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Daily Archives: January 24, 2024

Cooked

Cooked summarizes web pages into a short recipe version which you can save and read while cooking. Organizes your recipes automatically. Its a breeze to find your old favorites and share them with your friends.

  • More than just a cookbook. Cooked understands your recipes and simplifies your everyday shopping and cooking.
  • Smart shopping lists. Cooked merges ingredients from different recipes and organizes your shopping list by supermarket aisle. Never miss an essential ingredient.
  • Cooked is social. Everyone has their own journal where they can preserve photos of their creations. Maybe get inspiration by seeing what your friends are cooking, or are they making some of your recipes? Let’s see how they do.
  • Recipe remixing and sharing. See other people’s version of your favourite recipe, or take any recipe by other user and and make it your own.
  • Reads you the recipe while you cook. Cooked can dictate any recipe step by step, so you can stay focused while cooking without juggling your phone or making a mess.
  • It’s free. No registration needed. Works everywhere.
  • Simply add “cooked.wiki/” in front of the URL in your browser’s address bar when you’re browsing for a recipe.”

Gigafact equips newsrooms to counter misinformation, protect the democratic process

“Online misinformation is rampant. At the same time, the supply of factual and well-sourced knowledge has never been greater nor easier to access. Gigafact’s goal is to empower credible sources to counter the unsupported claims that are undermining democratic society, and provide a process for rebuilding our factual foundations. We believe that fact checks published… Continue Reading

“We Buy Ugly Houses” Company Overhauls Policies in the Wake of ProPublica Investigation

ProPublica: “HomeVestors of America, the self-described largest home buyer in the country, is continuing to reform some of its business practices in the wake of a ProPublica investigation last year that revealed predatory tactics used by the company’s franchises toward homeowners in vulnerable situations. The company’s 1,100 “We Buy Ugly Houses” franchises will now be… Continue Reading

Inside a Global Phone Spy Tool Monitoring Billions

404 Media: “Hundreds of thousands of ordinary apps, including popular ones such as 9gag, Kik, and a series of caller ID apps, are part of a global surveillance capability that starts with ads inside each app, and ends with the apps’ users being swept up into a powerful mass monitoring tool advertised to national security… Continue Reading

Police Data Accessibility Project

Data is Plural: “The Police Data Accessibility Project is compiling a meta-dataset of police records: where to find them online, what time period they cover, how often they’re updated, and other characteristics. The searchable, downloadable dataset includes links to 1,700+ resources, such as traffic stop datasets, crime maps, use-of-force reports, contract and policy listings, and… Continue Reading

PFAS Maryland Fish Consumption Advisory Map

“Brent Walls, Upper Potomac Riverkeeper, has become an expert  on the growing issue of PFAS – toxic “legacy” chemicals – which we are finding in more and more places. He has created a map which identifies monitoring locations where Maryland’s Department of the Environment (MDE) collected fish tissue samples from various species, oyster sampling and… Continue Reading

Buried But Not Forgotten: Coal Ash in the Chesapeake

Waterkeepers Chesapeake – “The Chesapeake Bay region has a problem it thought it could bury and forget. But the solution for coal ash is not so simple. Coal ash, also referred to as coal combustion residuals or CCRs, is produced primarily from the burning of coal in coal-fired power plants. Coal ash contains hazardous pollutants… Continue Reading

How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet

ProPublica: “Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on training…America’s largest retailer has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation has found. For roughly a decade, Walmart has… Continue Reading

Ring Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users

EFF: “Amazon’s Ring has announced that it will no longer facilitate police’s warrantless requests for footage from Ring users. This is a victory in a long fight, not just against blanket police surveillance, but also against a culture in which private, for-profit companies build special tools to allow law enforcement to more easily access companies’… Continue Reading

Return-to-Office Mandates

Ding, Yuye and Ma, Mark (Shuai), Return-to-Office Mandates (December 25, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4675401 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4675401 “Using a sample of Standard and Poor’s 500 firms, we examine determinants and consequences of U.S. firms’ return-to-office (RTO) mandates. Results of our determinant analyses are consistent with managers using RTO mandates to reassert control over employees and… Continue Reading