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NextGov/FCW: “Public broadcasting has a long history of capturing important moments in American life. It preserved voices from the civil rights movement, debates over war and foreign policy, regional arts coverage and local public affairs programs that reflected the people and places shaping the nation. But many of those moments have also been hard to …
NOTICE News: “Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical Monday — an 83-page document titled Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity) — and it reads less like a church document and more like a progressive policy agenda for the digital age. The pope called on governments to regulate AI, warned that companies invoking ethics “in the abstract” …
Wendy Liu – The Guardian – As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move. Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way. It was …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
“Halupedia is an encyclopedia covering topics that have received insufficient attention in mainstream reference works. Coverage spans historical events, scientific disciplines, geographical features, notable persons, organizations, treaties, academic disputes, and cultural phenomena. Articles are generated on demand and stored permanently upon first request. The encyclopedia approaches all subjects with equal seriousness regardless of their prominence, …
Follow on to Google Search as you know it is over, See also – LifeHacker: “…Google’s goal is to make Search synonymous with AI, which will no doubt please Google’s investors, but will also alienate some users. Many of still search Google seeking good results for our queries, and not AI-generated summaries and chats. Personally, I’m not …
“Whether you’re pro- or anti-AI, I think most of us agree that AI is having a huge impact on our work as developers, and beyond that, on the world at large. The 2026 edition of the State of Web Dev AI survey collected data from 7,258 developers, providing a lot of fascinating material to study …
