Day archives: October 8th, 2025

Wikipedia: Signs of AI writing

Wikipedia: “This is a list of writing and formatting conventions typical of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, with real examples taken from Wikipedia articles and drafts. It is meant to act as a field guide to help detect undisclosed AI-generated content on Wikipedia. This list is descriptive, not prescriptive; it consists of observations, not rules. …

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

BirdCast

Migration Dashboard. Explore nightly migration data in your region. Search regions. This dashboard provides summaries of radar-based measurements of nocturnal bird migration for the contiguous United States, including estimates for the total number of birds migrating as well as their directions, speeds, and altitudes. Watch migration patterns in near real time or see a summary …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

How much better is signal compared to iMessage?

Reddit: “Question – I’m new to the whole taking private seriously thing, so feel free to explain it like I’m 5. I know that’s Signal seem to gold standard for private secure messaging. But how wide is the gap between it and iMessage? What are the key differences? Also this is purely for my knowledge …

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

Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It.

The New York Times Gift Article – “In an escalating cat-and-mouse game, job hunters are trying to fool A.I. into moving their applications to the top of the pile with embedded instructions…As companies increasingly turn to A.I. to sift through thousands of job applications, candidates are concealing instructions for chatbots within their résumés in hopes …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

The Art of AI Prompting in Law and Dispute Resolution Practice

Lande, John, The Art of AI Prompting in Law and Dispute Resolution Practice (September 29, 2025). University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-46, 43 Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation (forthcoming November 2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5544018 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5544018 This short article offers a practical guide for using AI …

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

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

The New York Times Gift Article: “Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse. Over the course of a nearly four-decade career, Cory Doctorow has written 15 novels, four graphic novels, dozens of short stories, six nonfiction books, approximately 60,000 blog posts and …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Threats to the sustainability of Community Notes on X

arXiv: Threats to the sustainability of Community Notes on X. Zahra Arjmandi-Lari, Alexios Mantzarlis, Tom Stafford. October 1, 2025: “Community Notes are emerging as an important option for content moderation. The Community Notes system pioneered by Twitter, now known as X, uses a bridging algorithm to identify user-generated context with upvotes across political divides, supposedly …

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

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard

Inside Climate News: “The National Guard logged more than 400,000 member service days per year over the past decade responding to hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters, the Pentagon has revealed in a report to Congress. The numbers mean that on any given day, 1,100 National Guard troops on average have been deployed on disaster …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Defense, Economy, Environmental Law

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

404 Media: “Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media