What will climate feel like in 60 years?

“What will my city’s climate feel like in 60 years? Climate change has already begun to transform planet Earth, and over the next few decades these dramatic transformations are expected to accelerate in an ongoing response to greenhouse gas emissions. You may have already experienced these changes where you live and may be wondering: What …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

The Verge: “Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns

Wired no paywall – “A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than that of legitimate research. Over the last four centuries, an implicit contract has been established between scientists and …

Subjects: Copyright, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

The New York Times gift article: “…Ensnaring students is not a long-term solution to the challenge A.I. poses to the humanities. This summer, educators and administrators need to reckon with what generative A.I. is doing to the classroom and to human expression. We need a coherent approach grounded in understanding how the technology works, where …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Thousands of formerly secret files on police misconduct in CA made public through searchable database

The Independent: “Thousands of previously secret files on alleged police misconduct in California have now been made public through a searchable database. The Police Records Access Project database, painstakingly assembled over seven years by journalists, activists, and data scientists, went public on Monday with documents from more than 400 government agencies across the Golden State. …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Legal Research, Search Engines

The most valuable data in the world

Claire Berlinski – If data is the new oil, Elon Musk is the new Persian Gulf – “The list below is part of the second installment of The MechaHitler Reich. In a better world, it would be a sidebar to that newsletter—something you could glance at while you were reading it. But alas, this is not …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Learning by Doing: The Importance of Limited and Thoughtful Generative AI use in the 1L Legal Writing Classroom

Repici, Luke, Learning by Doing: The Importance of Limited and Thoughtful Generative AI use in the 1L Legal Writing Classroom (July 07, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5354233 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5354233  – “Technological advances that impact lawyers day-to-day work are nothing new. From typewriters, dictaphones, and computers to electronic legal research, email, and e-discovery, new technologies have …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

NPS Flags Book About George Washington in Trump Crackdown

Daily Beast – …In a March 27 Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump claimed that under the Biden administration the parks “advanced this corrosive ideology.” National Park Service employees have been directed to weed out “corrosive ideology” from their gift shops…National Park Service employees have flagged several books …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Freedom of Information, Legal Research, Libraries

New Investigative Report on Trump’s Failure to Use Sanctions and Export Controls to Help End Russia’s War in Ukraine

Report outlines how Trump’s inaction has weakened U.S. leverage, enriched bad actors, and emboldened Putin to keep war going – Read the full report (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Ahead of President Trump’s latest self-imposed deadline for Russia to end its war against Ukraine, today, the minority staffs of the Senate Banking and Foreign Relations Committees—led by …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Economy, Energy, Government Documents, Legal Research

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI

Drop Site: “Meta has scraped data from the most-trafficked domains on the internet —including news organizations, education platforms, niche forums, personal blogs, and even revenge porn sites—to train its artificial intelligence models, according to a leaked list obtained by Drop Site News. By scraping data from roughly 6 million unique websites, including 100,000 of the …

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

Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration

“The report Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration [see full text PDF] examines management of federal websites related to environmental regulation in the first six months of the second Trump administration. In this time, the Trump administration has significantly altered the federal environmental information landscape as information about environmental justice and climate …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation