Everyone loves reading about millionaires who don’t have enough liquidity to buy things,…
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Cash-poor millionaire households
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Odds against you in sports parlays, advantage house
Parlays in sports betting are booming and people are losing billions of dollars…
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Unreliable library of human knowledge
Kurzgesagt, popular for illustrative explainer videos on YouTube, describes the current situation with…
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Overviewing and detailing
Hi everyone. Nathan here. I write to you from the United States, where…
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Mortality in the news vs. what we usually die from
Our World in Data compared causes of death in the United States against…
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The Oatmeal reviews AI art
Matthew Inman, the cartoonist who illustrates The Oatmeal, breaks down his feelings towards…
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Removing the process of creation
OpenAI released Sora, which lets users easily generate videos with a prompt. The…
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Analysis of TikTok usage, transforming new users to power users
As many of us have learned first-hand, TikTok (and its scrolling video ilk)…
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ICE planning a surveillance system that integrates more data streams and 24/7 monitoring
Dell Cameron, for Wired, on the system currently in its planning phase:
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LinkedIn sues company for fake bots
Suzanne Smalley reporting for The Record:
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Millions of pounds of canceled food aid in the US
The administration cut $500 million of aid to U.S. food banks earlier this…
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Passed peak social media, maybe
As we descend towards slop-based social media, where the videos are fake and…
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Getting more news from the TikTok
Pew Research surveyed U.S. adults about news consumption on social media and found…
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Undelivered USAID medical supplies and medicine
Earlier this year, the administration halted USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV medical…
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How Much Alcohol Americans Drink
Just under half of adults in the United States said they had an alcoholic beverage in the past 30 days. Does this change for various groups?
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When a table is better than a graph
Hi everyone. Nathan here. I write to you from the United States, where…
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Merriam-Webster announces their new LLM
Merriam-Webster is about to release the next edition of their large language model…
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Census data down
Due to the government shutdown, parts of the Census Bureau site, where you…
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Length of government funding gaps
The government shutdown of 2025 begins. Here is a quick table by Nigel…
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Government shutdowns and disagreements in federal funding
As one might expect, Congress is having trouble figuring out how to fund…