Tuesday, August 11, 2026
About three in ten workers say they use AI at work at least weekly. Photo: Unsplash (CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Two-thirds of US workers expect AI to make their jobs worse, Ipsos survey finds

Use of the tools is concentrated among college graduates and six-figure earners. Six percent of workers said they expect workers to be the main beneficiaries.

Plastic pollution kills cetaceans: Pounds of plastic found in whales’ stomachs

"Hundreds of thousands of whales, dolphins, seals and turtles are killed by ocean plastic pollution every year, including single-use plastics and abandoned plastic gear from the fishing industry."

What’s it going to take to get to mass strikes?

General strikes can have a tremendous impact, but to succeed they require an organized majority.

What Norway’s big divestment decision means for fracking, tar sands and global oil exploration

It appears it’s just cutting its losses on money-losing endeavors like fracking in America, tar sands oil production in Canada, and frontier exploration by U.K. companies in Africa and South-East Asia.