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Daily Archives: July 29, 2024
The race against time to reinvent lawyers
Via LLRX – The race against time to reinvent lawyers – Jordan Furlong is a leading analyst of the global legal market and forecaster of its future development. In this insightful article he contends that our legal education and licensing systems produce one kind of lawyer. The legal market of the near future will need another kind.… Continue Reading
Public Work
“Public Work is a search engine [users may search and then download images] for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.” What’s Public Domain? Continue Reading
Slide Show Formatting Basics
Via LLRX – Slide Show Formatting Basics – Legal tech expert and frequent speaker Jerry Lawson affirms that the best substantive presentation material looks even better if packaged well. Formatting slide shows is an art. Compliance with some basic slide show formatting principles won’t make you Monet, but will put you on the road to… Continue Reading
Why, Exactly, are Ultraprocessed Foods so Hard to Resist?
The New York Times [unpaywalled] – “This Study is Trying to Find Out….Ultraprocessed foods encompass a large range of foods and drinks that are made using methods and ingredients you wouldn’t typically use or find in a home kitchen. Sodas, processed meats and flavored yogurts are part of this category, as are most breakfast cereals,… Continue Reading
New Details About Automakers’ Sharing of Driver Information with Data Brokers
“U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate and hold responsible automakers and their data broker partners, for disclosing data on millions of Americans, without consent in a letter today. An investigation by Wyden revealed new facts regarding automakers’ disclosure of driving data, such as… Continue Reading
War in Ukraine: Wide Partisan Differences on U.S. Responsibility and Support
With the conflict in Ukraine now in its third year, Republicans and Democrats continue to differ over U.S. policy toward the war-torn country. A 62% majority of Republicans say the United States does not have a responsibility to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s invasion. Americans overall are evenly divided on whether the U.S. has… Continue Reading
10 settings to tweak to increase iPhone battery life
ZDNET: “With the way we use our iPhones these days, it can be hard making it through a single day on a full charge. A few FaceTime calls, some text messaging, opening Maps a few times, and you could already be 25% down. If you’ve experienced this, you’re not alone. These phones can be very… Continue Reading
X is training Grok AI on your data—here’s how to stop it
Ars Technica: “Elon Musk-led social media platform X is training Grok, its AI chatbot, on users’ data, and that’s opt-out, not opt-in. If you’re an X user, that means Grok is already being trained on your posts if you haven’t explicitly told it not to. Over the past day or so, users of the platform… Continue Reading
Supreme Connections
ProPublica: “Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Using our new database, you can now search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.” Data is also searchable using specific data: Most… Continue Reading
