The rebranding of DEI as an "elite" ...
The rebranding of DEI as an "elite" concern is incredible to me. It's literally about including people from oppressed communities.
View ArticleOur Redesigned Byline Pages
"Research has shown that the more readers know about our reporters, the more likely they are to understand the rigors of our journalistic process and trust the results." So the NYT enhanced its...
View ArticleThe circular Tube map
Transport for London have redesigned the Tube map in concentric circles as part of a promotional partnership with a phone company. Just one of the many, many ways public transit is desperately...
View ArticleThe Messenger Shuts Down—And Some Thoughts About Why It Ever Happened
Josh Marshall on The Messenger: "It really is like if you were on a parachute jump and some cocky idiot just jumped out of the plane with no chute saying he had it covered and, obviously, plummeted to...
View ArticleAnti-scale: a response to AI in journalism
"It should be obvious that any technology prone to making up facts is a bad fit for journalism, but the Associated Press, the American Journalism Project, and Axel Springer have all inked partnerships...
View ArticleOpenAI says there’s only a small chance ChatGPT will help create bioweapons
"OpenAI’s GPT-4 only gave people a slight advantage over the regular internet when it came to researching bioweapons, according to a study the company conducted itself." Uh, great? "On top of that,...
View ArticleI think Tim Burton is exactly the ...
I think Tim Burton is exactly the wrong person to remake Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. I'd watch Greta Gerwig's take on it in a heartbeat, though.
View ArticleI’m genuinely thinking about starting a new ...
I’m genuinely thinking about starting a new blog about my experiences of fatherhood. It would be good on a new domain rather than be a part of my usual tech journaling. Too much?
View ArticleP&B : Winnie Lim
A lovely interview with Winnie Lim, whose deeply human, beautifully-written blog is one of my absolute must-reads. This spoke to me, except substitute Oxford for Singapore: "I felt very alienated and...
View Article‘The Messenger’ Implosion Once Again Shows The Real Problem With U.S....
"If you’ve spent any time in journalism, it’s completely wild to think about what a small team of smart, hungry journalists and editors could do with $50 million. It’s enough to staff a team of...
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The four phases
This post is part of February’s IndieWeb Carnival, in which Manuel Moreale prompts us to think about the various facets of digital relationships.Our relationship to digital technology has been through...
View ArticleZuckerberg's Going to Use Your Instagram Photos to Train His AI Machines
During Meta's earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook and Instagram data is used to train the company's AI models. “On Facebook and Instagram, there are hundreds of billions of publicly...
View ArticleThree variations on Omelas
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, by Ursula K. LeGuin:They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all...
View ArticleBook: The Future, by Naomi Alderman
"The only way to predict the future is to control it." An interesting idea that powers a book that has a lot to say about 21st century oligarchy and our relationship to technology. There's one...
View ArticleSemafor reporters are going to curate the news with AI
"As social traffic collapses and Google makes ominous AI-powered sounds about search, publishers across the board have started to reemphasize their websites as destinations, and that means there are a...
View ArticlePublic Funding of Journalism Is the Only Way
"If your position is that public money will irrevocably taint journalism but the biggest companies in America buying ads will not, I submit that you have not thought about this issue very deeply." I...
View ArticleNew study says the world blew past 1.5 degrees of warming four years ago
"Limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels has been the gold standard for climate action since at least the 2015 Paris Agreement. A...
View ArticleA reminder that the whole point of ...
A reminder that the whole point of open source, federated technologies is that there doesn't have to be one winner. It's not a market where every vendor is trying to be a monopoly. It's about building...
View ArticleOver the Edge: The Use of Design Tactics to Undermine Browser Choice
"In order to be able to choose their own browser, people must be free to download it, easily set it to default and to continue using it – all without interference from the operating system. Windows...
View ArticleWant to sell a book or release an album? Better start a TikTok.
"You’ve got to offer your content to the hellish, overstuffed, harassment-laden, uber-competitive attention economy because otherwise no one will know who you are. [...] The commodification of the...
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