Cryptographer. Born and raised in Beijing, China, now living in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. Personal website: jiayux.wordpress.com
AP PHOTOS: In the warming Alps, Austria’s melting glaciers are in their final decades
JAMTALFERNER GLACIER, Austria (AP) — High up on an Alpine ridge beneath a ceiling of ice, water drips from above into a cave formed by the slowly shrinking Jamtalferner glacier.
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While Biden did misstate China’s GDP growth rate, he is right that China’s economy faces serious challenge that is unseen in at least 20 years. The official youth unemployment rate is 21.3%, and the actual rate might be as high as 46.5%.
School attendance has hit record lows since the pandemic. More than a quarter of kids were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year.
ProPublica is easily the best U.S. news source I’ve ever seen.
Death toll is at least 36 now
Higher temperatures from global warming stole 10 trillion gallons of water out of the Colorado River, robbing from the already-scarce supply.
I grew up in Beijing but live in the U.S. now. This is not the worst flood in the city’s modern history (the one in 2012 killed ~80 people), but my impression is that this time (coupled with the rare heat wave several weeks ago) it’s really a wake-up call for Beijingers on climate change. I’ve heard people saying “scientists were warning about climate change as early as the 1990s, but this is the first time when the effect is right in front of our eyes.”
Chinese state media report 11 people have died and 27 are missing amid flooding in the mountains surrounding the capital Beijing.
A shortage of penicillin to treat a skyrocketing number of syphilis cases is so dire that US health officials are debating the need to declare a public health emergency, according to people familiar with the matter.
An interesting read from 2017 about how wealthy Americans, especially tech bros on the west coast, scramble to prepare for societal breakdown by e.g. purchasing “survival condos”. It features Steve Hoffman, a.k.a. u/spez of Reddit, who was quoted as saying:
Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.
This must have something to do with how App Store calculates the score. I heard that if there are a huge number of 1 stars in a short period of time, they are not included. Not sure if that’s true though
Funny thing that another Westminster Mall (in Westminster, CA) is also not doing well and there are rumors that it will be closed soon.
It’s the (now closed) Lakeforest Mall in Maryland for me. In 2021 I was living in Northern Virginia and thought I should cross the river and see this mall. It seemed to be stuck in the COVID era while other malls in Greater DC (Tysons Corner Center etc.) had bounced back. Then I did some research and found out that Lakeforest was not doing well even before COVID.