ODNI, February 2023: Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community: “During the coming year, the United States and its allies will confront a complex and pivotal international security environment dominated by two critical strategic challenges that intersect with each other and existing trends to intensify their national security implications. First, great powers, rising regional… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2023
The Google graveyard: all the products Google has shut down
The Verge: “Google releases a lot of products, but it shuts down a lot of them, too. Some didn’t deserve to be discontinued (we pine for the days of Reader and Inbox), and some probably weren’t long for this world from the start. (What was Google Wave supposed to be, anyway?) The company actually used… Continue Reading
Gerald Ford tried to impeach a Supreme Court justice and failed
Washington Post: “A member of Congress called for the impeachment of a sitting Supreme Court justice, complaining that the justice had supported the idea that violence and rebellion against the government may be justified under some circumstances. The member noted that the code of ethics for federal judicial officers, which included the concept of recusal… Continue Reading
AI Now 2023 Landscape Report
AI Now Institute – Confronting Tech Power Report [103 pages PDF]: “This report highlights a set of approaches that, in concert, will collectively enable us to confront tech power. Some of these are bold policy reforms that underscore the need for bright-line rules and structural curbs. Others identify popular policy responses that, because they fail… Continue Reading
The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries
The Atlantic – Knowledge is too precious to be abandoned to the whims of the profit motive. “By collecting and digitizing such a huge collection of works and lending them out online, the Internet Archive is making an incredible social contribution. The way the nonprofit manages that archive, however, has earned the wrath of book… Continue Reading
Smithsonian Puts 4.5 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain Making Them Free to Use
Open Culture: “That vast repository of American history that is the Smithsonian Institution evolved from an organization founded in 1816 called the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Its mandate, the collection and dissemination of useful knowledge, now sounds very much of the nineteenth century — but then, so does its name.… Continue Reading
Most U.S. bank failures have come in a few big waves
Pew – “The collapses in March of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank – two of the largest U.S. banks to fail since the Great Depression of the 1930s – have led some to wonder if the nation may be headed for a new widespread banking crisis.SVB, which catered to technology startups and venture capital firms, had more… Continue Reading
An Initial Scholarly AI Taxonomy
An Initial Scholarly AI Taxonomy – Adam Hyde, John Chodacki and Paul Shannon. April 11, 2023. https://doi.org/10.54900/6p6re-xyj61 “Scholarly AI Taxonomy – To kickstart discussions on AI’s potential impact on publishing workflows, we present our initial categorization of the “Scholarly AI Taxonomy.” This taxonomy outlines seven key roles that AI could potentially play in a scholarly… Continue Reading
The Potential to Democratize Legal Knowledge and Power
Pearce, Russell G. and Lochan, Hema, Legal Education and Technology: The Potential to Democratize Legal Knowledge and Power (March 13, 2023). Latin American Law Review n.º 10 (2023): 63-79, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4387616, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4387616 “The current technological transformation of legal education, including computer-based, interactive, and online modes of… Continue Reading
The ABA Podcast Hub
“Welcome to The ABA Podcast Hub where you can find episodes on a variety of topics to help you better serve your clients and accelerate your career. The ABA has hundreds of free and premium podcasts. Start listening today!” Continue Reading
20 Percent of Americans Have Lost a Family Member to Gun Violence: Poll
Rolling Stone: “A majority of adults have personally experienced or have a family member who has experienced a gun-related incident. Gun violence is rampant in the United States, and a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation sheds light on the toll the nation’s addiction to firearms is taking on American families. The poll found… Continue Reading
Now live for all: Substack Notes
“Today we’re launching Notes to everyone. Notes is a new space where you can publish short-form posts and share ideas with other writers and readers on Substack. Try Notes – Notes helps writers’ and creators’ work travel through the Substack network for new readers to discover. You can share links, images, quick thoughts, and snippets from Substack… Continue Reading
