Mastodawn

Eric Branson Apr 11, 2023

Bret Mogilefsky Apr 11, 2023

If you're interested in how the US government might approach the sudden rise of #llm and #ai as commonly-available tools, particularly as to the risks of using them in providing government services: NIST publications clearly define and document measures for a field, and often become the backbone of policy, regulations, and law. Check out this document from NIST!
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/NIST.AI.100-1.pdf

Eric Branson Feb 23, 2023

David Colarusso Feb 21, 2023

🚨 Announcing the #LITCon2023 ¹ keynote speaker... 🥁

Daniel Yi (Senior Counsel for Special Projects and Innovation @ the US DOJ)²

Daniel leads the Civil Rights Division’s effort to use the design process & entrepreneurial principles to test solutions for sticky challenges in legal practice & civil rights. He also runs Concept Lab, the Division’s idea incubator.

Get updates: https://forms.gle/WwG2H6DeZn4e1oah6

Be sure to tell your friends/boost!
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¹ https://suffolklitlab.org/LITCon/2023/
² https://suffolklitlab.org/LITCon/2023/speakers/#yi

#LITCon2023 In-The-Loop List / Save A Spot

Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab is hosting a single-track single day hybrid conference in Boston and online on April 3rd, 2023. The topic is Collaboration at Scale, and we're looking to focus on tools and case studies from across legal and law adjacent communities. Our own work focuses on access to justice issues, and you can get a sense for what we mean by collaboration at scale by looking at this case study—Digital Curb Cuts: Towards an Inclusive Open Forms Ecosystem. It will be followed by Docacon 2023, a half-day event on the 4th focusing on the open source document assembly software docassemble. If you'd like to get updates as we develop the program, let us know. And if you would like to present, we still have open spots for rapid-fire talks. See #LITCon2020 (Open Call)

Google Docs

Eric Branson Feb 16, 2023

Free Law Project Feb 15, 2023

This is a big announcement we've been planning for over a year. Our new webhook system is live. It finally makes legal data actionable. Use it to automatically take action when things happen on PACER, when there are new search results for a query, and more. It's one of the best things we've ever made: https://free.law/2023/02/16/webhooks-for-legal-data/

Launching Webhooks to Finally Automate Legal Data

Plumbing your next legal API has never been easier.

Free Law Project

Eric Branson Feb 15, 2023

Joshua Lenon Feb 14, 2023

Citing lack of lawyers, public defenders in this state ask to let law grads work before bar admission https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/citing-a-lack-of-lawyers-florida-pds-ask-to-let-law-grads-work-before-bar-admission/

Citing lack of lawyers, public defenders in this state ask to let law grads work before bar admission

A Florida proposal to allow court appearances for law school graduates, up to one year before bar admission, has been made by the state’s public defenders organization.

ABA Journal

Eric Branson Feb 13, 2023

Daniel Schuman Feb 13, 2023

In this week's Congressional news:
— The FBI warrantlessly spied on a member of Congress
— The Architect of the Capitol has lost political support for personal scandals, but his citations of classified info is most mystifying of all
— The future of AI and Congress
— The misleading frame of "centrism" and why journalists love it

https://firstbranchforecast.com/2023/02/13/first-branch-forecast-for-february-13-2023-eagle-eye/

#congress #HouseOfRepresentatives #Senate #legislatures #opengov #USPOL #USPOLITICS

First Branch Forecast for February 13, 2023: Eagle eye - First Branch Forecast

TOP LINE It’s hard not to have 21st-century risks facing Congress at top of mind some weeks. We uncovered a serious breach of privacy and independence affecting individual members of Congress involving the FBI that requires immediate action to shield members and staff from unlawful warrantless surveillance. With the help of some sharp colleagues, we … Continue reading First Branch Forecast for February 13, 2023: Eagle eye →

First Branch Forecast

Eric Branson Feb 7, 2023

Public Interest Jobs Feb 3, 2023

San Francisco Digital Services - Various Roles

The San Francisco Digital Services team is transforming how residents interact with the City by building services designed around the people that use them.

They have a bunch of senior open roles including a content strategist, fullstack engineer, product manager, salesforce developer, etc.

https://digitalservices.sfgov.org/joinus/

Eric Branson Feb 7, 2023

Quanta Magazine Jan 27, 2023

Quantum physicists recently placed particles of light in a superposition of time flowing from the future to the past and vice versa. Researchers are debating whether the “quantum time flip” is real or simulated. Charlie Wood reports: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quantum-physicists-flipped-time-and-how-they-didnt-20230127/

How Quantum Physicists ‘Flipped Time’ (and How They Didn’t) | Quanta Magazine

Two teams have made photons act as if time were simultaneously flowing in two directions. The experiments demonstrate a way to potentially boost the performance of quantum devices.

Quanta Magazine

Eric Branson Feb 7, 2023

Aaron Feb 7, 2023

Big, big news in the federal government digital services world. "the EO is expected to compel government agencies to use Login.gov where possible to enable citizens to log in securely to public services." https://fedscoop.com/white-house-digital-theft-eo-expected-to-follow-state-of-the-union-address/

White House Digital Theft EO expected to follow State of the Union address

The EO is expected to compel federal agencies to use Login.gov where possible, according to two people familiar with the directive.

FedScoop

Eric Branson Feb 7, 2023

Show thread

Waldo Jaquith Feb 7, 2023

The reason it’s possible to get a list of all new .gov domains is that, extraordinarily, the federal government has a GitHub repository of that data, updated daily. The list of .gov domains is open data! Some good folks at GSA were responsible for that, but CISA deserves a lot of credit for continuing the practice after they took over the .gov registry. https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-data

GitHub - cisagov/dotgov-data: Official list of .gov domains

Official list of .gov domains. Contribute to cisagov/dotgov-data development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Eric Branson Jan 12, 2023

Free Law Project Jan 12, 2023

ACLU has a nice press release out today about the NAACP v. Kohn decision, which ruled that a ban on scraping court materials could violate the first amendment: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-judge-rules-ban-automated-data-collection-could-violate-first-amendment

Federal Judge Rules That a Ban on Automated Data Collection Could Violate the First Amendment

COLUMBIA, S.C. – In an important victory, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled that a case to lift the categorical ban on automated data collection of online court records – known as "scraping" – can move forward. The case claims the ban violates the First Amendment.

American Civil Liberties Union