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Threats work - fear prevails. #News Outlets Take Unusual Steps to Prepare for Onslaught From #Trump. nytimes.com/2025/01/13/busines #Media organizations are preparing for what they fear will be a #legal and #political onslaught from the new administration. #lawsuits #oligarchy #politics #maga #attack #journalism #journalist #sources #confidentiality #fbi #patel #revenge@ProPublica - Nobody at a news organization should be sanguine about what the legal climate is going to be like"

The New York Times · News Outlets Take Unusual Steps to Prepare for Onslaught From TrumpBy David Enrich
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@jasonkoebler In #Colorado, you can change your voter registration to "#confidential" by going to your county clerk's office and paying $5. The thing to ask for is to change to a "confidential voter registration" sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections

Confidential registrants do not appear on public voter rolls and are not included in statistics. You will stop getting any campaign postal mail and you get far fewer text messages.

And I learned during this election that certified poll watchers are not permitted to see Confidential registrant information by looking over your shoulder while you work as a ballot judge. They ARE allowed to watch you work on everyone else's registration. (Not that it happened at my polling location)

There are a few consequences of this. It makes participating in a caucus more complicated, and it means you cannot use BallotTrax, the state service for checking whether your ballot has been received and recorded. However you can always do that by contacting the clerk's office in person, or over the phone.

I registered Confidential in 2017 and never regretted it.

www.sos.state.co.usPublic Voter Data and Information Requests FAQs
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Update. The US #NIH and Australian Research Council (#ARC) have banned the use of #AI tools for the #PeerReview of grant proposals. The #NSF is studying the question.
science.org/content/article/sc
(#paywalled)

Apart from #quality, one concern is #confidentiality. If grant proposals become part of a tool's training data, there's no telling (in the NIH's words) “where data are being sent, saved, viewed, or used in the future.”

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The Service Center for Digital Humanities (SCDH) supports the community of DH researchers at the University of Münster. We are located at the University and State Library (ULB) and we have permanent positions. We help by counseling and supporting projects, hosting workshops, developing and implementing methods and tools, as well as networking in and with the community. #Openness, #confidentiality, #quality, #sustainability and #continuity are the values that guide our daily work.