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Scientific American CLIMATEWIRE: “Top Wall Street institutions are preparing for a severe future of global warming that blows past the temperature limits agreed to by more than 190 nations a decade ago, industry documents show. The big banks’ acknowledgment that the world is likely to fail at preventing warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius …
Andy @Revkin from Sustain What – “There’ve been heaps of warnings since the start of the final term of President Trump (“second term” implies too much flex on what might follow) about the short- and long-term damage to American welfare and security from the Doge-led demolition of funding for research and budgets of relevant agencies …
Daily Dot – Mikael Thalen: The other week, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, was accidentally added to a Signal group chat where everyone from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to Vice President JD Vance discussed an impending attack on Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Long story short, the administration responded to the unprecedented blunder by …
Wired [unpaywalled] – Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data…That de facto border crackdown is set to become far more explicit if the Trump administration follows through on a plan …
Marc Murphy from Murphy’s Law: “…an attorney can never help their client commit a crime. Most of an attorney’s work is after-the-fact, and, even then, a lawyer cannot promote perjury or use their clients’ lies in trial if they know them to be false. And, while a lawyer “may discuss the legal consequences of a …
Public Notice: The Supreme Court faces an existential dilemma of its own creation. “John Roberts and his fellow Republican Supreme Court justices not only paved the way for Donald Trump to retake the White House, but encouraged him to seize dictatorial powers upon his return. Now, the Trump Court’s rightwing ideologues appear poised to green …
TechDirt: “Imagine you had pretty much unlimited power over the government and wanted to save taxpayers’ money. You could: Carefully study government operations to understand what works and what doesn’t Make targeted improvements based on data and evidence Track results to ensure changes actually deliver savings Or you could do what Elon Musk did with …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, March 31, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided …
Krebs on Security: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” -U.S. Constitution, First Amendment. “In an address …
Foreign Affairs [unpaywalled] “Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere. The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency have accelerated a process of democratic erosion in the United States. In just two months, the president and his allies have issued executive orders of dubious constitutionality, violated the civil protections of federal workers, impinged …
Danielle Harlow using Tableau Public – “I can no longer be silent or “professional”. I have so few skills to fight the cancer of fascism that is spreading through the country but as a “data person” — inspired by the work of the BlueSky account USA Disappeared Tracker (https://lnkd.in/gmc8nFNr) — I created a dashboard to …
TV Garden: Watch Free Live TV from Around the World on tv.garden. Stream live news, sports, and entertainment—no subscription needed. Multiple channels are available for each country and users may easily switch channels within a country and move on to a long list of channels available from other countries quickly. Good for language skills, and …
