Wired: “These free, simple tools for phone or web let you visualize urban sprawl or see what your street looked like before the turn of the millennium…” The tools are Google Maps Street View, Old Maps Online, and the World Imagery Wayback portal online.
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Daily Archives: July 11, 2022
Family Research Council Is Now a Church in Eyes of the IRS
ProPublica: “The Family Research Council’s multimillion-dollar headquarters sit on G Street in Washington, D.C., just steps from the U.S. Capitol and the White House, a spot ideally situated for its work as a right-wing policy think tank and political pressure group. From its perch at the heart of the nation’s capital, the FRC has pushed… Continue Reading
Now everyone can ‘unmention’ themselves from Twitter threads
engadget: “Twitter is opening its conversation-leaving feature to everyone. Now, all Twitter users will be able to use the service’s “unmention” feature, the company announced. Twitter describes “unmention” as the ability to leave an unwanted conversation on the platform. When used, it unlinks the user’s handle from the Twitter thread, so they will no longer… Continue Reading
Biden admin: Docs must offer abortion if mom’s life at risk
AP: “The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court’s decision to end a constitutional right to abortion.… Continue Reading
Rental Assistance: Resources in the United States
LC – In Custodia Legis July 8, 2022 by Anna Price – “Sometimes we are inspired by reference inquiries and current events to write blog posts on a specific topic. In 2020, for example, we published guides about the coronavirus pandemic and resources for individuals facing domestic violence. This post focuses on options for people… Continue Reading
Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse
The New York Times – “More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people….Two years ago, the future of independent book selling looked bleak. As the coronavirus forced retailers to shut down, hundreds of small booksellers around the… Continue Reading
A copyright lawsuit threatens to kill free access to Internet Archive’s library of books
Popular Science: “Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library and a massive repository of online artifacts, has been collecting mementos of the ever-expanding World Wide Web for over two decades, allowing users to revisit sites that have since been changed or deleted. But like the web, it too has evolved since its genesis, and in the… Continue Reading
Listen to Earth.fm a Free Archive of Natural Soundscapes
Open Culture: ““Just listen. Silence is the poetics of space. What it means to be in a place…. Silence isn’t the absence of something, but the presence of everything.” – acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton “The study of acoustic ecology doesn’t get much mainstream attention. But if you’ve been a reader of Open Culture, you’ve likely… Continue Reading
A year in the making BigScience’s AI language model is finally available
TechCrunch: “After more than a year of planning and training, a volunteer-led project has produced an open source language model that they claim is as powerful as OpenAI’s GPT-3, but free and open for anyone to use (if they have the computing power). Dubbed Bloom, the model is available in open source along with the… Continue Reading
