The New York Times Opinion [unlocked], Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, professors of government at Harvard and the authors of “Tyranny of the Minority.” :”…In the United States, the civic response to the Trump threat has been tepid. For a moment, business leaders seemed poised to defend democracy. After the Jan. 6 insurrection, many leading… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2024
DataTalk A Campaign Finance Agent (Beta)
Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab – DataTalk – Chat with publicly available campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and PAC classification data from OpenSecrets.org Continue Reading
New website tracks government’s many digital services teams
StateScoop: “Last week, the Digital Service Network at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University published a new online tracker that documents details about government digital service teams across the country. The new Government Digital Service Team Tracker, which was published on the Digital Service Network’s new Digital Government Hub reference… Continue Reading
Stress in America 2024 A nation in political turmoil
American Psychological Association (APA) latest Stress in America™ poll revealed a populace dealing with multiple stressors as the country braces for the 2024 U.S. presidential election. In the new survey, conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of APA, the most commonly reported sources of stress centered on the election or were political in nature.… Continue Reading
We Are Living in a Golden Age of Apples
SciAm: “We are living in a golden age of apples, a time of delicious, diverse, mouth-watering abundance that we could barely have imagined at the turn of the millennium. How did we get to a time when most of us, most of the year, can eat our choice of fragrant, juicy, sweet, crisp (oh so… Continue Reading
Can someone find out who you voted for?
NPR – No. Here is what you should know – “With less than [12 days] until Election Day and with early voting taking place across the U.S., many Americans are questioning the secrecy of their ballots. Election officials, voter registration organizations and election law experts — including New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver… Continue Reading
Emissions Gap Report 2024
As climate impacts intensify globally, the Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! finds that nations must deliver dramatically stronger ambition and action in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions or the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal will be gone within a few years. The report is the 15th edition in a… Continue Reading
The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data
Krebs on Security: “…Delaware-based Atlas Data Privacy Corp. helps its users remove their personal information from the clutches of consumer data brokers, and from people-search services online. Backed by millions of dollars in litigation financing, Atlas so far this year has sued 151 consumer data brokers on behalf of a class that includes more than… Continue Reading
Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind
The New York Times unlocked article Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism…Paxton, who is 92, is one of the foremost American experts on fascism and perhaps the greatest living American scholar of mid-20th-century European history. His 1972 book, “Vichy France:… Continue Reading
Spreadsheet of the longer-term implications of #COVID19 infections
Augie Ray @[email protected] – My spreadsheet of the longer-term implications of COVID19 infections has now reached 1,100 studies. Recent additions show COVID and Long COVID causes fatigue, heart arrhythmias, reduced white blood cell count, T-cell exhaustion, lower quality of life, cognitive impairment, insomnia, erectile dysfunction, and persistent liver damage. Continue Reading
VISA Biannual Threat Report Fall 2024
This report provides an overview of the top payments ecosystem threats within the past six-month period (January – June 2024) as identified by Visa Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD). In the December 2023 Biannual Report, Visa PFD noted an interesting shift in threat actors’ organization, access to tools, and target choice, with threat actors increasing in… Continue Reading
The State of Canada’s Birds
Canada’s birds have stories to tell. The rise and fall of bird populations tells us how they, and by extension their habitats, are doing. Birds reflect our impact on the environment, tell us where conservation action is working, and show us where we need to focus more effort. This report is a partnership between Birds… Continue Reading
