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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 …
Washington Post: “Of late, I have found myself gravitating toward science fiction franchises that imagine not advanced technology or seamlessly integrated AI, but something even more improbable and futuristic: a world free from the distractions and degradations of the internet. It may seem perverse to seek solace in “Dune” and “Battlestar Galactica,” fictions about societies …
Libraries of matter – “Libraries contain books, yes. But they also contain latex rubber, carbon fiber fabrics, and graphene aerogel. And in some materials libraries you can cut, cast, drill, sand, scrape, and sculpt too. Browsing the aisles at Material Connexion’s Manhattan headquarters can be overwhelming. The displays hold plaques exhibiting a seemingly random assortment …
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 …
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 …
“A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused greenhouse gases is beyond scientific dispute. The report focuses on evidence gathered by the scientific community since 2009, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that greenhouse …
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 …
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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 …