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The New Tactics of TikTok Journalism

Miissouri School of Journalism: “Learn how to create successful, platform-specific content. TikTok has exploded as a source of news for young people, and its rise offers key insights for news organizations looking to adapt to changing audience habits. New research from Kaia Tran, MA ’25, highlights how to create news content that resonates with TikTok …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing, Social Media

How we OCR’ed 30,000 papers using Codex, open OCR models and Jobs

Huggin Face: “On the hub, we index arXiv papers any time someone mentions an arXiv abstract or PDF link in the README of a model, dataset or Space. Besides, any researcher can submit their work to Daily Papers at https://hf.co/papers/submit, up to 14 days after the publication date on arXiv. Daily Papers view. This enables …

Subjects: AI, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy

Arkeonews: “Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt’s Minya Governorate have uncovered a Roman-era burial that combines rare funerary objects with an unexpected literary find: a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad concealed inside a mummy. A Spanish-Egyptian excavation team working at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus (modern-day El-Bahnasa) has uncovered a Roman-era …

Subjects: Education

ReciproCard – Ready to find more cards?

What is ReciproCard – “ReciproCard is a discovery engine that helps you figure out exactly how many library cards you qualify for. By mapping overlapping networks and reciprocal agreements across the country, we help you get more library cards so you can skip the wait for popular titles and unlock more free ebooks and audiobooks …

Subjects: Legal Research

Trump fought to keep the ballroom fundraising contract secret. Here’s what’s in it.

Follow-up to Banquet of Greed: Trump Ballroom Donors Feast on Federal Funds and Favors – See Washington Post – no paywall: “The agreement governing hundreds of millions in private donations was kept secret until a watchdog group sued and a judge ordered it disclosed [the full text of this document is embedded in this WaPo …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Where World’s Critical Minerals Are Located

knowhereconsulting: “This map shows where the world’s most strategically important minerals are mined and processed — the raw materials that underpin electric vehicles, semiconductors, renewable energy, defence systems, and modern electronics. As demand accelerates and supply chains come under increasing geopolitical pressure, understanding who produces what, and where, has never been more important. What the …

Subjects: AI, Defense, Energy, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management, Social Media

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

The New York Times Gift Article: “Rulings with no explanation or reasoning, like the sparse paragraph from that February night, have become routine. The emergency docket is now a central legacy of the court led by Chief Justice Roberts.” How dramatically will that legacy change our legal system and our country? Only the Shadow knows…Just after …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Courts, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Recommended Books

We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem

The New York Times: “For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain… A.I. system is to ask the model to explain itself. If a therapy language model tells you that you should take antidepressants, you …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

How to actually recycle electronics, beauty empties, toys, and more tricky items in 2026

Mashable: “…Perhaps you’ve Googled “how to recycle insert item here” just to be given some vague instructions like “Check locally.” If you did check locally, you probably learned that most municipal recycling programs max out at trash-like recyclables. This isn’t because recycling everything else is impossible on a technical level — it often just costs …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Internet

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data

CNBC:” Banks in the U.S. may not like the idea of being forced to collect citizenship data on customers, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says they better be prepared for the task. “If Treasury and the banking regulators say it’s their job, it’s their job,” Bessent told CNBC’s Sara Eisen at the Invest in America …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy