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Not Hiring: Job Market Leaves Unemployed in Limbo as Economy Threats Multiply (Maria)

The author writes, “When Carly Kaprive left a job in Kansas City and moved to Chicago a year ago, she figured it would take three to six months to find a new position. The 32-year old project manager had never been unemployed for longer than three months. Instead, after 700 applications, she’s still looking, wrapped up in a frustrating and extended job hunt. … Kaprive is caught in a historical anomaly: The unemployment rate is low and the economy is growing, but jobless workers face the slowest pace of hiring in more than a decade.”

The ‘Hard, Slow Work’ of Reducing Overdose Deaths Is Having an Effect (Dana)

From News From the States: “Illicit drug overdoses and the deaths they cause are trending down this year, despite spikes in a handful of states, according to a Stateline analysis of data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A handful of places with rising overdoses are responding to the problem with cooperation, they say, by sharing information about overdose surges and distributing emergency medication.”

In Texas’s Least-Populated County, the Election That Never Ends … Just Ended (Reader Steve)

From The Houston Chronicle: “It might have been the longest election campaign for the shortest office term in recent Texas history. Loving County Justice of the Peace Angela Medlin, County/District Clerk Mozelle Carr and Commissioner Ysidro Renteria all were elected into office in 2022. But a series of court challenges brought by their opponents concluded that a dozen voters who had cast ballots didn’t really live in this sparsely populated county near the New Mexico border. Because the margin of victory in each of the three races had been 12 or fewer votes, Loving County was ordered to conduct an extremely rare election do-over.”

Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List (Sean)

From Wired: “A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest.”

The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops (DonkeyHotey)

The author writes, “Michael Burry, who famously shorted the US housing market before its collapse in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the share prices of AI chipmaker Nvidia and software company Palantir will fall — making a similar play, in other words, on the prediction that the AI industry will collapse.”

Why Spiders Are the Ultimate Interior Decorators (Mili)

The author writes, “Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.”