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Harvard peeps -- I'll be on campus next week - March 3 - interviewing some fabulous creators about how they build trust with audiences @underthedesknews.bsky.social @newsnotnoise.bsky.social and @jossfong.bsky.social. Come join us! iop.harvard.edu/events/futur...

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The chatbot culture wars begin with Grok. Will be fascinating to watch

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The Oscar-nominated Animated shorts are in theaters now, and they are especially good this year. Highly recommend

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I know you think it’s just harmless fun but it’s so unnecessary and a little cruel to mislead gullible people who are just looking for love @thecut.com

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I took some time to kick the tires on c2pa media authentication. it's a work in progress www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0W...

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Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

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brandtbert j. brudenell www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

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the best thing social media achieved is it obliterated the idea that women aren’t funny

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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

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tired of saying this like a scold but every share is a signal to make more of the thing that gets shared. the valence of the share matters not at all

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Government workers when DOGE shows up.

submitted 23 days ago • 117 comments

Is there a feed on here dedicated to screenshots of important/newsworthy tweets?

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency, and they're trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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I don't totally blame NewScientist for Shutterstock filling up with slop but fyi polar bears have 5 toes www.newscientist.com/article/2466...

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I'm not able to resist sharing the bitchy headline at this time www.404media.co/openai-furio...

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I make videos for a living and even I’m sick of this format eating everything

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There are a lot of Christians who take seriously what the Bible says about foreigners. it's not "Trump vs the New Jersey attorney general". It's "Trump vs the Pope."

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to be honest, the Onion is kindof the best use case for image AI and while I understand the concerns, I'd personally be fine with their staff using it to save time/money. shouldn't someone other than spamlords benefit from the tech?

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is there a site that lists the open-access papers from a variety of peer-reviewed journals?

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

Feels like we could get this right if the social platforms care to fakedup.substack.com/p/chasing-th...

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On reddit, ChatGPT users are discussing what the bot says about the photo of Musk’s “gesture” www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...

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The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data

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We talked to Neel at Neiman Lab about the uncertain path from corporate media jobs to the creator economy www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/what...

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I had no idea apple was promoting its AI this way. 'we can help you deceive your family and colleagues' www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ai5...

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The Howtown video I helped animate for just came out! youtu.be/gAK58BIUgdk?... I had a great time making little corks get drunk and tip over for Adam and @jossfong.bsky.social 🍻 just in time for dry January

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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

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"The violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are." Joan Didion (1968)

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would love to see more people curating reporting, more publishers showcasing what it requires, more style changes that allow journalists to use the first person. Ultimately a design shift to distinguish reported articles from analysis will be necessary.

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How do the AMC theater lamps work?

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

There are some fun things you can do when your audience is small youtube.com/shorts/PUSQ5...

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Negative polarization is the real mind virus. Tech bros and magas perceiving each other for the first time, trapped in a coalition that makes no sense, because of woke

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My one overly sincere post for the holidays/end-of-year is that I truly wish people who enjoy yelling at strangers on the internet would stop, for like two seconds, to ponder the litany of potentially very sad or difficult things the person they're yelling at may endured that day, or week, or year.

submitted 65 days ago • 4 comments

with amazon killing party city, the time is ripe for artisanal balloon shops to flourish. amazon isn't going to supply the timeless whimsy of helium for your gathering!!!

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Hank doesn’t post his vids here but he made a banger on the drones youtu.be/-NI6lxgHaN8?...

submitted 67 days ago • 8 comments

Our last episode of 2024 is a fun lil spicy thing youtu.be/dutpBSKj8JY

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A colorado pastor took four flat earthers to Antarctica. www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

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