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John Thornton, Cofounder of Texas Tribune and American Journalism Project, Dies at 59
Apr 02, 2025 | www.cjr.org
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Mar 30, 2025 | www.thecrimson.com
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, History professor Rosie Bsheer, on Wednesday, according...
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New survey details how long it takes to reach each belt in Jiu-Jitsu
Mar 29, 2025 | BJJDOC
A comprehensive new survey has shed light on the actual time it takes practitioners to advance through the ranks of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, challenging many common assumptions about belt progression…
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Don't Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism's Sadistic Eroticization of Power
Mar 29, 2025 | religiondispatches.org
The Five Scandals (and One Fascinating Political Insight) of Signalgate
Mar 26, 2025 | Doomsday Scenario
The Trump administration's group chat tells a lot about itself
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
Mar 26, 2025 | The Atlantic
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
Mar 24, 2025 | The Atlantic
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Jiu-Jitsu and the Paradox of Tolerance
Mar 16, 2025 | Bullshido
Leif Babin, who co-authored the excellent leadership book Extreme Ownership alongside Jocko Willink, once said:“When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.”This quote contains a critical insight for...
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Powerful forces want to dismantle libel protections. History warns us why. - Poynter
Mar 13, 2025 | www.poynter.org
Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
Mar 10, 2025 | Simon Willison’s Weblog
A surprisingly common complaint I see from developers who have tried using LLMs for code is that they encountered a hallucination—usually the LLM inventing a method or even a full …
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Yes, New England really was colder when you were a kid. Climate change makes snowy winters feel like a treat. - The Boston Globe
Mar 03, 2025 | BostonGlobe.com
We finally experienced a snowy winter, but this season didn’t come close to the hallmark bitter cold winters of Boston and the rest of New England.
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18F: We’re dedicated to the American public. And we’re not done yet.
Mar 02, 2025 |
For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed to make government technology not just efficient...
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More than 80% of new California properties are in high fire-risk areas
Feb 24, 2025 | the Guardian
And the problem isn’t limited to the region – across the US, nearly a third of homes are at high risk
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Roslindale Square gets official city plan calling for more housing, possible realignment of key roads and a movie theater
Feb 16, 2025 | Universal Hub
The Boston Planning Department this week approved a "Squares and Streets" plan for Roslindale Square that includes zoning changes to make it easier to add housing atop the square's one-story commercial buildings, engineering studies of realigning...
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Dear America - Nieman Reports
Feb 13, 2025 | Nieman Reports
Advice from areas of the world where press freedom is under attack.
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Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski to step down - Nieman Foundation
Feb 13, 2025 | Nieman Foundation
Lipinski steered Nieman through a period of historic change for the news industry and deepened collaboration with the Harvard community
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