MakeUseOf: Quick Links What Is Bloomberg Connects, and What Can You Use It For? What Places Can You Visit With Bloomberg Connects? How Does Bloomberg Connects Compare With Google Arts & Culture? Key Takeaways Bloomberg Connects offers guides to partnered museums and cultural institutions across the globe. Besides museums, you’ll find botanical gardens, historic cemeteries,… Continue Reading
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Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation
Press release: “On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer, on behalf of a proposed class of scientists and scholars who provided manuscripts or peer review, alleging… Continue Reading
How to Register to Vote Online in Every State
Gizmodo: “Election Day is November 5 and the deadline to register to vote is coming up inmany states across the U.S. The vast majority of states let you register online, but voting rules in this country vary by location in a way that can sometimes be confusing. That’s why it’s so important to check that… Continue Reading
Huge study from The Economist about car bloat in the US
The Economist [unpaywalled]: “…For all the safety features available in cars today to help them avoid crashes, the laws of physics are cruel. When two vehicles collide, it is usually the heavier one that prevails. This advantage has changed little over time. Thirty years ago when a passenger car crashed with a pickup truck or… Continue Reading
Large AI Dataset Has Over 1,000 Child Abuse Images, Researchers Find
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance: “A massive public dataset used to build popular artificial intelligence image generators contains at least 1,008 instances of child sexual abuse material, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory found. LAION-5B, which contains more than 5 billion images and related captions from the internet, may also include thousands of additional… Continue Reading
Your tax dollars are funding a $64 billion scam
Raw Story: “…Medicare Advantage is not Medicare. These plans are private health insurance provided by private corporations, who are then fully reimbursed by the Medicare trust fund regardless of how much their customers use their insurance. Thus, the more they can screw their customers and us taxpayers by withholding healthcare, the more money they make.… Continue Reading
Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Law Libraries: Mid-Atlantic Roundtable Report
Laskowski, Casandra and Miguel-Stearns, Teresa M. and Ching, Tina and Florio, Emily and Lohmeier, Kerry and O’Grady, Jean and Postar, Adeen and Williams, Austin and Wolek, Kristin, Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Law Libraries: Mid-Atlantic Roundtable Report (July 31, 2024). Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 24-25, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4955870 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4955870 – On… Continue Reading
LinkedIn Is Training AI on User Data Before Updating Its Terms of Service
TechCrunch: “LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the U.S. — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions’ data privacy rules — have an opt-out toggle in their settings screen disclosing that LinkedIn scrapes personal data to train “content creation AI… Continue Reading
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
citation needed, Molly White – Big publishers think libraries are the enemy. The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read: “I’ve seen quips to the effect of “if public libraries were invented today, they’d be outlawed.” The joke… Continue Reading
Social Media and News Fact Sheet
Pew Research Center: “Digital sources have become an important part of Americans’ news diets – with social media playing a crucial role, particularly for younger adults. Overall, just over half of U.S. adults (54%) say they at least sometimes get news from social media, up slightly compared with the last few years. News consumption on… Continue Reading
How A.I., QAnon and Falsehoods Are Reshaping the Presidential Race
The New York Times [unpaywalled]: “This year’s presidential election has been polluted with rumors, conspiracy theories and a wave of artificial intelligence imagery. Former President Donald J. Trump has continued to sow doubts about election integrity as his allies across the country have taken steps to make election denial a fixture of the balloting process.… Continue Reading
A National Study of Sexual Harassment and Assault in the United States
Raj A, Rao N, Patel P, Kearl H. #MeToo 2024: A National Study of Sexual Harassment and Assault in the United States. Newcomb Institute. Tulane University. September 2024. https://newcomb.tulane.edu/content/metoo-research. New research from Tulane University’s Newcomb Institute found that not only have most American women experienced sexual harassment or assault before even reaching adulthood, but very… Continue Reading
