiked by 17% in England. / The Guardian
“An hour after I put on my sticker last week, I thought I felt marginally less groggy than usual.” How patches became a wellness panacea. / The Atlantic [$]
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Even as screens now dominate US classrooms, for the most part teachers believe devices are necessary, but frequently overused. / The New York Times [$]
A conceptual artist hangs an AI-generated work in the National Museum Cardiff and calls it “participation without permission.” / ARTnews
The number-one song on this week’s Billboard “Country Digital Song Sales” chart is AI-generated. / Futurism
Related: In a survey of 9,000 listeners, 97% can’t tell the difference between AI music and the real thing. / Gizmodo
There’s no killing Spotify, but new, smaller streaming platforms are offering an alternative that prizes curation and writing. / The Guardian
Among the findings in this year’s “Trouble in Toyland” report: AI talking toys will discuss sexually explicit topics as well as tell children where to find matches and knives. / US PIRG
Tired of Steve Jobs’s design critiques, an Apple employee built one of the first parameterized design tools, so his boss could make the Mac calculator look just so. / Ars Technica
Unrelated: A visual history of lunchboxes. / Design Observer
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