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Renewed my yearly recurring contribution to EFF, just now. One of the few things I don't mind paying a monthly fee for. eff.org/VV

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Repost if you think it's time to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.

Public Radio Listener? A Wonderfully Useful Online Resource: PublicRadioFan!
www.publicradiofan.com #radio #publicradio

Pretty fascinating, Great work Chicago OIG. Funny to see where half of Chicago's budget goes.

igchicago.org/information-...

Holy smokes South Park went scorched earth on Trump for their season 27 premiere….Paramount is gonna love this after giving Trey Parker and Matt Stone a cool $1.5B streaming deal….🤣💀

Whither The Law Librarian? - Above the Law Tomorrow’s librarian will need to be in charge not of a library but of the AI function within a law firm.

abovethelaw.com/2025/07/whit...

Preprint: "SPAR: Scholar Paper Retrieval with LLM-Based Agents for Enhanced Academic Search" arxiv.org/abs/2507.15245 #academicsearch #llms #scholcomm

Hopefully, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy can stop sobbing uncontrollably about a teenager on the C train who was watching TikTok without earbuds and devote a little of his attention to the near constant disaster that is air travel these days.

ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

Join us in one hour's time as we discuss how to investigate the ongoing deportation raids, with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org discord.gg/uQUGhUHk?eve...

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Poynter Receives Press Forward Funding As Part of Project to Preserve Local Online News Content; $1 million Grant Awarded to Internet Archive Effort That Also Includes Partnership With IRE www.poynter.org/news-release... @archive.org @ire.org @poynterinstitute.bsky.social #webarchives #archives

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Thought you might find this interesting.

Another example of ICS neglect

Announcing the Chicago Public Safety DataHub, a New Website Tracking Crime Trends & Public Perceptions | NORC at the University of Chicago The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago and NORC at the University of Chicago today launched the Chicago Public Safety DataHub—an innovative online resource that tracks the most recent d...

New Research Tool From @norc.org: Announcing the Chicago Public Safety DataHub, a New Website Tracking #Crime #Trends & Public Perceptions www.norc.org/research/lib...

New Report From
@ofcom.bsky.social How Can Tech Firms Help Users Spot #Deepfakes? www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

DeFlock Spot, map, and resist automated license plate readers (ALPRs) near you.

deflock.me

The amount of people in the comments who don't know this man is fully aware of what he's doing is astounding.

Fiance: I'm just testing this new color ghaba... something glow
Me (having not heard): I'm sorry what did you say?
Fiance: I'm testing this.... Gabagool.

I really wish I could take a picture of this... But a popular third party document signing company is now pushing AI summaries.

I just had to click through an AI summary of a 1-page invoice I had to sign.

The "summary" was longer than the invoice.

Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms. 

But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.

Remember this.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

website front page

The ICE List ( icelist.info ): Tracking Deportation Agents Across America.

Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses. #3E #StopICE

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

Damn, took longer than I wanted to finish this, life has been busy...

Well researched, intriguing stories, an interesting angle on the WW2 era, and lessons that resonate, especially today...

Fantastic job @elysegraham.bsky.social

#librarians #booksky

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Hope y'all are doing well over there, Peter.

Would like to say I didn't have "SCOTUS decides it's cool with human trafficking" on my bingo card but with how corrupt those certain 6 are, I'm not surprised.

What did you dislike most about law school?

Excellent book

Elon Musk post on X: “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”

[popcorn munching intensifies]

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for.

Kudos, Sir.🌦️

Has AI slop infested ads even?? Who the hell says processes like this.