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This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. CARSON, Wash. — The fish were on their way to be executed. via Pocket

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Ng’s current efforts are focused on his company Landing AI, which built a platform called LandingLens to help manufacturers improve visual inspection with computer vision. via Pocket

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Sri Lankan Navy soldiers work to remove debris — including tiny plastic pellets called nurdles — blanketing the beach near Colombo, Sri Lanka, in May 2021, after the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl caught fire and sank near Colombo Harbor. via Pocket

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Where companies and governments should place bets for the clean energy technologies of the future. The world now has many of the tools needed to keep climate change in check, the United Nations’ climate research team reported last month. via Pocket

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Last year, my longtime friend Arun Batchu introduced me to the new generation of software for creating Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKG). via Pocket

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The probability that we’re all living in the multiverse, and why that idea is so appealing. This past weekend, a couple of my friends and I went to see Everything Everywhere All at Once. via Pocket

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Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google via Pocket

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The Licorice Pizza director has made beautiful loners out of Haim, Fiona Apple, Radiohead, and more. Honestly, a lot of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies — including his Oscar-nominated comedy Licorice Pizza — feel like extended music videos. via Pocket

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I think there is something fascinating and useful about many of the observations, adages, and aphorisms that we (often sarcastically) designate as eponymous laws, effects, or principles in the same way we might for a scientific law. via Pocket

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Earlier this month I spoke to Andrew Marantz for this laudatory New Yorker piece on the Sunrise Movement. via Pocket

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I have eaten a lot of food in my time (as mean-spirited readers are wont to tell me in the Facebook comments of my stories on budget items), but I am not a connoisseur by any stretch of the imagination. via Pocket

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Experts weigh in on where, and when, you can safely take one off. As masking mandates lift and new coronavirus infections fall across the United States, there’s lots of confusion about if, and when, to wear a mask. via Pocket

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This week, I want to break from our usual format and respond to the fairly unusual global events. via Pocket

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HOUSEHOLD SERVANT: I’m worried about Rich Lady. OTHER HOUSEHOLD SERVANT: Don’t be. She’s rich, ain’t she? via Pocket

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Here’s what to do if you regularly wish you could hire someone to make all your choices for you. Life is a neverending series of decisions: Who to play with at recess, who to take to the school dance, what to major in, where to go for happy hour, where to live, whether to end a relationship. via Pocket