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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse “With the end of the government shutdown, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has just posted new data on the results the Trump administration has achieved from its massive redeployment of government military and civilian personnel to immigration enforcement. The data show surprisingly little has been accomplished given the huge expenditure of …
This is a network analysis tool for exploring relationships between people, places, and events captured in the Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee. LLMs were used to extract these relationships from the raw document text, and as such, it is likely that there are some errors and omissions. Click on a relationship in …
WSJ vai MSN: “Remember when America Online CDs carpeted America and “You’ve got mail” felt like the future? The internet did transform work—but not the way 1998 thought. The surprises weren’t just CEOs in hoodies and legions of coders. They were barbers with booking links, nurses on telehealth, and delivery jobs by the hundreds of …
Follow up to The DOGE Has Arrived and The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers – see Reuters: “President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size but which …
Jeffrey Edmunds, TEDxPSU [YouTube] – “With the shift from books to ebooks, libraries have lost ownership of their collections. Knowledge is being privatized and monetized by multinational corporations. To correct this trend, we need to think of knowledge, especially the knowledge collectively funded and created at universities like Penn State, not as a private commodity, …
ALA Library Technology Guides – [November 21, 2025] the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The decision was issued in response to a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of 21 states. ALA President Sam Helmick …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 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 …
All Clear Sky Charts – “Created by the late Attilla Danko and maintained by CSCCharts, it’s the astronomers forecast. It shows at a glance when, in the next 96 hours, we might expect clear and dark skies for one specific observing site. There are many, but the example above is for Winer Observatory (the most sponsored …
Pagnini, F., Grosso, F., Cavalera, C. et al. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect [Full text available free]. npj Mental Health Res 4, 57 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44184-025-00171-5 Prosocial behavior, the act of helping others, is essential to social life, yet spontaneous environmental triggers for such behavior remain underexplored. This study tested whether an unexpected …
PHYS.org: “Charles Darwin’s Address Book is a small brown leather notebook, with “VISITS” and “ADDRESSES” printed on its spine and index-letter tabs in alternating black and red. The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has published for the first time: Charles Darwin’s personal Address Book. It offers an astonishingly personal glimpse …
Nurse.org – The U.S. Department of Education has officially excluded nursing in its recently revamped definition of “professional degree” programs. This change occurs as part of the implementation of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) and has nursing organizations nationwide raising alarms. Graduate nursing students will lose access to higher federal loan limits previously …
The Indicator: “Two platform updates this week gave me a rare feeling of hope about AI slop. On Wednesday, TikTok announced it would pilot new controls to let users filter how much AI-generated content they see on their For You feeds. The platform already allows users to dial up and down certain topics like current …