Monthly archives: August, 2025

Learning by Doing: The Importance of Limited and Thoughtful Generative AI use in the 1L Legal Writing Classroom

Repici, Luke, Learning by Doing: The Importance of Limited and Thoughtful Generative AI use in the 1L Legal Writing Classroom (July 07, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5354233 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5354233  – “Technological advances that impact lawyers day-to-day work are nothing new. From typewriters, dictaphones, and computers to electronic legal research, email, and e-discovery, new technologies have …

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

NPS Flags Book About George Washington in Trump Crackdown

Daily Beast – …In a March 27 Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump claimed that under the Biden administration the parks “advanced this corrosive ideology.” National Park Service employees have been directed to weed out “corrosive ideology” from their gift shops…National Park Service employees have flagged several books …

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Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Freedom of Information, Legal Research, Libraries

New Investigative Report on Trump’s Failure to Use Sanctions and Export Controls to Help End Russia’s War in Ukraine

Report outlines how Trump’s inaction has weakened U.S. leverage, enriched bad actors, and emboldened Putin to keep war going – Read the full report (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Ahead of President Trump’s latest self-imposed deadline for Russia to end its war against Ukraine, today, the minority staffs of the Senate Banking and Foreign Relations Committees—led by …

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Economy, Energy, Government Documents, Legal Research

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI

Drop Site: “Meta has scraped data from the most-trafficked domains on the internet —including news organizations, education platforms, niche forums, personal blogs, and even revenge porn sites—to train its artificial intelligence models, according to a leaked list obtained by Drop Site News. By scraping data from roughly 6 million unique websites, including 100,000 of the …

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Subjects: AI, Copyright, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration

“The report Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration [see full text PDF] examines management of federal websites related to environmental regulation in the first six months of the second Trump administration. In this time, the Trump administration has significantly altered the federal environmental information landscape as information about environmental justice and climate …

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Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Historical tech tree

“The historical tech tree is a project by Étienne Fortier-Dubois to visualize the entire history of technologies, inventions, and (some) discoveries, from prehistory to today. Unlike other visualizations of the sort, the tree emphasizes the connections between technologies: prerequisites, improvements, inspirations, and so on. These connections allow viewers to understand how technologies came about, at …

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Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 9, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 9, 2025. Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

What Does Palantir Actually Do?

Wired – no paywall: “Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it. Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software …

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Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

AlphaEarth Foundations helps map our planet in unprecedented detail

Google DeepMind: “New AI model integrates petabytes of Earth observation data to generate a unified data representation that revolutionizes global mapping and monitoring. Every day, satellites capture information-rich images and measurements, providing scientists and experts with a nearly real-time view of our planet. While this data has been incredibly impactful, its complexity, multimodality and refresh …

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Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

The struggle over AI in journalism is escalating

Blood in the Machine: “…This week, we’ll dive into a subject close to home: Working journalists’ escalating struggles with AI, through the lens of one major newsroom’s efforts to stop media executives from unleashing AI indiscriminately on its editorial operations. Plus, a new bill proposed in New York might actually have the teeth necessary to …

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Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

He’s Saving 20,000 Tapes of Underground Music and Making it Free to All

KQED – “In a suburban backyard outside of Sacramento, I open the door to a giant shed, step inside and get smacked in the face by floor-to-ceiling shelves of music history. VHS tapes. Cassette tapes. Reel-to-reels. DATs. Other formats I don’t recognize, and can’t pronounce. Nearly 20,000 of them, all filled with live shows, demo …

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Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines
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