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Follow up to Epstein Child Sex Trafficking At Least 1,114 Victims Only 138 Victim Interviews Release – See also – CNN Report – video: “Roughly 2,000 videos [redacted] were included among the millions of documents in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice earlier this year. CNN reviewed these videos to better understand what …
Follow up to These Apps Can Help You Find the Cheapest Gas See also The Drive A tool originally made to track beer prices unites public data, crowdsourced photos, and robocalls to find the cheapest gas near you. “…Appropriately called “The Gas Index,” the project started as a tool to track the price of a …
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Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch [no paywall]: “Last year I used detailed data on the ideological positions of people who post on social media to show that they over-represent the radical right and left, confirming the polarisation hypothesis. Over the past week I have used the same dataset of tens of thousands of responses to questions …
Just Security – By Christopher Fonzone. April 15, 2026. “On April 1, 2026, the Department of Justice issued an opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluding that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress’s constitutional powers and aggrandizes the Legislative Branch at the expense of the independence and …
the interactive version is at compkitchen.com/flavor-map if you want to poke around. you can hover over any point to see the ingredient and click through to its pairing data. Every point is one of 450 ingredients plotted by shared volatile compounds. Close together = similar molecular signature. Copper lines mark the surprising pairings — molecular …
“With 100 Lost Species, we set out to create a digital story about extinction that people could actively explore. Developed by Immersive Garden in collaboration with 60FPS, the project examines how species disappear over time and how human decisions shape that trajectory. From the beginning, it was conceived as an open narrative, one where visitors …
Google Blog: “The Gemini app is now available as a native macOS experience, bringing you a faster, more integrated way to get help from AI right on your desktop. Share your window for instant context – With our new native desktop experience, you can share anything on your screen with Gemini to get help with …
Report of the Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Education April 10, 2026 – The New York Times – A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities [gift article]: “American colleges and universities bear significant responsibility for plunging public trust in higher education, a …
The Atlantic Gift Article: What happens when AI can hack everything? – “For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a tool potentially capable of commandeering most computer servers in the world. This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack into banks, exfiltrate state secrets, and fry crucial infrastructure. …
Kottke: “For decades, a guy named Aadam Jacobs has been recording live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 feature the likes of Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Phish, Fugazi, and so many more. With the help of archivists, the entire collection is making …
Undocumented: A Brief Survey of Documents Related to Donald Trump That Have Yet To Be Released – “Troves of records, correspondence, deposition transcripts, NDAs, contracts, translator notes, intercepts, photographs & videos exist that would expose Trump for what he is. We still haven’t seen them…At the risk of opening with the “Webster’s defines a document …
