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Follow up to Trump Using Another Executive Order to Take Revenge on Law Firms – See also The New York Times – “The Trump administration on Monday abandoned its attempts to impose potentially crippling executive orders against law firms that refused to capitulate to the president, walking away from its appeal of victories the firms …
ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view websites offline. “Without active preservation effort, everything on the internet eventually disappears or degrades. Archive.org does a great job as a centralized service, but saved URLs have to be public, and they can’t save every type of content. ArchiveBox is an open …
LifeHacker: “Facebook is clearly no longer the hot social media property it once was—younger generations are now far more likely to spend their time on TikTok, Snapchat, or Instagram—but there are still billions of people logging into the Facebook site and mobile apps each month. During its 20+ years of existence, Facebook has added a …
The Verge (Gift Article): How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance. “Across social media and the AI industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman’s claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to these red lines when it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so? …
$2.3B spent in a “slow” month. February is historically a slow month for government spending. Despite that, CBP and ICE pushed more than $2.3B in contracts, which is an unusually high burn rate that signals this spending surge is only beginning. ICE is exponentially increasing capacity. ICE’s big moves included nearly $900M in warehouse acquisitions …
The Atlantic – Gift Article – The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime. By Anne Applebaum …The Islamic Republic is a theocracy founded explicitly to oppose the deepest principles of liberal democracy and the rule of law. During its 47-year reign, this theocratic state underwent no meaningful political …
Washington Post [no paywall] – “An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national park sites…The database does not make clear which of the plaques, maps, films …
What is WorldMove? WorldMove is an open access worldwide human mobility dataset, we follow a generative AI-based approach to create a large-scale mobility dataset for cities worldwide. Our method leverages publicly available multi-source data, including population distribution, points of interest (POIs), and synthetic commuting origin-destination flow datasets, to generate realistic city-scale mobility trajectories. A global …
Via Reddit – J6 Timeline: “Hey all! I’m a J6 researcher that worked with SH and thinks that the misinformation presented in the White House’s J6 timeline is absolutely ridiculous. So in response, I made my own, much more accurate, J6 timeline as a standalone website.” j6times.com or j6timeline.com
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking – February 28, 2026 – 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 …
ICE Contracts Published on 2026-03-01 – Your Taxpayer Dollars Spent on the Following: Source: Department of Peace Countries: United States Download Size: 17.04 MB Download: Link Magnet: Link Torrent: Link This posting was done by anonymous person or persons: “Details on ICE contracts with over 6,000 different entities ranging from private businesses to government agencies …
“The Pentagon’s version of Claude could not be used to facilitate the mass surveillance of Americans, nor could it be used in fully autonomous weaponry—situations where computers, rather than humans, make the final decision about whom to kill. According to a source familiar with this week’s meeting, Hegseth made clear that if Anthropic did not …
