2025-02-07
Researching Media Slant: A Peek At Our OLS Results
Table C.4 shows OLS results for regressions of predicted Fox News similarity newspaper Slant on TV viewership.
Extinction Burst Explains MAGA Voters’ Racist Anger
This fantastic two-minute video, from a guy named Rich, neatly explains why the anger and frustration of Trump’s supporters has been growing over time — why the pushback on things...
★ My 2024 Apple Report Card
While there are several areas where Apple maintained consistent excellence in 2024, I can’t think of a single area where Apple levelled up. Not one. That feels like a problem.
Elon Musk's DOGE Training an AI to Analyze Government Spending
Billionaire Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is ripping through the federal government's agencies at a breakneck pace, to the horror of former government officials, who have been...
According to Wired’s reporting, a US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis has called...
According to Wired’s reporting, a US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis has called the incursion by “DOGE” staff “the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has...
HackerNoon vs Bitcoin - The Ultimate Showdown You Didn't Ask For
I explore with simplistic mathematical models to help me, how HackerNoon stacks up against Bitcoin, the most successful publishing machine on earth. Bitcoin publishes blocks though, not articles. Nobody reads...
Virtually Everybody Who's Ever Bought Trump's Meme Coin Has Lost Money On It
In the short history of crypto cons and scams, it's fair to say none have gained the notoriety of Donald Trump's spectacularly shady TRUMP coin. Soon after Trump launched his...
Reliable Protection of User Data: Hashing and Obfuscation
In the digital era, the volume of user data being processed is growing at a geometric rate. One effective approach to protecting this data is **hashing** (for passwords and certain...
One of Elon Musk's DOGE Boys Was Fired by Previous Job for Leaking Company Secrets
A barely legal member of billionaire Elon Musk's bizarre DOGE boys club was previously fired from an internship after being accused of leaking sensitive data with a competitor. 19-year-old high...
Elon Musk Asks If He Can Re-Hire His Incredibly Racist DOGE Boy
Sorely Missed Just the other day, a young Department of Government Efficiency staffer resigned after his incredibly racist tirades on social media came to light. Now, Elon Musk is already...
Doechii’s Tiny Desk Concert
Hi, friends. It’s Friday and I don’t know about you, but I think we need to unwind a little bit with this Tiny Desk Concert from Doechii. Aaron posted this...
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting, including donating to a...
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting, including donating to a food program, volunteering your skills to local groups, joining or starting a union, and helping with disaster relief.
Government Lawyer Horrified as Musk Grants Nuclear Access to DOGE Boy
Young Gun One of Elon Musk's kiddos from the Department of Government Efficiency is now mucking his way through the Energy Department — bring him into worrying proximity to the...
Apple Settles Lawsuit Against Former Employee Who Leaked to The Information and WSJ
Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors: Last year, we reported that Apple sued its former software engineer Andrew Aude for providing journalists with confidential information about the company’s future plans, including...
Forget Faster Than Light Travel—Quantum Computing Could Deliver What You Say Even Before You Speak
Engineers from Northwestern University have showed that quantum teleportation may not require specialized infrastructure as we've always thought.
AI Could Handle Your 911 Emergency Better Than You Know
AI can help improve emergency dispatch efficiency by handling nonemergency calls, creating call transcripts, conducting sentiment analysis, reviewing dispatch data for accuracy, providing training for all situations, handling incident-specific call...
This is getting real: Welcome to the AI revolution
The open questions raised by the rise of AI are now getting answers. Discover how AI went from possible to inevitable to certain.
David Kurtz argues that we should refer to Trump’s mass removal of...
David Kurtz argues that we should refer to Trump’s mass removal of federal employees as purges, not as “firings” or “layoffs”. “Business terms provide a totally wrong conceptual framework for...
How a 50-Year-Old Programming Model Became Essential for Modern Tech
The Actor Model was created in 1973. It's designed for high concurrency, scalability and fault tolerance. Most programming languages have a framework that implements it, but some languages like Erlang/Elixir...
Stop Wasting Time on Country Dropdowns – This Angular Tool Does It All!
A smart, multilingual country search with flags and codes made with Angular.
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