Kottke – The Concord Consortium: “From 1980 to the present, a timeline map of every earthquake in the world with a magnitude of 5 or above. You can play around with different parameters and data, so you can see where the different tectonic plates are, just see where the biggest earthquakes occurred, or add in… Continue Reading
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Foreign Malign Election Meddling Persists but Struggles to Gain Traction
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD): “In September 2024, FDD published a report documenting Russian, Chinese, and Iranian influence operations targeting the 2024 U.S. elections. This follow-up report details the ongoing efforts of U.S. adversaries who seek to undermine voters’ confidence in the electoral process in the weeks leading up to the November election.… Continue Reading
Your Vote Is Safe
TIME: “As Nov. 5 approaches, former president Donald Trump has left little room for doubt about his intentions. He will almost certainly declare victory on election night, as the votes are still being counted. He may turn out to be right. But if Vice President Kamala Harris wins, Trump will reject the result as corrupt… Continue Reading
Generative AI Will Increase Misinformation About Disinformation
LawFare – Speculation about disinformation by users and the media can generate harmful political effects, amplifying existing biases. “…AI is about to significantly increase uncertainty in disinformation research, in an already highly uncertain field. Disinformation operations will be harder to identify, harder to map out, and harder to attribute. People have a tendency to interpret… Continue Reading
Deepfake-o-Meter
UB Media Forensic Lab – DEEPFAKE-O-METER – An Open Platform Integrating State-Of-The-Art Algorithms for DeepFake Image, Video, and Audio Detection. Free but requires login. Continue Reading
Free Phone Validation
“About Phone Validator: We are the service used by brands, apps and websites to learn more about phone numbers in their contact lists. They use it to find out if any U.S. or Canadian phone number line type is cell, landline, VOIP, toll-free or fake/invalid. Our approach is authoritative: We use the most accurate real-time… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 26, 2024
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 26, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and… Continue Reading
Compulsory Voting’s American History
137 Harv. L. Rev. 1138 – “Voter turnout was higher in the 2020 U.S. presidential election than it had been in 120 years. Nearly sixty-seven percent of citizens over eighteen voted that November, exceeding rates that hovered around sixty percent in the twenty-first century and never broke sixty percent from 1972 to 2000. Some pundits… Continue Reading
New IMF Data Portal Beta
IMF is currently testing the beta version of the revamped IMF Data Portal, which will launch in 2025. We hope you will take the time to join the beta testing phase and provide feedback the new data portal. Since 2021, the IMF has undertaken a project to streamline and modernize the way IMF data is… Continue Reading
Questionable practices in machine learning
Academic paper: “Evaluating modern ML models is hard. The strong incentive for researchers and companies to report a state-of-the-art result on some metric often leads to questionable research practices (QRPs): bad practices which fall short of outright research fraud. We describe 43 such practices which can undermine reported results, giving examples where possible. Our list… Continue Reading
Post World War II Food
National Park Service: This article is part of the series, The American Home Front and World War II. It explores life on the home front by looking at the things people invented, created, and used and the ways that everyday life changed. They include the effects of war mobilization and of conflict and incarceration on the… Continue Reading
The Boomer Stuff Avalanche
Business Insider ungated – “Millennials are about to be crushed by all the junk their parents accumulated…In some ways, this is a timeless problem — every generation accumulates things, and younger generations rebel against older generations’ tastes. But the sheer size of the current problem is unprecedented given that baby boomers are an extra-materialistic breed.… Continue Reading
