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Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch [no paywall]: “Last year I used detailed data on the ideological positions of people who post on social media to show that they over-represent the radical right and left, confirming the polarisation hypothesis. Over the past week I have used the same dataset of tens of thousands of responses to questions …
Just Security – By Christopher Fonzone. April 15, 2026. “On April 1, 2026, the Department of Justice issued an opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluding that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress’s constitutional powers and aggrandizes the Legislative Branch at the expense of the independence and …
the interactive version is at compkitchen.com/flavor-map if you want to poke around. you can hover over any point to see the ingredient and click through to its pairing data. Every point is one of 450 ingredients plotted by shared volatile compounds. Close together = similar molecular signature. Copper lines mark the surprising pairings — molecular …
“With 100 Lost Species, we set out to create a digital story about extinction that people could actively explore. Developed by Immersive Garden in collaboration with 60FPS, the project examines how species disappear over time and how human decisions shape that trajectory. From the beginning, it was conceived as an open narrative, one where visitors …
Google Blog: “The Gemini app is now available as a native macOS experience, bringing you a faster, more integrated way to get help from AI right on your desktop. Share your window for instant context – With our new native desktop experience, you can share anything on your screen with Gemini to get help with …
Report of the Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Education April 10, 2026 – The New York Times – A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities [gift article]: “American colleges and universities bear significant responsibility for plunging public trust in higher education, a …
The Atlantic Gift Article: What happens when AI can hack everything? – “For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a tool potentially capable of commandeering most computer servers in the world. This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack into banks, exfiltrate state secrets, and fry crucial infrastructure. …
Kottke: “For decades, a guy named Aadam Jacobs has been recording live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 feature the likes of Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Phish, Fugazi, and so many more. With the help of archivists, the entire collection is making …
Undocumented: A Brief Survey of Documents Related to Donald Trump That Have Yet To Be Released – “Troves of records, correspondence, deposition transcripts, NDAs, contracts, translator notes, intercepts, photographs & videos exist that would expose Trump for what he is. We still haven’t seen them…At the risk of opening with the “Webster’s defines a document …
New York Times Magazine (Gift Article): The View From Inside Trump’s D.H.S. “Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration…The government’s own records complicate that picture. Only about 5 percent of people booked into ICE custody in the last year …
E-Discovery LLC: “Hallucinations” by West and Lexis AI? A Cautionary Study and Cautions About the Study, Michael Berman – This post is a follow up to “Hallucinations” by West’s CoCounsel? (Apr. 7, 2026). In U.S. v. Farris, __ F. 4th __, 2026 WL 915082, at *1 (6th Cir. Apr. 3, 2026) (per curiam), the court found errors in …
Follow up to Capitol Riot Insurrectionists Networks and The Capitol Riot: Documents You Should Read (3 part posting) – Note – Trump last year commuted the prison sentences of 12 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. See this update: CBS News – including seditious conspiracy charges: “The Justice Department on Tuesday [April 14, 2026] …