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PDF Association: “We report on the technical aspects of the PDF files released by the US Department of Justice in connection with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The recent release of a tranche of files by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) under the “Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R.4405)” has once again prompted many people …
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: “Twenty-five years after it was founded, Wikipedia stands as an unrivalled achievement. Not only is it the single largest collection of information in human history, it has also built a stellar reputation for reliability in a digital world awash with lies and deception. For this reason, new AI tools have …
“Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in a three-volume set containing nearly 100,000 entries supported by over 400,000 citations from c. AD 1000 to the present day. The main focus of the dictionary is the …
Washingtonian: “Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought. Nearly half of the paper’s newsroom was eliminated during last week’s cuts—possibly the largest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation. LitHub – Gerald Howard on the Washington Post Book World and the Further Enshittification of All Things. “Here is what it …
The New York Times, Gift Article – “…Experts fear that Americans are losing their ability to distinguish between fact and fiction — and that fewer people seem to care about the difference. The online churn that now accompanies any major news event obscures the common reference points that once helped guide the country forward. With …
Wired – no paywall: “Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact… That’s the paradox United States residents face as they decide how to resist—and record—ICE’s incursion into American cities. “Unfortunately, there is …
Zimmer, Z. (2026). Outlier and collapse: The enron corpus and foundation model training data. Big Data & Society, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261421474 (Original work published 2026) – “The Enron Corpus is a canonical training dataset representing one of the first scale jumps in the size of natural language data for machine learning (ML) research. That corpus was …
Follow-up to CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool, See Also Internet Archive Way Back Machine – Search CIA World Factbook collection: Search 18,004 web pages using an index built from anchor text, all URL parts (file names, hosts, domains), MIME Types, language, HTTP Status codes and the full text of the …
NewsGuard: “Over the first seven months of Reality Gap Index reports — from June to December 2025 — NewsGuard found that an average of nearly half of Americans believed at least one false claim about major claims spreading in the news. For the first six months after the launch of the NewsGuard Reality Gap Index …
PHYS.org: “Researchers, including Professor of Management and Organization Reuben Hurst at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, have produced VRscores, an unprecedented public database for understanding the partisan lean of different employers in the United States. Hurst, with co-authors Justin Frake (University of Michigan) and Max Kagan (Columbia University), developed VRscores …
Vox – AI agents could change your life — if they don’t ruin it first. ChatGPT is boring compared to what comes next. The Atlantic [no paywall] – “The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by …
Beautiful machines from a beautiful country – “Olivetti’s history can be divided into three distinct parts. First, there were typewriters. As the crisis of this first era mounted, the company moved into microcomputers for its second era. With the IBM PC dominating the world, the company moved into its PC era. When this era came …
