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What a bs Bari Weiss profile by the Journal https://www.wsj.com/business/media/bari-weiss-free-press-cbs-news-7e18f95e?st=ABPhpk&reflink=article_copyURL_share intellectual dishonesty shouldn’t be that easily camouflaged
Social media's rage-bait engagement-based business model has been horrific for societies globally, but what if AI chatbots suck-up-bait is even worse?
It's less trackable, has a huge impact on how we see ourselves and the world, and on our ability to challenge our thinking.
This gathering on protocols for publishers (ATProto, MCP, …) in August might be of interest of New York-based media thinkers: https://pfp.unternet.co
This gathering on protocols for publishers (ATProto, MCP, …) in August might be of interest of New York-based media thinkers: https://pfp.unternet.co
“Darum verabscheue ich das trübe Amalgam, das sich ‚Nationalsozialismus‘ nennt, dieses Falsifikat der Erneuerung, das, hirn- und ziellose Verwirrung in sich selber, nie etwas anderes als eben Verwirrung und Unglück wird stiften können, diese Elendsmischung aus vermufften Seelentümern und Massenklamauk.”
Thomas Mann, „Sieg deutscher Besonnenheit“, 1932
Lighthearted pope humor of different flavors before the model training kicks in https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/96e8d2c864b61c9ae3edae37ec9ef4d4d70554fa10a945fb16eb43b98bb43036.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/04a94faef8701bb18af195450d564d8015ea2c1601d7211183c3180fbf17fede.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/cd1407b0dc3b779c9383396c54056ca2edf4920bd5c6f16960edb3be60b17245.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/6b2cbd7af999b032fbbd0e6cc55bd38bfc698225b1f2485c416e64327456e87b.webp
Global Censorship Trends: Insights from Network Measurement, Circumvention, and Advocacy https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/global-censorship-trends-insights-network-measurement-circumvention-and-advocacy
Joining the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit in Baltimore this Wednesday to share how AI transformed our audience research workflows. I'll showcase work with North Korean fishermen, Chinese migrants & Iranian youth - proving research repositories with confidence ratings help avoid false certainties. Last tickets: https://lu.ma/gxdhtufs?tk=FMBVM5
Data vs intuition in media is a false binary. Research improves odds but doesn't guarantee success, while emotional resonance remains undervalued. Understanding both might help us build media that actually connects with people. https://www.pboehler.net/16-needs-paradox/
Why should every peso that a Mexican iPhone owner pays to a Mexican app creator make a round trip through California and come home 30 centavos lighter? Why accept that for every 1,000 rupees someone pays in-app to India’s Dainik Bhaskar newspaper, the paper only gets 700 rupees? https://on.ft.com/3GBYqT1
Which types of people aren’t big fans of “impartial” news? People who don’t have power https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/which-types-of-people-arent-big-fans-of-impartial-news-people-who-dont-have-power/
Worth noting that when journalists first championed impartiality, they too lacked power. It was both marketing and a shield allowing them to critique the powerful who owned or bankrolled their publications
The irregular, winding streets of ancient Pompeii weren't primitive or unplanned—they were sophisticated designs that integrated the city better than rigid grid layouts. Modern urban planners could learn something https://research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/136268286/Publisher_version.pdf