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NEW RESOURCES
University of Kentucky: Mayfield Tornado Oral History Project commemorates loss, celebrates resilience of Western Kentucky community . “Six months after the disaster, Rebecca Freihaut, Ph.D., a risk and crisis communications expert who works at the University of Central Florida and UK alumna, partnered with University of Kentucky Libraries Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History to speak with Mayfield residents about their experiences…. The result is the Mayfield, Kentucky 2021 Oral History Project, a harrowing but hopeful collection of interviews that commemorates a tragic loss of life while also capturing stories of survival, resilience and regrowth.”
Government of Ireland: New Early Learning and Childcare Data website launched by Minister O’Gorman . “Roderic O’Gorman, Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth today launched the Early Learning and Childcare Data website. This new website will include a series of interactive dashboards that will be released by Pobal on behalf of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) over the coming weeks and months. The first two interactive dashboards – ‘Overview of Service Providers’ and ‘Capacity’ – are released today.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
NBC Chicago: What did you Google in 2023? ‘Barbie,’ Israel-Hamas war are among the year’s top internet searches. “Your Google search history for 2023 has arrived. Well, actually, the world’s. On Monday, the California-based tech giant released its ‘Year in Search,’ a roundup of 2023’s top global queries, ranging from unforgettable pop culture moments (hello, Barbenheimer), to the loss of beloved figures and tragic news carrying worldwide repercussions.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Sky News: Elon Musk fact-checked on X by his own system – but claims it has been ‘gamed by state actors’. “The billionaire has promoted the community-based fact-checking system as his flagship policy to tackle disinformation on the social media platform since his $44bn (£38bn) takeover in October last year. But on Sunday, one of his own posts was marked with a community note, after he commented on the detention of US YouTuber Gonzalo Lira in Ukraine.”
New York Times: Using A.I. to Talk to the Dead. “Some people are turning to A.I. technology as a way to commune with the dead, but its use as part of the mourning process has raised ethical questions while leaving some who have experimented with it unsettled.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
BBC: Russia hacking: ‘FSB in years-long cyber attacks on UK’, says government. “The UK is accusing Russia’s Security Service, the FSB, of a sustained cyber-hacking campaign, targeting politicians and others in public life. The government said one group stole data through cyber-attacks, which was later made public, including material linked to the 2019 election. Russia has repeatedly denied claims it is involved in such activities.”
Washington Post: Air Force disciplines 15 people in Discord leaks investigation. “The Air Force disciplined 15 members of the Air National Guard after an internal investigation found that a ‘lack of supervision’ and a ‘culture of complacency’ helped enable a 21-year-old airman to share hundreds of classified documents online in the sprawling leak of U.S. military secrets that rocked the national security establishment this spring.”
CNN: Supreme Court won’t let RFK Jr. intervene in case challenging efforts to combat social media disinformation. “The Supreme Court on Monday declined to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. join a challenge to a case concerning the Biden administration’s communications with social media companies about online posts the government views as disinformation. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito said in a brief dissent that he would have allowed Kennedy to intervene in the case, which the high court will hear this term.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Science: Leading scholarly database listed hundreds of papers from ‘hijacked’ journals. “Scopus, a widely used database of scientific papers operated by publishing giant Elsevier, plays an important role as an arbiter of scholarly legitimacy, with many institutions around the world expecting their researchers to publish in journals indexed on the platform. But users beware, a new study warns.” This rang a bell so I checked the Firehose. Nature had a similar story in February 2021..
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Boing Boing: The Arizona Daily Star collaborates with local artists to turn newspaper into wrapping paper. “How cool is this? The Arizona Daily Star collaborated with local Tucson artists to create holiday wrapping paper. Each day between December 3 and December 14, a full page of wrapping paper is included in the print newspaper. You can also visit the website to download each day’s featured art-as-wrapping-paper.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 13, 2023 at 01:40AM
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