Hawaii's Tragedy, UK Beer, Floreda Psychology, and 50 Years of Hip-Hop

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First Things

• Hello, Floreda!
• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
• Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

Current Events

• Hawaii and climate change
• Biden administration announces $1.2B in funding for projects to pull carbon from the air
• IEA flags risk of higher oil prices, cuts 2024 demand view
• The 2024 US Presidential Election
  • Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is barred from running for office until 2030
• Coup in Niger
• Operation Lone Star
• Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution."
• It is not illegal to seek asylum in the US

Economics

• UK alcohol tax changes
• Linda Yaccarino says brands are coming back to "X"
  • Elon Musk and unions

Education

• Florida now says AP Psychology allowed in schools
• DeSantis and New College

Killer Robots, etc

• Robotaxis in San Francisco
  • SEIU Local 87 President Olga Miranda in favor, most other labor leaders against
  • War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
  • The Smart Wife

Hip-Hop

• Kool Herc’s first block party was 11 August 1973
  • Call of Duty “celebrates” 50 years of hip-hop