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The New York Times gift article: “…Ensnaring students is not a long-term solution to the challenge A.I. poses to the humanities. This summer, educators and administrators need to reckon with what generative A.I. is doing to the classroom and to human expression. We need a coherent approach grounded in understanding how the technology works, where …
ProPublica: This article is an excerpt from the book “On The Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America,” about climate migration in the U.S. For more, see abrahm.com -…As the U.S. gets hotter, its coastal waters rise higher, its wildfires burn larger and its droughts last longer, the notion that humankind can triumph …
The Independent: “Thousands of previously secret files on alleged police misconduct in California have now been made public through a searchable database. The Police Records Access Project database, painstakingly assembled over seven years by journalists, activists, and data scientists, went public on Monday with documents from more than 400 government agencies across the Golden State. …
Claire Berlinski – If data is the new oil, Elon Musk is the new Persian Gulf – “The list below is part of the second installment of The MechaHitler Reich. In a better world, it would be a sidebar to that newsletter—something you could glance at while you were reading it. But alas, this is not …
Repici, Luke, Learning by Doing: The Importance of Limited and Thoughtful Generative AI use in the 1L Legal Writing Classroom (July 07, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5354233 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5354233 – “Technological advances that impact lawyers day-to-day work are nothing new. From typewriters, dictaphones, and computers to electronic legal research, email, and e-discovery, new technologies have …
Daily Beast – …In a March 27 Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump claimed that under the Biden administration the parks “advanced this corrosive ideology.” National Park Service employees have been directed to weed out “corrosive ideology” from their gift shops…National Park Service employees have flagged several books …
Report outlines how Trump’s inaction has weakened U.S. leverage, enriched bad actors, and emboldened Putin to keep war going – Read the full report (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Ahead of President Trump’s latest self-imposed deadline for Russia to end its war against Ukraine, today, the minority staffs of the Senate Banking and Foreign Relations Committees—led by …
Drop Site: “Meta has scraped data from the most-trafficked domains on the internet —including news organizations, education platforms, niche forums, personal blogs, and even revenge porn sites—to train its artificial intelligence models, according to a leaked list obtained by Drop Site News. By scraping data from roughly 6 million unique websites, including 100,000 of the …
“The report Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration [see full text PDF] examines management of federal websites related to environmental regulation in the first six months of the second Trump administration. In this time, the Trump administration has significantly altered the federal environmental information landscape as information about environmental justice and climate …
“The historical tech tree is a project by Étienne Fortier-Dubois to visualize the entire history of technologies, inventions, and (some) discoveries, from prehistory to today. Unlike other visualizations of the sort, the tree emphasizes the connections between technologies: prerequisites, improvements, inspirations, and so on. These connections allow viewers to understand how technologies came about, at …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 9, 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 …
Wired – no paywall: “Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it. Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software …
