"Some people think futbol is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that."
— Bill Shankly
Argentina 🇦🇷 beats Egypt 🇪🇬 3:2 even though Egypt was winning for a long time 2:0 …
Swiss 🇨🇭 won on penalties 4:3 against Colombia 🇨🇴
What Planantir CEO Told CNBC and Why Law Firms Should Listen
Brainyacts: What Karp Told CNBC and Why Law Firms Should Listen. Palantir’s CEO went on CNBC and bluntly described on live TV the exact trap your firm is walking into with AI. Not “AI is scary.” Sharper: you can pay a fortune, get modest value back, and quietly hand a vendor the three things that make your firm your firm: your client data, your work product, and your method.
The Declaration of Independence, America at 250 and Past Centennials
Internet Archive Blogs: “As America celebrates its Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) this year, explore a curated list of materials preserved at the Internet Archive documenting the nation’s founding, the Declaration of Independence, past ephemera created for the nation’s anniversaries, and new efforts to capture and preserve the materials published by democracies.
- Democracy’s Library – The Internet Archive’s Democracy’s Library project helps preserve critical information and publications produced by federal, state, provincial, and municipal governments, and makes them available for users to access and to anyone wanting to build new services on these public documents. Learn more about Democracy’s Library.
- Declaration of Independence – The National Archives of the United States lists three documents as the “Founding Documents”: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
Don’t Let Trump’s Lawyers Bury Jack Smith’s Report
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University via LinkedIn – “Three years ago this month, the Justice Department indicted Donald Trump under the Espionage Act for concealing and refusing to return classified documents—the first time a president had been charged with a crime, let alone one so grave. But President Trump hasn’t had to face trial, and he hasn’t had to fully account to the public for his actions, either.
There are a few reasons for this. The Justice Department abandoned the criminal case against Trump after he returned to the White House in 2025, citing a long-standing policy against the prosecution of sitting presidents. Trump’s personal lawyers have worked closely with the Justice Department, now staffed by Trump’s former personal lawyers, to bury the official report about the criminal investigation into Trump’s conduct.
Meanwhile, Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida has effectively prohibited Jack Smith, the special counsel who wrote the report, from talking about the report or even testifying about it to Congress. In The New York Times this morning, I explain why the suppression of Smith’s report is so disturbing and why the report’s disclosure is so essential:
[I]f presidents are to be immune from prosecution while in office, it’s all the more important that Congress and the public have access to the information that would empower them to hold the president accountable in other ways…
Mr. Smith investigated Mr. Trump for conduct that appears to have entailed an astonishing betrayal of the public’s trust as well as the nation’s security. Legislators and ordinary citizens should have the opportunity to read the report for themselves. It is incoherent to immunize the president from prosecution on the theory that he can be held accountable through the political process—and then to deny Congress and the public information that would help them do so.
As I explain in the essay, which you can read here [Note – beSpacific provided free access], the Knight Institute is suing for the release of Smith’s report, asserting that the public has a right of access to the report under the First Amendment and the common law. Judge Cannon rejected our arguments, but we’ve challenged her ruling and a federal appeals court in Miami will hear oral argument in the case in the
Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet
The New York Times Gift article : “The internet’s largest stockpile of free knowledge is under threat from MAGA, A.I. and foreign autocrats. A bibliophile ex-ambassador is here to help. Wikipedia is in peril. In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front.
The MAGA right, with Elon Musk at the fore, is slinging accusations of political bias and antisemitism and has even questioned the site’s nonprofit status. Artificial intelligence is raiding the encyclopedia’s resources and draining attention. Repressive governments have hauled its volunteer editors into penal colonies. In Wikipedia’s 25-year history, it has never had to fight this hard.
The organization that supports the site, the Wikimedia Foundation, is increasing its lobbying budget and advertising in Times Square. It is charging companies like Google and Meta that gobble up the encyclopedia’s 65 million articles, and throttling access for certain scrapers.
And it is expanding its human rights team to better protect volunteers against rising harassment, surveillance and retaliation. For an organization that holds neutrality as a cardinal rule, it is a lot of conflict, requiring Wikimedia to go on the offensive — diplomatically, of course…”