About four in ten Americans still view homosexuality as immoral, survey finds

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/culture/pew-homosexuality-immoral-results

Americans view each other as morally bad, poll says. Canada is the opposite
While 47 per cent of Americans said their fellow citizens are morally good — the lowest score of any country — 92 per cent of Canadians had a positive moral view of each other.
#Canada #USNews #Morality #PewResearchCenter
https://globalnews.ca/news/11718062/canada-us-morals-survey/

Americans view each other as morally bad, poll says. Canada is the opposite
While 47 per cent of Americans said their fellow citizens are morally good — the lowest score of any country — 92 per cent of Canadians had a positive moral view of each other.
#Canada #USNews #Morality #PewResearchCenter
https://globalnews.ca/news/11718062/canada-us-morals-survey/

Weekly output: teens + AI chatbots, Android updates, Trump on data-center energy use, Archer + Starlink, balcony solar, customer feedback, CDA 230 + AI, Bluetooth updates

BARCELONA–It’s a treat to be able to start off a post with this dateline. This is the 13th trip that’s afforded me that opportunity and the 12th involving MWC. But this trip isn’t like the ones before it in one way; on my way across the Atlantic, my country started a war of choice because the president felt like it. The world is better without Iran’s worthless, murdering theocrat Ali Khameni, but I have little confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to do the right things for that long-suffering country.

In addition to the links you see below, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me in which I shared lessons learned from more than 10 years of booking Airbnbs.

2/24/2026: Most Teens Use AI for Homework Help. 10% Let It Do Everything, PCMag

Getting an advance copy of this new study from the Pew Research Center gave me a chance to note a new student-understudy chatbot called Einstein and quiz the CEO behind that app.

2/25/2026: Android Update Puts Gemini AI In the Driver’s Seat for Ride-Hail, Food Orders, PCMag

I have somehow become PCMag’s Android-updates guy. This report included a little testimony about Google’s call-scam-detection feature misfiring for me, an important bit of context to include in a post telling readers about Google bringing that tool to Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 series of phones.

2/25/2026: As Energy Costs Soar, Trump Pushes AI Giants to ‘Produce Their Own Electricity’, PCMag

I didn’t watch the entire State of the Union address because self-care is an important thing, but after reading about President Trump’s call for data-center operators to pay for their electricity and power infrastructure, I knew I’d have to write about that initiative.

2/27/2028: Archer Aviation Taps Starlink for Air Taxi Connectivity, PCMag

I still don’t quite get the point of adding Starlink connectivity to aircraft that won’t fly longer than 15 minutes or higher than 4,000 feet above major cities, but this was an easy post to crank out Friday morning before heading to Dulles that afternoon to start my journey to Spain.

2/28/2026: After Years of Shining in Europe, Balcony Solar Comes Out of the Dark in the US, PCMag

This story had been in the works for literally months–I took the photo you see at the top of the piece on the afternoon that I arrived in Berlin for IFA in September–but the policy picture has also changed dramatically, and for the better, over the intervening months.

2/28/2026: What’s the Best Way to Get Customer Feedback in 2026? Hint: It’s Not Email, PCMag

Two weeks after the customer-experience firm Medallia had me at its annual conference in Vegas (with my hotel covered upfront and my airfare to be reimbursed), PCMag ran my recap of what I learned there.

3/1/2026: Online Platforms Are Not Liable for What Users Post. Should That Include Gen AI?, PCMag

I spent Thursday at the Cato Institute for this enlightening conference marking the 30th anniversary of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the 1996 act that bars you from suing an online platform for something that one of its users posted.

3/1/2026: Bluetooth Is Getting an Upgrade. Here’s What It Means for Your Devices, PCMag

I took almost all of the notes for this at CES in January, but I needed more time to confirm some details and then write the post, after which its lack of a news peg left it easy to set aside for a bit.

#AIChatbots #android #ArcherAviation #balconySolar #Barcelona #Bluetooth #Catalunya #CatoInstitute #CDA230 #ces #customerExperience #customerSatisfaction #cx #dataCenters #eVTOL #GeminiAI #IFA #LasVegas #Medallia #MWC #PewResearchCenter #plugInSolar #PresidentTrump #RatepayerProtectionPledge #SOTU #Spain #Starlink #StateOfTheUnion #travel #TrumpEnergyPolicy #Vegas

Capitalism has a Math Problem: How Wealth Growth Devours the Middle Class

Anand Giridharadas reveals how the “Epstein class” protected power and privilege across parties while victims waited for justice.

#capitalism #corporatePower #economicJustice #exponentialGrowth #FederalReserve #laborRights #MedicareAdvantage #MiddleClass #PewResearchCenter #progressiveEconomics #socialSafetyNet #ThomasPiketty #wealthInequality https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oJa

Listen well Schumer: Stop Proposing. Start Demanding: The Fight to Rein In ICE

Democrats have the facts and public support to rein in ICE abuses. So why frame demands as proposals? It’s time to act with strength and moral clarity.

