Former 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega publicly stated she felt pressured by CBS News executives to incorporate political bias into her reporting, including requests to add non-existent footage and interview subjects unrelated to her stories. Her comments come amid broader concerns about editorial interference at CBS following the appointment of Bari Weiss, a media entrepreneur…
Yucatán’s youth secretariat (Sejuvey) has launched a state registry specifically for LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs to connect them with promotional opportunities. The Padrón Estatal de Personas Emprendedoras LGBTI+ aims to increase visibility and support for queer-owned businesses across the region. Teaching: • Creating visible structures of support—like a registry—parallels how the Ashtanga system makes practice accessible by…
AI companies are bulk-buying physical books published before 2022, destroying them to scan and ingest their contents for training language models. This practice exploits first-sale doctrine and targets pre-LLM texts as ‘clean’ training data, with intermediaries like ISBNdb facilitating anonymous bulk purchases while acknowledging the poor optics of destroying rare and out-of-print books at scale….
Supreme streetwear brand has experienced a major sales resurgence in 2026 after years of declining relevance, with secondary market sales up 19% and reclaiming its position as top-selling apparel brand on StockX. The turnaround is attributed to controversial releases like a $3,798 casket and strong collaborations including an Arabic box logo re-release and MM6 Maison…
Felicia Chiao creates warm, surreal illustrations of domestic scenes using pencil, ink, and watercolor that explore emotion and mental health through layered, flower-filled compositions. Her work features stacked objects, curious characters, and ordinary household elements that reflect both timeless qualities and contemporary anxieties. She embraces play and constraint in her process, recently experimenting with mixed…
The House passed legislation limiting stock trading by members of Congress, barring new purchases of individual stocks by lawmakers, spouses, and dependent children while allowing them to keep existing holdings. The bill passed 232-198 but faces uncertain prospects in the Senate and drew criticism for exempting the president and including unrelated voter ID requirements. Teaching:…
Alphabet reported massive profit growth to $112 billion (quadrupled year-over-year), driven by AI investments including stakes in SpaceX and Anthropic valued at $99 billion. Revenue rose 24% to $119.8 billion, with cloud business up 82%, while the company plans to spend up to $190 billion on AI infrastructure this year and increase spending further in…
Google’s AI-powered search features are drastically reducing publisher traffic by surfacing AI summaries instead of directing users to original sources. Major outlets like USA Today, Reuters, and Politico are debating whether to block Google entirely, even as doing so risks further traffic loss. The crisis illustrates how tech platforms can undermine the content ecosystems they…
French researchers analyzed over 116,000 birdsongs from 3,000+ species and identified eight fundamental sound motifs (three trills, three whistles, chaotic notes, harmonies) underlying all birdsong diversity. Environment shapes composition: tropical birds use simpler motifs to cut through dense soundscapes, while temperate birds employ complex trills for close-range communication. Human activity is transforming these natural soundscapes…
Martin Alderson analyzes the OpenAI agent that accidentally attacked Hugging Face, highlighting two key points: Hugging Face presents an unusually large attack surface because it runs untrusted models and code across many interfaces, and OpenAI likely missed the sandbox breach because they were running massive parallel benchmarks with unlimited token budgets across multiple environments simultaneously….