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I had a great chat last week with @cward1e.bsky.social, looking back at the growth of open source investigation from when it was just a small bunch of people trying to figure stuff out, how the counter-disinformation community formed out of that, and why it's causing us all so many headaches now.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Did everyone else know about researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/ already? Searches 7 million records at 1,400 archival institutions all in ONE PLACE

Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.

Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.

Well, here’s a link:

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The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US

The ICE administrative warrant memo gives its officers authority greater than the general warrants used by the English that the 4th Amendment was designed to prevent. It allows law enforcement to enter homes based on "warrants" that they themselves approve, removing any external check.

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

For anyone who has rented a car, Mr. Moylan, we salute you.

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LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

This is a great post, looking at death, law, mapping, and the physical book itself.

#History

"The Improvement Police," my article on a scheme, c. 1700, to force people to use new scientific knowledge to make their government rich, is out in a fantastic issue on Projects, edited by @tedmccormick.bsky.social, Vera Keller, and Kelly Whitmer.

journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...

Bulletproof No More Pete Hegseth: “I watched that first strike live.

It would have been a wat crime if we were at war, if not, its just murder. As congress gets ready to hear closed door testimony later this week, here’s what you need to know. joycevance.substack.com/p/bulletproo...

The prohibition is rather specific.

"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7

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#dh #c19 🗃️

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

No healthcare for you peasants but a ballroom for the queen, with an illustration of Trump dressed as Marie Antoinette

Yes that is also an issue

James Smith and Sons, London. Shop for walking stocks and umbrellas.

Reminded me of this store that I've only seen from the top of double decker buses. Purchasing an umbrella just became part of my bucket list.

185. The State of Play in the National Guard Cases It's hard to keep track of the whirlwind of litigation surrounding President Trump's unprecedented deployments of federalized National Guard troops. Here's a quick update on where things stand.

There's a *lot* going on in the three different state lawsuits challenging President Trump's federalization of National Guard troops under 10 U.S.C. § 12406.

Via "One First," my attempt to break down where things stand, how we got here, and what to expect next:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/185-the-st...

We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

After all, maybe one can defend the Court granting emergency relief more often than ever before and in cases with far greater real-world (and structural) impacts. And maybe one can defend the Court altering (if not completely scrapping) the traditional balance of the equities in these cases. But does that defense extend to the Court doing so especially in cases in which President Trump is a party—and no others? And does it extend to the Court doing all of this without usually providing written explanations of what it is doing—or why? And even if the answer is somehow “yes,” does it also extend to the Court doing all of this, not usually explaining what it’s doing or why, and nevertheless accusing lower courts who fail to read the justices’ minds of “defying” the Court? I have a very hard time believing that anyone can genuinely make it through even three of those sentences with a coherent defense of what the Supreme Court has done over the past seven months—let alone all five of them. I’d love to see such an argument, if it exists, but I haven’t been—and won’t be—holding my breath.

Today’s “One First” looks at how #SCOTUS and its defenders have responded to criticisms of the Court’s behavior in Trump cases either by knocking down straw men or by attacking the critics—without meaningfully defending what the Court is actually *doing*:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

This never happened before.

They have one role: accountability. 10/10

Modernity is a Predicament: On Jacob Burckhardt and the Italian Renaissance Daniel Woolf on A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered History is a peculiar discipline. It has long prided itself on its rules and canons, y...

My review of @stefanbauer.bsky.social and Simon Ditchfield's edited collection A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered, in Marginalia Review of Books. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/moderni...

No money for USAID, no money for healthcare or Medicaid or rural hospitals or scientific research or schools or libraries, but billions of dollars for a corrupt strongman in Argentina.

Theirs are all parenthetical?