BGR: “Fight Health Insurance (FHI) is the name of an AI website with only one purpose: to help you appeal health insurance claim denials. “Make your health insurance company cry too,” is the site’s clever motto. FHI is the result of an engineer who worked at IBM, Apple, and Google before landing at Netflix. Over… Continue Reading
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How social media distorts perceptions of norms
Claire E. Robertson, Kareena S. del Rosario, Jay J. Van Bavel, Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms, Current Opinion in Psychology, Volume 60, 2024, 101918, ISSN 2352-250X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101918. “The current paper explains how modern technology interacts with human psychology to create a funhouse mirror version of social norms. We… Continue Reading
Where climate change poses the most and least risk to American homeowners
Washington Post – [unpaywalled] This article includes searchable databases as follows: Find your county’s climate risk. AlphaGeo, a climate modeling group, analyzed the risks in every county. Type in your county below to see which exist in your area. Figure out your state’s disclosure laws. More than one third of states don’t require sellers to… Continue Reading
The 7 Best Private Search Engines That Respect Your Data
MakeUseOf: Finding a search engine that’s both effective and not hell-bent on selling your information is hard. Fortunately, they do exist, and there are plenty of them for you to choose from. DuckDuckGo; Startpage; MetaGer; Qwant; Mojeek; Kagi and SwissCows. Continue Reading
Law and Technological Innovations: Three Reasons to Pause
Smith, Michael L., (September 04, 2024). 12 Belmont Law Review (Forthcoming 2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4946479 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4946479 – “Faced with optimistic accounts of technological innovations, businesses, law firms, and governments face pressure to rush into adopting these technologies and enjoying the increased efficiency, reduced costs, and other benefits that are promised. This essay sets… Continue Reading
Guide to effective searching on ebay
Thread by derek guy via Twitter – I want to show you how to get some deals on eBay. Since I write about menswear, this thread will be focused on men’s clothing and accessories. But my guess is that you can apply these tricks to other categories…So my first tip is that you should learn… Continue Reading
Marching Toward Violence: The Domestic Anti-Israeli Protest Movement
Over 150 groups involved in the disruptive anti-Israel protests on college campuses and elsewhere in the United States are “pro-terrorism.” The vast majority support Hamas and/or the October 7 terrorist attacks. The movement contains militant elements pushing it toward a wider, more severe campaign focused on property destruction and violence properly described as domestic terrorism.… Continue Reading
Google’s Illuminate PDFs to Podcasts
Joshua Kubicki – This video gives a quick overview of Google’s latest experimental tool called Illuminate, which transforms research papers into audio content. It’s similar to Google’s Notebook LM, but instead of turning documents into cheery upbeat podcast-like experience, it creates more of an audiobook or “micro-audiobook” for research papers. The video walks viewers through… Continue Reading
Stop Raking Leaves, the Carbon Sink in Your Yard Needs Help
Legacy effects of long-term autumn leaf litter removal slow decomposition rates and reduce soil carbon in suburban yards,” published February 22, 2024, in the journal Plants, People, Planet. “By now, most people probably know that driving less and using energy efficient appliances reduces carbon dioxide emissions, and that carbon dioxide is one of the major… Continue Reading
The Civil Rights Implications of Federal Use of Facial Recognition Technology
The Civil Rights Implications of the Federal Use of Facial Recognition Technology. September 19, 2024. Meaningful federal guidelines and oversight for responsible FRT use have lagged behind the application of this technology in real-world scenarios. With the advent of biometric technology and its widespread use by both private and government entities, the Commission studied how… Continue Reading
GPO Makes Available Thousands of New US Congressional Serial Set Volumes
U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added more than 3,000 volumes of the Congressional Serial Set containing more than 45,000 individual documents and reports to GPO’s GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This comes as part of a multi-year effort with the Library of Congress… Continue Reading
Comics art against Project 2025
“Project 2025 is a detailed plan to shut you up, and shut you out. You matter, and you have a voice. Project 2025, also known as “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” is a document created to be a roadmap for a second Donald Trump presidency. It was prepared by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation and… Continue Reading
