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Full of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies
Mar 05, 2024 | www.titledrops.net
A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.
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The World Capital of Endangered Languages
Feb 24, 2024 | www.nytimes.com
New York City is home to more threatened languages than anywhere else. One project set out to document them.
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VICE Ran Out of Money (For Everyone Except Its Executives) - Hell Gate
Feb 23, 2024 | hellgatenyc.com
New documents from the VICE bankruptcy proceedings tell a tale as old as digital media.
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WAMU shuts down local news site DCist, lays off reporters
Feb 23, 2024 | Washington Post
The station, a member of the NPR network, acquired DCist in 2018. It now has four journalists, down from 14 last year.
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An Heirloom Finds Its Way Home: Return of the Worcester Mammoth Bean — Edible Boston
Feb 22, 2024 | Edible Boston
Photos by Michael Piazza Jen Burt is reviving a long-forgotten Worcester heirloom, and it’s a big deal. Dare we say “mammoth”? The Worcester Mammoth Horticulture Bean is large compared to other local bean varieties, and is said to be known for its...
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Opinion | Parents are drowning in paperwork. That’s a real problem.
Feb 21, 2024 | Washington Post
No one gets into this business because they love filling out forms. Here’s how we could reduce them.
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Make Bell Labs an internet museum
Feb 15, 2024 | BuzzMachine
I wrote an op-ed for NJ.com and the Star-Ledger in New Jersey proposing that the soon-empty Bell Labs should become a Museum and School of the Internet....
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Analysis | Can we save nature with crazy shapes?
Feb 14, 2024 | Washington Post
The U.N. wants to protect 30 percent of the planet. Many of the areas it counts towards that goal are small and oddly shaped. Can contorted shapes save nature?
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Supreme Court Shocker? Here’s What Happens if Trump Gets Kicked Off the Ballot
Feb 05, 2024 | www.politico.com
What Happens, Exactly, If Trump Is Sentenced to Prison?
Feb 05, 2024 | Intelligencer
The Secret Service doesn’t have a plan. Most inmates sleep in dorms. There’s also no Diet Coke.
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How to convert your home into a small power plant, and make your money back doing it - The Boston Globe
Feb 02, 2024 | BostonGlobe.com
Mathew Tuttelman is building a net-zero home, a structure that produces the same amount of energy it consumes. Here’s how he’s almost reached his goal.
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Anti-scale: a response to AI in journalism
Feb 02, 2024 | Tyler Fisher
Journalism can no longer chase Silicon Valley's tail in hopes of salvation. We need a self-determined vision for what journalism on the web is, who it is for, and how we build it.
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The Association of Appin Training Centers is waging a global censorship campaign to stop you from reading these documents
Feb 01, 2024 | MuckRock
Founded in 2003, Appin has been described as a cybersecurity company and an educational consulting firm. Appin was also, according to Reuters reporting and extensive marketing materials, a prolific "hacking for hire" service, stealing information from...
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Sorry Appin, We’re Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence Reporters
Feb 01, 2024 | Techdirt
Back in December, we wrote about Appin. We were not writing about the reports (of which there have been many) that the organization that started as a sort of cybersecurity training school, but morp…
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The Messenger Shuts Down—And Some Thoughts About Why It Ever Happened
Feb 01, 2024 | TPM
The news startup, The Messenger, announced today that it is closing, effective...
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Untangling complex identities. Finding the flow and finding myself | by P. Kim Bui | Nov, 2023 | JSK Fellows
Jan 25, 2024 | jskfellows.stanford.edu
The Baltimore Sun explores the question of whether there can be a worse newspaper owner than Alden Global Capital
Jan 19, 2024 | Nieman Lab
Its new owner, Sinclair executive chairman David D. Smith, has pushed local TV news hard to the right. Will he do the same with newspapers — a medium he's called “so left wing as to be meaningless dribble...so devoid of reality and serving no real purpose"?
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