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Kottke: “Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy, is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: “a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable”. [The metaphor for these three things certainl resonates now!] Controlling the stickiness of …
The New York Times: “In late March, Iran circulated a shaky video supposedly showing an American F/A-18 under attack. Iranian officials claimed they had destroyed the jet, though the Pentagon denied that. The video quickly earned millions of views online, demonstrating how Iran has exploited the global media ecosystem to propagate an image of military …
Card Catalog: ” In 1754, Horace Walpole coined the word “serendipity” in a letter to a friend, borrowing it from a Persian fairy tale about three princes who made discoveries “by accidents and sagacity.” He meant the wandering that puts us somewhere unplanned, and the readiness to recognize what we’d stumbled into when we got …
EFF: “Another court has ruled that copyright can’t be used to keep our laws behind a paywall. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that it is fair use to copy and disseminate building codes that have been incorporated into federal and state law, even though those codes …
ABC News: “Nearly two years after the Supreme Court’s monumental 2024 decision granting President Donald Trump sweeping immunity from prosecution, the ruling’s broader impact on American government is beginning to come into focus as Trump and his lawyers repeatedly invoke the case in an effort to get the justices to endorse expansive presidential power. “That’s …
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The Brighter Side – Understanding where a tree’s mass comes from reshapes how you think about growth, food, and the environment. “Trees are not just passive recipients of soil nutrients. A Different Reading of Familiar Material. The practical implications of this are easy to underappreciate. Wood is not geological material shaped by roots. It is …
The Alliance for Secure AI, AI Job Loss Tracker – Newly reported layoffs where AI is either explicitly cited or credibly blamed as a material factor. Reporting window starts January 1, 2025.
Pew Research Center – “Digital books have grown in popularity over the past decade, but more Americans still read books in print than in digital formats. Overall, 75% of U.S. adults say they have read all or part of at least one book in the past 12 months, according to a Pew Research Center survey …
Washington Post – no paywall: “The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows. The sharply conservative Supreme Court that President Donald Trump’s three appointees remade is the first since at least the 1950s to …
Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice. Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor. Meta’s Superintelligence Labs launched its first generative AI model, called Muse Spark, earlier this week. …
Reuters – “A U.S. historians’ organization and a government transparency group are suing President Donald Trump to force his administration to comply with a presidential records preservation law after the U.S. Justice Department declared the measure unconstitutional. The American Historical Association and American Oversight on Monday asked the federal court in Washington to declare the …