#ChuckSchumer #CivilRights #DemocraticStrategy #DueProcess #EconomicImpactOfImmigration #FourthAmendment #ICEReform #ImmigrationPolicy #MigrationPolicyInstitute #MinneapolisActivism #PewResearchCenter #ProgressivePolitics https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oI9

Europe Today Looks Different From the One Trump’s Team Describes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/world/europe/europe-rubio-munich.html

What the data says about Wikipedia on its 25th anniversary – Pew Research Center

(Photo illustration by Thomas Fuller / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images)

 Short Reads, January 13, 2026

Wikipedia at 25: What the data tells us

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By Skyler Seets, Anna Lieb, and Aaron Smith

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On Jan. 15, 2001, the earliest edit found on Wikipedia’s homepage announced, “This is the new WikiPedia!” Twenty-five years later, Wikipedia remains a key source of knowledge on the internet, attracting millions of visitors per day to articles across hundreds of languages.

Since its creation, the site has grown and stayed relevant in a rapidly changing digital environment. Wikipedia is one of the top sources mentioned in Google search results and is used to train large language models that power many artificial intelligence technologies.

Unlike most other high-traffic websites, Wikipedia does not run advertisements and is free to access. It relies on donations from the public and contributions from a community of largely volunteer editors and is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation.

Ahead of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary, here are answers to some common questions about the site, based on data from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Statistics:

• How big is Wikipedia?
• How many languages are there on Wikipedia?
• How many people visit Wikipedia?
• What are the most-viewed pages of the last decade?
• What are the most-viewed pages each month?
• Which pages have been edited the most?
• Which pages have had the most views or edits in a single day?
• How many people contribute to Wikipedia?

How we did this?

This study looks at key statistics about Wikipedia for its 25th anniversary. Pew Research Center did a similar study of the languages used on the site for its 15th anniversary in 2016.

This analysis is based on information compiled by Wikipedia or collected with the Wikimedia Analytics API. Some figures are available on the public statistics website of the Wikimedia Foundation. Unless otherwise noted, the findings are for the English-language version of the site.

Where possible, the analysis covers the entire history of the site. But we show some statistics (such as page views) starting in 2015 due to changes in how they are calculated or data availability. We accessed data for this analysis in December 2025.

When determining which pages have had the most views, we excluded several popular pages. Among these are the articles for YouTube and Facebook, which Wikipedia excludes from its official metrics because their views are considered to most likely be accidental. It also excludes the article for Cleopatra, which researchers say has seen inflated view counts due to Google’s voice assistant using it as an example query.

All page view analysis counts human user views and excludes automated traffic and bot activity. In addition to Wikipedia’s own measures of bots, we also excluded any page for which the share of mobile views is less than 5% or higher than 95%. Other research has shown that excessively high or low mobile traffic signals bot activity.

How big is Wikipedia?

As of December 2025, there are over 66 million articles across all languages on Wikipedia. The text, images, videos and other uploaded files for those articles take up roughly 775 terabytes of storage. That is equal to the storage capacity of around 3,000 iPhones.

Around 7 million articles are in English, which is the language with the most articles on the site. With a total word count of over 5 billion words, it would take one person about 38 years to read every English Wikipedia article.

How many languages are there on Wikipedia?

Wikipedia was initially published in English, but editions in other languages soon followed. As of late 2025, the site has articles in 342 languages.

Many of the largest Wikipedia editions other than English, such as French and German, have existed for much of the site’s history. Other languages have grown in recent years because automated bots are creating pages in those languages.

For example, Lsjbot is an automated program built by linguist Sverker Johansson that creates articles in Cebuano and Swedish. Cebuano – a language spoken in the southern Philippines – now has the second-most Wikipedia articles of any language, despite having relatively few active users.

In the past decade, Wikipedia articles have been viewed a total of 1.9 trillion times. That is about 508 million views per day on average. About half (49%) of these views are for the English Wikipedia.

Some of the world’s most-spoken languages have relatively few Wikipedia page views. For example, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi are the second and third most-spoken languages in the world, but their Wikipedias rank eighth and 25th, respectively, in all-time page views. (Wikipedia has been blocked in mainland China since April 2019, though a similar Chinese site called Baidu Baike is available there.)

In addition to these human visits, bots also direct lots of traffic to Wikipedia. Web crawlers, AI bots and other nonhuman agents produced more than 88 billion views in 2025 alone. In October 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that human pageviews were down by roughly 8% compared with the same months in 2024, a trend it attributes to the rise in generative AI and AI search summaries.

Related: Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results

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