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The New York Times Gift Article / DataVis “Electricity is perhaps the most underrated issue of our time. In the United States, we have been blessed with a power grid that instantly responds whenever you flick on the lights. It works mostly as expected, cooling our homes, charging our laptops and phones, running life-saving equipment. …
NeimanLab – “Satellite imagery has long helped investigative journalists gather intelligence on conflict zones and track changes in remote landscapes. Now, in a new wave of satellite-based investigations, reporters are leaning on machine learning models to automate parts of this work and scale up their analysis to an unprecedented degree. This innovation is most visible …
Greg Sargent – The New Republic – no paywall: There’s no clean way to hive off terms like fascism or authoritarianism from Trump’s policies. Even if you disagree that the words apply, their use is backed up by a genuine attempt at intellectual justification for it. The use of these terms just is deeply linked …
Via Yasir Ai: “Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and …
Crixus Blog – “Everyone assumes AI meeting tools replace note-taking. I record every call with Quill as my notetaker. It captures who said what, generates summaries, tags topics automatically. My meetings are fully indexed and searchable. And I take more handwritten notes than before I had any of this. Here is the thing people get …
Washington Post via MSN: ..”some teachers are now implementing “brain breaks” in their classrooms to cope with shorter attention spans, “including limiting screen time; cutting the time students spend on one activity; adding more engaging, hands-on projects; and practicing meditation.” Some teachers say the efforts are helping, at least a little… To engage students, teachers …
Frank Childer – Trip report from the AI for Legal Reasoning and Adjudication Conference, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, April 2, 2026 “…The Skill Gap Is Not About Prompting — It’s About Context and Oversight – The skills the legal profession needs for agentic AI are different from prompt engineering skills. They cluster around two …
The Straits Times: “From a few basic questions, the kind of day-to-day things you might ask a friend or family member, an AI chatbot can learn more about you than those who have known you for years. Emotional maturity, relationship status, financial constraints, professional ambition and even your health — none of which you were …
PerThirtySix – How geometry, stopwatches, and Einstein’s theories work together to make GPS possible. “If you’re like me, you might be entirely dependent on GPS to navigate the world. At some point, you may have caught yourself wondering during those panicked moments when an exit is coming up and your phone is recalibrating: how does …
The New Yorker – When Your Digital Life Vanishes [no paywall]- “…A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void…DriveSavers receives some twenty thousand inquiries each month. It has saved data for …
Worse on Purpose: “One company owns Brooks Brothers, Champion, Eddie Bauer, Billabong, Sports Illustrated, and the licensing rights to Elvis’s likeness. They don’t make a single product themselves. Pick up a Brooks Brothers shirt and turn it inside out. Look at the shoulder stitching. If it looks like a rat’s nest of tangled thread done …
The advertising industry has spent $_______on you. Every scroll, every swipe, every “skip ad” — someone paid for that moment of your attention. Here’s how much…Calculate my value. [Built by an ad industry professional. All calculations are estimates based on industry averages. Your calculator inputs (age, screen time, location) are never saved or transmitted — …