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from Barry Blitt

People across the world have woken up to the fact that renewable energy is a source of local economic stability and energy www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/29/w...

Make America ignorant of geography again: US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a conference in Brazil ⁠this week, ​causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New #article from Maddalena Coccagna et al: Disasters and Vulnerability: a multidimensional dynamic approach TL;DR: new set of methods that enable knowledge co-production processes oaj.fupress.net/index.php/te...

New #article from Ayodeji Kehinde et al: Leveraging social capital through faith-based organizations: Evidence on efficiency from farmers in Nigeria TL;DR: importance of social capital and institutional participation in enhancing agricultural productivity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New #article by Jue Wang et al: Built Environment Equity and Area-Level Happiness: Distributional Imbalance and Spatial Discordance in Vulnerable Areas of Shanghai TL;DR: Shanghai still faces clear challenges in built environment distributional equity www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18...

Excited that our new #article with Toshiaki Yoshida is out: Structural factors rather than government investment drive depopulation after Japan’s 2011 disasters TL;DR: pre-disaster structural factors, not subsequent interventions, drive depopulation www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The upshot, the researchers claim, is that all an attacker needs to do to hack an LLM is write text that spoofs a certain role. And because roles are a fundamental part of how LLMs work, no amount of training will fully solve the problem www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1...

Just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets futurism.com/artificial-i...

Who could have seen this coming? More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

PFAS clean up stalls: I am running out of ways to explain to my constituents why the service they trusted with their community continues to treat them this way www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/c...

New #article from Aditantri et al: Understanding Community Participation for Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Settlement of Pekalongan, Indonesia TL;DR: imperative to strengthen the synergy between institutional policies + community-driven initiatives iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

New #article from Pang et al: Construct Overlap Inflates Apparent Economic-Capacity Alignment: Evidence from a Hebei City Panel, 2014–2023 TL;DR: non-economic service-infrastructure-ecological resilience-capacity index + separate economic-development index www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18...

New #article from Lauren McKeague and Angela Bies: Nonprofits and Interest Groups in Crisis Management TL;DR: risis management is moving toward an “all-of-society” approach that includes community-based groups and individuals academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

China is again contesting disputed land features, after years in which disputes over rights at sea have been the primary source of conflict www.foreignaffairs.com/china/beijin...

Depopulation: number of Japanese people living in the country as of Jan. 1 fell below 120 million, logging the sharpest drop on record from a year before www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07...