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Christopher Butler – “After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the point of catastrophe. The best case scenario is that AI is just not as valuable as those who invest in it, make it, and sell it …
The New Yorker: Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond. In the Line of Fire [no paywall] “America is a violent country. Nowhere else that is remotely as rich tolerates so many murders or so many weapons. But, sometime during the tumultuous decade of the Trump era, it began to seem that simply …
Center for Presidential Transition Report: “Every presidential transition in modern history has been unique and 2024 was no exception. Although the transition of power from the outgoing Biden administration to the incoming Trump administration was peaceful, it was characterized by significant departures from established norms and set a precedent for future transitions to stray from …
404 Media: “It’s hard to believe it’s only been a few years since generative AI tools started flooding the internet with low quality content-slop. Just over a year ago, you’d have to peruse certain corners of Facebook or spend time wading through the cultural cesspool of Elon Musk’s X to find people posting bizarre and …
The New York Times Gift Article: “Zillow, the country’s largest real estate listings site, has quietly removed a feature that showed the risks from extreme weather for more than one million home sale listings on its site. The website began publishing climate risk ratings last year using data from the risk-modeling company First Street. The …
Washington Post [and The Hill] – “A new White House webpage presents a “Hall of Shame” for news reports the president disagrees with, coming after the president has voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times and Bloomberg. The White House launched a page on its website Friday devoted to …
Fast Company – Traditional search engines are still the backbone of the online information ecosystem, but searching has shifted in measurable ways with ChatGPT: “Three years ago, if someone needed to fix a leaky faucet or understand inflation, they usually did one of three things: typed the question into Google, searched YouTube for a how-to …
The Guardian – State department proposes excluding 38 institutions from Diplomacy Lab partnership including Harvard and Yale: “More than three dozen universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Duke have their participation in a federal research partnership on the chopping block after the state department proposed to suspend them over their diversity, equity and inclusion hiring …
Above the Law – “Sure, becoming an ICE agent sounds fun, but in between all the tear-gassing of clergy and shooting pepper balls at journalists, the job involves a lot of pesky paperwork. I mean, the government simply doesn’t pay enough with its [checks notes] $50,000 signing bonus, 25 percent premium pay, and $60,000 in …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 29, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
In Custodia Legis – “As the month of November ends, so does the annual fall migration season for birds in North America. According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the adult breeding bird population in the United States and Canada has been reduced by almost 3 billion since 1970, a nearly 30% decline. Although the actual impact is …
Make Use Of: “… Dawarich…is an open-source tool that replicates the features I enjoyed in Google Timeline while giving me full control over where my data lives. I can run it on my own computer, on a small home server, or in a private cloud environment. There are no ads and no hidden data collection. …
