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Institute for Local Self Reliance: “Here’s why teachers should break up with Amazon’s wish lists — and where to find better alternatives. Teachers routinely spend their own money on school supplies. With public school district budgets being slashed nationwide, over 90 percent of public K-12 teachers now pay for classroom supplies out of their own pockets, …
Candal-Pedreira C, Ruano-Ravina A, Fernández E, Ramos J, Campos-Varela I, Pérez-Ríos M. Does retraction after misconduct have an impact on citations? A pre–post study. BMJ Global Health. 2020;5:e003719. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003719 Background Retracted articles continue to be cited after retraction, and this could have consequences for the scientific community and general population alike. This study was conducted …
Wired [no paywall]: “Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation. A PDF that Department of Homeland Security officials provided to New Hampshire governor Kelly Ayotte’s office about a new effort to build “mega” detention and processing …
engadget – “Apple’s AirTag is designed to help people keep track of personal belongings like keys, bags and luggage. But because AirTags and other Bluetooth trackers are small and discreet, concerns about unwanted tracking are understandable. Apple has spent years building safeguards into the AirTag and the Find My network to reduce the risk of …
Reality Check Podcast: ChatGPT and Gemini Fail to Stop their AI Voice Tools From Spreading False Claims & an iPhone 18 Hoax – Podcast – This week’s episode covers NewsGuard’s audit of leading AI audio bots, which found that ChatGPT and Gemini advance false claims on topics in the news about 50 percent of the time, …
The New Yorker – How the Administration is overwhelming federal courts and getting away with third-country removals. [no paywall]: “In March of 2025, the Trump Administration was widely criticized for sending more than two hundred Venezuelans to CECOT, a notoriously brutal mega-prison in El Salvador. Yet, over the past eleven months, the Administration has continued …
World Monitor. Real-time global intelligence dashboard – AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface. Note there is a panel at the upper right hand corner of the dashboard that pushes advertising content.
Library of Congress, In Custodia Legis: “In the previous release, we enhanced access to the Senate legislation actions overview display and added the ability to download the text of legislation in XML format. With this release, member profile pages for current members of the Senate now include a “committees” tab that lists the member’s committee assignments …
Slashdot: “A new study [PDF] from Ramp’s economics lab has found that businesses are steadily replacing freelance workers hired through platforms like Upwork and Fiverr with AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic, and the substitution is happening at a fraction of the cost. The paper, authored by Ryan Stevens, Ramp’s Director of Applied Sciences, tracked …
9to5Google: “Google Maps is more than just a navigation app, as it contains a treasure trove of data about locations across the globe. But, suddenly, Google Maps appears to be changing how it functions for users who are signed out, including hiding reviews and images. As noticed by a few Google Maps users on Reddit …
ZDNET: “The vast majority of agentic AI systems disclose nothing about what safety testing, if any, has been conducted, and many systems have no documented way to shut down a rogue bot, a study by MIT and collaborators found…The 39-page report, “The 2025 AI Index: Documenting Sociotechnical Features of Deployed Agentic AI Systems,” which can …
Follow up to Epsteinalysis.com via The New Republic: “The Department of Justice spoke four separate times to a woman who credibly accused Donald Trump of having sex with a minor he met through Jeffrey Epstein—but most accusations against the president appear to have been removed from the government’s documents on the alleged sex trafficker. A …