Cameron O'Reilly

It doesn’t just seem like calf and hamstring injuries are plaguing the NBA. The data confirms it. What’s behind this worrying trend, and what can the league do about it? @kirkgoldsberry: theringer.com/2026/05/14/nba…

"At his best, Attenborough reminds us that there are natural wonders beyond our comprehension and that, despite our collective self-absorption, we are not the center of the universe." theringer.com/2026/05/04/tv/…

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced. This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

100X more likely! Our heated climate has made the intensity of the Pacific marine heatwave 100X - or more - likely. This is what happens when you have a million Hiroshima equivalent bombs worth of excess energy retained by the ocean each day! To be clear: the rearrangement of sea surface heat configurations is not caused by climate change - that’s often natural - but the elevated baseline boosts these heatwaves into record territory.

To help illustrate how large an area is covered by record breaking temps, @cyclonicwx has a great graphic for this. Anything red or deeper is record territory. Huge area.

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

let me make sure i’m understanding this correctly the supreme court is refunding all tariff money back to corporations. the same corporations that didn’t pay a single cent of those tariffs to begin with. they passed every dollar directly to you through higher prices on everything you buy you went to the store and paid more for groceries. you paid more for clothes. for car parts. for literally everything. that money came out of YOUR pocket not theirs and now the refund goes to THEM? the corporations who used the tariffs as an excuse to raise prices even higher than the tariff itself and pocket the difference the american people funded the tariffs. the corporations profited off the tariffs. and now the corporations get a refund on money they never spent in the first place and nobody in washington thinks the people who actually paid should get the money back. not a single person has even suggested it guess we are never getting our DOGE checks either this country does not work for you. it works for them. it’s a joke and they’re not even pretending anymore

Top 10 reasons data centers must be stopped. 1. Increased demand for energy puts our electric grid at risk and raises our electricity to points unknown. 2. Data centers prop up dirty energy like Gas and Coal 3. Data centers endanger water supplies 4. Data centers create a ton of pollution 5. Data centers drain public funds because states are footing the bill even though these centers do not provide jobs. 6. Data centers threaten jobs. Look at all these companies that just laid off thousands of workers who built their AI. Some reward. It’s like training your replacement except your replacement is free. 7. A Blight on Communities. The long and disruptive construction periods for data centers are wreaking havoc on many communities, leading to longer commute times, increased traffic accidents, and closed playgrounds. 8. The imperil the economy. The AI boom is propped up on the precarious stilts of monumental debt, speculation, and financial trickery. The way things are going, Big Tech may even plunge us into an economy-wide meltdown like the dot-com crash of the 2000s or the 2008 financial crisis. 9. They create toxic trash for smaller countries. Already, high-income countries have made a habit of dumping their e-waste on developing ones for “disposal.” The workers and communities receiving this waste are routinely exposed to heavy metals like lead, mercury, and cadmium, which are linked to a host of health harms, from neurodevelopmental impairments to cancer. 10. They steal our personal data. Any public information not behind a paywall may be devoured by AI companies, including voter registration data, social media profiles, passport photos, and even credit card numbers. Some AI tools have even been trained on private medical. These data centers are a danger to local communities and must be stopped. AI does far more harm than good. In the hands of billionaires it is simply evil.

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-cou…

FIFA on the side of the oppressors, again: thenation.com/article/societ…

America is losing a trade war it chose, a Middle East war it chose, and now the World Baseball Classic too. At some point, the scoreboard doesn't lie. truthdig.com/articles/the-e…

"To make matters worse, “this week is exacerbating conditions that were already bad,” Labe said." - via @heatmap_news: heatmap.news/climate/march-…

“After taking everything we had … they want to colonize us again.” Brazil’s president Lula is warning that the global race for critical minerals could repeat a long history of colonial extraction.

Spanish MP Ione Belarra of Podemos calls the U.S. and Israel "the greatest threat to the security of humanity." She urges Spain to "expel the American army," close all U.S. bases in the country, and leave the "criminal alliance" of NATO.

#Brazil feeds the world, holds 60% of the Amazon and is home to 12% of all fresh water — yet is one of the most climate-exposed nations on Earth. A risk concealed by lobbies who externalize costs onto those with no voice. My latest with @Mongabay: news.mongabay.com/2026/03/brazil…

This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots. Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget. Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard. The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

Even if hostilities end soon, the war highlights a perennial vulnerability of industrial societies: their systemic dependency on fossil fuels, writes @richardheinberg of @postcarbon. commondreams.org/opinion/iran-w…

Paris, where I live, has transformed from a carbound into a bike-dominated city. In the process it became a trendsetter for the world's other cities. Now Paris's mayoral elections are a referendum on that shift. What lessons from Paris? Me @FinancialTimes as.ft.com/r/afafe14b-287…

...that recognises the centrality of human unity, compassion and love to our very survival on Planet Earth."

"The task is to use the rupture to reorganise around the next system: distributed clean energy at superabundant scale, wider ownership of productive assets, community governance, circular material flows, and a public philosophy grounded in science-based planetary stewardship...

The Last Empire: Why the Trump-Netanyahu War Signals the Fall of a Civilisation by @NafeezAhmed ageoftransformation.org/the-last-empir…