Internet Archive files final brief in appeal, games studios against copyright exemptions and Fallout memes get taken down. The post 3 Count: Falling Out of Favor appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

A professor of aerospace engineering in India who developed a scientific theory critics call “absolute nonsense” said he is suing journal editors and publishers for pulling three papers he claims could help protect “millions of lives.” The articles, one in Springer Nature’s Scientific Reports and two in Wiley’s Global Challenges, described...

State Senator Dan Dawson floor manages a proposed constitutional amendment on April 10. Rick Morain is the former publisher and owner of the Jefferson Herald, for which he writes a regular column. Tax bills in the Iowa legislature have always been approved or disapproved by simple majorities. If most legislators want to raise taxes,...

Homer Laffoon, Anne Heche's son and the executor of her estate, said in legal documents that his mother's estate is 'not in a condition to be closed.'

Actors Access, the leading online platform for film and TV casting, was hit with a class action lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging that it illegally charges performers for access to auditions. The lawsuit, filed in L.A. Superior Court, accuses the platform of predatory conduct, and of charging working actors hundreds of dollars a year for upgrades […]

A bipartisan bill would give the secretary of the treasury unilateral power to classify any charity as a terrorist-supporting organization, automatically stripping away its nonprofit status. The bill, H.R. 6408, already passed the House of Representatives in November, and a companion bill, S....

The late conservative economist Milton Friedman was an aggressive promoter of the "shareholder theory," arguing that corporations' main obligation was not to society on the whole, but to their shareholders. Friedman influenced many libertarians and neoliberal thinkers who equate a laissez-faire or hands-off approach to economics with personal freedom....

by Nicole Carr, ProPublica, and Mike Jordan, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches,...

United Methodism’s General Conference started yesterday, April 23, in Charlotte, North Carolina. It will likely be the last important governing convention for United Methodism as the denomination, with the rest of American denominationalism, recedes into almost irrelevance. This General Conference will liberalize United Methodism’s teachings on marriage...

Beijing’s selective memory is a political strategy.APRIL 23, 2024   Forgetting & AmnesiaI once wrote an essay titled “National Amnesia,” in which I recounted how, while in Hong Kong in March of 2012, I met Swedish Sinologist Torbjörn Lodén, who told me how, when he was teaching at the...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay is a share from our friends at The Poynter Institute, with gratitude. By Roy Peter Clark All good writers play with words, even when they write about grave matters. The device that makes such word play the most visible is the pun. My first sentence contains an allusion to a famous poem by Dylan Thomas. In “Do not go gentle...

Décliné en quatre versions, le modèle de langage OpenELM est la première approche open source d'Apple sur le terrain de l'intelligence artificielle générative. La marque, habituée au secret, va-t-elle aborder une stratégie différente face à OpenAI ?

You Can Now Download and Watch Over 9,200 Short Vintage Films for Free America has always had a unique relationship with film. Movies have shaped the United States in more ways than one, from drive-in theaters to classic blockbuster films. Amid these iconic cultural symbols, there is also a vast array of short films that have been nearly forgotten....

I was recently gifted a charming, kitschy magnet, and as I tucked it into my wallet for safekeeping, I couldn't seem to remember: Do magnets spell doom for credit cards? Many of us have held onto vague rumors about the potential dangers of magnets interfering with the functionality of our credit cards. Let's take a look at the relationship between magnets...

Nepal has been waiting almost a decade for this bill. It may not be perfect, say our authors, but it’s time to move forward. The post Nepal’s New Federal Civil Service Bill appeared first on The Asia Foundation.

President Biden has signed H.R. 815, which includes the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024. Under the law, data brokers are prohibited from selling, transferring, or providing access to Americans’ sensitive data to certain foreign adversaries or entities controlled by foreign adversaries.  Under the law, sensitive...