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The Judgment Of Magneto | Defector
May 18, 2024 | defector.com
Somewhere beyond death, in a realm of judgment and pain, a concrete labyrinth filled by countless names, a man walks. He is Jewish, and has been made hard and cruel by his experiences in the Nazi death camps. He’s also a mutant, gifted with the power...
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A Plea for Sober AI
May 17, 2024 | Drew Breunig
The hype is so loud we can’t appreciate the magic
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Migration is about migrants
May 15, 2024 | Zach Seward
In praise of news organizations that understand whose "crisis" to focus on.
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The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail
May 13, 2024 | NPR
There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
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The Revenge of the Home Page
May 11, 2024 | The New Yorker
As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
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Modern WordPress - Yikes!
May 07, 2024 | dbushell.com
The one where I share my dislike for WordPress (again)
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Star Wars’ Expanded Universe helped rescue Phantom Menace and the prequel trilogy
May 05, 2024 | Polygon
The Phantom Menace is back in theaters — and it looks different now, after 25 years of support material
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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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