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Confessions of a Token Black Professor (theatlantic.com)
Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t. (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Beyond the manosphere: rethinking online misogyny within digital capitalism (tandfonline.com)
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The Death of Reliable Immigration Data (theatlantic.com)
The Internet Is More Image-Focused Than Ever (theatlantic.com)
Opinion | Universities are fighting AI cheating. But there’s a deeper problem. (wapo.st)
A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Wile E. Coyote's Classic Cliff Fall (nytimes.com)
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump Has a Jimmy Carter-Style Iran Problem
Stephen Collinson: “President Donald Trump is staring down two stark liabilities that threaten to damage his Republican Party in the midterms and to ruin his second term-legacy.” “Somehow he’s maneuvered himself into a more vulnerable spot regarding Iran than any president since Jimmy Carter. As in the 1979-80 hostage crisis, the Islamic Republic is exerting […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump Is Still Searching for a Way Out of Iran
“President Donald Trump is struggling to find a way out of the conflict with Iran, as voters lose patience with the war and weapons stockpiles dwindle,” Semafor reports. “The path forward remains unclear, even as Trump has privately weighed dropping his long-held requirement for a nuclear deal.” Bloomberg: Trump hints U.S. will let economic pressure […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Proportional Representation Has Majority Support
“Amid growing frustration with both major political parties, voters are open to some big changes,” NPR reports. “A new poll shows there is significant support for upending winner-take-all U.S. House elections and single-member congressional districts and instead moving toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to […]
WIRED
• Reece Rogers
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
PRINT Magazine
• Steven Heller
The Daily Heller: Two Craigs Will Work for Food and Fun
Craig Cutler and Craig Frazier are back at it again.
The post The Daily Heller: Two Craigs Will Work for Food and Fun appeared first on PRINT Magazine.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Markwayne Mullin Faces a MAGA Backlash
“Just 4½ months after replacing Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary, Markwayne Mullin is feeling the heat from President Trump’s MAGA enforcers,” Axios reports. ”Mullin provoked border czar Tom Homan with an ICE nominee who has limited immigration experience, had to walk back changes in immigration policy, and angered the MAGA base with talk of […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump’s Foreign Licensing Income Surged
“President Donald Trump’s foreign real-estate licensing business boomed during his first year back in office, generating $59.5 million in 2025 as international developers paid a premium to brand luxury towers, golf courses and coastal resorts with the Trump name,” CNBC reports. “Foreign licensing revenue, including for the use of the Trump name on properties around […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Democrats Call for AI Companies to Testify On Hacks
“A group of House Democrats is calling for the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic and other major AI companies to testify before Congress following a spate of hacking incidents that the lawmakers say ‘have serious implications for Americans’ safety and security,’” CNBC reports.
Ars Technica
• Saima Sidik
Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
Schneier on Security
• Bruce Schneier
Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency, we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standard key-establishment primitive, and ML-DSA, the NIST-standard digital-signature primitive, in pyca/cryptography.
Remember, the reason to do this now is because there’s no emergency. And because you will make your systems crypto agile, which is always a good idea.