To get a sense for how unhinged our economy is from the real world, consider the fact that pollinators, earthworms, rainforests, clean air, parenting, friendship, sleep and solidarity are considered to be literally valueless according to our dominant metric of economic success.

When we talk about the manifold global dangers of concentrated power in tech, it's not abstract.

Hi quick media literacy on breaking news — maybe it’s helpful rn. If you see a variances in coverage, there are many reasons for that. 1) outlets have dif. standards for how to address speculation on crime scenes (ie what to say ocurred before law enforcement confirm) 🧵

Twitter's AI is doing great

Justice Department sues TikTok, over illegally collecting children's data apnews.com/article/tiktok…

Violent riots by groups associated with far-right networks have erupted in the UK. Social media videos of groups setting fire to hotels, police vans and breaking into shops are everywhere. It’s important to archive this material so it doesn’t disappear. Here's how to do that… 🧵

New from 404 Media: we got a massive leak from inside Nvidia (emails, Slack chats, documents) which show how it created a yet-to-be-released AI model. The leak shows that Nvidia scraped YouTube en masse, had clearance from highest levels of the company 404media.co/nvidia-ai-scra…

After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized. Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff 404media.co/where-facebook…

🔴 Tech companies will be forced to ban fake news from their platforms under plans being considered by the Government in the wake of the riots Read the full story here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

What connects a dad in Pakistan, an amateur hockey player from Nova Scotia - and “Kevin” from Texas? I tracked down people linked to Channel3Now, spoke to friends and questioned “management” to reveal real story behind the site accused of fuelling riots. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Study suggests that even the best AI models hallucinate a bunch ift.tt/uTLF7Ip

Elon Musk’s AI Image Generator Grok 2 will create pretty much any image you can think of — which is a very fun idea! Also possibly really bad. Get ready for some inappropriate political AI porn. trib.al/Qz5JMyY

Elon Musk

Moving over to bluesky ? Here's a chrome extension that will let you - find people you follow there here - find your followers from there - move your block list over chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-fol…

My first opportunity to ask Vladimir Putin a question since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It came at the end of the BRICS summit in Kazan. Producer Liza

This conversation is on #YourUndividedAttention is a must-listen. This episode breaks down the addictive features of many AI companions on the market and the competitive pressures that fuel unsafe design. These products are free to use and currently being shipped to 20M+ users,

Wrote this for the Radio Times… I care enormously about the BBC which is why I’m trying to be transparent about why I’m leaving and where I think it’s going wrong BBC is making a grave mistake axing HARDtalk, says host Stephen Sackur | Radio Times radiotimes.com/tv/current-aff…

PERSONAL NEWS 🗞️ I’m thrilled to say I’m writing a book for the great people at Headline Press If you care about truth-telling journalism, and the future of democracy I hope you’ll want to read it. More details in link⬇️ thebookseller.com/rights/headlin…

Researchers developed a large-scale system that detects political bias in web-based news outlets by examining topic selection, tone, and coverage patterns. The AI tool offers transparency and accuracy—even outperforming large language models. dlvr.it/TKxSVp

In this article republished by GIJN, three experts from Bellingcat dig into common open source errors that they have encountered, to help other online investigators improve the quality of their own work. twp.ai/4imzXw