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Michael Lowry – Eye on The Tropics – “Only days after the U.S. Department of Defense abruptly announced the immediate termination of satellite data critical to hurricane forecasts – granted a moratorium early Monday through July – NOAA posted details of its 2026 budget request to Congress, which closes more than a dozen world-class weather …
KM World, Marydee Ojala – “Attention to AI technologies, including generative AI and agentic AI, has escalated significantly since we expanded our list to 100 companies last year. It seems almost intuitively obvious to say there’s been a revolutionary transformation in KM, driven by and pushed into due to AI technologies. On the one hand, …
AP: “Websites that displayed legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world. [Note – this article includes full text PDF copies of the disappeared reports] Scientists said the peer-reviewed authoritative …
The Guardian posted the text of a government press release – Topic: Suspension of All Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Data by June 30, 2025 Date/Time Issued: June 25, 2025 1735 UTC Product(s) or Data Impacted: All Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) data and products: FINE, SMOOTH and HOUSEKEEPING data from Operational Linescan System (OLS), …
Calishat: “I’ve been on a bit of a local search kick lately. Last month I created No Kings TV, which monitored news about the protests in 20 different US metro areas. Shortly after that, I made Local News TV, which lets users browse 660 local American TV stations by state/metro area and get recent content …
“In an era when “democracy” is invoked on campaign trails, cable news, and in everyday conversation—its meaning remains elusive and its political value uncertain. Many Democrats are grappling with a critical question: Is talking about democracy a winning message—or just an abstraction voters tune out? GSG [Global Strategy Group] set out to answer this question. …
The American Prospect: “…Biden appointed a milquetoast moderate, Merrick Garland, as attorney general, and as The New York Times and Washington Post reported in detail, he initially refused to prosecute Trump on his globally televised sedition and insurrection, instead attempting a traditional organized crime roll-up that went nowhere and ate up months. It wasn’t until …
Bloomberg no paywall: “Climate change is already having an impact on companies around the world. Over half of the firms surveyed in a recent Morgan Stanley report experienced the climate’s impact on operations within the past year, including increased costs, worker disruption and revenue losses. The growing financial impacts are a key reason some companies …
Via LLRX – Changing the Game – Algorithmic Game Theory in Ransomware Negotiations – Ransomware attacks are a growing threat, inflicting significant operational, financial, and reputational damage on organizations worldwide. With attackers exploiting information asymmetry, traditional game theory negotiation strategies are inadequate in minimizing these risks. This paper Jawad Ramal, by explores how Algorithmic Game Theory …
Open Access, The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present Edited by VÉRONIQUE POUILLARD and VINCENT DUBÉ-SENÉCA Via Metafilter: “Fashion through space and time” – “Wedding dress sketches (introduction) in the Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon collection, evening gowns (introduction) in the Bergdorf Goodman Custom Salon collection, Jerry Miller shoe sketches, and an …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 5, 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 complex …
Floridi, Luciano, AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None (June 18, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5309682 – “The article introduces the concept of “semantic pareidolia” – our tendency to attribute consciousness, intelligence, and emotions to AI systems that lack these qualities. It examines how this psychological phenomenon leads us to perceive …
