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NEW - “That Guy Is Still Out There”: Alice Sebold, the Wrong Man and Syracuse’s Buried Rape Crisis

Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alice-sebold-anthony-broadwater-rape-exoneration-syracuse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #AliceSebold #Rape #SexualAssault #Syracuse #Crime #Law

Crossing your fingers for luck is one of the most familiar gestures in the English-speaking world. We nervously do it before a big moment, ask friends to keep their fingers crossed for a specific outcome, and use the crossed fingers emoji as a shorthand for hope. But where d...

The following is an excerpt from our upcoming book, Obey In Advance: How to Survive and Thrive Under Authoritarianism by longtime McSweeney’s writer Ginny Hogan and McSweeney’s resident satirist Carlos Greaves. From how to stick your head in the sand to avoid thinking about ...

As America marked its 250th birthday, you likely heard plenty about the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers, and the birth of a nation. But what was everyday life like for ordinary Americans?  Throughout the week, we explored what the country looked, sound...

NEW: Oil companies are blasting millions of gallons of toxic waste underground each year — less than a half-mile from Enid, Oklahoma’s water wells.

But to protect their city, officials must appeal to the state agency that created the problem.
https://www.propublica.org/article/enid-oklahoma-oil-gas-pollution-water-protections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Environment #Pollution #Water #Regulation

Vasavi Bubna reflects on how embracing deep emotion, unapologetic passion, and the vibrant influences of her Mumbai upbringing has shaped both her creative practice and her approach to navigating life's joys, setbacks, and relationships.

The post What Matters to Vasavi Bubna appeared first on PRINT Magazine.

The EFF gets everything wrong. It’s observable. Empirical. The EFF stands up for something that’s supposedly good for people and the web, but if you look closer, it’s actually bad for the web and the people, and serves the interest of big tech companies, usually Google.

Another truth, the user interface of WordPress could benefit from a total overhaul. Too many expedient choices over too many years that paper over bad design choices with yet more bad choices. But this kind of problem is relatively easy to fix. Make a list of all the feature...

I organize my work in OPML and have even taught Claude how to work with me in outlines.

I prefer to do my middle of the night iPad writing sprees on Twitter instead of Bluesky because no character limit. No one is going to read the stuff on either platform, so why not go for ease of use for writing.

NEW: Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty

Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-death-penalty-executions-ron-desantis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Florida #Law #Prison #DeathPenalty #RonDeSantis #CriminalJustice #Legal

The Financial Times has a good article on how AI is changing the capabilities of video surveillance, with information from both Israel/Iran and Russia.

I wrote about this sort of thing a few years ago, how AI enables mass spying in the way that computers and networks enabled mass surveillance. The interesting development in the article is that AI allows people to ask natural language questions about video footage to AIs—and AIs can answer them.

In contrast with older tools restricted to a few dozen preset searches, these new tools allow an almost unlimited range of enquiries by enabling language-based searches on video...

NEW: Last year, the Trump DOJ dropped its oversight of troubled police departments in several cities, claiming the reform efforts were “factually unjustified.”

But officers continued to engage in the same abuses, per a new ACLU report.
https://www.propublica.org/article/aclu-trump-police-reform-doj-minneapolis-louisville-phoenix-memphis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOJ #Trump #Law #Police #Reform #Oversight #ACLU

The internet is full of advice about self-confidence. Stand tall.Think positive thoughts.Look in the mirror and tell yourself you’re amazing. I don’t know about you, but if I stood in front of the mirror every morning declaring myself amazing, my family would probably schedule an intervention. So I started wondering what self-confidence actually is. At […]

What happens when AI stops generating pages and starts generating design systems? Over the last few months I’ve become convinced of three things. First, AI is incredibly good at HTML. Not “surprisingly decent” good. Genuinely good. It can produce layouts, components, responsive designs, and entire interfaces faster than most humans can. I wrote more about […]

Bitdefender VPN has an excellent starting price, even if it lacks the advanced features that privacy nerds may want.

For decades, the senator has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.

AI is evolving super fast, boosting productivity but also causing burnout and a loss of human touch. We need to balance tech with authentic human insights.

Dear Zettlers, There is immense tension between AI’s advances in capabilities and its negative effects on our minds. In the last newsletter, I called claims that you don’t have to remember anything a scam. Time proved me right. The canary in the coal mine, software enginee...

In late 2025, the security community stopped treating indirect prompt injection as a theoretical risk. It had spent two years as a tidy lab demonstration; then production systems started getting hit. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications now ranks prompt injection as the number-one risk, NIST has called indirect injection generative AI’s greatest security […]