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404 Media: “Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. The data was pulled from 3,167 servers and covers posts made between 2015 and 2024, the entire time Discord has been active. Though the researchers claim they’ve anonymized the data, it’s hard to …
MuckRock: “Not long ago, I did a routine check-in on a project I hadn’t thought about in a while: a Data Liberation Project repo that scrapes and archives Transportation Security Administration (TSA) traveler complaints. It was supposed to be a quick check-in—just restart the scraper GitHub had paused for inactivity. No big deal. I’d just …
Via LinkedIn – Carolyn Elefant – “I just compared my current LEXIS subscription to ChatGPT Deep Research and was blown away. My takeaways: ✅ ChatGPTDeepResearch – Comprehensive, well-organized memo. ❌ LEXIS – A big, over-inclusive data dump ❎ ChatGPTDeepResearch – Identified key SCOTUS precedent in first sentence. ❌ LEXIS – Missed precedent entirely. ✅ ChatGPTDeepResearch …
Via Data is Plural: “Peter Adelson and Julian Nyarko’s Material Contracts Corpus contains “over one million contracts filed by public companies with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) between 2000 and 2023,” which the authors collected from the SEC’s EDGAR filings database. In addition to the text of the contracts, the dataset provides metadata …
MIT Technology Review: “…The choice of natural gas as the go-to solution to meet the growing demand for power from AI is not unique to Louisiana. The fossil fuel is already the country’s chief source of electricity generation, and large natural-gas plants are being built around the country to feed electricity to new and planned …
First Street: “Mortgage lenders have long depended on homeowners insurance as a first line of defense against loan losses, requiring coverage as a condition of mortgage approval. Historically, this arrangement has held strong: extreme-weather damage has consistently been the costliest category of homeowners insurance claims and lenders have remained largely unscathed. But as U.S. disaster …
Trust for Public Land’s 2025 ParkScore® report goes beyond rankings—it offers a powerful look at how parks are shaping the future of our communities. This year’s findings reveal how strong park systems are helping cities foster connection, civic trust, and wellbeing at a time when we need it most. Explore the data, stories, and insights …
WSJ no paywall: “Google is overhauling its iconic search engine to compete more directly with a wave of artificial-intelligence chatbots that threaten its core business. The company has started rolling out on its search page what it calls “AI Mode,” which answers search queries in a chatbot-style conversation without the standard list of blue links. …
Lande, John, Getting the Most from AI Tools: A Practical Guide to Writing Effective Prompts (May 14, 2025). University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-24, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5254164 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5254164 “This article is a companion to How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bot: What I Learned …
The New York Times – no paywall: “The Food and Drug Administration will permit Covid vaccines for adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, according to new regulatory standards detailed on Tuesday by agency officials. But the F.D.A. may require data from additional clinical trials before approving the vaccines for …
Politico: “Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative sought last week to gain access to the government’s central publishing operation, a congressional offshoot that provides public access to federal documents. The Government Publishing Office is the fourth legislative branch agency that President Donald Trump’s administration has recently attempted to access. DOGE made an inquiry about …
Via Jason Kottke – The Unbreaking team is starting to publish “clear and rigorously cited explanations of what’s happening to our government and why it matters”. Their first three are on Medicaid, Transgender Healthcare, and Equality at Work.