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#Journalism prof at CUNY's Newmark School. Author of THE GUTENBERG PARENTHESIS & OBJECT LESSONS: MAGAZINE upcoming from Bloomsbury. Cohost of This Week in Google on the TWiT network.

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RIP ICQ
ICQ is shutting down after almost 28 years https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-june

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Fun read on the team of lawyers now suing Elon.
“In a very large sense, he broke our home.”
Gift link
How a Profane Joke on Twitter Spawned a Legal Army
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/nyregion/twitter-lawyers-threadnought-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u00.7mlK.Ycgit3trw0EH&smid=tw-share

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I am waiting for The Washington Post to apologize for burying the Alito flag story. But then, I am still waiting for The New York Times to apologize for and and countless other sins against democracy. So I think I'll be waiting a long time.

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Horrid jock says noxious things and The Times/Athletic turns his doubling down on misogyny into a credulous news story, only amplifying his horrid ideas further. And they wonder how bigotry spreads.

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The ultimate Time Pitchbot self-own: Trump is Biden's fault.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/magazine/trump-reaction-videos-biden-campaign.html

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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/

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Gee. People are misinformed about the economy and crime. Think that might be the failure of the institutions charged with informing the public: journalism? You'll never see journalists reflect on that.

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Fascinating by Choire Sicha on fair use--still, as Larry Lessig famously said--just the right to hire a lawyer.
(Unlike a lawyer quoted, I am of the belief that copyright is an exception to fair use--a limiting rather than a granting of rights.)
I explain my view of fair use v. copyright in my paper about the ill-conceived California Journalism Preservation Act.
https://www.vulture.com/article/richard-prince-kim-gordon-copyright-lawsuit.html
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mJYxDwrSgIDjKVzUQlKRZG_I7hxq5OAT

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The Guardian laps up the nutballs doomsterism of Max Tegmark arguing the opposite of what is true: His talk of extinction from AI is macho distraction from real and present issues. God, I wish reporters would just Google before reporting on the AI boys.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/25/big-tech-existential-risk-ai-scientist-max-tegmark-regulations

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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

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We need to hear from the editors who made this decision. Marty Baron retired the following month. I also want to hear from Robert Barnes, the reporter whose story was killed. An inquest of this damning decision is required. So is the existence of an ombudsman to perform it.

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@guacamayan @rejinl
Exactly. Why we need to know more. Why there needs to be an ombudsman on the case.

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@darwinwoodka
As does the country under his eye.

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The Missouri Granger, May 12, 1874, on the invention of the typewrtier: "All we now want is a spelling machine and a patent brain-worker, through which a man may hatch machine poetry, and the summit of human ambition will have been attained."
Guess we've made it.

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The Holt County (MO) Sentinel, December 4, 1874, on the typewriter:
"Ministers will print their own sermons, and perhaps every family make its own newspaper. The child is young yet, but what it will grow into remains to be seen."

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What's happening in San Francisco the first week of June? The flights are jammed.

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The Times and Haberman as Trump whisperer are blind to the irony of writing about "the reality that a man who spent years building an artifice about himself in the press and on TV" while doing just that for him here.
How Donald Trump Still Lives in the 1980s
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/politics/trump-1980s-manhattan.html?smid=tw-share

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As an aside, the reason I object to moral entrepreneurs' scare phrase "surveillance capitalism" as it relates to web cookies is that it diminishes the impact of the word "surveillance" by governments such as this:
Xi Jinping’s Recipe for Total Control: An Army of Eyes and Ears https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/world/asia/china-surveillance-xi.html?smid=tw-share

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@jwcph
We do not agree.

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The attack on American education.
Anyone Want to Be a College President? There Are (Many) Openings https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/college-campus-president-antisemitism.html?smid=tw-share

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Just like social media, eh? It's not the technology that's the issue. It's the people. It's us.
Where New Yorkers Start Being Polite and Stop Getting Real https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/arts/television/the-portal-new-york.html?smid=tw-share

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I hardly fly anymore. The United hold music is triggering PTSD.

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Google blew it. They could have stood back and said: "Ha! Microsoft is so desperate for hype, it is irresponsibly linking LLMs to Bing. Google instead stands for reliable search and won't do that." But instead, Google did. They knew better. They all knew better. LLMs have no sense of meaning. They should be nowhere near the expectation of credibility.

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Excellent reporting by @brandyzadrozny Inside the fringe worldview of RFK Jr.’s VP pick https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jr-vice-president-beliefs-rcna153535

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Put a sock in it > Put it in a sock.
Ridiculous:
The Low-Tech Solution for Our Tech Addiction
Yondr sells pouches to lock up your phones at schools, concerts or anywhere they are hard to resist
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/tech-addiction-solution-yondr-phones-1c5629f8?mod=hp_featst_pos4

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