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This report is a partnership between the States United Democracy Center, Law Forward and Protect Democracy: “…We issued our first Report less than four months after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, itself a violent attempt to subvert the voters’ choice. In that Report, we identified 148 bills that had been filed …
Wired: “Since Mark Zuckerberg snapped up Instagram for a mere $1 billion in April 2012, the app has grown into a social media juggernaut and one of Meta’s biggest assets. More than a billion people use Instagram every month, with influencers relying on it as a key source of their income. Any online congregation of …
“The Gun Violence Archive is an online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 7,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence. GVA is an independent data collection and research group with no affiliation with any advocacy organization” The …
Via Digg: Take your mind off the news, misinformation, disinformation, social media…work perhaps. Gergely Dudás offers visual brain teasers for you to ponder, and solve (he does provide solutions). He does this using colorful, whimsical, delightful graphical images, each containing a sort of puzzle challenge. The solutions are not easy, but a fun and distracting …
Axios: “Apple is adding a special “lockdown” mode designed for people such as dissidents, journalists or human rights workers who could become the targets of high-end spyware, such as NSO Group’s Pegasus. Why it matters: The new option, coming to Macs, iPads and iPhones with this year’s fall software update, could make it much harder …
The New York Times: “…As highly visible and politicized book bans have exploded across the country, librarians — accustomed to being seen as dedicated public servants in their communities — have found themselves on the front lines of an acrimonious culture war, with their careers and their personal reputations at risk. They have been labeled …
The Atlantic: “America and the world are living through what Adam Tooze, the internet’s foremost historian of money and disaster, describes as a “polycrisis.” As he sips a beer at a bar near Columbia University, where he is the director of the European Institute, Tooze talks through a long list of challenges: War, raising the …
EFF: “…The last two decades have seen the internet move from living-room and office terminals to our phones, watches, appliances and lighting fixtures. And although so-called smart devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) have allowed us to automate some aspects of our lives, they’ve also been plagued with privacy and security problems, giving hackers …
The Next Web: This map-making tool has turned me into a digital cartographer: “Are you planning a pub crawl? Going on a road trip? Visiting a new city? You need a map. And now, you can make your very own. Making maps is usually something you either associate with old dudes in dusty paper-laden shops …
The Next Web – A project to preserve over 7TB of books, articles, and journals: “A new project has just launched with the goal of preserving all human knowledge. The problem? It’s illegal. The Pirate Library Mirror is what it says on the tin: a mirror of existing libraries of pirated content. The project focuses …
Brennan Center for Justice: “A diverse bench is crucial to achieving a fair system of justice and promoting public trust in our courts. Across the country, state supreme courts continue to fail to reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. Key findings since our last update include: In 20 states, no justices identify as a …
IT Gearhead: “Ever wonder whether you can mass unlike likes on Twitter? You may wish to bulk-delete Twitter likes, especially if they contradict your current views. Manually deleting each like may not be feasible. Can you do it with a single tap? Is there a tool one can use to delete all the Like they …