Thursday, January 30, 2025

If you expect to bump heads, this might be useful.

https://www.bespacific.com/watch-14-hours-of-never-before-published-videos-from-project-2025s-presidential-administration-academy/

Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy

ProPublica – “ProPublica and Documented obtained more than 14 hours of never-before-published videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, which are intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda created by the Heritage Foundation and its allies for a future conservative presidential administration, has lost its director. In recent weeks, it faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump, whose campaign has tried to distance itself from the effort. But Project 2025’s plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state government bureaucracy remains on track. Video trainings like these are one of the “four pillars” of that plan, says Spencer Chretien, the associate director of Project 2025, in “Political Appointees & The Federal Workforce.” For transparency, we are publishing the videos as we obtained them. The Heritage Foundation and most of the people who appear in the videos cited in this story did not respond to ProPublica’s repeated requests for comment. Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign, said, “As our campaign leadership and President Trump have repeatedly stated, Agenda 47 is the only official policy agenda from our campaign.”…





Keeping up!

https://www.bespacific.com/trump-executive-order-tracker/

Trump Executive Order Tracker

The Trump Administration’s executive orders cut across dozens of industries. This searchable tool breaks down the orders and their impact. Akin will update the Tracker as orders are published and provide in-depth analysis of specific orders. Visit Akin’s Trump Executive Order Overview to view a summary. Use the menu below to filter by topic.  Subscribe to regular updates as new orders are published.”

Also via Akin – Trump Executive Order Overview – Below is a high-level overview of Executive Orders published by the Trump Administration. To learn more about an Order, click its title below. Akin will update this list as additional Orders are published. Search by Topics: Administrative Procedure | Artificial Intelligence | Canada / Mexico | China | Communications & FCC | Customs | DEI | Economic Sanctions | Education | Energy | Environmental | Environmental, Social and Governance | Export Controls | Federal Workforce | Financial Services | Foreign Investment | Government Contracts | Health Care & Life Sciences | Immigration | Infrastructure | International Trade | Manufacturing | National Security & Defense | Native American & Tribal | Renewable Energy | Semiconductors  | Space | Tariff | Tax | Technology | Telecom, Media & Technology | Trade Policy | Traditional Energy | Transportation

See also Executive Order Tracker – “Gibson Dunn understands that the flurry of executive orders and other announcements from the White House during President Trump’s opening days is difficult to follow. To assist, we have taken on the assignment of cataloging and digesting each order as it is announced. Below, you will find a searchable and filterable list that includes the executive orders and other significant announcements made to date. The list provides a summary of each order and announcement, along with information on the agencies involved and the subject matters covered. It also includes links to in-depth analyses Gibson Dunn has undertaken on a number of the executive orders. The list will be updated promptly upon the issuance of new announcements and orders…” For additional insights, please visit our resource center, Presidential Transition: Legal Perspectives and Industry Trends.





What percentage of human work is required? Does a prompt count for 49%? (No prompt, no output)

https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/copyright-ai-tools-filmmaking-studios-office-1236288969/

Copyright Office Offers Assurances on AI Filmmaking Tools

The U.S. Copyright Office declared Wednesday that the use of artificial intelligence tools to assist in the creative process does not undermine the copyright of a work.

The announcement clears the way for continued adoption of AI in post-production, where it has become increasingly common, such as in the enhancement of Hungarian-language dialogue in “The Brutalist.” Studios, whose business model is founded on strong copyright protections, have expressed concern that AI tools could be inhibited by regulatory obstacles.

In a 41-page report, the Copyright Office also reiterated that human authorship is essential to copyright, and that merely entering text prompts into an AI system is not enough to claim authorship of the resulting output.



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