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Washington Post [no paywall] – “Joe Gebbia, an Elon Musk ally who also worked for DOGE, said navigating dot-gov websites should be just as easy as visiting the Apple Store. President Donald Trump’s new chief design officer says he wants to overhaul the interface of government websites to make them more beautiful and less complicated …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 23, 2025 – 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 …
TimeMap.org – “A new way to discover history Explore the past on an interactive map with a timeline. Search for detailed high-resolution scanned maps and see what happened in your chosen place in the past. Engage with the timeline – Dive into history with an interactive map and a dynamic timeline. Use the timeline to …
An Interview with the Data Rescue Project Steering Committee – “Federal data are an essential public good, enabling cutting-edge research and underpinning decision making by governments, businesses, and individuals. However, continued public access to these data is no longer assured as federal agencies have removed datasets from government websites. Librarians, archivists, and other information professionals …
Semafor – Global mail carriers suspended deliveries to the US in the face of uncertainty over new duties on low-cost packages. “US President Donald Trump last month ordered the end of the “de minimis” provision, which allowed goods valued under $800 to enter the US duty-free. The government closed the loophole for China and Hong …
The New York Times [no paywall] – “In his seven months back in office, President Trump has declared nine national emergencies, plus a “crime emergency” in Washington. Those emergency declarations have been used to justify hundreds of actions — including immigration measures, sweeping tariffs and energy deregulation — that would typically require congressional approval or …
Welcome to the OneZoom tree of life explorer… The Tree of Life shows how all life on Earth is related. In our interactive tree of life you can explore the relationships between 2,228,001 species and wonder at 105,498 images on a single zoomable page. Each leaf represents a different species, and the branches illustrate how …
Eryk Salvaggio, Cybernetic Forests: “Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching. You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. That you should know what to type into prompt windows, because it will save you time. That will get you jobs in the economy of …
Via LLRX – AI slop and the destruction of knowledge – Iris van Rooij is Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at the School of Artificial Intelligence in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on the computational foundations of cognitive science. Recently she was looking for information on what …
Lande, John, A Video Guide for Teaching Law Students to Use AI Wisely (August 21, 2025). University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-38, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5400065 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5400065 “This article introduces a video that provides practical guidance about using artificial intelligence (AI) in legal education. It presents a basic …
The Spacebar – “Ever since ChatGPT’s release in 2022, the tech industry has been in a frenzy to push generative AI anywhere and everywhere. It’s now in every corner of our lives, even outside of direct interactions with technology… but frequently in a negative context. Tech companies wanted “AI” to be the brand for innovation …
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government. The Lancet Volume 406, Issue 10500p227-228. July 19, 2025 – “A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in the dataset title and …
