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Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s going downhill. Where by “downhill” I mean any combination of less useful, less safe, or less fun. It’s time for something better, and by “something better” I mean Mastodon. Which, I’m here to say, offers a better social-media experience than the alternatives. …
404 Media: “A shocking amount of the content that users encounter on popular social media websites is likely AI generated, according to data from a company that detects AI writing. As much as 41 percent of longform written content seen by users on LinkedIn is likely to be fully AI-generated and roughly a third of …
Semafor: The US has left more than 40 African nations without a Senate-confirmed ambassador, hampering Washington’s efforts to engage in security and diplomatic missions across the continent. Some 41 African countries currently lack a confirmed envoy, including Nigeria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, and Sudan. While there are vacancies across the diplomatic corps, the …
TechCrunch: “Google is rolling out a new feature aimed at helping people understand when an ad they’re seeing was made using AI technology. AI makes it easier for businesses to create ads, place their brand’s products in various settings, and save money on real-world e-commerce photography. But it can also be misleading if consumers don’t …
Yesterday, the sky did something. Tell us where you were [your city]. We’ll tell you what you missed. A Note On The Sky — Sources & Confessions. Every sky on this page is reconstructed from real data. The words were written by a human. A few honest footnotes follow.
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has launched public access to more than 1.2 million newly available records of historic U.S. Government publications, making it easier than ever to find documents published between 1895 and 1976. The records are now live in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and are available to the public …
ProPublica: “President Donald Trump has pushed out the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the bipartisan agency in limbo as he rushes to remake how elections are run before this year’s midterms. Trump fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the commission, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ProPublica, …
AI music is stealing from real artists. Search AI artists hiding on Spotify. No bands, no studios, no soul, just machines and melody. Home Artists Analyze a song Earnings Stories Articles Open Landscape Podcasts Comments Genres Albums
FoodFinder – Search by Zip Code Anywhere in America. Any time of year. Everyone should be able to find help. Hungry families can only get help from places they know about. That’s where we come in. It seems obvious, but the first step in getting help from any social service program is knowing that it’s …
Incredible Health: “AI adoption among nurses nearly tripled in a single year. Yet almost half of those using AI report little or no time saved. Drawing on a survey of 2,240 U.S. nurses and data from 1.5 million healthcare professionals, the 2026 Annual State of Nursing Report reveals a workforce moving faster than its employers. …
The Atlantic Gift Article – Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history. Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. …
Meta has control over many of the social platforms that people use every day – YouTube. “Since Facebook started in 2004, the company has been fine-tuning how to turn user data from apps like Instagram and WhatsApp into ad revenue. Now Meta’s $1.5 trillion market cap isn’t enough for them, so they’ve been looking for …