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Follow up to: Does the Government Decide What Your Law Firm Will Do? – via Bloomberg – “Large law firms plan to refuse to give the Trump administration information on their clients’ diversity initiatives as part of federal discrimination investigations. The 20 firms facing questions from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will reject the agency’s …
Washington Post no paywall – The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do. “On March 27, President Donald Trump issued the executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which accused the Smithsonian of “replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by …
“We are thrilled to announce the launch of the USA TODAY Network Style Guide, a crucial tool that embodies our unwavering commitment to clarity, accuracy, consistency and transparency in journalism. This guide is not only a valuable resource for journalists but also a free tool for our community, including students, teachers, bloggers and anyone with …
“AI results are increasingly dominating web search (in the cases when people are still searching and not simply asking ChatGPT). That change will completely remake the internet experience. And that is really bad news for sites that depending on search traffic. Bloomberg (Gift Article): Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed.’”
“The purpose of “The 3.5% Project” is to provide an ongoing context for Harvard professor Gene Sharp’s 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action––a blueprint for nonviolent resistance. Each of the 198 methods can be used at any time, in any order, by anyone. (Read the blog for the most recent post.) If you’re part of the …
Hummingbird migration map (last updated April 8, 2025) courtesy of Hummingbird Central. By Jim Wilson, Birder and Adkins Arboretum Volunteer. “I track the migration of ruby-throated hummingbirds, and observed that one early-bird crossed the Gulf of Mexico and arrived on the Alabama coast on February 23, with many more arriving three weeks later. The Hummingbird …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “The US government holds a tremendous amount of data about US citizens. Now The Trump administration is trying to access that data and link it together. These intimate details about the personal lives of people who live in the United States are held in disconnected data systems across the …
Indivisible: “House Republicans are once again pushing H.R. 22 (what we’re referring to as the “Silencing Americans Act”), a dangerous bill that would create unnecessary obstacles for millions of eligible Americans trying to register to vote. The House passed it last session, but it never made it to the Senate—now they’re bringing it back in …
Lifehacker: “Whether you’re filling a prescription, rebooking a flight, or asking a question about your taxes, it seems like the first line of defense between you and any sort of real human helper is a never-ending string of automated prompts. But not all questions can be answered by a computer—especially when it comes to your …
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James R. Jacobs: “Just wanted to let you know that End of Term Archive is in the middle of harvesting the ERIC database. We’ve currently collected 24000 PDF files discoverable via Full Text Search (going on 500,000+… should be done later today) from Wayback Machine archives of ERIC. There’s a collection search where you can …
Via Reddit Data is Beautiful: “I sourced the data from Quiver Quantitative’s Congress Live Net Worth Tracker (www.quiverquant.com/congress-live-net-worth). The website provides live net worth estimates for members of the U.S. Congress based on their publicly disclosed financial information. Net worth information for some members was not available, and thus those individuals were not included in the …