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"Each season brings its own chance of furthering that dream, rendering devastation, or usually, delivering a dose of both." —Lindsey Liles for Garden & Gun

https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/inside-the-fight-to-save-theworlds-most-endangered-wolf/

#longreads #writing #nonfiction #reading

Second year in a row that Nevada County will be without an important water source because PG&E failed to maintain water infrastructure

"Call it vigilante justice or guerrilla tactics, but there’s a sense of stalwart duty as the lab attempts to dismantle generative AI."

Kelley Engelbrecht for Chicago Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-great-ai-art-heist/

#Longreads #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Art #Artists #GenerativeAI #Copyright #Theft #MachineLearning

Bonkers visualization technique trying to use 2 colors per country on a map. It sort of works?

Ars Technica: Pocket Casts makes its web player free, takes shots at Spotify and AI. “Previously available only to logged-in Pocket Casts users paying $4 per month, Pocket Casts now offers nearly any public-facing podcast feed for streaming, along with controls like playback speed and playlist queueing. If you…

Ana Rodrigues: In defense of unpolished personal websites. “My imperfect and unpolished code on my personal website isn’t the full reflection on my technical abilities or knowledge of web development standards. It’s a constant draft where my handwriting is legible and where I want optimization takes a backseat. It’s…

Gizmodo: FCC Chair Asks YouTube TV Why It Hates God. “Brendan Carr has some questions about God. Mainly, why isn’t he getting more air time? Donald Trump’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission sent a letter last week to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan…

We randomly selected ten articles from each publisher, then manually selected direct excerpts from those articles for use in our queries. After providing each chatbot with the selected excerpts, we asked it to identify the corresponding article’s headline, original publisher, publication date, and URL [...]…

Search Engine Land: As AI scraping surges, AI search traffic fails to follow: Report. “Google’s average search click-through rate (CTR) was 8.63%, according to the report. However, the CTR for AI search engines was 0.74% and 0.33% CTR for AI chatbots. That means AI search sends 91% fewer referrals…