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Data is Beautiful: “The GOP is forecasted to pick up +8 to +10 U.S. House seats via legislative redistricting as new congressional maps are finalized. Legal challenges may still overturn some maps. Geographically, most projected GOP gains are concentrated in Deep South states which have a long history of Voting Rights Act litigation. Several of …
Molly White – citation needed: “I’ve been running my website Follow the Crypto since 2024, tracking the cryptocurrency industry’s influence on our democracy. The industry spent more than $130 million buying the 2024 elections, and the strategy worked. Pro-crypto politicians have proposed or passed industry-drafted legislation that threatens to open the floodgates to even more …
DatIndexUS: “Late last week, the Department of Commerce quietly issued a sweeping new policy that could reshape how the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) protect the privacy of people and businesses whose information they collect. The policy bars the agencies from using “noise infusion,” a family of privacy-protection techniques that make …
The New Republic: “This week, more than 100 former federal prosecutors in Illinois sounded the alarm about the current leaders of the office where they all once served. “Regrettably,” their statement reads, “there is little doubt that actions taken by leadership in the last year have tarnished the reputation of the United States Attorney’s Office …
The Verge: “Deezer will now scan your playlists on other streaming platforms to detect AI-generated music. Deezer was the first of the big streaming services to start labeling AI-generated music. It even offered its tech to other platforms, but it doesn’t seem like it had many buyers. Qobuz launched its own detection tech, while Apple …
The Feather Atlas is an image database dedicated to the identification and study of the flight feathers of North American birds. The feathers illustrated are from the curated collection of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory. TOTAL SPECIES REPRESENTED: 438. Note: In the United States, it is illegal to possess feathers from most native …
Internet is Beautiful: using government data, for your city (US & Canada). Maker here. A big “SALE!” sticker often isn’t actually a good price — it’s just a sticker. So I built this to answer one question: is this week’s price actually below the normal average, or does it just look like a deal? For …
Scott McFarlane Reports: “In a memo obtained by Meidas Touch Network, a group of Members of Congress have demanded a list of people who have applied for taxpayer-funded payouts from the Trump Administration’s controversial $1.7 billion slush fund. The 3-page memo, which was submitted to the Justice Department and Treasury Department, said the “conflicting” statements …
The Washingtonian: “The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work? Some subscribers recently received a heads-up that they’re on the hook for a new rate “set by an algorithm using your personal data.” We asked a UVA expert what that might mean. If recent events have not compelled …
Data Dashboard – Reuters Climate Monitor – How today’s temperatures compare to the historic average – Updates daily – The Reuters Climate Monitor shows where temperatures are unusually hot or cold in real time by comparing today’s conditions with what was typical in the past. We start by establishing what normal used to look like. Using …
The Drey Dossier: “…Login.gov is open source, which means the government publishes its code in the open for anyone to read, so I read it, and I walked the recent changes, since every edit gets posted in public with a date stamped on it. Over the last couple of months somebody added a new piece …
The Atlantic – How companies are gaming the chatbot internet [Gift Article]: “…For the quarter century that Google has been the de facto front door to the web, businesses have tried to find ways to get their pages at the top of search results. You’ve surely felt the influence of search-engine optimization, even if you …