I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats
Job opening at @upshot.nytimes.com
Come help us explain the news!
We're looking for a visual journalist and graphics developer to report, write, design and code data-driven stories and visualizations.
Details here: www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
A whiteboard full of data journalism job postings standing on an easel in a hotel hallway.
One of the encouraging things about #NICAR26 was seeing this very full job board of news organizations (including McClatchy) looking to hire talented data-driven journalists.
"Just learn one or two new things a day and you'll be amazed at how fast you get to a really, really interesting place"
A wonderful little math lesson for life:
omposite timelapse (every 4 minutes) from 2:44am-6:56am MST (moonset)
Total Lunar Eclipse 2026 Mar 3
Taken by Bob Beal
Washington, Utah, USA
omposite timelapse (every 4 minutes) from 2:44am-6:56am MST (moonset)
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"Just learn one or two new things a day and you'll be amazed at how fast you get to a really, really interesting place"
A wonderful little math lesson for life:
A landscape scene with some buildings leading through fields to trees. The roof of a temple can be seen above the trees.
'Distant View of Daibutsu-Den' - Fujishima Takeji, 1948.
#JapaneseArt #shinhanga
This looks rad, congrats!
Commenters in this thread shared a bunch of songs “where the drum beats are Morse code that also serve as a separate layer to the lyrics”. [threads.com]
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala
a menu of settings controlling the sky environment, with sliders for elevation, azimuth, turbidity, rayleigh, mie coefficient, etc.
a menu of settings controlling the sky environment, with sliders for elevation, azimuth, turbidity, rayleigh, mie coefficient, etc.
Screenshot of an image from Google's blog post. Caption: "Interactive design: 3.1 Pro codes a complex 3D starling murmuration. It doesn't just generate the visual code; it builds an immersive experience where users can manipulate the flock with hand-tracking and listen to a generative score that shifts based on the birds’ movement. For researchers and designers, this provides a powerful way to prototype sensory-rich interfaces."
Many of the settings shown in the video have the same names as the ones in the Three.js examples, such as "Mie Directional G". Meanwhile Google's marketing material says Gemini "doesn't just generate the visual code; it builds an immersive experience".
A good example of how LLMs don't credit sources: Google says this simulation was created by Gemini 3.1 Pro. But it looks very similar to off-the-shelf examples from Three.js, the most popular 3d javascript library.
threejs.org/examples/?q=...
threejs.org/examples/?q=...
blog.google/innovation-a...
This video made me think about chairs in a totally new way. From a new youtube show that goes down nerdy rabbit holes about everyday questions thttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kKt46Lch2bo
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
"Cognitive effort—and even getting painfully stuck—is likely important for fostering mastery."
"We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades."
NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine.
Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...
I cannot stress this enough: you want to write a book? Write it. Do it now. Don’t wait. There is never a perfect time and you don’t need anyone’s permission. There are always dragons ahead. Not to be dark, but the cliff awaits. Write it in scraps, in voice notes, in a crappy notebook...
Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” 🧪
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Don’t forget about Daniel @sadbumblebee.buzz himself, who is a brilliant and compassionate writer, climate reporter, and developer — among many other talents.
Some of my faves of his work:
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The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know.
Save this one and reshare it please! 📊
Today I was one of the many laid off from the Post. It is a dark day for news. For now I am going to take some time with my family before figuring out where I go from here.
In the meantime, please consider supporting my colleagues. Any contribution helps: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is an incredible performance and worth four minutes of your time www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2R...
A tray of colorful drinks on a display stand at CVS that sat “the flu shot” on them
America: where you can sell a random “wellness” drink at CVS, claim it “may” somehow “reinforce” your immune system, and literally call it “The Flu Shot.”
