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NeurologyLive: “Long COVID, also referred to as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), frequently presents with neurological symptoms collectively known as Neuro-PASC. A recent study published in Brain Communications analyzed the impact of prior vaccination on Neuro-PASC symptoms in 200 post-hospitalization (PNP) and 1100 nonhospitalized (NNP) patients treated at a neuro-COVID clinic between May 2020 …
404 Media – “Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government open data on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website’s own information. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database. As people in the Data Hoarding and archiving communities have pointed out, …
NPR: “Federal employee unions and attorneys are urging government workers not to accept an offer from the Trump administration to resign from their jobs by Feb. 6 and be paid through the end of September. “This ‘fork’ thing is not a buyout,” said Jim Eisenmann, a partner with Alden Law Group who represents federal employees, …
“The Trump Administration’s executive orders cut across dozens of industries. This searchable tool breaks down the orders and their impact. Akin will update the Tracker as orders are published and provide in-depth analysis of specific orders. Visit Akin’s Trump Executive Order Overview to view a summary. Use the menu below to filter by topic. Subscribe …
The Atlantic: “The site has become a reservoir of humanity on the web. Now it, too, is turning to AI. The internet is growing more hostile to humans. Google results are stuffed with search-optimized spam, unhelpful advertisements, and AI slop. Amazon has become littered with undifferentiated junk. The state of social media, meanwhile—fractured, disorienting, and …
TechSpot: “The US Copyright Agency is publishing a series of reports about the relationship between copyright and AI. Despite the complexity of the issue, the organization has already said that AI-based works with no human intervention cannot enjoy copyright protection at all. Movies and other complex works created through AI means cannot be copyrighted, except …
GeekWire – “The company that Jeff Bezos founded has gone to court to keep the newspaper he owns from finding out too much about the inner workings of its business. Amazon is suing Washington state to limit the release of public records to The Washington Post from a series of state Department of Labor and …
Know Your Rights – “Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.” This resource is available in multiple languages, may be printed by each subject matter section, or as an entire resource document.
PC World: “Since 2016, Microsoft Word users have had access to Smart Lookup, a nifty feature that lets you right-click on a word or phrase and bring up definitions, synonyms, and relevant links to sites like Wikipedia. Now, however, Windows Latest reports that Microsoft has decided to retire the Smart Lookup feature. If you check …
Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress | Congress.gov | Library of Congress – Search by your zipcode or address and the results will include the Members, name, website, address, telephone number, party affiliation, length of service, bio, contact information, and bill history associated with the member’s actions.
ProPublica – “ProPublica and Documented obtained more than 14 hours of never-before-published videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, which are intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda created by the Heritage Foundation and its allies for a future …
MakeUseOf: “I’ve owned an iPhone since 2019, but there’s one Apple feature I still haven’t bought into: iCloud.Limited Free iCloud Storage Plenty of On-Device Storage I Use My Mac for Backups I Already Pay for Google One iCloud Locks You Into Apple’s Ecosystem