In the third, and most recent, iteration of a “discovery on discovery” dispute, the court in Apothio v. Youngblood, 2025 WL 2896352 (E.D. Cal. Oct. 10, 2025), interpreted an ESI Protocol that it had approved over defendants’ untimely objections. The court ordered mutual disclosure of search methodo| E-Discovery LLC
In Apothio, LLC v. Youngblood, California Magistrate Judge Christopher D. Baker ordered that “each party shall provide the others with search terms and custodians used to date to identify responsive materials within the producing party's ESI, as well as a corresponding hit report”, as well as ordering defendants to serve an amended response to Plaintiff's RFPs to identify whether any responsive documents are withheld and the privilege basis for the withholding, as well as a privilege log...| eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin
As digital evidence evolves, it creates emerging issues in authentication and encryption! Find out more in this S2|DATA webinar on November 11th! The post Emerging Issues in Authentication and Encryption: Evidence and the Law: Legal Tech Webinars appeared first on eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin.| eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin
What’s the state of eDiscovery today (little “t” 😉)? Rick Clark of CloudNine recaps a discussion of a session from the Masters Conference Philadelphia! The post The State of eDiscovery at the Masters Conference Philadelphia: eDiscovery Trends appeared first on eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin.| eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin
In United Ass'n Nat'l Pension Fund v. Carvana Co., Arizona Magistrate Judge John Z. Boyle, stating: “The Court will not excuse Defendants from any efforts to produce contemporaneous hyperlinked documents outright simply because they elected to use a suite of cloud-based web applications that would make that process difficult”, ordered Defendants to “produce responsive documents—i.e., the versions of any documents as closely contemporaneous to, but preceding, the email communication as...| eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin
Stay informed with the latest breaking news from Afghanistan. Politics, business, sports, and culture updates in English – all in one place.| Ariana News
Stay informed with the latest breaking news from Afghanistan. Politics, business, sports, and culture updates in English – all in one place.| Ariana News
Singleton v. Mazhari, 2025 WL 2736530 (D. Md. Sep. 29, 2025)(Austin, J.), covers a lot of ground. This blog addresses only two of the covered issues: (1) when is a motion for protective order untimely; and, (2) when is the requirement to meet and confer before filing such a motion waived as […]| E-Discovery LLC
The ESI holding in Simms Showers LLP v. Jones, 2025 WL 2723558 (D. Md. Sep. 24, 2025)(Abelson, J.), is pretty straightforward. The recipient of a preservation demand is not obligated to respond. The Court wrote: Finally, Mr. Jones also alleges that sanctions are in order because he has “serious| E-Discovery LLC
Here, the Court denied without prejudice the parties’ joint motion for entry of an Order adopting the parties’ ESI Stipulation.| eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin
Here, the Court denied Plaintiff's Motion to Bar the Defendants' Corrected Spreadsheet finding they were substantially justified in doing so.| eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin
Kristian Bailey is a farmer, and he also considers himself a land steward and teacher. At Orais Hand Farm, located across the road from the Mississippi River, he is trying to move away from the ide…| A Peace of My Mind
In the 22 years since it was founded, there has never been a more important moment in the life of […] The post Today we launched Mainstream. Here’s why. appeared first on Compass.| Compass
Fertility Europe has formally responded to the European Commission’s public consultation on its upcoming 2026–2030 Gender Equality Strategy, urging the EU to recognise fertility care as a core gender equality and human rights issue. Our message is simple: true reproductive autonomy means the right not only to avoid having children, but also the right to try to have them - without stigma, exclusion, or financial discrimination.| Fertility Europe
The Court denied plaintiffs’ request for source code discovery, but ordered discovery of “all relevant Chat-related hyperlinked material.”| eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin
Leica Camera is proud to announce an inspiring new partnership with Abercrombie & Kent, the world leader in luxury travel. This collaboration brings Leica’s legendary optical performance into the heart of nature – enhancing wildlife viewing experiences for guests at A&K’s exclusive Sanctuary portfolio of safari camps, lodges, and riverboats. Precision Optics Meet World-Class Travel. At the core of this partnership is a shared dedication to detail, beauty, and immersive experience. From ...| Leica Nature Blog
Reinforcement learning meets iterated game theory meets theory of mind| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
In Equal Emp. Opportunity Comm'n v. Genesh, Inc., No. 24-2445-DDC-ADM (D. Kans. Jul. 18, 2025) (“Genesh IV”), after several rulings adverse to Genesh, the court appointed a Special Master to facilitate the plaintiff EEOC’s discovery from the defendant, Genesh, Inc. THE UNDERLYING CLAIMS “Genesh II| E-Discovery LLC
I love old stories that have a moral to them. This one is one I only recently saw on YouTube. So you may not be familiar with it too. This old tale’s source is uncertain but many believe it c…| joyful2beeblogs
I love old stories that have a moral to them. This one is one I only recently saw on YouTube. So you may not be familiar with it too. This old tale’s source is uncertain but many believe it c…| joyful2beeblogs
I doubt I’m the only one to sense national dis-ease, not only from Administration and Opposition actions, but from the economy and society as a whole, not to mention the situation in other co…| Rev. Scott Wells
What happens when even basic business can't be effectively done? How did we get here? Spencer and Laurie digest more of John Rao's thoughts from various books and try to settle their argument from the last episode.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Figure 1: And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, put fire in it, added incense, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. Then fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. Lev 10:1-2 Notes on committing to things, and the implications of that for cooperation. Relevant to multi-agent causality where agents make decisions, in the context of iterated games in multi-agent systems with applications to AI safe...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
