@ProPublica Large swaths of the US were polluted shitholes before the Clean Air and Clean Water acts came into force. The shithole era was MAGA's good ol' days. Repealing these acts is almost certainly in the as yet unspoken #MAGA playbook.

#pollution #autocracy

I knew the AI craze reminded me of something.

"With no understanding of the ill effects of radiation poisoning, radium became a fashionable trend, a medical cure-all, and an industrial wonder."

"Newspapers imagined future cities lit by radium lamps, restaurants serving glow-in-the-dark radium cocktails and candy, radium fertilizer improving the output of farms, and doctors using radium to cure cancer forever."

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze

#AI#fad#bigtech#tech#history#pollution#science

I knew the AI craze reminded me of something.

"With no understanding of the ill effects of radiation poisoning, radium became a fashionable trend, a medical cure-all, and an industrial wonder."

"Newspapers imagined future cities lit by radium lamps, restaurants serving glow-in-the-dark radium cocktails and candy, radium fertilizer improving the output of farms, and doctors using radium to cure cancer forever."

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze

#AI#fad#bigtech#tech#history#pollution#science