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This episode looks at the evolving online landscape, focusing on domain names, digital identity, and AI's influence. Key insights include rising domain registrations, AI in managing abuse, and the importance of open source.

Another thought about Rocky: it’s a great movie, and I think its Oscar is defensible, but All the President’s Men is really something special. I’ve watched it dozens of times. If the Academy were to redo the 1977 vote today, I wonder if they’d pick Rocky again.

NEW: ProPublica journalist Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers.

It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?
https://projects.propublica.org/blueberries-farmworker-mistreatment/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Food #Farm #Agriculture #Ethics #Labor #Groceries #Immigrant #Workers

With apologies to Ernest Hemingway. - - - He was an old man who had started a war in a faraway Gulf, and he had gone one hundred and forty-three days now without reopening the Strait. After forty days, a tentative ceasefire had been reached. Then another one. Then another on...

George Strait walked right past without ever knowing a thing. Continue reading…

Plus, the justices added a case involving a seized plane and a six-pack of beer to next term’s oral argument docket.

I’ve always loved writing, and took to this form – the “thinking out loud” version of blogging – more than 20 years ago. I started Searchblog after I sold my first book, which focused on the impact of search on business and culture.  I decided I’d chronicle my reporting and build my voice by posting … Continue reading "I’ll Be Framing My AI Check"

Had she accepted, Judit Polgar would have become Hungary's first woman and first Jewish person to take on the largely ceremonial role of President of Hungary. After removing the previous Orban-appointed President, Hungary must now amend its Constitution for a permanent repl...

More than one-eighth of apps analyzed contained foreign code.

It starts at just under $25,000, but the hybrid won't arrive until next year.

As Kaiser and its therapists clash over AI, a new complaint says an algorithm, not a clinician, is deciding patients’ care in seconds.

Frances and Octavia chef-owner Melissa Perello and pastry chef Melissa Loar have partnered on Lorella, a brick-and-mortar spinoff of their sell-out Saturbake pop-ups.

For downtown’s recovery, the city needs to fill both small and large vacancies downtown. For small bookstores, that means an “apex predator” could be shopping around.

An obsessed Mexico City native joins us on a quest to find SF’s best, uncovering everything from coffee-spiked salsa to freshly pressed tortillas along the way.

A 2016 mandate ordered public reporting on every case. The department buried it until The Standard came asking. 

Just as preparations for spooky season were getting underway, disaster struck at an Upstate NY haunted attraction. Continue reading…