This is New Englander (33? - 78) erasure

Displays advertised "AI-powered HVAC systems, self driving freight software and plastics 10,000 times thinner than hair. A leopard-spotted robot dog motored around the atrium of the university"

SEPTA's budget shortfall might add 70,000 hrs daily to people's commutes
www.inquirer.com/transportati...

"In his introduction McCormick noted just three investors in the crowd together had the power to make spending decisions on a collective $3 trillion in capital."

WOW, AWESOME! Can some of them fund SEPTA's $213 million deficit so PA's biggest public transportation system doesn't collapse?

"Both [PA Senator] McCormick, the former CEO of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, and his wife, Dina Powell McCormick, a board member at Meta and former Goldman Sachs partner, have an extensive network which they tapped into to arrange the summit and some of the deals."

And I just deleted my post about the Apollo Affair since it seems like the truth is different and messier than what I wrote and definitely messier than what I should be writing a casual side note about. (Though I didn't realize that would sever this thread, oops.)

... like how federal agencies denied residents' concerns about the site for decades despite poor records of its contents and major allegations of corporate mismanagement, only to bring in security once they found "complex materials." Which makes practical sense in some ways, backwards in others.

I know the Apollo Affair is very controversial and not one I've spent a lot of time on, so if the most likely fate is the material *was* smuggled out, I welcome the correction! I'm mainly interested in the political differences between the material as exported and as domestic waste/pollution. ...

Yes--I was oversimplifying for character space and using "dumped" more figuratively (carelessly released to the environment) vs literally (intentionally disposed of in a discrete action). Though the latter definitely happened here w/ broader radioactive material.
journals.lww.com/health-physi...

Up until that point, USACE had insisted that residents were being alarmist. Then they were like "oh shit there IS plutonium and enriched uranium! Now those missing records are a bad thing instead of a good thing!" and the site contents became classified.

"The Army Corps of Engineers had to stop removal of the waste in May 2012 after crews discovered greater-than-expected quantities of what nuclear regulators called 'complex materials,' such as uranium and plutonium, at the site."
Cleanup is ongoing and >$500 mil.
www.post-gazette.com/local/region...

June 2025 saw:
• Wildfires across Canada
• 46 °C in Spain
• July 4th flash floods in Texas
• Record-breaking heat from Tokyo to Texas

And yet, climate coverage dropped 6% from May. And 28% from last June. 2/7

What happened when Ida hit.
"Deatrick was reluctant to leave at first. 'How could it be as bad as last time?' he recalls asking, alluding to Tropical Storm Isaias, which had flooded the apartments the year before."

Management didn't help with emergency housing.
gridphilly.com/blog-home/20...

I saw the raging Schuylkill and helped muck out the Philadelphia Canoe Club just upriver after Hurricane Floyd in 1999 (when I was a kid), so it's always been beyond belief that anyone would choose to build or live basically *in* the river channel.

So...are we feeling lucky? Because we're playing an increasingly high-stakes game of roulette with the global climate, and the house odds are decidedly not in our favor.