So, I’m going to board the hype train. But not as a passenger. As the driver! Think about it. Who better to write a book on AI than a diehard curmudgeonly tech-savvy skeptic who treats this whole thing as one big conditioning experiment? Exactly. No one. Now, the topic. Ethics, of course. What else is there. Whether we like it or not, the concept of AI is going to be around for quite some time. It signifies a major cultural... Read More Read More| The Lost Words
Figure 1 An interesting inverse design question: how should I design a system to optimise for truthfulness? Brief summary here. @Frongillo2024Recent: This note provides a survey for the Economics and Computation community of some recent trends in the field of information elicitation. At its core, the field concerns the design of incentives for strategic agents to provide accurate and truthful information. Such incentives are formalized as proper scoring rules, and turn out to be the same obj...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Figure 1 Learning agents in a multi-agent system which account for and/or exploit the fact that other agents are learning too. This is one way of formalising the idea of theory of mind. Learning with theory of mind works out nicely for reinforcement learning, in e.g. opponent shaping, and may be an important tool for understanding AI agency and AI alignment, as well as aligning more general human systems. Other interesting things might arise from a good theory of other-aware learning, such ...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Game theory and decision theory for lots of interacting agents| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Figure 1 On rituals without (necessarily) faith. TBD Related: tribal bonding, mind altering substances. 1 Incoming Future Day 2025 – Science, Technology & the Future Wheal’s Homegrown Humans Newsletter Ritual Behavior, Habits, Human Culture, Religion, Civilization, Marriage, Death, Burning Man & Community | Dimitris Xygalatas | #75 (5) Psychedelics, Civilization, Religion, Death & Plant Medicine | Brian Muraresku | #1 Shamanism, Psychedelics, Social Behavior, Religion & Evolution of Huma...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Content warning: Stuff that I would prefer to have no opinion upon if that were an option. Culture wars. Figure 1 An interesting question in movement design is how much to embody the change you wish to see in the world in your pursuit of it. Examples If your movement advocates 8-hour workdays, should you work 8-hour days to build it? If you are relentlessly corporate in your pursuit of communism, will you have trouble recruiting cadre? Was it an acceptable trade-off for communism that the Bo...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Figure 1 One of the problems of the modern world is that it is so deep, specialised, and complicated that it is difficult hard to tell real progress in some specialised areas from bullshit. This is a problem in science, but I think, everywhere that anything complicated is happening This leads to the deeper problem that it is easier to seem good than to be good. Sometimes, e.g. art, these can be nearly the same thing. But sometimes, with the production of material goods or the production of ...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
African scientists awarded the 2024 EMBL-UNESCO residencies share their experience in bioinformatics and virology.| EMBL
During the height of the pandemic, organizations were struggling to adjust to a completely different way of working together. But the pandemic merely highlighted a slew of longstanding questions about collaboration in the workplace. In this presentation I distinguish among a variety of ways of working together, most of which fall short of collaboration, and as a result are more likely to be embraced. The post The Collaborative Organization appeared first on Phase II Design.| Phase II Design
Many people claim that evolution has a direction toward increased complexity—and that humans represent its apex. Our destiny, they declare, is to break out of our earthly limitations and explore th…| Patterns of Meaning
In Authentication is key to direct and cross-examination (thedailyrecord.com) (Aug. 22, 2024), my friend Paul Sandler wrote: “It can be said that direct and cross-examination are the central features of the trial, and essential to examinations are the exhibits sought to be introduced in evidence.”| E-Discovery LLC
Craig Ball published a post about adapting requests for production for the generative AI age, which is interesting in at least two respects.| eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin
On a visit to Berlin, the new British prime minister may look at Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a cautionary tale.| POLITICO
As teachers, we know that teamwork, community, and cooperation are essential values that we want our students to learn. One way to reinforce these concepts is by sharing books that highlight the importance of working together towards a common goal. By sharing these books with our students, we can help them understand the value of teamwork and cooperation in their everyday lives.| Stories by Storie
The country’s ascendant Christian Democratic Union remains utterly baffled as to how it might wield power.| POLITICO
It is important to understand the ways in which software may be conjured into the world for the simple reason that software and information technologies more generally have immense social and economic impact. The genesis of such process has been called software architecture, and there have been various attempts over the years to define the […] The post The past, present, and possible future of software architecture appeared first on Philip Sheldrake.| Philip Sheldrake
In Kyle Rayome v. ABT Electronics, 2024 WL 1435098 (N.D. Ill. 2024), the court wrote that it “would prefer this case not go to the dark place where attorneys on one side demand that the attorneys on the other side provide declarations in which they swear they are telling the truth about complying wi| E-Discovery LLC
Very excited to have been invited to speak at the Eighth International Conference on Humanistic Buddhism. I am not a Buddhist per se, but I have great sympathy with many of its aims, and especially with the all-permeating idea of interconnectedness. I will be talking about our role as individuals in an increasingly interconnected world, and the many connections between traditional Buddhist thinking and the modern sciences of complexity and networks. I am looking forward to an entertaining and...| Dr Len Fisher
AKA “Cooperation, cultural evolution & economic development”. Where do ‘good’ or pro-social institutions come from? Why does the capacity for collective action and coope…| pseudoerasmus
