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NPR: “In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board. The small, independent federal agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices. It stores reams of potentially sensitive data, from confidential …
Fast Company: “…Reddit recently launched its own interactive search system for finding worthwhile info across the site. It’s called Reddit Answers. And I’ve legitimately been blown away by how useful and effective of a resource it can be. You’ll only need about 20 seconds to see what it can do. Just open up the Reddit …
AI in Banking and Finance, April 15, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacific highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are …
The New York Times [no paywall] “The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more. At the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration officials want to reverse a regulation that has required nursing homes to have more medical staff on duty. …
Thinking About, Timothy Synder: “Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has …
Grist: “The Trump administration is poised to begin offloading public land, achieving a long-held conservative goal of reducing the government’s footprint in the West. Federal agencies manage around 640 million acres, or about 28 percent of the nation’s land, an invaluable resource Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has called “America’s balance sheet.” His membership in a …
BoingBoing – “Boing Boing’s publisher Jason Weisberger recently jailbroke his Amazon Kindle because he doesn’t like being told what he can and can’t do with the hardware he owns. I feel the same way. But I feel even saltier about companies ‘selling me‘ digital content and then f****** with that purchase. Sure, sometimes changes to …
iSeeCars.com: “Buying a used car can be a stressful process, with questions about everything from a car’s accident history to its maintenance and care. If you’re buying a new vehicle from a dealership, you can be pretty confident it’s not a stolen car or one that has suffered a total loss from flood or accident …
Ars Technica is doing a three-part series on the history of the internet; here’s part one, which covers ARPANET, IMPs, TCP/IP, RFCs, DNS, CompuServe, etc. “It was the first time that autocomplete had ruined someone’s day. ”In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was …
Democracy Docket: “One of the most alarming developments in the second Trump administration is agencies’ apparent defiance of court orders barring them from implementing illegal executive orders. As agencies including the State Department have ignored, evaded or slow-walked judicial decrees, courts have issued increasingly stronger warnings that compliance with their orders is not optional, and …
CRS Report – Legal Authority for the President to Impose Tariffs Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). April 7, 2025. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA, 50 U.S.C. §§ 1701 et seq.) gives the President broad authorities to address declared emergencies concerning certain “unusual and extraordinary” threats to national security, foreign policy, …
Waldon, Brandon and Schneider, Nathan and Wilcox, Ethan and Zeldes, Amir and Tobia, Kevin, Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don’t Take Their Word for It (February 03, 2025). Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 114 (forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5123124 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5123124 “Recent breakthroughs in statistical language modeling have impacted countless domains, including the law. Chatbot …