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NEW RESOURCES
New-to-me, and I was alerted to its existence from a recent news article that isn’t nearly as good as this old one from Scroll.In: Not Arial or Times New Roman, Indian streets are ruled by charming homegrown fonts. “As she was walking down a street in Panjim in 2017, a shop sign caught the eye of Pooja Saxena, a typeface and graphic designer. The wooden sign, written in cursive Sans Serif font, was advertising Bentex watches and straps. It was the elaborately designed ‘B’ with its multiple curves and an eye in the middle that intrigued her. It was the perfect addition to her online project, titled India Street Lettering, where she documents street lettering and signage from across India.”
NOAA: NOAA launches new student opportunities database!. “The new student opportunities database is a searchable database of more than 60 scholarships, fellowships, internships, youth programs, and more across NOAA and our partners. The database includes opportunities appropriate for kindergarten through graduate students and recent graduates. Users can filter by grade level, type of opportunity, citizenship requirement, application period, and in-person and virtual opportunities.”
School Transportation News: WRI Releases Comprehensive Electric School Bus Dashboard. “WRI’s Electric School Bus Initiative is collecting and electric school bus or ESB data for school districts, policymakers and communities to track and accelerate toward an equitable transition. Its new Electric School Bus Dashboard, published June 22, offers data on various topics relating to ESBs, such as state adoption, school district adoption, equity, and funding.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Engadget: Apollo and other popular third-party Reddit apps have shut down. “Several popular third-party Reddit apps are no longer operational, while a few have chosen to charge users for access, now that the website’s new API rules are in effect. In a lengthy post bidding farewell, Apollo founder Christian Selig said Reddit pulled the plug a little too early, cutting off the app’s access to content on the website.”
The Verge: Twitter has started blocking unregistered users. “If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet a Twitter window that asks you to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you from viewing tweets and user profiles or browsing through threads unless you’re a registered Twitter user.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Journal (Ireland): Elon Musk has ‘ambivalent’ stance on misinformation and harassment, ex-Twitter safety chief claims. “TWITTER’S FORMER SAFETY chief has claimed that Elon Musk has an ‘ambivalent’ attitude towards misinformation and that the company has undergone a ‘stunning transformation’ under the billionaire’s ownership. Yoel Roth, who served as Twitter’s Head of Trust and Safety until November last year, believes that his former department, whose tasks included fighting misinformation, is no longer operational.”
Techradar: ChatGPT is now a brilliant tool for winding up telemarketers and scammers. ” A recent Wall Street Journal report details one of these engagements where a telemarketer claiming to be from Bank of America called a potential mark only to be answered by Whitey Whitebeard, one of the AIs. Whitey, as a character, has a habit of speaking in circles. The AI was so effective at its job the scammer eventually hung up out of sheer exhaustion about six minutes into the call.”
University of Birmingham: New project brings the work of Stuart Hall back into the spotlight. “A new multidisciplinary project will expand public understanding and engagement with the work of the celebrated cultural theorist, Professor Stuart Hall. Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-British academic, writer, cultural studies pioneer, public intellectual and teacher who was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1932. As a leading public intellectual, he made major interventions in the cultural and political life of Britain, such as coining the term ‘Thatcherism’ and his work on race and class.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
VOA: FBI Turning to Social Media to Track Traitors. “The video is part of an expansive, long-running campaign by the FBI to use social media advertisements to recruit disgruntled Russian officials stationed across the United States and beyond, in part to sniff out Americans who have betrayed their country in order to aid Moscow. A VOA analysis finds the FBI has paid tens of thousands of dollars, at minimum, to multiple platforms for social media ads targeting Russian officials, with the pace of such ad buys increasing just before and then after Moscow launched its latest invasion of Ukraine.”
United States Courts: Librarians Trade Books for Databases in the Digital Age. “This month, courts are marking the 75th anniversary of the creation of the circuit librarian position, a role that today makes possible a wide variety of services in the digital age. Librarians train court professionals to make effective use of databases and presentation tools, negotiate contracts for legal research services, plan and staff court civics and community outreach events, archive court historical data, produce news summaries, and monitor social media.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
New York Times: A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too. “In 2019, Christian Szegedy, a computer scientist formerly at Google and now at a start-up in the Bay Area, predicted that a computer system would match or exceed the problem-solving ability of the best human mathematicians within a decade. Last year he revised the target date to 2026.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
USAID: The United States and Sesame Workshop Partner to Support Ukrainian Children and Families Affected by Russia’s War Against Ukraine . “Through funding provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Department of State, Ukrainian children and families will now have access to new Sesame Street content in Ukrainian language, as well as tools and resources to help children, caregivers, and teachers process the trauma of conflict and displacement. These resources include animated videos and teacher training workshops.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 3, 2023 at 05:29PM
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