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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 …
A complete digital edition of William Jardine’s 40-volume series on natural history published 1833–1843, including more than 1,300 restored hand-drawn illustrations of birds, mammals, insects, and fish. Explore the volumes, learn more about the project, or visit the shop. Sir William Jardine (1800–1874), a Scottish naturalist, created The Naturalist’s Library, an impressively large catalog of …
Washington Post: “A decade-by-decade look at the books, music, art and ideas that shaped society. Critics, reporters and editors who cover arts and culture spent months creating, revising and arguing over this list, as well as consulting historians, curators and other experts. Are we a young country or an old one? By the standards of …
EFF: “Oura Rings, Garmin GPS fitness watches, Apple Watches, Whoop bands—every year, more and more tech devices are promising to monitor our health and fitness, guide us toward healthier living, and provide useful health metrics to take to our doctors. But few of these tools provide the sorts of privacy and security promises we demand …
LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project. A LegiAlerts project — United States, 2003–present Open the dashboard → Two decades of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, This data originates from the LegiAlerts team — Liz Saila, Erin Reed, Allison Chapman, and Alejandra Caraballo — whose LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking project has compiled anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in every state and Congress stretching back more …
Nieman Lab: “In the final days of World War II, as the German Reich collapsed, Nazi officials ordered millions of party membership cards to be destroyed. The vast card index that documented membership across Germany survived largely because a paper mill operator, Hanns Huber, chose to hand the records over to the advancing US forces …
The New York Times – Gift Article: “PJM, the nation’s largest electrical grid operator, on Tuesday released results of an electricity auction that would add $6.3 billion in costs to the bills of millions of households and businesses within the next three years, an increase driven by the power demands of data centers. During the …
“Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, launched a campaign to dismantle the international criminal court (ICC) on Monday, claiming the global tribunal was interfering with US military and law enforcement operations at the risk of American sovereignty. Rubio invoked images of US border patrol agents and elected leaders being “dragged before an international court” …
Yahoo Tech – They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network – “That small stub on top of nearly every LED streetlight? Most people assume it’s a photocell — a dumb sensor that flips the light on at dusk. It’s not. Or not just that. It’s a standardized NEMA socket, and cities are quietly filling it …
“The web was made by people. Not by algorithms, not by models, not by machines that dream in code. By people in rooms, garages, and workshops arguing over protocols, shipping software on floppy disks, building companies from nothing, and connecting the world one awkward, brilliant, human decision at a time. For over fifty years, from …