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A gift to myself and hopefully to many others, to being 2026 – “tv.garden is now Famelack! Same platform, same idea, and the same promise to bring you global TV. We changed our name because what we’re building is growing beyond TV. This is just the beginning. Stay tuned. Welcome to Famelack, your gateway to …
Reclaim the Records: “In New York we WON and freely published the New York State death index for 1880-2017. We helped to defeat a detrimental state vital records proposal that the state Department of Health had snuck into the budget, and we even supported new state legislation, our first time working in the statehouse instead …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, December 31, 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 …
As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance – WSJ Gift Article [Note – Trump is on the record with the WSJ even as he is suing them and owner Rupert Murdoch for a billion dollars, for libel.] “In an interview, the president says he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets …
Commentary, January 2026.: “How many times during the past month have you gone to the dictionary, or if not the dictionary then to your computer, to look up a word? I go to mine with some frequency. Here are some of the words within recent weeks I’ve felt the need to look up: “algolagnia,” “orthoepist,” …
Aaron Parnas: “The House Judiciary Committee on December 31, 2025 released the full deposition transcript [255 pages] of former Special Counsel Jack Smith, offering the most detailed public account yet of Smith’s rationale for prosecuting Donald Trump and rebutting Republican claims that the investigations were politically motivated. Smith sought to testify publicly, but his request …
Rocked by pandemic politics, the nation’s shield against infectious disease is shrinking. Washington Post – sub reqd. “Vaccination rates among kindergarten students have plunged across broad swaths of the United States since before the pandemic, exposing children and families to increasing health risks as many school districts pull back from their traditional role as a …
Thomson Reuters – Impact of AI on critical thinking – Challenges and opportunities for lawyers: “The increasing sophistication of AI, particularly “agentic AI,” presents both a risk of diminished critical thinking due to cognitive offloading and an opportunity to enhance critical thinking in the legal profession through intelligent design and application. The increasing sophistication of …
Via LLRX – 10 Tips for Prosperity and Profit in 2026 – Jerry Lawson advocates consulting more than one AI app when dealing with important issues. Multiple AI perspectives help with high-stakes questions, unsettled law, or anything involving tax regulations. When two models agree, you gain confidence. When they disagree, you gain a warning sign. Lawson …
Via LLRX – How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – AI has flooded the zone, overwhelming one on one human knowledge sharing. In this article Hana Lee Goldin returns the focus to the art of the reference interview. When someone has a research or information based request, librarians are trained to figure out …
Wes Silver’s Newsletter The Fish and Wildlife Service’s over-holiday review, and what it means for 850 million acres of public land and water – “Of all our public acres, it’s wildlife refuges that rely most on conservation rather than preservation. The system was conceived by the Boone and Crocket Club, an early advocate for what’s …
Via LLRX – Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Part I) – Stephen Embry and Melissa Rogo Rogozinski identify the multiple risk factors involved in the increasing usage of AI in the legal sector, including infrastructure gaps between chip capacity, demand for energy sources and building new data centers, as …
