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Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab: “We are excited to announce today that the Library Innovation Lab has expanded our Public Data Project beyond datasets available through Data.gov to include 710 TB of data from the Smithsonian Institution — the complete open access portion of the Smithsonian’s collections. This marks an important step in our …
FactCheck.org: “Since the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, social media users have shared posts showing, quoting or paraphrasing remarks the posts attribute to the conservative activist. Many readers have asked us to provide the facts on whether Kirk, the founder of the youth political group Turning Point USA, made several of these …
EFF: “This is the first installment in a blog series documenting EFF’s findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. We’ve been hearing that social media platforms are censoring abortion-related content, even when no law requires them to do so. Now, we’ve got the receipts. For months, EFF has been investigating …
legalbenchmarks.ai – Preliminary Findings, September 2025 – Full Report: “Executive Summary – Many legal teams today face an undeniable challenge: how to deliver more with less. Contract drafting, a cornerstone of legal value, remains one of the most time-intensive parts of legal work, and lawyers have already turned to AI to extend their capacity. Our …
Music Minds Massive Attack deploys real-time facial recognition scanning audiences during live performances Band transforms surveillance discomfort into deliberate artistic commentary about digital tracking Performance sparks debate over consent requirements for biometric data in entertainment “Facial recognition creeps deeper into daily life while Massive Attack transforms that discomfort into performance art. The pioneering trip-hop collective …
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 …
Reuters: “TikTok’s U.S. operations would be controlled by an investor consortium including Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz, under a framework the U.S. and China are finalizing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. A new company will be created to operate TikTok, with U.S. investors holding a roughly …
404 Media: no paywall: “The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there …
Fernandez, Ben, Legal Writing I & II: Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice, 172 pages. (2d ed.) (August 11, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5387465 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5387465 Legal Writing I & II; Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice contains a brief discussion of all of the topics covered in law …
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 …
404 Media no paywall: “A data broker owned by major U.S. airlines is selling masses of customers’ travel data to the government. New documents we just got show this includes “5 billion ticketing records for searching capabilities.” Where people went, how they paid, and even where they plan to go in the future are all …
The New York Times – [no paywall]: “…Most of this material — gathered by social media analysis, drone surveillance and more — will never be reviewed by any court and will be entirely inaccessible to anyone outside of law enforcement. For almost 90 percent of the technologies it deploys, the department has stated that it …
