The New York Times: “Apple’s iOS 15 and Google’s Android 12 operating systems beefed up their privacy controls this year to give you more warnings — and options — when a site or service wants to use personal information like location or browser clicks. Concerned about how your data is being used by apps and websites? Apple’s iOS 15 and Google’s Android 12 operating systems beefed up their privacy controls this year to give you more warnings — and options — when a site or service wants to use personal information like location or browser clicks. Here’s a quick guide to those settings…”
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Daily Archives: December 14, 2021
Micropedia – sleek, intuitive resource on microaggressions
Fast Company: “…Now, there’s a new tool to help combat microaggressions. Micropedia is an encyclopedic website that features everyday microaggressions that those from marginalized groups face. At a time when many are worried about being “cancelled” for saying something offensive, the Micropedia aims to be a nonjudgmental way for people to learn about what might… Continue Reading
6 Bad Remote Work Habits That Ruin Your Productivity, and How to Fix Them
MakeUseOf: “Your daily habits have a massive influence on your workday. The activities and behaviors you perform routinely become subconscious habits that affect everything in your life. Sometimes, you might intentionally incorporate an activity to enjoy a specific result, for example, going to the gym to grow muscles. Other times, however, life compels you to… Continue Reading
Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years
Washington Post: “Scientists have discovered a series of worrying weaknesses in the ice shelf holding back one of Antarctica’s most dangerous glaciers, suggesting that this important buttress against sea level rise could shatter within the next three to five years. Until recently, the ice shelf was seen as the most stable part of Thwaites Glacier,… Continue Reading
Law as Code: Introducing AustLII’s DataLex AI
Mowbray, Andrew and Greenleaf, Graham and Chung, Philip, Law as Code: Introducing AustLII’s DataLex AI (November 16, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3971919 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3971919 “AustLII, as a provider of free access to legal information, has a distinctive approach to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) which is called ‘DataLex’. This article introduces that approach, and… Continue Reading
Postcards From a World on Fire
The New York Times: “These 193 stories show the reality of climate change. In every country in the world…” Continue Reading
The 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century
GQ: “For the past couple decades, we’ve felt that the best books being published—the most riveting, the most richly rendered, the most likely to last—are the works of literary journalism. You know the books we mean: books built on robust reporting and impossible-to-invent characters; books featuring sweeping plots and cinematic scenes (but true); books drawn… Continue Reading
Lessons from COVID-19 on Executing Communications and Engagement at the Community Level During a Health Crisis
National Academies: “On May 20, 2021, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual convening of public health and communications practitioners to examine the challenges, opportunities, and lessons they saw while executing effective communications and community engagement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic….Participants in the convening discussed how communicating about COVID-19 to… Continue Reading
Arctic Report Card: Climate change transforming Arctic into ‘dramatically different state’
“NOAA’s 2021 Arctic Report Card documents the numerous ways that climate change continues to fundamentally alter this once reliably-frozen region, as increasing heat and the loss of ice drive its transformation into a warmer, less frozen and more uncertain future. This year’s Arctic Report Card is the 16th annual volume of original, peer-reviewed environmental observations… Continue Reading
About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
“The secularizing shifts evident in American society so far in the 21st century show no signs of slowing. The latest Pew Research Center survey of the religious composition of the United States finds the religiously unaffiliated share of the public is 6 percentage points higher than it was five years ago and 10 points higher… Continue Reading
