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CBO – “…The budget projections are based on CBO’s economic forecast, which reflects trade policy as of November 20, 2025, and economic developments and laws in place as of December 3, 2025. The budget projections also incorporate the effects of laws in place as of January 14, 2026. (CBO’s projections do not include the effects …
ProPublica: “The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts. The move by the Federal Judicial Center leaves judges without any official support on how to …
NeimanLab: “In our recent rankings of web traffic at the top local newspapers and public media outlets, there’s been a consistent trend: Wherever ICE unleashes its controversial deportation tactics, the audience’s attention follows. Operation Midway Blitz sent readers to Chicago’s WBEZ, Operation Charlotte’s Web did the same for Charlotte’s WFAE, and the chaos in Minneapolis …
404 Media – no paywall: “…Chatbots may be able to pass medical exams, but that doesn’t mean they make good doctors, according to a new, large-scale study of how people get medical advice from large language models. The controlled study of 1,298 UK-based participants, published today in Nature Medicine from the Oxford Internet Institute and …
Axios: “Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that when he searched President Trump’s name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up “more than a million times.” Why it matters: At least one of the files Raskin found appears to contradict what Trump has publicly claimed about his …
“Image Whisperer AI Image Detector – beta v9.94 – Media Verification & Research tool, detects AI, by Henk van EssTotal fakes are easy to spot. Hybrid fakes slip through. Most AI detectors work like calculators — they output a number. They need to work like detectives — really look at the evidence. Developed by Henk van Ess with Claude …
ZDNET: “Every month, Google sends me a report on my online activity, and I must say that I’m not a fan. In fact, the idea that Google is tracking me via Maps disturbs me. That’s not the only issue I have with the default Maps app. It seems that every time I have to rely …
Fast Company: “As the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration continues, keeping up with Immigrations and Custom Enforcement can feel like navigating a maze. From stories of agents raiding worksites and taking children in broad daylight to reported plans for new detention centers, the daily onslaught of alarming news makes it difficult to see the full …
PDF Association: “We report on the technical aspects of the PDF files released by the US Department of Justice in connection with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The recent release of a tranche of files by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) under the “Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R.4405)” has once again prompted many people …
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: “Twenty-five years after it was founded, Wikipedia stands as an unrivalled achievement. Not only is it the single largest collection of information in human history, it has also built a stellar reputation for reliability in a digital world awash with lies and deception. For this reason, new AI tools have …
“Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in a three-volume set containing nearly 100,000 entries supported by over 400,000 citations from c. AD 1000 to the present day. The main focus of the dictionary is the …
Washingtonian: “Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought. Nearly half of the paper’s newsroom was eliminated during last week’s cuts—possibly the largest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation. LitHub – Gerald Howard on the Washington Post Book World and the Further Enshittification of All Things. “Here is what it …