As tech companies rush to build big A.I. data centers, some residents who live near them say a constant low-frequency vibration that can also be physically felt is ruining their health and homes.

State media is a component of LLM training data. A new Nature study says this material is laundered into what presents as objective chatbot text. LLMs also give more pro-regime answers when prompted in the official language of low-press-freedom countries than in English.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The feeling of efficiency should be mistrusted,” Ezra Klein writes. “The people I know who have small armies of A.I. agents working on their behalf certainly feel more productive, but I have not noticed their work improving. In some cases, it has clearly declined.”

Reports to police of online violence against women journalists double since 2020, with one in four experiencing related anxiety and/or depression. mailchi.mp/news.unwomen...

If Hungary can do it, so can India

Offered without comment:

My son just neon-highlighted a whole page of a WHO information note. Next thing I know, if I am not paying attention, he will publish a half drafted edition of @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social

There is a Rule of Law Index. How is that going?

One cannot go to Hannah Arendt’s work for comfort, Jennifer Szalai writes of the German-born political thinker. What she offers instead is “the company of someone who had direct experience of the horrors of the 20th century yet never relinquished what she called amor mundi, or ‘love of the world.’”

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

So Obama does not endorse Mamdani? Too bad. And disappointing

Terrible framing from @nytimes.com on #ZohranMamdani Calls it "most remarkable political upsets" New York deserves better than New York Times. A city of immigrants, led by an immigrant: Mamdani's words

Zohran Mamdani Wins, Brings Fight to Trump

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

American NGOs can do this, many Indian NGOs cannot. www.devex.com/news/us-nonp...

Happy Diwali

The prisoner Israel won’t free on.ft.com/3WcSmov

From The Editor's Desk @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/from-the-d...

My son stopped to observe the lake during our short run today. He is a romantic.

Opinion: It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor. on.ft.com/476Dcr8

Hustling is an under-rated effort in entrepreneurship (sigh)

For anyone who cares to pay attention, the fact that major developers are lining up behind the NIMBY mayoral candidate tells you a lot about real-world housing politics and who the real shills tend to be in local YIMBY/NIMBY fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

So what we do with men who stand in the way WHEN you are having a conversation :-/ Must confess women do it too. But so annoying all the same.

Blindsided by Trump, Modi is learning hard lessons about India's place in the new world order | Mukul Kesavan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are indisputably in nerd territory. I had fun working on this. bsky.app/profile/gene...

The joy of nurturing sources willing to speak on background. Trust is the currency in journalism.

The US has slapped additional levies on India over its purchases of discounted Russian oil, dealing a blow to the world’s fastest-growing large economy and deepening a rift between Washington and New Delhi on.ft.com/4fWmxte

Israel has killed at least 20 people, including several journalists, in a double strike on Nasser Medical Complex, the largest health facility in southern Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave. on.ft.com/41X8Jsz

A primetime TV talent show each summer selects the nation’s most idyllic village. But in Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye, not everyone is happy, says Simon Kuper: on.ft.com/4oO39Th

BCG roiled by internal backlash over Gaza aid work on.ft.com/4mW1V6E