Archive for April 2025

More than 100,000 households are living in temporary accommodation in England.

The City of Edinburgh Council formally declared a housing emergency in 2023

Most of us claim to abhor animal abuse. Racetrack realities call our pious claims into question. Truth be told, we humans excel at using other animals, extracting wealth from them, exhausting them, discarding them. Now, for the 151st time, the Kentucky Derby will showcase our arrogance and pretend it’s an elegant sport. The opposite is true. Make it stop. Above: A sculpture of Barbaro, one of the horses who has died in the Kentucky Derby

Traffic from bots run by artificial intelligence companies is disrupting scientific journal websites. Some publications report that their websites are now visited more by bots than by genuine users. AI firms typically use bots to access scholarly content and scrape whatever data they can to train the large language models (LLMs) that power their writing assistance tools and other products. While some scholarly publishers have signed deals giving access to AI firms, advocates for authors and rights holders have said scientists and academics should be given a chance to opt out of this practice and should receive compensation and credit when their papers are used to train AI chatbots.

Mariah and Eliza Blasko, sisters from the Youngstown area, will walk across the stage together this May as they both graduate from Youngstown State University’s social work program – Mariah with her master’s and Eliza with her bachelor’s.

Social workers in Cayuga County are raising alarms over overwhelming workloads and inadequate resources, warning that they cannot be held responsible if a crisis were to occur.