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Northwestern Information Design and Strategy: “Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson than anything the apps themselves will teach you.”
Brookings Institute: As the country heads into its 250th birthday this weekend, more than 40% of American households are struggling to make ends meet, and the reasons why look different depending on where you live, what you drive, and how you get to work. To understand why, Brookings researchers delved into the details—how the rising …
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Washington Post – no paywall: “Anthropic, Google and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists and philosophers to study what some in the industry think may become a moral crisis…Although proof of AI consciousness is lacking, many in tech fascinated by the topic are already discussing the moral consequences of finding sentient software. Within decades, there …
Zeteo: “The Trump administration’s new drug strategy does more than escalate the war on fentanyl. It sketches the architecture for a national surveillance system built from some of Americans’ most personal data: prescriptions, toxicology results, wastewater, electronic health records, license plate scans, and law enforcement intelligence. The plans are laid out in the 2026 National …
Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability. Authors: Janet Vertesi, danah boyd, Alex S Taylor, Benjamin ShestakofskyAuthors Info & Claims. FAccT ’26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Pages 2186 – 2205. https://doi.org/10.1145/3805689.3806739. Published: 25 June 2026 “The Project of AI is a world-building endeavor, wherein …
The New York Times gift article: “From a distance, the American economy might appear to be performing well. Growth is solid, unemployment remains near historic lows and stock markets have posted large gains over the last year. But these numbers mask the reality that most Americans see. We dug into the data, conducted surveys and …
Eurekalert: “AI and digitization transform fight against global extinction, landmark report reveals. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2026 report reveals the true scale of the biodiversity crisis has not yet been fully understood, but rapid data and technology advances offer hope. In a seismic shift since Kew’s inaugural State …
The SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University & ReD Associates: “This report is for practitioners, funders, researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders who are interested in rebuilding the fabric of American public and political life. Specifically, we aim to explore how conservative Americans relate to democracy in the present moment, and understand why some have …
“A free digital library of vintage cycling publications — magazines, trade reviews, club bulletins, and books from the 1860s to the 1920s. Browse the collection below or search the archive.”
Washington Post no paywall: “The White House routed a $500 million no-bid contract through a White House office that typically handles repairs and furnishings and is exempt from competitive bidding requirements. White House officials last year secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million for the construction of the East Wing ballroom in …
Washington Post no paywall: “Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure [link added by beSpacific – not included in the article] shows he earned at least $1.2 billion in 2025 from cryptocurrency and memecoin ventures. The filing reports more than $588 million in income from World Liberty Financial, the crypto company co-founded by Trump, his sons, and …