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Free Press: “We took the freedom of speech away.” President Trump in opening remarks at his “antifa roundtable” (October 2025) Download the Report Key Findings Timeline of Attacks “This Free Press report examines the Trump administration’s hostile relationship with dissent and free expression in 2025. It analyzes how President Trump and his political enablers have …
YouTuber Boxlapse compiles a bunch of their time-lapse videos of various plants growing into a 22 minute supercut. Plant [and a couple of fungus] names are listed as chapters to the video in the description. As close to touching grass as you can get while watching YouTube. 4360 Days (11.9 years) of growing in total. …
AI Deals and Disputes Tracker Last updated on December 8, 2025 Platforms and Publishers Project P&P Timeline Other Tow Center Reports This tracker monitors developments between news publishers and AI companies—including Lawsuits, Deals, and Grants—based on publicly available information. It is compiled by Tow Center as part of the Platforms and Publishers project. The tracker …
Venezuela and U.S. Military Strikes: Considerations for Congress CRS Insight, IN12618, 12/01/2025. Referenced Legislation – H.Con.Res. 61; S.J.Res. 83; S.J.Res. 90 – “On November 29, 2025, President Trump announced the closure of Venezuelan airspace days after the State Department designated the Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Some experts …
How to Geek: “A few weeks ago, my internet went down. Thankfully, my mobile internet was still working, so I was able to use my phone as a hotspot. Looking online, however, I found that many people who used the same provider for both their broadband and mobile internet had lost access to both and …
Do you ever wonder what Congress is up to? Well, now a new Legislative Branch Data Map shows where you can find out info about things like staffing, legislation tracking, lobbying, financial and gift disclosures, and more – Legislative Branch Data Map, version 0.1This data map is a product of the Congressional Data Task Force …
alexwlchan: “I grew up alongside social media, as it was changing from nerd curiosity to mainstream culture. I joined Twitter and Tumblr in the early 2010s, and I stayed there for over a decade. Those spaces shaped my adult life: I met friends and partners, found a career in cultural heritage, and discovered my queer …
The Conversation: “Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the values each era chose to honor. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we analyzed 38 million obituaries of Americans published from 1998 to 2024. We identified …
Datzov, Nikola, AI Jurisprudence: Toward Automated Justice (September 9, 2024 – Revised December 4, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5178780 “The U.S. judiciary’s evolving role and digitization into a “modern” court system over the past several decades has brought it to a fundamentally altering moment: the adoption of automated justice. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) …
The Verge: “Behind every influencer is an army of the influenced, many adrift in debt and mass-produced clutter. The platforms need influencers and influencers need audiences — but what the influenced need is not so simple. The influencer economy that Goldman Sachs projects will reach nearly half a trillion dollars by 2027 depends on a …
USAFacts: “In 2024, Californians paid about $275.6 billion more to the federal government than they received. In FY 2024, the federal government collected around $5.07 trillion from states and their residents through taxes on individuals and businesses and redistributed about $4.87 trillion back to states and residents through programs like Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, food …
Shanaka Anslem Perera – The Cognitive Extraction Economy: How Humanity Became the Training Data for Its Own Replacement. “A forensic investigation into the largest uncompensated transfer of intellectual labor in history—and what it reveals about the true architecture of artificial general intelligence. “In October 2025, Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI released a study that …
