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WordleBot got smarter

I still do Wordle everyday and usually I like to check what they think of how I did thanks to Wordlebot. This morning I noticed it had a new feature to look at my recent results and not just that day's. Not a huge improvement, but nice to have a history feature for looking back at my past Wordles finally.

"Scientists have found signs of a new kind of gravitational wave. It's really big"

I saw a TikTok explaining this last night and it is really fascinating.

When two galaxies merge, the enormous black holes at their centers are thought to come together and circle each other in a spinning dance that sends giant waves spiraling out.

These waves are like the ripples that move through a pond if you toss in a rock — only these waves move through the very fabric of the universe, and researchers have been eager to study them.

"We've been on a mission for the last fifteen years to find a low-pitched hum of gravitational waves resounding throughout the universe," says Stephen Taylor, a Vanderbilt University astrophysicist who serves as the chair of a team of researchers known as the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav). "We're very happy to announce that our hard work has paid off."

Other research groups using telescopes in Europe, Australia, India, and China also say they're starting to see hints of these waves.

Read the entire NPR article for an excellent explanation of what is going on and why it is such a big deal.

Hank Green explains the Physics of the new science

Idaho women traveling to Washington for abortions, not not having them

Now that a year has passed since women lost the right to abortion, we can assess how our neighbor Idaho's near-total ban on it is faring.

In short: It has accomplished next to nothing.

You can't say categorically that the Idaho ban hasn't stopped a single abortion. But the data suggests that is essentially the case – that the whole thing is a burden, cost and danger to Idaho's own women, but hasn't met the anti-abortion goals that supposedly informed it.

We know this now because clinics in the Pacific Northwest have started releasing data on where women come from to use their services, both back when abortion was legal nationwide, and now that it's not.

Idaho women are simply fleeing.

Take the Kennewick Planned Parenthood clinic in the Tri-Cities, about 130 miles into Washington state from the Idaho border. According to data compiled by U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell's office, this clinic saw just two patients from Idaho in the five months before the U.S. Supreme Court canceled Roe v. Wade.

In that same five-month period this year? There were 91.

"How Often Do Health Insurers Deny Patients’ Claims? No One Knows"

It's one of the most crucial questions people have when deciding which health plan to choose: If my doctor orders a test or treatment, will my insurer refuse to pay for it?

After all, an insurance company that routinely rejects recommended care could damage both your health and your finances. The question becomes ever more pressing as many working Americans see their premiums rise as their benefits shrink.

Yet, how often insurance companies say no is a closely held secret. There's nowhere that a consumer or an employer can go to look up all insurers' denial rates — let alone whether a particular company is likely to decline to pay for procedures or drugs that its plans appear to cover.

I'm sure it's perfectly fine and if analyzed mathematically it would hold up. No doubt. Uh huh.

2022 Annual Homeless Report

The annual report to Congress on the state of homelessness in the United States up through the end of last year. The following are the key findings in the report from the opener, they provide more context and details on each point inside.

• On a single night in 2022, roughly 582,500 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States.
• There continues to be an overrepresentation of people who identify as Black, African American, or African, as well as indigenous people (including Native Americans and Pacific Islanders) among the population experiencing homelessness compared to the U.S. population.
• Homelessness slightly increased nationwide.
• The number of veterans experiencing homelessness declined by 11 percent (4,123 fewer people) between 2020 and 2022.
• Six of every 10 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness did so in an urban area (60%), with more than half of all unsheltered people counted in the Continuums of Care (CoCs) that encompass the nation's 50 largest cities (54%).
• More than two thirds of all people experiencing homelessness (72%) did so in households without children present.
• About three in every ten people experiencing homelessness (28%) did so as part of a family with children.
• On a single night in 2022, more than 30,000 people under the age of 25 experienced homelessness on their own as "unaccompanied youth."
• Nearly one-third (30%) of all individuals experiencing homelessness in 2022 had chronic patterns of homelessness.
• The national inventory of beds for people currently or formerly experiencing homelessness increased by 11 percent between 2020 and 2022.

This is also a table of information from their opening section:

Automated Archives for June, 28th 2023

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Wallabag Additions

These are articles that which I saved today so that I may read them later. Substance and quality will vary drastically.

• A Tale of Two Invasions | by Richard Haass - Project Syndicate

Chess For the Day

Record: 1-0-3
Net Elo Change: -11

Games Played

• Chesskoval - WIN
• Alexeype222 - LOSS
• FreiburgerSc - LOSS
• yudi63 - LOSS

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