The New York Times: “President Trump wants a massive tax cut and immigration crackdown bill. Now Republicans must decide what to cut to help pay for it. Top Republicans are passing around an extensive menu of ideas to cover the cost of a massive tax cut and immigration crackdown bill. They could create a 10… Continue Reading
OPM Memorandum to Heads and Acting Heads of All Agencies, January 21, 2025. – Pursuant to its authority under 5 U.S.C. § 1103(a)(1) and (a)(5), the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) is providing the following initial guidance to agencies regarding the President’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing… Continue Reading
BBC: “A US lawsuit filed on behalf of LinkedIn Premium users accuses the social media platform of sharing their private messages with other companies to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. It alleges that in August last year, the world’s largest professional social networking website “quietly” introduced a privacy setting, automatically opting users in to a… Continue Reading
10 Tips for Prosperity and Pleasure in 2025 – Jerry Lawson suggests 10 ways to work effectively, safely and incorporate innovation and AI into your practices. Continue Reading
The New York Times – gift article – “The Exchange, on Seed Savers’ website, pairs the people who save heirlooms with those who want them, all for the price of postage. With a diversity of crops and an impressive depth of choices within each, this year’s Exchange adds up to more than 14,000 unique plant… Continue Reading
“This website is the home of Web Curios, a blognewslettertypething which has existed in various forms in various places online since about 2010 (it also exists as a bot on Bluesky, for anyone who, inexplicably, doesn’t want to read 10k words about ‘stuff on the internet’ in one go each week). First published on the… Continue Reading
The New Stack: “Most people know that cyberthreats lurk around every corner. Be it an opportunistic lone criminal or a hacker with the power of a nation-state behind them, it can feel like the world and its dog want to access your private data. Beyond this, though, how well do people grasp the threat? According… Continue Reading
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Gizmodo: “AI-generated scientific research is polluting the online academic information ecosystem, according to a worrying report published in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Misinformation Review. A team of researchers investigated the prevalence of research articles with evidence of artificially generated text on Google Scholar, an academic search engine that makes it easy to search for research published… Continue Reading
What the New Orders Mean for a New Order – “President Trump issued a wave of executive orders in his first day in office, too many to make sense of them all in one sitting. Here, I focus on the changes that relate to the organization and delivery of public services, and how they matter… Continue Reading
Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, according to nearly a dozen current and former officials and other people familiar with the matter. The instructions were delivered Tuesday to staff at agencies… Continue Reading
The New York Times [unpaywalled]: The Trump administration on Tuesday ordered that officials overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across federal agencies be placed on leave and to take steps to close their offices by Wednesday evening. In a memo from the Office of Personnel Management, the heads of departments and agencies were ordered to… Continue Reading