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New York Times Magazine (Gift Article): The View From Inside Trump’s D.H.S. “Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration…The government’s own records complicate that picture. Only about 5 percent of people booked into ICE custody in the last year …
E-Discovery LLC: “Hallucinations” by West and Lexis AI? A Cautionary Study and Cautions About the Study, Michael Berman – This post is a follow up to “Hallucinations” by West’s CoCounsel? (Apr. 7, 2026). In U.S. v. Farris, __ F. 4th __, 2026 WL 915082, at *1 (6th Cir. Apr. 3, 2026) (per curiam), the court found errors in …
Follow up to Capitol Riot Insurrectionists Networks and The Capitol Riot: Documents You Should Read (3 part posting) – Note – Trump last year commuted the prison sentences of 12 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. See this update: CBS News – including seditious conspiracy charges: “The Justice Department on Tuesday [April 14, 2026] …
“Your photos reveal a lot of private information. In this experiment, we use the Google Vision API to see how much can be inferred about you from a single photo. See what they see…”
The Handbasket:” Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did ‘just abortions,’ asked for ‘Barney-style’ slides before gutting agency, per new book. One of the first acts by the second Trump administration was the complete gutting of the US Agency for International Development, a workforce of more than 10,000 people that had administered humanitarian aid and …
“Released in February 2026 as a product of the C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice, the white paper “Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action for the LAMs Community” advocates for libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) to take proactive and pragmatic steps to ensure that digital collections content, especially content …
Jason Leopold, Bloomberg – “Welcome back to another edition of FOIA Files. I thought it was a cruel April Fool’s joke when on April 1, the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel publicly released a bombshell 52-page opinion. It said that the Presidential Records Act is “unconstitutional” and that President Donald Trump “need not …
“AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced. – At Stanford HAI, we believe AI is poised to be the most transformative technology of the 21st century. But its benefits won’t be evenly distributed unless we guide its development thoughtfully. The AI Index offers one of the most comprehensive, data-driven views of artificial intelligence. …
The Guardian: “The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, …
Below the Fold: “I used New York Times API/archive data to build an explorer of the paper’s coverage over the last 25+ years: 1.5 billion words across 2.2 million articles by about 26,000 reporters. You can use it to look at: which reporters covered which beats who shared bylines with whom article frequency and length …
Phiresky: “Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries do – collect and share as many books as possible. One shadow library, Anna’s …
FT.com – no paywall: “Meta is building an artificial intelligence version of Mark Zuckerberg that can engage with employees in his stead, as part of a broader push to remake the Big Tech company around AI. The $1.6tn group has been working on developing photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters that users can interact with in real …
