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Scientific American – Here’s how to read the Air Quality Index and protect yourself from unhealthy air – “The color-coded Air Quality Index categories you’ll find on the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow website rank air quality on a 500-point scale and are meant to give the public an easy way to understand the health effects of …
404 Media: “Police departments around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “heavy-set male with a black and white hat,” “person on skateboard,” and “person wearing orange vest and construction hat,” according to data reviewed by 404 Media. Sometimes searches …
Wall Street Journal Gift Article – “The president and his allies have built a network of groups financed by wealthy donors and businesses that is advancing his priorities with little public disclosure: “Presidents have always raised money from private donors—to run for office, throw inaugural balls and build presidential libraries. But Donald Trump has turned …
Via DeanBlundell – “CNN published an investigation Thursday showing Donald Trump promoted more than 20 companies on Truth Social days after buying stock in those same companies — sometimes while announcing government actions that would directly benefit them. Not vibes. Not a hot take. Dates, dollar ranges, disclosure filings. Nvidia. April 2025: Trump posts “very …
PCWorld explains how data brokers legally collect personal information from public records, retailers, apps, and social media to create detailed consumer profiles for sale. Even careful internet users cannot avoid data collection since brokers gather information from everyday activities like store loyalty programs and voter registration. Automated data-removal services like Incogni can significantly reduce your …
Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating our country’s 250th anniversary the best way we know how: with a thoughtful, surprising, irresistible booklist. Organized by genre and category of interest, this all-ages list is a deep dive on the stories, voices and moments that shaped America. Selected by our expert librarians—with help from a few notable New …
Raw America: “Trump Media & Technology Group has rolled out a paid data product called Truth API, which sells banks and trading firms faster access to posts from the ten most influential Truth Social accounts, including the president’s. The company says it’ll beat a regular push notification, giving trading firms a speed edge on posts …
Cover Your Tracks two things: a tool for users to understand how unique and identifiable their browser makes them online, and a research project to uncover the tools and techniques of online trackers and test the efficacy of privacy add-ons. Running tests on Cover Your Tracks gives you information about your own browser’s privacy protections, …
The Atlantic – no paywall: Images of the incredibly wide variety of marine life on our planet, including seabirds, marine mammals, fish, corals, crustaceans, and much more
Massie, Khanna, Leger Fernández, Merkley, Luján Introduce the “Epstein Files Transparency Act II: “Rep. Thomas Massie announces the introduction of H.R. 9694, the Epstein Files Transparency Act II. This bill gives standing to state attorneys general, the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators, and members of Congress to challenge the Department of Justice (DOJ) …
The San Francisco Standard – no paywall: “…there are few opportunities to write a Google review for an ICE detention facility. The company has disabled reviews for almost all of the country’s immigration detention centers over the past year, according to a study by a Tulane University professor that was published in June. It’s unclear …
ProPublica: “The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, the latest push in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote. The effort, according to internal communications reviewed by ProPublica and an agency tech specialist familiar …