Monthly archives: November, 2025

Corners of the Internet Database

Curated by Matthew Prebeg. Corners of the Internet Database – “I put together this spreadsheet as a living resource for websites and digital places that reignite feelings of joy, excitement and curiosity while exploring the internet. Somewhere along the road, corporations and recommendation algorithms made the internet feel loud and unescapable. I like to think …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Final Schedule F regulations to describe civil service protections as ‘unconstitutional overcorrections

Follow up to previous post – Proposed Rule on Schedule F Politicizes Career Employee Jobs – See also Government Executive: “OPM officials told agency HR leaders [November 18, 2025] that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to policy.” Draft final …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Major insurers move to avoid liability for AI lawsuits as multi-billion dollar risks emerge

Tom’s Hardware: “Major insurers are moving to ring-fence their exposure to artificial intelligence failures, after a run of costly and highly public incidents pushed concerns about systemic, correlated losses to the top of the industry’s risk models. According to the Financial Times, AIG, WR Berkley, and Great American have each sought regulatory clearance for new …

Subjects: AI, Climate Change, Economy, Environmental Law, Legal Research

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls

Daily Beast: “Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. The new “About This Account” feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Results from Redeployment of Military and Civilian Personnel to Immigration Enforcement

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse “With the end of the government shutdown, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has just posted new data on the results the Trump administration has achieved from its massive redeployment of government military and civilian personnel to immigration enforcement. The data show surprisingly little has been accomplished given the huge expenditure of …

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

Welcome to the Epstein Document Network Explorer

This is a network analysis tool for exploring relationships between people, places, and events captured in the Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee. LLMs were used to extract these relationships from the raw document text, and as such, it is likely that there are some errors and omissions. Click on a relationship in …

Subjects: AI, Congress, E-Mail, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How the Internet Rewired Work and What That Tells Us About AI’s Likely Impact

WSJ vai MSN: “Remember when America Online CDs carpeted America and “You’ve got mail” felt like the future? The internet did transform work—but not the way 1998 thought. The surprises weren’t just CEOs in hoodies and legions of coders. They were barbers with booking links, nurses on telehealth, and delivery jobs by the hundreds of …

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

DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ – with eight months left on its charter

Follow up to The DOGE Has Arrived and The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers – see Reuters: “President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size but which …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Government, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Why is knowledge getting so expensive?

Jeffrey Edmunds, TEDxPSU [YouTube] – “With the shift from books to ebooks, libraries have lost ownership of their collections. Knowledge is being privatized and monetized by multinational corporations. To correct this trend, we need to think of knowledge, especially the knowledge collectively funded and created at universities like Penn State, not as a private commodity, …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s libraries

ALA Library Technology Guides – [November 21, 2025] the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The decision was issued in response to a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of 21 states. ALA President Sam Helmick …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, Education, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 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 increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Privacy, Social Media