The lack of public bathrooms, in parks and elsewhere, is really anti family. Basically a big de facto subsidy to any nearby Starbucks.

Extraordinary Annie Lowrey piece on the abject misery behind America's biggest regenerative dairy, 'esteemed by chefs, politicians, & advocates for humane agriculture,' told through the story of one terrified cow. More reporting on animal ag like this plz
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Cicadas are back! So I'm thinking about one of my fave @knibbs stories

wired.com/story/eating-c…

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NEW: Internal documents show Microsoft privately pitched using OpenAI's DALL-E image generator to the Department of Defense to help develop battlefield software—months before OpenAI reversed course on working with the military. theintercept.com/2024/04/10/mic…

Hey look at this

* @InternetArchive Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island wired.com/story/internet…

* Google’s Protected Audience Protects Advertisers (+ Google) More You blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-sec…

* When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread seattletimes.com/business/boein…

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decent list although they forgot TOP NOTCH BEEF BURGERS nytimes.com/article/best-r…

The Internet Archive is hosting the new Aruba Collection, which contains 100K+ items from Aruba's National Library, National Archives, and other institutions (@knibbs / Wired)

wired.com/story/internet…
mediagazer.com/240408/p19#a24…

A juvenile great horned owl takes flight in Chicago.

Hello guys, this is our last try as well as our last hope to save our lives. After donations restricted from our first campaign due to bank policies “it’s been more than two months now” , day by day the situation getting worse.

gofund.me/5815bcbc

Mutually Assured Scraping
nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…

you know the guy who got a vasectomy during this morning's east coast earthquake? i just had to know everything that happened.

you can read my whole conversation with Justin Allen here👇
wired.com/story/an-inter…

The #OpenAI GPT Store contains bots made with copyrighted works, prompting removal demands from holders, though some uses may be 'fair use' according to some experts, explains Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️

wired.com/story/openai-g… #copyright

Block Club Chicago Quinn Myers Alex V Hernandez Madison Savedra Mina Bloom Colin Boyle Ariel Parrella .@blockclubchi contributor Crystal L. Paul is nominated for Best Community Reporting for “Basketball Hoops Were Ripped Out Of Beverly Decades Ago. Now, A Push To Bring Them Back”

blockclubchicago.org/2023/10/16/bas…

Google Books is full of AI-generated garbage. This is bad for a variety of reasons. One of them is that Google Books ultimately feeds into NGram Viewer, which is a tool academics use to do research on human culture and language

404media.co/google-books-i…

i'm far from alone in this, but the contractions in media have severely affected my freelance income and opportunities, so if anyone's looking for editorial or copy/bio writers in music, film, arts or culture, i'd love to talk!

i'm [email protected]
grantrindner.com

Another wrinkle in the ongoing battle between copyright holders and AI companies: the GPT Store allow developers to upload extra files—including whole books—as fuel for bots. One Danish publisher is spending hours manually tracking down his textbooks: wired.com/story/openai-g…

In 2022, we at WIRED told the story of P4x, a hacker who singlehandedly took down the entire North Korean internet.

Now he's revealing his name—Alejandro Caceres—and his strange experience since then: trying to teach the US military to be more like him. wired.com/story/p4x-nort…

Another wrinkle in the ongoing battle between copyright holders and AI companies: the GPT Store allow developers to upload extra files—including whole books—as fuel for bots. One Danish publisher is spending hours manually tracking down his textbooks: wired.com/story/openai-g…

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