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Zach Seward's talk at SXSW on the use of AI in journalism
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Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again →
The state of the crypto world in 2023
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Home of the annual NYC Sushi Guide and the omakase list.
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The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams →
A sad tale of how idealistic startups in this day and age are really just castles in the sand.
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The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
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The Case for Buying GCN From Warner Bros Discovery →
the current structure dramatically undervalues GCN and the associated media rights it owns. This is one of the most engaged and highest spending niches in the world; I spend $5-10K per year on bikes and, amongst the GCN audience, I bet I’m not so far from the norm. Monetizing such an audience via a bundled general entertainment service dramatically undervalued this audience. It is almost impossible to overestimate the lifetime value of a highly engaged audience niche with truly differentiated IP.
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How Microsoft is making a mess of the news after replacing staff with AI →
But Microsoft’s decision to increasingly rely on the use of automation and artificial intelligence over human editors to curate its homepage appears to be behind the site’s recent amplification of false and bizarre stories, people familiar with how the site works told CNN.
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Extending RSS 2.0 With Namespaces →
Best primer on RSS namespaces, why we have them, how they work.
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Midjourney Reference Sheet (2023) →
Version 4 of this massive cheat sheet previewing Midjourney outputs
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Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup →
Part one of Erin Kissane's investigation into the role Facebook/Meta played in the genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar.
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An overview of potential strategies for using AI in news, options for the practical deployment of AI in newsrooms, and the infrastructural and organisational requirements needed to support those options.
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The origin story of emoji. From Shigetaka Kurita, a 3rd year engineer at NTT to Masayoshi Son pushing Steve Jobs to add an emoji keyboard to iOS.
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The Rise and Fall of ESPN’s Leverage →
Ben Thompson’s traces the history of ESPN, the cable TV affiliate market, and other forces that got us to today’s standoff with Charter cable.
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The Close Encounters of an Athletic Kind Are Getting Even Closer →
An object lesson why humans need to be involved at every stage of the rollout of new automations. Not only during the success metric stage but also during pre and post-launch QA.
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BLOGGING, JOURNALISM & CREDIBILITY: Battleground and Common Ground →
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Comprehensive list of museums in NYC
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Old Skool Phil Windley writes about the napterization of trust
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Amazon AWS primer on Generative Pre-trained Transformers.
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Humans are biased. Generative AI is even worse →
Stable Diffusion’s text-to-image model amplifies stereotypes about race and gender — here’s why that matters
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A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences