Schnadower Mustri, Eduardo and Adjerid, Idris and Acquisti, Alessandro, Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation (March 23, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4398428 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4398428 “The value that consumers derive from behavioral advertising has been more often posited than empirically demonstrated. The majority of empirical work on behavioral advertising has focused on estimating the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2023
ReproductiveRights.gov
ReproductiveRights,gov: Update on Medication Abortion – “While the April 7, 2023, Texas district court’s decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA threatens access to mifepristone, it is important to know that medication abortion continues to be approved and available for the time being. The Biden-Harris Administration will vigorously fight to protect access to critical… Continue Reading
Visualizing California’s Wildflowers
Center on Data Innovation – “The Wall Street Journal has created a visualization tracking wildflower observations in southern California from 1876 to 2023 [subscription req’d – right click on photo to open in new window w no text]: The visualization shows poppies as orange dots, suncups as yellow dots, lupins as blue dots, pincushions as… Continue Reading
Clarence Thomas Defends Undisclosed “Family Trips” With GOP Megadonor. Here Are the Facts.
Follow up to ProPublica April 5, 2023 report – Clarence Thomas and the Billlionare – “In response to [the] ProPublica report, Thomas explained why he did not disclose lavish travel provided by billionaire Harlan Crow. But legal experts maintain the justice was required to make these disclosures….“Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought… Continue Reading
We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
Simon Willison: ChatGPT lies to people. “This is a serious bug that has so far resisted all attempts at a fix. We need to prioritize helping people understand this, not debating the most precise terminology to use to describe it. We accidentally invented computers that can lie to us I tweeted (and tooted) this: We… Continue Reading
Restraining ChatGPT
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
How Bookshop.org Survives and Thrives in Amazon’s World
Wired: “…What started as a favor done on a business-trip whim has since become the great project of Hunter’s professional life. In its first few years of existence, Bookshop defied even its founder’s expectations and demonstrated how helpful its model could be for small businesses. Now, Hunter has a new plot twist in mind: He… Continue Reading
FBI Warns Against Using Public USB Ports Due to Malware Risk
MacRumors: “The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last week warned users to stay away from public USB ports due to malware risks. On Twitter, the Denver FBI office (via CNBC) said that public charging stations in hotels, airports, and shopping centers can be a malware attack vector. Bad actors have learned to use… Continue Reading
You Are Not a Parrot. And a chatbot is not a human.
New York Magazine – The Intelligencer: “And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this…A handful of companies control what PricewaterhouseCoopers called a “$15.7 trillion game changer of an industry.” Those companies employ or finance the work of a huge chunk of the academics who understand how… Continue Reading
‘Words Are Flowing Out Like Endless Rain Into a Paper Cup’: ChatGPT & Law School Assessments
Hargreaves, Stuart, ‘Words Are Flowing Out Like Endless Rain Into a Paper Cup’: ChatGPT & Law School Assessments (January 2023). The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2023-03, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4359407 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4359407 “ChatGPT is a sophisticated large-language model able to answer high-level questions in a way that is… Continue Reading
Hashtags are everything on Mastodon — why not give them a home?
The Verge: “Mastodon has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of Twitter’s ongoing meltdown, and since I started seriously using it late last year, it’s won me over. While I still use Twitter for monitoring news and talking to the occasional source, Mastodon is my new home for shortform posting. But Mastodon has one significant… Continue Reading
Archive of NIST Technical Reports Now Public
NIST has worked with The Internet Archive under an arrangement with the Library of Congress to digitize nearly 25,000 technical reports the agency has published over the last 100+ years. These archives showcase publications, historic photos, and museum artifacts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Archives and the NIST Museum. As the… Continue Reading
