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The New York Times – no paywall: “One hundred years after his birth, the French philosopher remains hugely influential, both revered and reviled for ideas that eerily anticipated our day. The A.I. revolution was still more than 50 years off when Michel Foucault published his lecture “What Is an Author?” in 1969. But he seemed …
Fortune via Yahoo Finance – and is now paying $24 billion a week in interest on its debts: “Despite concerns from debt hawks, the U.S. government is continuing to borrow at pace: For the fiscal year of 2026 so far, the federal deficit has totaled just under $1.4 trillion. The first nine months of this …
The Atlantic Gift Article – Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history. Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. …
Common Crawl is a 501(c)(3) non–profit founded in 2007. We make wholesale extraction, transformation and analysis of open web data accessible to researchers. Overview Over 300 billion pages spanning 19 years. Free and open corpus since 2007. Cited in over 10,000 research papers. 3–5 billion new pages added each month.
NOTUS: “In California’s gubernatorial primary, Tom Steyer had the biggest war chest in a crowded field of Democrats, spending more than $200 million out of his own pocket. But money alone wasn’t enough — he ended up placing third, falling just short in his quest to compete for November’s general election. A contributing factor, according …
“The Gap Map comes out of cumulative work to identify the points of highest leverage in the open source AI stack: where to build something new, where to invest in capability, where to open up the tools. By creating an up-to-date visualization of the ecosystem where we can all see both the progress and the …
American Association of Law Librarians: “This guide is intended to help you use AI in your legal research effectively and responsibly.”
The Guardian: “”Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and …
Washington Post – no paywall: “…People working with AI tend to outperform those without it on tasks well-suited for AI, such as drafting text, synthesizing research and generating ideas. In controlled experiments, researchers have seen massive improvements — at least in the short term. In a 2026 peer-reviewed paper in Organization Science, Ethan Mollick at …
The New Republic: “President Trump is once again attacking Smithsonian director Lonnie Bunch and the museum system, the latest development in his “war on wokeness.” “The Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of American History in particular, under its current leadership and current interpretive ideology, cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in …
Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index Global Map is an interactive map that visualises how climate change is influencing daily temperatures around the world. It displays today’s data, showing which regions are experiencing temperatures that have been made significantly more probable due to climate change….Climate Central is an independent group of scientists and communicators who research …
Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 10. This article is the tenth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focused on the Trump administration’s unrelenting policy of attacking science, healthcare, public health and the rule of law. The cornerstone of this series are topical highlights …
