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“The Hydrant Directory is a free design resource created from public infrastructure. Each hydrant has been processed into color palettes for free use by artists and designers. Color palettes are original and are placed in the public domain for use of any kind without attribution ( CC0 no rights reserved ). The hydrants themselves, however, …
~250,000 inscriptions from across the Roman Empire, enriched with AI-extracted name data. This map visualises inscriptions from the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby (EDCS) that record personal names. For each inscription an AI pipeline attempts to identify individuals and extract their praenomen, nomen, cognomen, status, and gender. How to use – Zoom in to explore individual inscriptions. …
“azmth shows more than 15,400 active satellites orbiting Earth on an interactive 3D globe, live. Orbital data comes from CelesTrak and refreshes every 2 hours; positions are propagated in your browser with the SGP4/SDP4 model. Click any satellite for its altitude, orbit, operator country, and real dimensions, and set your location to see exactly when …
Snapshot Report: Status of the IRS’s Workforce as of January 2026 June 9, 2026 Report Number: 2026-IE-R009 – According to IRS records, 31,273 employees separated, took a DRP – Deferred Resignation Program & Early Out Offers or used some other incentive to leave the agency during the one-year period between January 2025 and January 2026. These …
How to Geek: “SearXNG is an open-source meta search engine. The “meta” part means that it can query multiple search engines and display the best results from the pool. Currently, it supports some 70 search engines. It’s also completely free and shows no ads anywhere…Most importantly, though, it feels like searching the internet before generative …
“Lowtein is a simple website that geolocates you and tells you about the cheapest proteins available in your location. Here in Pittsburgh, for example, it informs me that Giant Eagle has a special on pork chops (56% blow the regional average price), Martin’s Food Market has inexpensive bacon, and that you can’t easily go wrong …
Engadget: “Google Earth seems to be the area where the massive company remembers that tech can be cool and downright fun. In 2024, it added an option for seeing historical recreations of select times and places. This is the sort of clever curio we love, and Google delivered even more the following year. Once you …
“Words of Type brings together the terms used in typography, illustrated and explained in multiple languages. Words of Type has been initiated by Lisa Huang, a French and Chinese typeface designer. Words of Type Encyclopedia aims to be a useful and accessible tool for everyone interested in typography and type design, at all times and …
Open Laws Foundation: Most legal-data projects scrape statutes and dump them into a convenient format. That throws away the structure: cross-references, temporal validity, the relationships between acts. And that structure is the part that actually makes legislation useful to machines. We do the opposite. Read the spec GitHub ↗︎ Stable identifier olf:it/legge/2019/123/art_3 A profile of …
404 Media: “A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. The study suggests that it is trivially easy for brands to inject promotional content on sites like Reddit, Quora, and Wikipedia …
The New York Times Gift Article – In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself. For more than two decades, Farid, 60, had been the world’s leading expert in the field of digital forensics, but in the last six months he’d stopped trusting his …
A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target The Hollywood Reporter: “The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved. The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker …