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
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Gen Z’s Guide To Project 2025
Voters of Tomorrow: This isn’t the future Gen Z asked for. “Gen Z knows what kind of a future we want to build. We want a future where we can afford basic living costs, live free of the burdens of overwhelming student loan debt, have the freedom to make the reproductive healthcare choices that are… Continue Reading
Why car companies might finally have to care about pedestrian safety
Fast Company: “Earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) unveiled a significant change to car regulations that delighted safety advocates, annoyed automakers, and surprised pretty much everyone. In a first, NHTSA proposed forcing car companies to limit the risk of pedestrian head injuries in a collision. If the proposal becomes law, models… Continue Reading
How to Use Google Scholar for Legal Research
Clio Blog: “Legal research is one of the most challenging aspects of the legal profession. In the digital era, it is also a task that cannot be adequately performed without a legal search engine of some kind. Although there are numerous commercially-available research platforms, Google Scholar case law continues to be a valuable legal resource… 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
Migrants Are Settling in Thriving Blue Counties Not the Red Counties That Need Them
Bloomberg [unpaywalled]: “In this year’s US presidential campaign, few issues figure as prominently as immigration. Voters from coast to coast have seen their communities mired in fierce debates about how to handle an influx of migrants fueled by a record number of border crossings in 2023. Republican Donald Trump has long put cracking down on… Continue Reading
Banned Books Week
American Library Association: “In a time of deep political divides, library staff across the country are facing an overwhelming number of book ban attempts. In 2023 alone, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 1,247 efforts to censor books and other resources in libraries—an increase of 65% from the year before. In total,… 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
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 21, 2024
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 21, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading
