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Ahmed Best, the Actor Behind Jar Jar Binks, Is Proud of His ‘Star Wars’ Legacy
May 05, 2024 | www.nytimes.com
For Braintree student who hadn’t been to school all year, her first day back was grueling. Her second was worse. - The Boston Globe
Apr 24, 2024 | BostonGlobe.com
What transpired on that first day back was overshadowed by the events of the second — a gut-wrenching sequence that would involve Braintree police and end with the 14-year-old being transported to the hospital.
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No one buys books
Apr 23, 2024 | www.elysian.press
Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.
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Brave New Ukraine
Apr 20, 2024 | Foreign Affairs
How the world’s most besieged democracy is adjusting to permanent war.
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The love-hate relationship fighters have with cauliflower ear
Apr 10, 2024 | ESPN.com
Cauliflower ear is a collection of destroyed blood vessels and puss -- and every combat athlete wants one.
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Colorado Sun politics reporter kicked out of GOP state assembly
Apr 08, 2024 | The Colorado Sun
Reporter Sandra Fish was escorted out by a sheriff’s deputy after being told the GOP chairman doesn’t like her reporting
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Israel must be held to account for the targeting and killing of journalists
Apr 02, 2024 | Media Nation
CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote an important analysis last week about journalists who have been killed by Israeli forces in the the Gaza war. Citing figures from the Committee to Protect Jour…
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Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in your browser
Apr 01, 2024 | simonwillison.net
I attended the Story Discovery At Scale data journalism conference at Stanford this week. One of the perennial hot topics at any journalism conference concerns data extraction: how can we …
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A French Criminal Justice Expert Answers Our Questions About Anatomy of a Fall
Mar 30, 2024 | Vulture
The Oscar-winning drama is an only mostly realistic portrait of the funnily dressed, anything-goes nature of French courts.
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The Presidency Above the Campaign | Shorenstein Center
Mar 26, 2024 | Shorenstein Center
CBS News Prime Time anchor John Dickerson, who has covered eight presidential candidates in his career as a political journalist, gave the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics at Harvard Kennedy School on February 5, 2024. The following is...
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Eclipse 2024 - Andy Woodruff, cartographer
Mar 26, 2024 | andywoodruff.com
Follow the path of the April 2024 solar eclipse.
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Open Source Spotlight: Old Insurance Maps — Development Seed
Mar 21, 2024 | developmentseed.org
Use an llm to automagically generate meaningful git commit messages
Mar 13, 2024 | harper.blog
I've transformed my git commit process by using an AI to automatically generate meaningful messages. This setup involves a nifty integration of the llm CLI and git hooks, saving me time. Now I can fuck off while the robots document my commits
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WTF is Ecolgical Dynamics? (A gentle onboarding)
Mar 10, 2024 | Primal MKE - Best MMA BJJ Grappling kickboxing Milwaukee
WTF is Ecological Dynamics? When you first step into our gym, you might notice something different. There's an energy, a buzz of activity that feels more like a playground than a traditional martial arts dojo. This is because, five years ago, we...
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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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