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What to consider when choosing colors for race, ethnicity, and world regions - Datawrapper Blog
Oct 12, 2024 | Datawrapper Blog
What to keep in mind when choosing colors for a visualization with racial categories so that all readers feel respected.
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Why did Norwich University suspend its student newspaper? - VTDigger
Oct 11, 2024 | VTDigger
The Guidon, Norwich’s student-run newspaper, has been barred from publishing for the entirety of the fall semester. The situation has raised concerns about censorship on campus.
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We Need an Ari Emanuel for Small OSS
Oct 10, 2024 | Drew Breunig
We always worry about funding for open source projects. It’s nothing new. But recent attention on AI and data and a vibe shift among investors has underlined the issue among OSS developer infrastructure projects. Perhaps the agency model is a way forward.
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Media organizations are blowing their endorsements
Oct 09, 2024 | www.slowboring.com
Nobody needs to hear that journalists don't like Trump — give people information they can use
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Where Americans Have Been Moving Into Disaster-Prone Areas
Oct 09, 2024 | www.nytimes.com
As Americans have flocked south and west, more people have been exposed to the risk of hazards like hurricanes, floods, wildfires and dangerous heat.
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Anna Wolfe won a Pulitzer for a Favre scandal story, now she could face jail
Oct 07, 2024 | ESPN.com
After exposing Mississippi welfare fraud, a journalist and her publication face the former governor's wrath.
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Conflating Overture Places Using DuckDB, Ollama, Embeddings, and More
Oct 05, 2024 | Drew Breunig
An overview on matching places across geo datasets, using local tools and embedding models.
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You probably can't make more than $1 million a year on Substack. But Matthew Yglesias does.
Oct 04, 2024 | Business Insider
The political writer — and as of the past four years, a small-business owner — on the upside of unbundling.
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North Korea’s trash balloons explained
Sep 29, 2024 | Reuters
How thousands of North Korean balloons have dropped garbage on the South
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Arc was supposed to be a key to The Washington Post’s future. It became a problem instead.
Sep 25, 2024 | Media Nation
Several months ago, Brian Stelter wrote an article (gift link) for The Atlantic exploring how The Washington Post had lost its way. During the Trump years, the Post thrived under the ownership of A…
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‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
Sep 20, 2024 | The Conversation
Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.
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When is a Minicar as Dangerous as a 3-Ton Truck?
Sep 19, 2024 | Drew Breunig
Cars without basic theft protections can be as dangerous as cars more than twice their weight.
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Let’s build and optimize a Rust extension for Python
Sep 16, 2024 | Python⇒Speed
Python code too slow? You can quickly create a Rust extension to speed it up.
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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Sep 16, 2024 | defector.com
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s...
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How Joe Rogan Remade Austin
Sep 11, 2024 | The Atlantic
The podcaster and comedian has turned the city into a haven for manosphere influencers, just-asking-questions tech bros, and other “free thinkers” who happen to all think alike.
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In Newton, Brookline, and Cambridge, more parents are sending their kids to private school. Why? - The Boston Globe
Sep 09, 2024 | BostonGlobe.com
The trend comes at a tough time for public schools and could impact culture and competitiveness.
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Lessons from the California Journalism Legislative Debacle
Sep 08, 2024 | dicktofel.substack.com