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Growing Dazed Media • Digital Director • Ex-Guardian and HuffPost in London and NYC • Killer at Connections • 🏳️‍🌈 📍 London 👨‍💻 beyondreach.substack.com 🔗 linkedin.com/in/harryslater
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🚀 The Dazed Archive is here! For the past few months, we've been building The Dazed Archive – a custom AI-powered search engine that lets you explore three decades of fashion, photography, music and culture journalism with ease www.dazeddigital.com/dazedarchive #AI #Journalism

Incredible journalism.

Self-styled ‘Tariff Man’ shocks Wall Street with tariffs https://www.ft.com/content/ae3c89a8-bf12-4df9-9464-07186e662957

Beyond parody.

I feel like at some point the media needs to stop covering these announcements without actually using them. Can it actually do these things? has anyone seen them do it? How many times did it take to get it right?

New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

The TikTok ban isn't just a platform reconfiguration, it will reshape the political leaning of the creator economy and permanently alter whose voices get heard online. Please read my story www.usermag.co/p/the-great-...

open! network! users don't have to rebuild their following all over again each time they switch to a different app, so platforms can't lock them in developers can bootstrap new social apps off an existing social graph of 27M+ people win-win 🤝

The internet is now five websites owned by three people and all of them are awful

New: Days after Meta had to kill its AI-generated profiles due to backlash, some Instagram users are now being shown AI-generated images of themselves that are being automatically created by Instagram and put in their feeds www.404media.co/instagram-be...

Only in Trump’s America does Zuckerberg utterly cave to the demands of an unelected wannabe government censor and call it protecting free expression www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...

an actually useful feature for Apple Intelligence would be to identify these incredibly obvious scams from the half-dozen obvious tells it's a scam and then alert the user in the summary "hey this is a scam" so obviously it doesn't do that

The BBC needs to have a debate about whether Musk's outbursts should keep leading the news. This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them. Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda

Tower Hamlets council want to shut down a 100-year-old weightlifting club but don’t seem to be able to explain exactly why. www.bbc.com/news/article... #london

The Biscuit Wanter.

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

NEW: Where the teens are YouTube 90% TikTok 63% Instagram 61% Snapchat 55% Facebook 32% (down from 71%) WhatsApp 23% X 17% (down from 33%) Reddit 14% Threads 6% report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

"[…] the unintelligent use of AI in newsrooms, which is becoming widespread – namely that we are in danger of 'producing more and understanding less'." Not just newsrooms imo. This applies to anyone or any org using AI to create or alter content of any type. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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As someone who has also had a spinal fusion operation (mine was cervical) and years of horrific pain, I think the x-ray photo on his profile is far more important in understanding the shooter's motivations for attacking a health insurance CEO than any retweeting activity or Goodreads reviews.

Here @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes his friend was filling out surveys/games to get few dollars off essential medication. People are outpouring their "horrendous, inhumane, heartbreaking experiences with a profit-driven, private American healthcare system" www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

Exclusive: Gregg Wallace’s ghostwriter Shannon Kyle tells me the TV presenter ‘sexually harassed’ her Full interview #Newsnight 1030pm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The New York Times has discovered Guinness www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/d...

Politicians and their parties really need to crack on with the subdomain/domain verification!

Lately, I find I'm supporting fewer news sites (because the news is so bleak and stressful) and supporting more magazines and specialist journalism. Subscribing to @theverge.com was an easy decision tbh!

The Dazed 100 is back, and it's bigger than ever! Over the years, we've highlighted some of the most inspiring young changemakers – think Kendall Jenner, Stormzy, and Greta Thunberg. Alumni have gone on to win Grammys, lead fashion brands, earn Oscar nods and even make history.

Months in the making, Dazed MENA just launched! The first issue, Creativity in the Age of Chaos, shines a light on young creatives and changemakers who are coming of age in a world in flux, and turning the uncertainty and adversity they’re confronted with into something beautiful. 🌍 www.dazed.me

I wrote about BBC News' anonymous shitposter Nero's Slacker and how they have seemingly got an entire newsroom talking... just when we thought Twitter was dead. deadline.com/2024/11/nero...

Drew Starkey: ‘Sex is the ultimate form of communication’ www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/arti... 📸 Aidan Zamiri / @dazeddigital.com

Is it because the drivers are hot and there’s lots of money involved? apple.news/Ap0Hd8KdyRIi...

Elon Musk and a mass petition want a new UK election. Shall we do that – or just stick to democracy? | Marina Hyde

Are they real users though, or are they just people on Instagram activating their Threads profile?

Harris Dickinson for Dazed Winter 2024. 🔗 www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/arti... 📸 William Waterworth / @dazeddigital.com

Publishers have to opt-out of this “feature” to prevent their readership from being siphoned off (and presumably confused as to why they’re being bounced around the web).

Yeah, this’ll do numbers.

Recommendations please! I’m looking for a secure generative #AI tool that can analyse large data sets. Don’t say ChatGPT 😉

it takes 10 minutes of reading to learn the entirety of what you'd glean from an entire day's worth of cable TV news just hollow corporatist infotainment peppered with pharmaceutical ads people feel oddly compelled to subject themselves to it

Bangers, every single one.

This seems…precarious. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/re...