Day archives: October 9th, 2024

The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes

404 Media: “A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Moment of Truth

The Atlantic [unpaywalled] – “The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States. Today, America stands at such a moment. A vengeful and emotionally unstable former president—a convicted felon, an insurrectionist, an admirer of foreign dictators, a racist and a misogynist—desires to return to office …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Why the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling is untenable in a democracy

Washington Post – Opinion – Justices’ ruling in immunity case creates one legal standard for presidents and a different standard for citizens – Stephen S. Trott is a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He was appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan. “Under the Supreme Court’s recent …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

AALL-SIS White Paper on Continuing Status and Tenure of Law Librarians

Osborne, Caroline and Davidson, Stephanie and Haight, Iantha and Hirsch, Cindy and Lohmeier, Kerry and Quigley, Brian and Whytock, Jessica, AALL-SIS White Paper on Continuing Status and Tenure of Law Librarians (April 15, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4938369 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4938369. “This work provides information to members and prospective members of the law librarian profession on …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth

William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Jillian W Gregg, Johan Rockström, Michael E Mann, Naomi Oreskes, Timothy M Lenton, Stefan Rahmstorf, Thomas M Newsome, Chi Xu, Jens-Christian Svenning, Cássio Cardoso Pereira, Beverly E Law, Thomas W Crowther, The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth, BioScience, 2024;, biae087, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae087 “We are on …

Subjects: Climate Change, Health Care