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MakeUseOf: “Most of us just want to relax at the end of a long day. Sure, there are plenty of people who like to go out and have an even crazier night after a full day of working. But more often than not, I’d bet that people are looking forward to catching up on some …
20-time GRAMMY winner Bruce Springsteen returns to The Late Show to perform “Streets of Minneapolis,” a song he wrote in the midst of terrifying government-led violence against the people of Minnesota.
Follow up to Google Search as you know it is over [please please stop using Google – I will beg no more…] – See also Tara Calishain – “As you might imagine I’m not thrilled with Google’s decision to go full-in on AI. Even if Google’s AI consistently worked well enough to ensure minimal misinformation …
The New York Times – Gift Article – Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform: “…Illegally copied audiobooks have also turned up on other platforms, where pirates sometimes disguise them as podcasts by breaking them into chapters. But publishers say YouTube …
Vox – no paywall: “….AI models learn by identifying patterns within enormous bodies of text. This widely-understood fact has an underappreciated consequence: LLMs don’t necessarily give the same answers in every language — certain phrases or arguments may appear more regularly in Japanese training data than in the English kind. This is not inherently a …
“Some sites we linked from the button don’t exist anymore. Some expired, some were squatted by gambling rings, some got ad-injected on top of what they were. We archived what we could and, where possible, are hosting the sites right here. The bees keep buzzing, the dog keeps barking, the pigeon keeps pigeon-ing.”
“The Coal Bare Questionnaire is a tribute to the Colbert Questionert — a segment from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in which Stephen asked guests fifteen questions designed to “fully penetrate to the very soul of a person.” As the show comes to an end, this site exists to keep the segment alive: digitizing …
Daniel Pink – “You know how to earn money. But do you know how to spend it? In our newest YouTube video, I share five research-backed questions—from scholars like Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton—to help you spend your spondulicks in ways that actually improve your life. Before you buy almost anything, run it through this …
3 hour YouTube Video via BBC Earth.
The Atlantic Gift article – “To some, they’re no longer a sign of laziness but proof of human touch…More than two decades later, as AI-generated writing has flooded workplaces, social media, and dating apps, old hallmarks of sloppiness—typos chief among them—are getting a new gloss. Some job applicants are intentionally adding typos to their cover …
Defense News: “A newly released report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has outlined significant U.S. aircraft losses and damage sustained during Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing American military campaign against Iranian military infrastructure launched in coordination with Israel earlier this year. According to the report, U.S. forces lost or sustained damage to 42 aircraft …
ParkScore® 2026 Rankings: Trust for Public Land Names Washington, DC, Best Big City Park System. Irvine Takes 2nd followed by Minneapolis and Saint Paul; Chicago Returns to ParkScore Top 10 as Texas Cities Make Big Gains Accompanying Research Report Concludes Parks Are a Winning Investment: Economic Analysis Shows City Parks Deliver $3 in Economic Benefits For …
