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“AI will replace all the jobs!” Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

SparkToro: “… Folks who claim AI will destroy the labor market have claimed this radical change is “only a few years away,” “on the immediate horizon,” or “imminent,” for the last 5 years, yet we’re at historically low unemployment (yes, even accounting for underemployment and the way the BLS counts employment). The US labor market …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management

The ROL100®

“The ROL100® is a unique ranking that captures the ReturnOnLeadership® of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500. ReturnOnLeadership® (ROL®) is a solution that gathers and measures thousands of data points that together reflect leadership value creation. Built to diminish risk and increase success, ROL® assesses and quantifies four fundamentals of leadership execution. The …

Subjects: Economy, Marketing

Firefly Atlas

“The Firefly Atlas is a collaborative effort to better understand and conserve the diversity of fireflies in North America. Launched in 2022, the project aims to advance our collective understanding of firefly species’ distributions, phenology, and habitat associations, as well as to identify threats to their populations. Although the Atlas tracks all species described from …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

How Ideology Upended the Rule Of Law and the Supreme Court

Rolling Stone no paywall – “Originalism, a framework with roots in the segregationist past and funded by right-wing oligarchs, helped lead to Donald Trump’s unconstitutional regime By Sean Wilentz, Sidney Blumenthal – June 1, 2025: “An obscure ideology most people have never heard of is dominating almost every aspect of American life. Nearly every important …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time?

The Economist no paywall: “The Economist consulted bibliophile data scientists to bring you the answer. precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short,” wrote Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher of the 19th century. People are living longer than they did in Schopenhauer’s day, but the number of books has …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

Warren Report: Special Interests over the Public Interest: Elon Musk’s 130 Days in the Trump Administration

“U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a new report entitled, “Special Interests over the Public Interest: Elon Musk’s 130 Days in the Trump Administration.” The report provides 130 examples of unethical or potentially corrupt actions that benefit Musk or his companies — one for each day of Musk’s service as a Special Government Employee.  While …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Securities Law, Social Media

A Deep Dive on Pardons

LawyerOyer: “Just four months into his presidency, Donald Trump has already used his pardon power expansively. On Day 1, he granted over 1,500 full pardons to Capitol rioters. He has since granted 58 more pardons and 12 commutations—that we know of. Everything about these pardons is unusual: the who, what, where, when, and how. To …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Prices

“The Federal Trade Commission’s initial findings from its surveillance pricing market study revealed that details like a person’s precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target individual consumers with different prices for the same goods and services. The staff perspective is based on an examination of documents obtained by FTC staff’s 6(b) …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Economy, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines