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“To aid in wildfire preparedness, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has released a publicly accessible online database of wildfire mitigation plans. The new resource offers a centralized, searchable collection of more than 400 publicly available wildfire mitigation plans developed by 170 utilities across 19 U.S. states. These plans span from 2019 through 2028 and provide …
The Verge: “Google Earth will now let you look at historical imagery from Street View. The update, which comes as part of the tool’s 20th anniversary, allows you to see how a location has changed over time. Google Earth already offers the ability to switch to Street View while viewing satellite imagery, but now you …
“The IPIE’s landmark assessment reveals that the greatest barrier to climate action is the global spread of misinformation about climate science. The IPIE’s Scientific Panel on Information Integrity about Climate Science latest assessment, Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review, and its accompanying Summary for Policymakers, represents the most comprehensive analysis yet of how …
Fast Company: “Want to save pages on the web for later? You could always bookmark them in your browser of choice, of course. But that’s a quick way to end up with a messy bookmarks toolbar. And organizing your browser’s bookmarks isn’t exactly a pleasant experience. Services like Pocket solved this problem in their own …
Politico.eu: “Donald Trump’s return to the White House is forcing Europe to reckon with a major digital vulnerability: The U.S. holds a kill switch over its internet. As the U.S. administration raises the stakes in a geopolitical poker game that began when Trump started his trade war, Europeans are waking up to the fact that …
Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide – “Which AIs to use, and how to use them. Every few months I put together a guide on which AI system to use. Since I last wrote my guide, however, there has been a subtle but important shift in how the major AI products work. Increasingly, it …
The Pentagon Pizza Orders Conspiracy Theory Explainer. The bigger the crisis and the more time government staffers are stuck in their offices, the more pizza they eat. At least that’s what the internet thinks according to the “Pizza Meter” theory, which some believe could even predict the beginning of a possible World War III. The …
SkyViewer: “This data visualization is a product of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. This groundbreaking new observatory, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, will revolutionize the way we explore the cosmos. Using the largest camera ever built, Rubin will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 years and create the greatest cosmic movie ever made. To …
404 Media: “This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn’t sure what the process is for solving the problem.” “Popular Information AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according …
The world’s best AI fact-checking tool is now available to all as a completely free GPT. “People rightly asked me for an introduction for people who have never used SIFT Toolbox. Here it is — I just released a non-hallucinating rigorous AI-based fact-checker that anyone can use for free. And I don’t say that lightly: …
CATO Institute: “New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind. Also, among those with criminal convictions, they are overwhelmingly not the violent offenses that ICE continuously uses to justify its deportation agenda. ICE has shared this data with people …
Open Access. The crisis in American science. Sage Journals. History of Science. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6827-2892, Volume 63, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753251343655 Abstract – “The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unprecedented crisis. The authors in this roundtable take a close …