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Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 20, 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 …
Data is Beautiful “ Monthly U.S. data, 1970–2025. Shaded squares show the 10th–90th percentile range of outcomes for that chair. What stands out: Burns = no bueno – Miller tenure was super short hence the thin rectangle. Volcker’s wide range—started with double-digit inflation, then brought it down. Greenspan’s long tenure clusters unemployment near 5–6%. Bernanke …
BuzzFeed: “How many alcoholic drinks do you have in an entire week? Five, seven, 10? More? If you have one drink a day, your health could be impacted ― but the powers that be aren’t doing much to make that fact known. Earlier this month, Vox reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department …
The Journalist’s Resource, Zoom Meeting – Vanishing Numbers: How Federal Data Manipulation and Removal Threaten Journalism and Public Trust Oct 1, 2025 12:00 PM [h/t Barclay Walsh] “Federal datasets are one of the pillars of democracy. They underpin everything from health research and economic forecasting to climate science, disaster response, and watchdog journalism. Yet today, these …
Follow up to Large Language Muddle It’s OK to be a Luddite! – See Also Neomam Studios: Why Our Small Business Chooses Human Intelligence Over AI: “…The rampant use of generative AI tools to automate our jobs has driven prices down to the ground and is flooding the web with subpar content that nobody cares enough to …
404 Media; [no paywall] “Some international sellers on large platforms like eBay and Etsy have jacked up their shipping costs to the United States to absurd prices in order to deter Americans from buying their products in an effort to avoid dealing with the logistical headaches of Trump’s tariffs. A Japanese eBay seller increased the …
“The Washington Post has created a visualization using Bureau of Labor Statistics data to show how salaries vary within and across U.S. occupations. Each cluster of circles represents a job category, such as healthcare practitioners, with positions within that role, such as pharmacy technicians and registered nurses, sized by number of workers and spread vertically …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, September 15, 2025 – 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 provided …
Apollo Academy: “The US Census Bureau conducts a biweekly survey of 1.2 million firms, and one question is whether a business has used AI tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents or voice recognition to help produce goods or services in the past two weeks. Recent data by firm size shows that …
DeSmog – “As scrutiny of Project 2025 continues to grow, defenders of the Heritage Foundation-led initiative, which would reshape federal governance and give the next Republican president unprecedented new powers, say it’s the criticism — not the 922-page plan itself — that’s too extreme. In a piece published last month, Fox News cited prominent conservatives who …
ProPublica: “…The shock troops of DOGE, at the Social Security Administration and myriad other federal agencies, were the advance guard in perhaps the most dramatic transformation of the U.S. government since the New Deal. And despite the highly public departure of DOGE’s leader, Elon Musk, that campaign continues today. Key DOGE team members have transitioned …
Government Executive – “Federal agencies have deployed nearly 33,000 employees to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement in its efforts to dramatically ramp up detention and deportation of undocumented individuals, according to a new report, significantly multiplying the number of employees working on enforcement efforts. About 20,000 of those employees came from outside ICE, the Cato …
