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For the New York Times, Pablo Robles, Leanne Abraham, and Josh Holder mapped Tags: flood , Nepal , New York Times

It is trivial to generate bodies of text on infinite topics, so of Tags: Internet , Pew Research , writing

Here is what happened in August. Tags: roundup

For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill analyzed newsletters and social media posts Tags: data center , politics , Washington Post

There is a simple law from John Hack that says the length of Tags: drainage , Quanta , rivers

Older people are working later in life and younger people are not entering the labor force as early. Tags: labor force , work

Kieran Healy, a professor of sociology at Duke University, gives an enjoyable lecture Tags: Kieran Healy , trust

When you spend more than you make, you get debt. For the Washington Tags: debt , government , revenue , spending , Washington Post

For the Wall Street Journal, Peter Rudegeair and Peter Santilli report on the Tags: spending , technology , Wall Street Journal

This week, we talk flimsy results and how to work on things that build trust over content. Tags: Large Language Model , mistakes , trust

In the early 1900s, Henry Gannett cataloged the origins of city names in Tags: cities , Henry Gannett , history , names , Wall Street Journal

To augment its network of license plate readers, surveillance company Flock drew up Tags: 404 Media , Flock , privacy , rideshare

In a presentation by the State Department, a generated map provides all the Tags: generative , presentation , Reuters

Googles image generation model Nano Banana is now a few clicks away in Tags: ethics , generative , Google , Nano Banana , satellite imagery

For the Pudding, Jasmine Nackash compared the dictionary of essential words taught to Tags: English , Jasmine Nackash , Pudding , words

The Washington Post reports on the large investments in defense tech by the Tags: conflict , defense , government , investments , Washington Post

The Washington Post used satellite imagery, photos, and videos from when the blue Tags: error , reflecting pool , Washington Post

This week, I provide an update on my own process from start to finish, in 2026. Tags: workflow

Roberto Serrano, a Brown University economics professor, gave a take-home midterm and it Tags: Brown University , cheating , ethics , Inside Higher Ed , Roberto Serrano

This week, a bar chart was the wrong choice. Tags: baseline , tool

For dumb reasons, there are people in power who like to put down Tags: ancestry , immigration , New York Times