$75 Million for Election Security: Brennan Center Reacts – “The Senate just released an appropriations bill for fiscal year 2023. It includes the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act and $75 million in funding for election security and infrastructure. Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, had the following reaction:… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2022
See how much snow your hometown gets for the holidays
Washington Post: “When we depict winter holidays, often they’re accompanied by a blanket of snow. How often does reality match that expectation? Depending on where you grew up, the answer could be often, never, or that one year when you were a kid that you’ll never forget. The map below shows which areas have been… Continue Reading
Are Standardized tests going the way of the Dodo?
NYLI – ABA closer to eliminating them for law school admission – “… Bill Adams, managing director of ABA accreditation and legal education recently stated that: Today, the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar approved a change in ABA standards affecting the language of requiring law schools to… Continue Reading
Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.
MIT Technology Review: “…The data collected by robot vacuums can be particularly invasive. They have “powerful hardware, powerful sensors,” says Dennis Giese, a PhD candidate at Northeastern University who studies the security vulnerabilities of Internet of Things devices, including robot vacuums. “And they can drive around in your home—and you have no way to control… Continue Reading
Iconic lyrics of Tom Lehrer now in public domain
“I, Tom Lehrer, and the Tom Lehrer Trust 2007, hereby grant the following permissions – All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been relinquished, and therefore such songs are now in the public domain. All of my songs that have never been copyrighted, having been available for free for so long,… Continue Reading
The Myth of the Secret Genius
The Garden of Forking Paths – “From Elon Musk to Elizabeth Holmes and Donald Trump, many very rich people are effective at convincing us of a myth: they’re secretly a genius, and you’re just too dumb to understand. Are they right?…Elon Musk is part of a small class of extremely rich people who are rich… Continue Reading
The History of Western Art in 23 Minutes: From the Prehistoric to the Contemporary
Open Culture: “Among the ranks of Open Culture readers, there are no doubt more than a few art-history majors. Perhaps you’ve studied the subject yourself, at one time or another — and perhaps you find that by now, you remember only certain scattered artists, works, and movements. What you need is a grand narrative, a… Continue Reading
Lost a phone? Here’s how to track the location of an iPhone or Android device
ZDNET: “It’s happened to the best of us, that brief moment of panic when our phone is not in sight — nor in our pockets. I know I can’t be the only one who’s left their phone on a Target shelf or Starbucks counter, right? Luckily, both Apple and Google have GPS software for iPhones… Continue Reading
The Stable in Stable Coins
Federal Reserve Borad, December 16, 2022 – The stable in stablecoins – Garth Baughman, Francesca Carapella, Jacob Gerszten, and David Mills: “Stablecoins have garnered much attention as a key part of the emerging decentralized finance (or “DeFi”) ecosystem, and as a potential way to pay for goods and services. Stablecoins facilitate trades on crypto exchanges,… Continue Reading
Stop Stealing Sheep, 4th edition
“After four decades as one of the world’s best-selling introductions to designing with type – including editions in Korean, German, Russian, Portuguese, and even Thai – Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works continues to educate, entertain, and enlighten design students and type lovers around the globe. In this fourth edition[Free fulltext, PDF],… Continue Reading
First installment of Jan 6th Committee Report
WaPo has the 154 page document titled – Introductory Material to the Final Report of the Select Committee #Insurrection #Jan6th #PeacefulTransitionofPower #Jan6thAttack Continue Reading
Cars New Total Cost of Ownership Tool for Electric Cars
Clean Technica: “We’ve written about the total cost of ownership of automobiles for a decade, comparing the total cost of ownership of electric cars to the total cost of ownership of fossil-powered cars. The short and sweet of it is that due to lower operational and maintenance costs, as well as higher value retention, electric… Continue Reading
