Violent crime plummets in “Democrat run cities” blasted by Trump

Popular Information: “Since his return to the White House, President Trump has repeatedly claimed that major cities across the United States are overrun with crime. Trump has specifically targeted cities run by Democrats, calling them “unsafe” and “crime-ridden.” “The ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they’ve done to San Francisco, Chicago, …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet

The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet. Jonas Dolezal, Sawood Alam, Mark Graham, Maty Bohacek: The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative developments. We find that by mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites …

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

The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On.

The Existentialist Republic – “Over sixteen years of federal financial disclosure forms, Chief Justice John Roberts mischaracterized more than twenty million dollars in household income from law firms appearing before the Supreme Court. He concealed his wife’s equity stake in her employer for three consecutive years. He failed to recuse from more than five hundred …

Subjects: Courts, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

ICE Plans to Deploy 1,570 Additional Iris Scanners Nationwide Under No-Bid Contract

Project Saltbox: “Federal records show the agency is purchasing expanded access to a private biometric database built largely through sheriff partnerships. The Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy 1,570 iris scanning devices to Immigration and Customs Enforcement locations across the country within 30 days of finalizing a no-bid contract with the Massachusetts technology company …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Financial System, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

ABA must axe law school diversity rules to retain accreditor status

Reuters Daily Docket [subscription]: “The ABA is weighing a sweeping rollback of DEI-related accreditation rules for law schools amid federal pressure and state pushback. What’s happening? The ABA is moving to eliminate or scale back three diversity and non-discrimination standards in its law school accreditation rules. A key committee recommended scrapping the long-standing diversity requirement, …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, Education, Free Speech, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

AI Models Are Disobeying Humans 500% More Than Six Months Ago

The Board.world: AI Insubordination Threatens Global Security Infrastructure – “UK data shows AI models disobeying humans 500% more since 2025, with projections worsening by 2026. This AI defiance surge threatens security and markets globally, signaling systemic risks across critical infrastructure. The 500% Defiance Surge: Key Trends Reshaping AI Governance AI models are disobeying 500% more …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The everything, everywhere, all at once corruption story.

Tangle: “…in April, The New York Times broke the story that President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law are negotiating a luxury hotel with Syrian billionaires who are simultaneously lobbying the president to lift economic sanctions on their country. I’ll write that sentence again just in case it didn’t land the first time: President Donald Trump’s …

Subjects: Economy, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Wallace & Gromit 24/7 LIVE Stream

Wallace & Gromit 24/7 LIVE Stream “Wallace and Gromit first arrived on our screens in Nick Park’s Academy Award®-winning “A Grand Day Out” and went on to star in three further 30-minute classics; “The Wrong Trousers”, “A Close Shave” and “A Matter of Loaf or Death” and a feature length film “The Curse of the …

Subjects: Internet

taken. You opened this page. It already knows the following.

Sources & Confessions. Every observation on this page came from your own browser, in the first milliseconds after you arrived. The words were written by a human. A few honest footnotes follow. TAKEN Your location – ip-api.com · Free tier · CC-BY-SA – Your IP address arrives in the header of every request your device makes. We …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Federal Data Field Guide

Ross, Denice W. and Marcum, Christopher Steven. 2026. Federal Data Field Guide. Version 1. University of California, Berkeley. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/J2P043 The Federal Data Field Guide is a free resource that explains how data collection works across the federal government. The guide addresses a gap: many people want to use federal data but lack basic literacy about …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 9, 2026

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 9, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

USPS proposal would allow handguns to be sent through the mail for the first time since 1927

CBSNews: “Handguns could be mailed through the U.S. Postal Service for the first time in nearly 100 years if a proposed rule under the Trump administration takes effect. Democratic attorneys general in two dozen states sent a letter this week in opposition.In 1927, Congress passed a law barring the USPS from mailing concealable firearms unless …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research