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Thread on a #makerculture publication just released from @INCAmsterdam
1/The Critical Makers Reader (eds Loes Bogers & @Molly_Ulysses) includes a chapter I co-authored w/ @openPlusea: "Getting Lost & Unlearning Certainty: Material Encounters in an Electronic Craft Practice"
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Online progressives convinced the Dems of a fake racism crisis, and Dems tore up liberalism in response
Online rightists convinced the GOP of a fake immigration and crime crisis, and Republicans tore up conservatism in response
Social media has always been the Enemy
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"AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born." theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773… "Companies scrape information from the open web and refine it into machine-generated content that’s cheap to generate but less reliable."
Powerful, well-told piece on the arrival of the Anthropocene. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
Co-op learning/guild model for journo training and apprenticeship for“fact-based, non-partisan journalism on government and politics” that is “both empathetic and brutally honest” because “big newspapers where reporters used to get training are kind of gone.”
"Fellows will have health insurance, paid time off, and an annual salary of $60,000 to report for the institute’s publication and learn from over 20 professional journalists, who will serve as mentors."
Welcome, Allbritton Institute, new kind of J-school. semafor.com/article/05/01/20…
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"The decision—which was in favor of the publishers—will add to librarians’ frustrations. It will impoverish readers across the country seeking access to digital books, and over time diminish the library as a democratic institution that provides broad collections to everyone."
For The Atlantic, I wrote about last week’s ruling in an important case that may shape the future of reading—and likely diminish the role of libraries in that future theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Interesting meta conversation. Good backgrounder, like an encyclopedia being prompted to tell the story of its editorial style guide. youtu.be/t1kSfVO1YJ0
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Ask not for whom the ChatGPT bell tolls, it tolls for thee...Read @Bershidsky's latest and go have a good cry bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via @opinion
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“….a more friendly front-end to Stack Overflow” - really interesting comments from @blprnt on GPT as a modeling tool with edu implications; the details on prompting, tweaking and iterative demonstrations +100 ht @eilatann
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I've been going through some of the college campus precincts this morning. This one at University of Michigan is indicative of why the work of youth organizing is so incredibly important. 93% voted for the Dem ticket.
Good 🧵 on the malignant « savvy » style playbook ht @jayrosen_nyu
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For Monk’s birthday, here are a list of sayings by Monk recalled by Steve Lacy who played in Monk’s band and who dedicated much of his life to playing Monk’s music.
An astounding thread on a technocratic data project in a higher ed setting…institutional commentary on the new surveillance always seems to low-ball problems of intent and risk…until it’s called out.
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“The next step is utility poles.” Citizen maintenance. 🧵
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Incredible detail from Michael Dirda's reflection on the history of The Washington Post's book section: A long-ago news aide, tasked with assembling the bestseller list, took it on himself to insert titles by French post-structuralists theorists. washingtonpost.com/books/202…
Great idea. Can see how referencing a peer’s ideas v. commenting on them creates different expections and better outcomes. H/t @jdick for the share. Thinking of you @writingproject
CA and UCB to support local journos in “a university-run fellowship program whose journalists will be completely independent and operate without any connection to the government or influence from politicians.” journalism.berkeley.edu/stat…
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In a rare move, the group of all 50 states' Supreme Court chief justices wrote to SCOTUS, urging them to shoot down the argument NC Republican lawmakers are making--that there should be no checks and balances for election laws--in their "Independent State Legislature" case #ncpol
Cmts on DALL-E, composite AI, and the Loab constructions get a helpful interpretation here. Again, we are fed hellscape computational scenarios emerging from the tech underbelly when we might consider what could be unearthed w/different perspectives / root sources…good🧵
See @nettieb's work (example w/Jean Toomer's Cane below). She's working text prompts in #midjourneyAi . Beautiful, the worlds she creates and reflects with these tools. "The process to create these images is a collaboration… with a machine." nettricegaskins.medium.com/u…
“the charm of the low-fi and hand-spun…” good read on brands playing to our appetite for familiar, authentic-seeming stuff… bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…