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Wes Silver’s Newsletter The Fish and Wildlife Service’s over-holiday review, and what it means for 850 million acres of public land and water – “Of all our public acres, it’s wildlife refuges that rely most on conservation rather than preservation. The system was conceived by the Boone and Crocket Club, an early advocate for what’s …
Via LLRX – Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Part I) – Stephen Embry and Melissa Rogo Rogozinski identify the multiple risk factors involved in the increasing usage of AI in the legal sector, including infrastructure gaps between chip capacity, demand for energy sources and building new data centers, as …
Pic Detective – Reverse Image Search – Upload any photo to find its original source, discover who else is using it, or locate higher resolution versions. Free, fast, and no account needed. Pic Detective is powered by advanced visual recognition technology that goes beyond simple pixel matching. When you upload an image, our system analyzes …
JournalistsTookBox.AI: “2025 will be remembered as a year newsrooms really began to embrace AI tools and find innovative ways to implement them into their workflow. I’ve featured dozens of examples of award-winning AI projects on the Journalist’s Toolbox cool examples page. The year will also be remembered for Google’s surge ahead of OpenAI in the AI …
The New Republic: “Looking to turn a quick profit, the firms buy medical facilities and then unload them just a few years later, often leaving devastation in their wake…For roughly the past 20 years, private equity firms have been on a buying spree of health care businesses, like hospitals, surgical centers, physician practices, nursing homes, …
Reframing misinformation as informational-systemic risk in the age of societal volatility – Misinformation Review, December 22, 2025, Nuurrianti Jalli – “When a bank run, a pandemic, or an election spirals out of control, the spark is often informational. In 2023, rumors online helped accelerate the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. During COVID-19, false claims about vaccines …
Der Spiegel Guest Editorial by Eva Berendsen – political scientist and head of the communication and online education department at the Anne Frank Educational Center in Frankfurt. She has written extensively about the effects of social media on memory an artificial intelligence’s influence on racism and anti-Semitism. “Imagine for a moment your 13‑year‑old child stumbling across …
Democracy Docket – “The United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a rule on postmarks to reflect changes in its mail pickup processes that could cause an uptick in blown deadlines for documents sent by post, including mail-in ballots…By the time the overhaul is finished, it’ll affect pick-ups at roughly 24,000 of the country’s 33,700 post …
Bloomberg Law [no paywall]: “When a federal judge asked California solo practitioner William Becker Jr. to explain why a motion seemed to be riddled with AI-hallucinated citations, he knew what he needed to do. Becker, representing a defendant in a case involving former NFL punter Chris Kluwe, informed the judge that he’d taken “affirmative steps” …
Washington Post [no paywall] – A clickable guide to the complicated privacy settings for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Meta AI. ChatGPT has been pushing its own year-end review like Spotify Wrapped. “Your year with ChatGPT” describes what you asked the bot in poems and pictures. It also reveals a giant hole in your privacy. …
The New Republic: “At her confirmation hearing in January, Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to reassure senators about the job she would do as the nation’s top federal law-enforcement officer. Her “overriding objective,” Bondi said, would be to “return the Department of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously enforcing the …
ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence Addressing the Legal Challenges of AI Year 2 Report on the Impact of AI on the Practice of Law, December 2025. This report focuses on the future of AI and the law. One of the most high-profile and transformative developments of our time, complex and multi-faceted AI …
