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The Hechinger Report – Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack. “Inauguration Day was a time of hope for the MAGA faithful who watched President Donald Trump take his second oath of office in the Capitol rotunda. But less than a mile away, …
YouTuber Boxlapse compiles a bunch of their time-lapse videos of various plants growing into a 22 minute supercut. Plant [and a couple of fungus] names are listed as chapters to the video in the description. As close to touching grass as you can get while watching YouTube. 4360 Days (11.9 years) of growing in total. …
alexwlchan: “I grew up alongside social media, as it was changing from nerd curiosity to mainstream culture. I joined Twitter and Tumblr in the early 2010s, and I stayed there for over a decade. Those spaces shaped my adult life: I met friends and partners, found a career in cultural heritage, and discovered my queer …
Datzov, Nikola, AI Jurisprudence: Toward Automated Justice (September 9, 2024 – Revised December 4, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5178780 “The U.S. judiciary’s evolving role and digitization into a “modern” court system over the past several decades has brought it to a fundamentally altering moment: the adoption of automated justice. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) …
Shanaka Anslem Perera – The Cognitive Extraction Economy: How Humanity Became the Training Data for Its Own Replacement. “A forensic investigation into the largest uncompensated transfer of intellectual labor in history—and what it reveals about the true architecture of artificial general intelligence. “In October 2025, Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI released a study that …
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Literary Hub: Ed Simon Considers the Many Different Ways an Obsession Can Manifest. “Desiderius Erasmus lived his happiest months from late 1507 into 1508 at the Venetian print-shop of Aldus Manutius. A peripatetic scholar, the Dutch scholar had lived in Rotterdam and London, Basel and Paris, true to the dictum that where the humanist goes …
NBC News: “Artificial intelligence chatbots are very good at changing peoples’ political opinions, according to a study published Thursday, and are particularly persuasive when they use inaccurate information. The researchers used a crowd-sourcing website to find nearly 77,000 people to participate in the study and paid them to interact with various AI chatbots, including some …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “This year’s high-end models from Apple and Google raise the bar for mobile photography, but users should take the time to learn the settings and features. Smartphone photography has come a long way since the first iPhone’s single 2-megapixel camera in 2007. With phones now boasting multiple cameras with …
404 Media: “As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library. Some libraries are now intentionally using iconic Blockbuster branding to recall …
PopSci: “…To help raise awareness to just how bad it’s gotten, environmental engineer and artist Tega Brain created Slop Evader. After installing the extension on Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, users can employ it to search pre-AI archives on a handful of websites including Reddit and YouTube. “This sowing of mistrust in our relationship with …
“To better understand the U.S. media landscape, Pew Research Center has surveyed Americans over time about their news habits and attitudes. Time and time again, the youngest adults stand out from the crowd in their unique ways of consuming news and their views of the news media. This essay examines how the youngest group of …
