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NEW RESOURCES
Corporate Crime Reporter: After Years of Citizen Pressure, Justice Department Launches Corporate Crime Database. “The Department of Justice now has a corporate crime page that includes links to voluntary self disclosure and monitoring policies, guidance and speeches and – remarkably – a corporate crime database page. The searchable corporate crime database includes only eleven cases so far. But the Justice Department is promising to populate it with all of the cases in its system from Main Justice and all 93 U.S. Attorneys offices.”
Digital Library of Georgia: Reconstruction-Era Methodist Episcopal Church conference journals now available freely online in the Digital Library of Georgia. “The collection is comprised of bound conference journals dating from 1867 to 1939, produced by the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), a Northern church that established missions in Georgia during the Reconstruction Era, working closely with the Freedman’s Aid Society to find schools and colleges for the formerly enslaved while integrating the then-separate Black and white churches into the same conference. MEC churches were established in both rural and urban areas throughout the state.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Library of Congress: Library of Congress on the Web: from early innovation to well-documented public API. “The Library of Congress has a big announcement for any past or potential users of the loc.gov application programming interfaces (APIs): we heard your feedback, we noted your pain points, and we improved our documentation!”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Reuters: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills – Platformer. “Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in the social media company’s trust and safety teams being crippled, Platformer reported on Saturday. Before Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform last year, Twitter signed a multi-year contract with Google related to fighting spam and protecting accounts, among other things, the report said.”
CNN: What the chaos at Twitter means for the future of social movements. “Twitter has often been heralded as a democratizing force, bringing previously marginalized voices to the forefront and giving the public a platform to demand accountability from leaders. (It has also enabled the spread of misinformation, extremist ideas and abusive content.) But since Elon Musk acquired Twitter last year and the platform plunged into chaos, some organizers and digital media experts have been bracing for the impact that his controversial policy changes and mass layoffs may have on social movements going forward.”
Nikkei Asia: Save game history: Japan preserves its cartridge-bound treasures. “Japan is mounting a rescue operation for early video game copies, some from the 1980s, as more of these pieces of pop history give way to corrosion. The operation is being handled by Japan’s National Diet Library, which has long preserved books, magazines, vinyl records and other forms of artistic expression. Now, finally, it has gotten around to digitizing old treasures that decades ago helped Japan start spreading its soft power around the world.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Ghacks: Google is threatening privacy-friendly YouTube frontend Invidious. “The open source project Invidious has received a cease and desist notice from Google owned YouTube. In the letter, which the project team published here on the project website, Google claims that it has become aware of the project only recently. It claims that Invidious is violating YouTube’s API Services terms of service and developer policies.”
AFP: UN to launch central archives of Daesh crimes in Iraq. “The United Nations will soon launch central archives containing millions of digitized documents that it says provide proof of crimes committed by the Daesh group in Iraq, an official said on Wednesday. UNITAD, the UN body set up to investigate Daesh crimes in the country, began its field work five years ago in an effort to bring the militants to justice.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Washington University in St. Louis: What your ‘likes,’ posts really say about you. “The myriad ways in which we use social media can be grouped into four broad categories, each of which is associated with a cluster of specific personality and behavioral traits, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.” I don’t see myself as fitting in any of those, which is interesting considering how much time I spend consuming content on the Internet.
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Hack A Day: Listening To The ISS On The Cheap. “So what do you need to talk to a $100 billion space station? As it turns out, about $60 worth of stuff will do, as [saveitforparts] shows us in the video below. The cross-band repeater on the ISS transmits in the 70-cm ham band, meaning all that’s needed to listen in on the proceedings is a simple ‘handy talkie’ transceiver like the $25-ish Baofeng shown. Tuning it to the 437.800-MHz downlink frequency with even a simple whip antenna should get you some reception when the ISS passes over.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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June 13, 2023 at 12:21AM
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