2025-02-07
Media Slant is Contagious: Evaluating the Accuracy of Human Guesses
We evaluate the accuracy of human guesses on whether an 80-word TV transcript snippet is from FNC or CNN/MSNBC.
The world has probably passed ‘peak air pollution’. “Global air pollution is...
The world has probably passed ‘peak air pollution’. “Global air pollution is now falling, and we can save many lives by accelerating this decline.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org...
How We Measured Cable News Slant: Researching Media Bias
We preprocess all texts, all nonletter characters, and extra white spaces. Second, for each word, we perform stemming (employing the Porter stemming algorithm). Finally, we form bigrams (phrases of two...
Media Slant is Contagious: The Prime-Time TV Shows and Summary Statistics
Researching media slant: The prime time tv shows and the summary statistics we looked at.
2025-02-06
State Attorneys General to Sue Over Musk’s Access to Government Systems. “The...
State Attorneys General to Sue Over Musk’s Access to Government Systems. “The president does not have the power to give away our private information to anyone he chooses, and he...
Sentiment Analysis and AI: Everything You Need to Know in 2025
In today's digital world, businesses must stay ahead of customer sentiment to maintain their reputation and improve customer experience. Sentiment analysis helps companies understand emotions in customer feedback entries, social...
Nix Package Manager on Linux: How Is It Different From APT?
Nix is a declarative package manager with atomic upgrades, rollbacks, and reproducibility. APT is a binary package manager that installs pre-built binaries from repositories. Nix builds packages from source by...
Mister Rogers on How to Talk to Kids About Distressing News Events
In 2002, Fred Rogers wrote a parenting book as a resource for caregivers of children aged two to six. One of the topics he covered was how to talk to...
A list of all the lawsuits related to Trump administration executive orders....
A list of all the lawsuits related to Trump administration executive orders. “More than thirty lawsuits have been filed and we are trying our best to keep this page updated...
The Musk staffer who broke into the Treasury Dept system has quit...
The Musk staffer who broke into the Treasury Dept system has quit after the discovery of racist Twitter posts (gift link): advocating repealing the Civil Rights Act, “You could not...
Are People Noticing the Internet Is Slowly Becoming Unusable?
The internet is no longer free and open. It is now a prison. The open web is shrinking as companies force users to remain inside their platforms. Any free content...
“The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler”
Historian Timothy Ryback, the author of Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power who also wrote the popular article How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days, has a new piece...
Business foot traffic is up within the [NYC] congestion pricing zone. “People...
Business foot traffic is up within the [NYC] congestion pricing zone. “People were concerned that fewer vehicles would mean fewer people visiting the zone, and that seems to not be...
★ Bootable Mac Startup Drive Backups, and Another Ode to SuperDuper
I know how different storage is today — abundant, cheap, reliable — but I still have feelings about my data that are rooted in the distant past.
Hackers Are Becoming a Rarer Breed
Hackers have stood firm and challenged corporate capitalism and government surveillance. The history of hacking predates the internet. One of the earliest incidents of hacking existed since the telephone era....
Resegregation, Coups, Orwell, and the Importance of Precise Language
Karen Attiah wrote a short opinion piece about how the nationwide assault on diversity, equity and inclusion led by conservatives is actually aimed at resegregation and how being precise in...
Who Owns AI? Sentient’s Massive NFT Mint Redefines AI Ownership
Sentient has completed a large-scale ownership mint with 650,000 participants. The campaign distributes NFTs tied to Dobby, the first decentralized Loyal AI model. Holders can later claim ownership and unique...
happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been! with every day, the need for an open n
happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been! with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to...
McSweeney’s: Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse. “I...
McSweeney’s: Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse. “I am proud to say that in just weeks, we have used the Tesla, SpaceX, and X playbook to...
Adaptive Attacks Expose SLM Vulnerabilities and Qualitative Insights
This section reports on adaptive attacks against SLMs where attackers, aware of the defense, use a larger step size (α=0.0001) to overcome TDNF. The defense reduces attack success, especially with...
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