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ACLU: “Who controls what you can do on your mobile phone? What happens when your device can only run what the government decides is OK? We are dangerously close to this kind of totalitarian control, thanks to a combination of government overreach and technocratic infrastructure choices. Most Americans have a smartphone, and the average American …
Washington Post – The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles in the United States has surged amid neglect and lack of investment by transportation authorities… Look up all the pedestrian deaths in your city from 2021 to 2023. Between 2010 and 2023, yearly deaths caused by cars and trucks striking pedestrians rose 70 percent, an …
404 Media / no paywall: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently invited staff to demos of an app that lets officers instantly scan a license plate, adding it to a database of billions of records that shows where else that vehicle has been spotted around the country, according to internal agency material viewed by 404 …
Follow up to previous post – Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching – See Also 404 Media / no paywall: “The IRS accessed a database of hundreds of millions of travel records, which show when and where a specific person flew and the credit card they used, without …
Updated on November 20, 2025 – “The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed. We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.” Via Mark Graham, Director, Wayback Machine, Internet Archive, in response to a question by a leading government documents Librarian respective to …
Research shows that being called out by peers, not algorithms or experts, makes online authors think twice about spreading misinformation. “When the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) invited users to flag false or misleading posts, critics initially scoffed. How could the same public that spreads misinformation be trusted to correct it? But a recent …
Pew Research – Nearly two-thirds have high confidence in vaccine effectiveness, and about half trust their safety testing and schedule; Republican support for school vaccine requirements continues to slide. A majority of Americans (63%) are highly confident that childhood vaccines are effective at preventing serious illness. And majorities say these vaccines protect both vaccinated children …
CBS News – Epstein files bill will head to Trump’s desk after approval by House and Senate – What to know about the Epstein files bill: The Senate approved a House-passed bill that would require the Justice Department to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, effectively sending it to President Trump’s desk …
Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Law Libraries, October 13, 2025. Contributing authors: Cas Laskowski, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, Richard Buckingham, Suffolk University Law School, Moakley Law Library, Taryn Marks, Stanford Law School, Robert Crown Law Library Teresa Miguel-Stearns, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers …
“Today, we are introducing Google Scholar Labs, a new feature that explores how generative AI can transform the process of answering detailed scholarly research questions. Scholar Labs is powered by AI to act as an advanced research tool, helping you tackle questions that require looking at a subject from multiple angles. It analyzes your question …
Washington Post via MSN: The Education Department said Tuesday that it will move several of its offices to other federal departments, a unilateral effort aimed at dismantling an agency created by Congress to ensure equal access to educational opportunity but long derided by conservatives as ineffective. The department has signed interagency agreements to outsource six …
Ongoing History of Protest Music – “Since there has always been social injustice in the world, there have always been people protesting many social ills. In many instances, people express oppression through chants and songs. Notable examples include Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” (based on the Friedrich Schiller poem “Ode to Freedom”), which supported universal brotherhood …
