Notices by Jennifer Ouellette (jenlucpiquant@universeodon.com)

Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000224

A State Supreme Court Just Issued the Most Devastating Rebuke of Dobbs Yet. On Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion declaring that abortion restrictions do amount to sex-based discrimination. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/pennsylvania-supreme-court-dobbs-sam-alito-abortion.html

X can’t stop spread of explicit, fake AI Taylor Swift images https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999090

What Happens When You Deny Scientific Evidence? Look at Brazil's Pesticide Problem. The overuse of dangerous pesticides in Brazil threatens public health and serves as a warning to the rest of the world about the dangers of science denial. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brazils-pesticide-dilemma-illustrates-the-health-dangers-of-scientific-denialism/

Tensions rise between Targaryens in first teaser for House of the Dragon S2. "There is no war so hateful to the gods as a war between kin." https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/12/tensions-rise-between-targaryens-in-first-teaser-for-house-of-the-dragon-s2/

X advertisers stay away as CEO defends Musk’s “go f*** yourself” interview.

"You probably don't need an expert to help you deduce that telling advertisers to "go f*** yourself" isn't a winning strategy. But just in case, Integrated Media CEO Jonathan Miller told the FT that "marketers have a number of major platforms to choose from and they would tend to gravitate to those that don't tell you to f-off."

"The FT also reported that Yaccarino "was bombarded by calls from friends and associates last weekend during her daughter's wedding, according to several people familiar with the matter. They urged her to quit to protect her reputation." https://arstechnica.com/?p=1987808

The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect: Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-woman-who-demonstrated-the-greenhouse-effect/

Radical new forecast shows how rapidly the energy economy is changing https://arstechnica.com/?p=1978691

Gmail unleashes “email emoji reactions” onto an unsuspecting world https://arstechnica.com/?p=1973281

Gargantuan Straw Creatures Rise from the Fields of Japan’s Annual Rice Harvest https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/wara-straw-art-festival/

Missouri pastor on upcoming book-burning: "If God told me to burn the book Clifford the Big Red Dog, then I'd burn the book Clifford the Big Red Dog" https://boingboing.net/2023/09/29/missouri-pastor-on-upcoming-book-burning-if-god-told-me-to-burn-the-book-clifford-the-big-red-dog-then-id-burn-the-book-clifford-the-big-red-dog.html

Einstein right again: Antimatter falls “down” due to gravity like ordinary matter. CERN's ALPHA experiment confirms matter and antimatter react to gravity in a similar way. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1971331

Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study https://arstechnica.com/?p=1969012

Study Shows Atheists Have As Much Of A Moral Compass As The Next Person https://twistedsifter.com/2023/08/study-shows-atheists-have-as-much-of-a-moral-compass-as-the-next-person/

Only 26 Black Women Have Ever Become Astrophysicists in the U.S. Here's One's Story https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-26-black-women-have-ever-become-astrophysicists-in-the-u-s-heres-ones-story/

The Reddit AMA as we know it is dead. "The decade-old team of moderators running Reddit AMAs (short for “Ask Me Anything”) are hanging up their boots and will no longer organize the popular Q&As. [They] think Reddit’s poor site management is beyond repair." https://qz.com/reddit-amas-r-iama-protest-api-changes-steve-huffman-1850600843

Please give a warm welcome to my employer, Ars Technica, for joining us here at Mastodon by following them. :) @arstechnica

How I found a new home online at Mastodon, after giving up on Twitter. More like a village than a city, Mastodon has less cruelty and bad-faith debates than Twitter, in my experience Could it be a social media platform to trust, asks Annalee Newitz. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834340-300-how-i-found-a-new-home-online-at-mastodon-after-giving-up-on-twitter/

A Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries. Here’s their full challenge. The parent writes that the book should be considered indecent under Utah’s new book banning law, after seeing the other titles that have been pulled.

“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote in their request, listing topics they found concerning in the religious text. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.” https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/