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Falling Fruit – Map the Urban Harvest

“Falling Fruit is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets. By quantifying this resource on an interactive map, we hope to facilitate intimate connections between people, food, and the natural organisms growing in our neighborhoods. Not just a free lunch! Foraging in the 21st century is an opportunity for urban exploration, …

Subjects: Food and Nutrition

New Attack Impacts Major AI Chatbots

Wired: “ChatGPT and its artificially intelligent siblings have been tweaked over and over to prevent troublemakers from getting them to spit out undesirable messages such as hate speech, personal information, or step-by-step instructions for building an improvised bomb. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University last week showed that adding a simple incantation to a prompt—a …

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

How governments are looking to regulate AI

Economist Intelligence – EIU: The EU has taken the lead with the strictest rules, which will have the biggest impact globally Chinese rules are also strict, but their impact is domestic, and geared towards keeping control and power with the ruling party The US favours innovation, and its political system hinders any attempt at regulation, …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Congress, Economy, EU Data Protection, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Global Climate Shift Index

“The Global Climate Shift Index™ is a tool that quantifies the local influence of climate change on daily temperatures around the world. Climate Central is an independent group of scientists and communicators who research and report the facts about our changing climate and how it affects people’s lives. We are a policy-neutral 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Climate …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management

Federal grand jury indicts Trump on four counts

Link to text of criminal indictment filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 08/01/23 in case number 1:23-cr-00257-TSC, includes for co-conspirators (news reports identify them as Rudy Giuliani; John Eastman; Syndey Powell; Jeffrey Clark, Kenneth Chesebro, and yet unknown.)…. “From on or about November 14, 2020, through on or about …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Andi Search launches new semantic content engine

“AI. Chat. Search. Search for the next generation with an AI chat assistant. Andi is an AI search chatbot that’s accurate, ad-free and privacy-focused. It uses a new type of search engine powered by generative AI combined with live data and semantic search technology. Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers – like chatting …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines

Holding Trump Accountable Has Not Threatened American Democracy

Source – Polarization Research Lab – Holding Trump Accountable Has Not Threatened American Democracy PhysOrg: “With a Fulton County indictment of former President Donald Trump possible at any time, law enforcement in Atlanta is bracing for potential violence, with orange barricades restricting access to the entrance of the county courthouse. With the anticipation of each …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Free Speech, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

Clothed in chemicals: A new book sheds light on the toxic substances we wear daily

Grist, Joseph Winters – A Q&A on the fashion industry’s toxic chemicals problem — and how we can protect ourselves. “Modern clothing is a technological marvel — it’s brighter than ever, more flame-resistant, more water-repellent. It’s also often toxic. The properties we’ve come to know and expect stem from fossil fuel-derived chemicals that, according to …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Government Documents

The rediscovery of Hokusai’s drawings of ‘everything’

The British Museum: “In 2020, the British Museum acquired 103 drawings by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) titled The Great Picture Book of Everything.  The existence of these exquisite small drawings had been forgotten. Last publically recorded at a Parisian auction in 1948, they are said to have been in a private collection in France …

Subjects: Education

Record-breaking heat: visualizing the effects of the climate crisis

Flourish: “We explored rising temperatures and their impact through interactive data visualizations.Summer has only just started and the world’s warmest day since records began was hit last week, the UK has recorded the hottest June in history, several countries in Asia saw some of the highest temperatures to date and wildfires are raging across Canada. …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Environmental Law, Health Care

Justice in a Generative AI World

Grossman, Maura and Grimm, Paul and Brown, Dan and Xu, Molly, The GPTJudge: Justice in a Generative AI World (May 23, 2023). Duke Law & Technology Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2023, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-30, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4460184 “Generative AI (“GenAI”) systems such as ChatGPT recently …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research