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Association between COVID-19 vaccination and coronary heart disease

Association between COVID-19 vaccination and coronary heart disease [abstract only]: Based on 2023 National Health Interview Survey data. Frontiers Public Health. Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention. Volume 13 – 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1641156. Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) represents a critical cardiovascular ailment necessitating thorough investigation. This research endeavors to explore the potential link …

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine

How AI Is Changing Not ‘Killing’ College

Inside Higher Ed – “Key findings from Inside Higher Ed’s student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn’t diminished the value of college in their view, but it could affect their critical thinking skills. Faculty and administrators’ opinions about generative artificial intelligence abound. But students—path breakers in their own right in …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management

Reclaim the Records – Fax FOIA Requests for Veterans Administration Records

Reclaim The Records. “Today we’re simultaneously announcing a big new free database update, about 1.5 million new names and more basic biographical information about deceased American veterans from the 2020-2023 period! It’s the first public update to our big BIRLS database, a dataset that we originally released late last year, bringing the new grand total …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

The Register: “With AI’s rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major content delivery network (CDN) force, 30% of global web traffic now comes from bots. …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Hundreds of new Lincoln images available online

“The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has added nearly 500 images to its online collection of high-resolution Lincoln pictures, including photos of Lincoln’s assassin, the nation grieving Lincoln’s death and the places he lived throughout his life. The ALPLM’s “Picturing Lincoln” collection now offers 1,485 photos, illustrations and cartoons related to America’s 16th president. …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents

If You Give an LLM a Legal Practice Guide

Doyle, Colin and Tucker, Aaron, If You Give an LLM a Legal Practice Guide (November 22, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5030676 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5030676 Large language models struggle to answer legal questions that require applying detailed, jurisdiction-specific legal rules. Lawyers also find these types of question difficult to answer. For help, lawyers turn to legal practice …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

The authoritarian checklist

Can We Still Govern – Don Monyihan: “It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy. There is so much happening that occasionally pausing to take stock is necessary. So where are we? In deep trouble. America may not be fully authoritarian, but by no means can we consider it to …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Defense, Economy, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Qualifications for COVID19 shot under new CDC rules

Jen Bendery – @jbendery.bsky.social – Hang onto this image of CDC’s full list of underlying conditions tied to severe risk of COVID. If you’re an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine

NASA Heat Product Guide

“This practical guide introduces NASA satellite-derived surface temperature datasets that can aid local communities in assessing heat impacts at the state and local scales. Following a brief introduction to several sources of satellite data, reliability and appropriate uses of the data are addressed. For heat assessments, land use change and in situ data are also …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care

Trusted news sites may benefit in an internet full of AI-generated fakes, a new study finds

NeimanLab: “An economics paper found subscriber retention and daily visits both increased after readers were confronted with a difficult quiz with AI-generated images. Fake books. Made-up sources. Bogus trampoline bunnies. We’re all getting a lot of AI-generated content in our feeds these days. But a new working paper suggests there’s a silver lining for trusted …

Subjects: AI, Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests

The Guardian: “A ChatGPT model gave researchers detailed instructions on how to bomb a sports venue – including weak points at specific arenas, explosives recipes and advice on covering tracks – according to safety testing carried out this summer. OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 also detailed how to weaponise anthrax and how to make two types of illegal …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, Internet, Search Engines

100 Mile Border Zone

ACLU – Know your rights – The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless stops within 100 miles of the U.S. border, important Fourth Amendment protections still apply. Select a scenario: Are immigration officials allowed …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

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