FT.com – Men’s education deficit is increasingly becoming an employment, earnings and outcomes gap, with significant repercussions: “Across the developed world, girls and young women have been pulling ahead of boys and young men in education for several decades, with much larger proportions going on to attend university than their male counterparts. This trend has… Continue Reading
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Find the Right Open Source Research Tools – Bellingcat’s New Online Investigations Toolkit
“Have you ever struggled to find a tool that does exactly what you need? Do you know the feeling of spending hours trying to figure out how to use a tool just to realise that the key features you are interested in are not working anymore, or that the previously free product has turned into… Continue Reading
We Underfunded Our Libraries Once. It Almost Lost Us World War II
TIME – Graham is a historian and professor at Stony Brook University. – Her latest book is BOOK AND DAGGER: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II: “2024 has seen many devastating budget cuts to libraries. Earlier this year, New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams proposed to cut more than… Continue Reading
The State of Work-Life Balance in Journalism
How journalists manage their professional and personal lives. Muck Rack’s first State of Work-Life Balance in Journalism report examines data from two surveys of nearly 1,800 journalists. The report looks at salary, access to mental health services and burnout among journalists. of journalists have access to mental health services at work: Less than 25% of… Continue Reading
State of Open AI July 2024 Half-month update
This is a curated list of new model and dataset releases in the open AI space. This is not an exhaustive update. I hope you enjoy this more organized monthly update in the middle of the daily SOTA releases. Hacker Llama – Omar Sanseviero @osanseviero Chief Llama Officer @huggingface Continue Reading
The world of… work enemies
TotalJobs Data Visualization: “Good working relationships can take months to build… but they can go wrong in a moment. Sadly, it seems most of us will experience this. 62% of the 7,076 workers surveyed by Totaljobs admitted to having a work enemy According to a Totaljobs survey of over 7,000 UK workers, 6 in 10… Continue Reading
Mirroring Your iPhone to Your Mac Is Awesome: Here’s How to Set It Up
MakeUseOf: Requirements for iPhone Mirroring Setting Up iPhone Mirroring Navigating Your iPhone on Your Mac What I Use iPhone Mirroring For Key Takeaways iPhone Mirroring works between all iPhones and Macs that support iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, with the 2019 iMac being the only exception. You can click the iPhone icon in your Mac’s… Continue Reading
How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike
Via LLRX – How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike – Natural disasters have affected nearly 90 percent of U.S. counties since 2013, and while many households know about preparing emergency kits, a recent FEMA survey found a large drop in how many people are signed up to receive emergency… Continue Reading
Expert Survey on the Global Information Environment 2024
“The global information environment is under significant pressure from the development of new technologies and shifting public policies. How do experts around the world perceive the varied features of, and threats to, the information environment in their countries of expertise? In June 2024, the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) surveyed 412 researchers from… Continue Reading
How Republican or Democratic is your name?
Washington Post: “…The Post’s voter file is compiled by L2, a data firm founded by its two eponymous L’s, Lourene and Lindy Criddle, in the mid-1970s. Within L2, dozens of engineers hammer away on secure servers to update, clean and standardize public voter records bought from the states. Such voter rolls, constructed under the auspices… Continue Reading
Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy – Roots and Responses
Theda Skocpol (Harvard University; A..D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell), Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy — Roots and Responses Abstract: Why is US democracy facing an existential crisis this year? While some focus on the persona and rhetoric of Donald Trump, or stress underlying institutional distortions and polarizing social divisions, Skocpol highlights and explains the recent… Continue Reading
Want to Search Donald Trump’s Truth Social Posts? A New Site Is Here to Help.
Washingtonian: “Do you regularly check Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform? Unless you’re a faithful Trump supporter or a journalist who covers the former president, Chris Herbert would bet that you probably don’t. That’s why Herbert—a web developer based in DC—and his team at the conservative, anti-Trump nonprofit Defending Democracy Together created Trump’s Truth, a database… Continue Reading
