umair haqueinEudaimonia and Co·17 hours agoMember-onlyThe Doom Loop That’s Destroying Our Economy(Why) Our Economies Are Trapped in an Arms Race They Can’t Win — Take a hard look at our economies. What do you see? Here’s what I see: they’re trapped in an arms race they can’t win. What do I mean by that? Another month — another brutal round of interest rate rises. Don’t worry — this isn’t just going to be about…News10 min readNews10 min read
umair haqueinEudaimonia and Co·1 day agoMember-onlyThe Way America Treats Its Elderly Is UnconscionableThe Crisis America Doesn’t Talk About, And Its Warning for the World — There are many ways that America’s a uniquely failed society, from shootings to rising authoritarianism. But of all these ways, one still flies under the radar much more than it should. The way America treats its elderly. It’s unconscionable. A scandal. A failure of grave — and terrible — proportions…News11 min readNews11 min read
Nick DiakopoulosinGenerative AI in the Newsroom·4 hours agoCan GPT-4 Help Cover Events?Earlier this week the AI, Media, and Democracy Lab at the University of Amsterdam (where I’m on sabbatical), hosted a panel discussion on the Legal Aspects of Generative AI. This is an important topic since legal questions are often top-of-mind for journalists thinking about using generative AI technologies in production. …News4 min readNews4 min read
Paul SilverinThe Skiff·2 hours agoNews: Board Games Night coming, and Shown & ToldIt’s Board Games heaven next week, and a write up of the eight talks from Show & Tell this week Next week: Board Games Night When: 7pm onwards on Friday 31st March Where: The Engine Room Chris H is running his regular board games night next Friday (31st March). Here’s what he has to say…News4 min readNews4 min read
Burnt BanksyinBurnt·1 day agoA New Era for BurntIt’s been a while since we last spoke. Today, we end the silence with several major announcements. THE JOURNEY I originally started Burnt after the Banksy burning to create a better space for the future of art. …News3 min readNews3 min read
FelixinNOS Digital·1 day agoAnimating the News with AIIn this post we discuss potential integrations of Stable Diffusion into our news platform for youth. We — data scientists and developers at the public news organisation NOS — explored ways to automatically generate animations based on textual features from news articles. $ whoami I am writing this blog as the…News10 min readNews10 min read
umair haqueinEudaimonia and Co·2 days agoMember-onlySo… How “Doomed” Are We?Five Levels of Ruin — And Where Our Civilization Ranks — One of the things that I find interesting these days, in a kind of sardonic way, is this. “Doom” has gone mainstream. You can read articles about it in the august pages of the New York Times. And those articles always have the same slant: “We’re not doomed!! Stop being…News11 min readNews11 min read
Alex Ates Haywood·6 hours agoMember-onlyI Am So Tired Of Defiance Of Climate FactsAnd of gaslighting posing as hope — I am so tired of the “we are all doomed but there is reason for hope” articles that have proliferated in mass media since the newest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) summary report came out this Monday. The title of one terrible article (among many) declares: Climate damage is…News6 min readNews6 min read
Anton Andrew·2 hours agoMember-onlyMISSILES ON GERMAN PARLIAMENT AND CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE?Putin friend threatens to attack Germany New escalation in the propaganda war Putin friend Dmitry Medvedev called any attempt to arrest the Kremlin strongman abroad a “declaration of war” The reason for the threatening gestures: a possible arrest of Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin. Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants last week, Putin could…News3 min readNews3 min read
Caitlin Johnstone·1 day agoUS Officials Really, REALLY Want You To Know The US Is The World’s “Leader”Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ In response to questions he received during a press conference on Monday about Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin cementing a “new era” in strategic partnership between China and Russia, the White House National Security Council’s John Kirby made no fewer than…News5 min readNews5 min read
