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The New York Times – no paywall: “…How might A.I. change the way history is written and understood? To answer that question, it’s useful to think about L.L.M.s as merely the latest in a long series of shifts in the organizing of human knowledge. At least since the third century B.C., when Callimachus wrote his …
“Founded in June 2020, dontcallthepolice.com is an online directory of local resources available as alternatives to calling the police or 911. We know that involving law enforcement in situations that they are not best equipped to handle can cause more harm than good. These harms disproportionately impact communities of color and the populations most in …
YouTube: Donald Trump’s proposed FY 2026 budget for the National Park Service is nothing less than catastrophic. Among other measures, the budget proposes firing 5,500 more Park Rangers, reducing the agency’s budget by $1 billion, and selling off 350 of the Park System’s 433 Units. Defenders of Wildlife has called it an “extinction budget,” and …
Revolving Door Project – “While Elon Musk’s brainchild continues to rampage through our federal government, governors and state legislatures are creating their own DOGE-esque bodies. In some cases, these bodies have been set up by executive order, while others have been codified in the law by (primarily Republican) state legislators, and still others merely consist …
CRS Legal Sidebar: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is primarily responsible for immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States. ICE has considerable authority to arrest and detain aliens identified for removal. While DHS’s immigration enforcement priorities may change over time depending on the …
Reuters Institute – Digital News Report 2025. “The most comprehensive study of news consumption worldwide. This year’s report comes at a time of deep political and economic uncertainty, changing geo-political alliances, not to mention climate breakdown and continuing destructive conflicts around the world. Against that background, evidence-based and analytical journalism should be thriving, with newspapers …
AI In Finance and Banking, June 15, 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 are to …
404 Media – The federal government is working on a website and API called “ai.gov” to “accelerate government innovation with AI” that is supposed to launch on July 4 and will include an analytics feature that shows how much a specific government team is using AI, according to an early version of the website and …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 15, 202 – 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 complex and …
Washington Post via MSN – “The president reported making millions from cryptocurrency, his golf properties, foreign licensing deals and other sources. JD Vance also filed forms disclosing Bitcoin holdings. President Donald Trump reported over $600 million in income and $1.6 billion in assets in a public financial disclosure filed late Friday, including cryptocurrency holdings, income …
Daily Beast [no paywall] – “For reference, that’s between 1 and 2 percent of the total population of the United States. The “No Kings” protests in every state may have been the biggest day of demonstrations in American history, a data analyst has suggested. “Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event …
Ars Technica: “Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after years of search dominance, the company has lost a major antitrust case that could reshape both …
