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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 …
TechCrunch: “The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than …
404 Media – “After months of discussion and outrage from residents, the city council of the tiny town of Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to immediately end its contract with the surveillance company Flock. In the aftermath of the vote, one of the dissenting council members crashed out and said he would be introducing measures to …
NiemanLab: “If you’re trying to get a handle on evidence from academic research about the state of local news, it’s hard to know where to start. The research is scattered — across disciplines from political science to economics to computer science; across universities; across paywalled journals. To some extent, it’s part of the academic job …
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Seth Chandler: “Anthropic just rolled out Claude for Legal, and even if you’re buried taking, grading or just having recurrent nightmares about exams, this post deserves ten minutes. At least three things matter for the academy: a law-student plugin with a summa cum laude portfolio of skills; a free CourtListener connector that does traditional legal …
Popular – Digital Image Archives – scroll down to locate the list, organized by subject. You will be familiar with some of the entries, but others will turn on the light and guide you to images from the ‘past’ that continue to resonate. They are not AI generated, and include music, design, political slogans and …
Craig Silverman, Indicator: “Last month, Google announced Skills in Chrome, an easy way to create and save reusable prompts that can run in your browser. Skills load in the Gemini tab in Chrome, and you can summon them with just a couple of clicks. This makes them faster than a third-party tool (though potentially less …
