Articles by danso
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Tracking federal expenditures in real time (hamiltonproject.org)

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Use of LLM in Prime Video Movie Summary (bsky.app)

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USDS/website (GitHub repo for usds.gov Jekyll deployment) (github.com/usds)

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Join the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS) (doge.gov)

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Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004) (gamedeveloper.com)

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One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk's Hands (propublica.org)

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The Social Security Administration and Information Technology (1986) [pdf] (ssa.gov)

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The Leaning Tower of New York (newyorker.com)

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Cisagov/dotgov-data: the official list of registered domains in the .gov zone (github.com/cisagov)

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Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency (reuters.com)

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Former tech CEO suing to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet (gazetteer.co)

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When Luigi Mangione Came to Our Prison (prisonjournalismproject.org)

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Paul Frazee on Bluesky and ATProto (softwaresessions.com)

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Adobe Lightroom's AI Remove feature added a Bitcoin to bird in flight photo (bsky.app)

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Former Apple employees charged in $150k charitable donations scheme (nbcbayarea.com)

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I'm quitting the Washington Post (anntelnaes.substack.com)

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Ultima Underworld Retrospective – Forging a New Era [video] (youtube.com)

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Russian air-defense system downed Azerbaijan plane, sources say (reuters.com)

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Comcast Says Contract Typo Threatens Its Emergency-Call Service (bnnbloomberg.ca)

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Accused Kitchener hacker unmasked after threatening woman online (therecord.com)

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Misinformation expert cites non-existent sources in Minnesota deep fake case (minnesotareformer.com)

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Caltrain's electrification project is paying off big-time (sfgate.com)

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Try submitting x-ray, PET, MRIs to Grok for analysis (twitter.com/elonmusk)

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Club Penguin Experience Data Breach Email (reddit.com)

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Netflix shuts down 'AAA' Team Blue gaming studio, amid gaming shake-up (gamefile.news)

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Campaign Finance Made Easy: Announcing 'DataTalk' (biglocalnews.org)

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Extracting financial disclosure and police reports with OpenAI Structured Output (gist.github.com)

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Spot, LAPD's new crimefighting robot dog (ktla.com)

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Chicago's New AI Gun-Detection Program Shrouded in Secrecy (blockclubchicago.org)

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Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib (2021) (github.com/rougier)

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Oklahoma State barred from placing NIL-linked QR codes on helmets (espn.com)

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Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla (sfchronicle.com)

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Mike Lynch, recently acquitted in HP-Autonomy trial, missing after yacht sinks (techcrunch.com)

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Window-Switcher: Alt+(backtick) same-app window switching for Windows 10/11 (github.com/sigoden)

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Green tech startup with no climate experience secured millions in gov contracts (propublica.org)

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Artificial Intelligence Gives Weather Forecasters a New Edge (nytimes.com)

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Give Me the Green Light Part 1: Hacking Traffic Control Systems (redthreatsec.com)

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Hackers could create traffic jams thanks to flaw in traffic light controller (techcrunch.com)

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Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers (bloomberg.com)

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In Las Vegas, a Violent Sport Sparks Controversy (nytimes.com)

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Japan Runs on Vending Machines. It's About to Break Them (nytimes.com)

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When a Lifetime Subscription Isn't for Life (slate.com)

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The Architect Who Made Singapore's Public Housing the Envy of the World (nytimes.com)

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Tesla Auto Wipers: Why They Don't Work and Why There Isn't an Easy Fix (notateslaapp.com)

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University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10k Prize to Make (404media.co)

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How to escape Honda's privacy hell (sherwood.news)

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The Insanity of King's Quest Speedruns [video] (youtube.com)

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Typer: Python library for building CLI applications (github.com/tiangolo)

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ShotSpotter Keeps Listening After Contracts Expire (southsideweekly.com)

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After the Hit-and-Run (2023) (jewishcurrents.org)

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Bored Ape-themed fast food restaurant shuts down (web3isgoinggreat.com)

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How computers entered the classroom, 1960–2000 (degruyter.com)

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Journalist Tim Burke Indicted for Leaking Tucker Carlson Clips (rollingstone.com)

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Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance (sahanjournal.com)

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Queer.af will close on 2024-04-12 (alioth.systems)

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WA House bill would make it illegal for police to lie during interrogations (seattletimes.com)

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OnlyFake: A site where ‘neural networks’ churn out fake IDs (404media.co)

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The New York Times has a web Flash player (eagereyes.org)

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Universities accommodate food delivery robots (404media.co)

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An Idealistic Cop, a Forbidden Ticket and a Police Career on the Brink (nytimes.com)

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Team Fortress:Source 2 receives DMCA takedown from Valve (twitter.com/teamfortresss2)

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Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny' (vice.com)

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A murder that didn't happen prompts a debate about media ethics (timesunion.com)

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Supreme Connections (propublica.org)

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[flagged] Typical CS dude checking his Georgia Tech admission 3 hours early (twitter.com/vineethsendil)

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I have owned 11 bikes. This is how they were stolen (archive.org)

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University of California abandons plans to build "windowless dorm" Munger Hall (archpaper.com)

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[flagged] The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America' (404media.co)

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The Railroad Industry Intimidates Employees into Putting Speed Before Safety (propublica.org)

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NYPD barred from telling people they can't film in precinct stations (hellgatenyc.com)

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Find out why your health insurer denied your claim (propublica.org)

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In Memoriam of Python 2 (archive.org)

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Second pig heart transplant patient dies after showing signs of organ rejection (msn.com)

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An AI smoothie shop opened in San Francisco; why is it closed? (theguardian.com)

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X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features (fortune.com)

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Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security (minnesotareformer.com)

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FTX "insurance fund" calculated by multiplying trading volume by random number (twitter.com/molly0xfff)

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GSK Stalled a Potential Tuberculosis Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits (propublica.org)

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IRS consultant charged with disclosing tax return info to news organizations (justice.gov)

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Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man (apnews.com)

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GAMECHANGER: DoD's internal AI document search (github.com/dod-advana)

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A ‘Digital Peeping Tom’ Unmasked Porn Actors (wired.com)

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FTX Bankruptcy Estate Sues SBF's Parents to Claw Back ‘Misappropriated Funds (coindesk.com)

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I Gambled in MGM's Hacked Casinos (404media.co)

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The AI Detection Arms Race Is On (wired.com)

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Nonprofit Explorer (updated 2023-09-14) (propublica.org)

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CA Attorney General Announces $93M Settlement Re: Google’s Location-Privacy (ca.gov)

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Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume (axios.com)

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[flagged] ‘We put in air conditionin’, stayed year-round, and ruined America’ (politico.com)

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How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship” (propublica.org)

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Some economists have been relying on bogus population data (cambridge.org)

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Columbus Dispatch pauses AI sports writing program (axios.com)

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Meeting Sam Bankman-Fried (adityabaradwaj.com)

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If you hold down CTRL, the process list in Task Manager conveniently freezes (twitter.com/davepl1968)

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The Strange Story Behind ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ One of the Year’s Biggest Releases (bnnbloomberg.ca)

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AI manipulation of Assassin's Creed character's voice stokes actors' concerns (axios.com)

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Fabricated data in research about honesty (npr.org)

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Econ study retracted after finding ‘undocumented alterations in the code’ (retractionwatch.com)

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PinkyDoll Mesmerized the Internet (nytimes.com)

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Why Dayton Quit ShotSpotter, a Surveillance Tool Many Cities Still Embrace (boltsmag.org)