jeffjarvis

jeffjarvis, 18 days ago to random

A journalist almost takes responsibility for the misinformed public: "Many commentators...blame the media for the public’s economic illiteracy." But then she turns the blame on us: "If the media has a bad-news bias, that’s because our audiences have a bad-news bias, too." Journalists are incapable of meaningful self-reflection, incapable of taking responsibility.
Nearly everything Americans believe about the economy is wrong https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/28/economy-gloom-voters-inflation/

claus, 17 days ago to random

Have you seen this @jeffjarvis? https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0298422

jeffjarvis, 18 days ago to random

This headline leaves out a critical word in the lede: He has "a visceral reaction against" taking down Confederate statues. He's defending the Confederacy. But The Post softens that for the headline. Headlines matter.
RFK Jr. had a ‘visceral’ reaction to tear-downs of Confederate statues https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/28/rfk-jr-confederate-statues/

jeffjarvis, 17 days ago to random

Godspeed, jurors. Much is in your hands.

jeffjarvis, 18 days ago to random

No. She's in Trump's pocket but The Times tiptoes around the truth. "Industrious but inexperienced and often insecure." No, in service to Trump.
Emerging Portrait of Judge in Trump Documents Case: Prepared, Prickly and Slow https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/us/politics/trump-documents-judge-aileen-cannon.html?smid=tw-share

jeffjarvis, 17 days ago to random

No, society has not lots its mornings; one sector of it has. To condemn us all to the same damnation is as bad a framing as polarization: each normalizes the extremists.
How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/opinion/trump-civility-society.html?smid=tw-share

jeffjarvis, 18 days ago to random

This is well-done. Ergo, a gift link:
America’s best decade, according to data https://wapo.st/3WXd9xS

jeffjarvis, 17 days ago to random

NYU Nurse Is Fired After Calling the Gaza War a ‘Genocide’ in Speech https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/nyregion/nyu-langone-nurse-fired-gaza-war.html?smid=tw-share

jeffjarvis, 18 days ago to random

OK, Chromebook hivemind, do I get the new Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 714
Or the HP Elite Dragonfly 13.5 inch Chromebook
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-chromebook-plus-spin-714-laptop-14-wuxga-touch-display-intel-core-ultra-5-115u-8gb-lpddr5-256gb-ssd-wi-fi-6e-steel-gray/6576960.p?skuId=6576960
or
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-elite-dragonfly-135-inch-chromebook-enterprise

jeffjarvis, 18 days ago to random

As hedge-fund-owned newspaper chains drop the Associated Press, the AP turns to the not-for-profit, digital local outlets that are the future of news to share coverage:
AP expands local content partnerships ahead of 2024 election https://www.axios.com/2024/05/28/ap-associated-press-local-deals

jeffjarvis, 19 days ago to random

This is the problem with buying the AI boys size-matters gospel. Bigger is not better; it is more damaging. As ever, I cite the Stochastic Parrots paper by @timnitGebru et al.
Behind the Curtain: AI's ominous scarcity crisis https://www.axios.com/2024/05/28/ai-power-energy-data-chips-talent

jeffjarvis, 19 days ago to random

Polls are poison to public discourse. Rasmussen is worse than them all and should never be quoted.
Leading pollster spreads Dominion voting machine misinformation https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/28/leading-pollster-spreads-dominion-voting-machine-misinformation/

jeffjarvis, 19 days ago to random

I'm glad Ken Burns discarded his neutrality to call Trump what he is (not hard) but in the long clip I've watched, his commencement speech continues media's fallacy of binaries and symmetry. No, one "side" is fascist. To equate that with an opposite is to normalize it. That is the fallacy of "polarization".

jeffjarvis, 19 days ago to random

"Experts disagree on when tech companies will reach artificial general intelligence."
No. Actual experts ridicule the macho boasts of AGI for the unfounded, cultish belief that is.
OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/technology/openai-gpt4-new-model.html?smid=tw-share

jeffjarvis, 19 days ago to random

If the story "has been hidden until now" whose failure is that? Perhaps The Times and its reporters who now tell it ... in their new book.
The Untold Story of the Network That Took Down Roe v. Wade https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/magazine/roe-v-wade-christian-network.html?smid=tw-share

jeffjarvis, 20 days ago to random

Meta’s new AI council is composed entirely of white men https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/metas-new-ai-council-is-comprised-entirely-of-white-men/

jeffjarvis, 18 days ago to random

Great news:
The 19th receives multi-million dollar grant from Melinda French Gates, Pivotal https://19thnews.org/2024/05/melinda-french-gates-pivotal-multi-million-dollar-grant/?&utm_campaign=19th-social&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social via @19thnews

jeffjarvis, 19 days ago to random

Only schmucks and Saudis would invest in him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/business/elon-musk-xai-funding.html

jeffjarvis, 19 days ago to random

Well, well: some AI sanity in Time:
No, Today’s AI Isn’t Sentient. Here’s How We Know https://ti.me/3VcXwAb

jeffjarvis, 19 days ago to random

Sleazeball Murdoch recruits sleazeball Barr to his war against the internet.
Big Tech’s Budding AI Monopoly by William P. Barr https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-techs-budding-ai-monopoly-40280c15?st=ncqiz1wsaq3215v via @WSJopinion

jeffjarvis, 21 days ago to random

Good Lord. The Washington Post blew this, choosing not to report on the Alitos' (plural) flag at the time, dredging it up now, masking the failure amid background paragraphs. Democracy dies in terrible, irresponsible, credulous, complicit news judgment. Shame.

Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag ‘signal of distress’ https://wapo.st/4dS1BCf

jeffjarvis, 20 days ago to random

Amen to Jennifer Rubin. Gift link:

What more need Alito do before Durbin gets off the stick? https://wapo.st/3WW5wrJ

paulk, 19 days ago to random

wrapping up day 1 of #republica24 with a 🔥side chat between @leonido and Peter Baldwin on the paradox of the #publicdomain in the digital age.