Tara Calishain
Obsessed with search engines, databases, and online information collections forever. Writing books & such since 1996 (OFFICIAL NETSCAPE GUIDE TO INTERNET RESEARCH, GOOGLE HACKS, INFORMATION TRAPPING, etc) and ResearchBuzz since 1998. I live at Calishat.com
- #politics #legislation #OnlineSafety #SiliconValley #SCAMAct 'The Safeguarding Consumers from Advertising Misconduct (SCAM) Act would require platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent fraudulent or deceptive ads that they profit from.' www.engadget.com/big-tech/bip...
- #politics #work #industry 'The dataset covers 2012 through 2024 and brings together data on 534,000 employers and 24.5 million workers by linking U.S. voter registrations to electronically available worker profiles.' www.newswise.com/articles/new...
- #children #AI #CSAM #UNICEF #OnlineSafety "UNICEF calls for criminalization of AI content depicting child sex abuse" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
- #media #journalism #AI #McClatchy "McClatchy is using AI generated content on Northwest news sites. Its reporters are trying to put up guardrails" www.nwpb.org/local/2026-0...
- #NARA #GLAM #archives #politics #MarcoRubio 'Secretary of State Marco Rubio is no longer serving as the acting head of the National Archives and Records Administration, a position he’s held for nearly a year.' federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2026/...
- Agrivoltaics is so exciting. It can both harvest energy and make excellent growing areas for certain kinds of plants.
- From almost exactly a year ago. Somebody been knew. '"They surrounded me, some shouting 'pedophile,' 'child rapist.' Then, a man pushed me to the ground," the former minister recounted.' [machine-translated from French] www.liberation.fr/societe/poli...
- Former French minister Lang summoned over Epstein links, source says reut.rs/4kjGEDL
- Catching a lot of people flat-footed newjerseyglobe.com/campaigns/ma...
- They should make a counteroffer that they'll name all landfills and public urinals after him
- NEW: According to Punchbowl News, Trump told Schumer he'd remove a block on the Gateway Tunnel funds if Schumer helped name Dulles Airport and Penn Station after him. The Gateway Development Commission has already sued Trump for blocking the funds: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/n...
- Two professional javelin throwers secretly pine for each other. Yeeted Rivalry
