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"... we built a method to measure that heat using satellite data collected over 25 years. We tested it on Antel's data center in Pando, a state-owned facility, and found something never measured before in Uruguay: a heat island visible from space." mailchi.mp/pulitzercent...

"We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise... Offloading tasks to a chatbot does not 'free students up for higher-order work.' It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all." www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

Opinion | My Students Can’t Read

The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

chronicle.com

"A recent Stanford study found that employment for 22- to 25-year-old software engineers fell nearly 20% between late 2022 and July 2025, even as hiring for older engineers grew. " via Fast Company register.inc.com/index.php/em...

“A journalist’s job is to interrogate and find truth ... such as Trump being a felon, racist, and someone who seeks to willfully undermine the will of voters and the rule of law, we commit journalistic malfeasance if we cover him with a neutral framing.” www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...

When Neutrality Is a Constraint

Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitler’s rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?

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"...some analysts are holding up Builder.ai as a potential case of 'AI washing,' in which companies falsely promote products or services as AI to attract attention and funding." restofworld.org/2025/builder...

Inside the collapse of Builder.ai: Was it even an AI company?

The implosion of a white-hot startup has employees asking how it all went wrong.

restofworld.org

Going through some edits today, and this stood out as totally on brand: "Could Ganesh’s mouse play a bigger role in the plot?"

three mice are standing on a wooden bench with the word prime video on the bottom right corner

ALT: three mice are standing on a wooden bench with the word prime video on the bottom right corner

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"Pluralities of professors (close to half) in large public universities affirm that academic standards have declined in recent years and that grade inflation is a serious problem." www.chronicle.com/article/meet...

Opinion | Meet Students Where They Are? Maybe Not.

Lax standards will void the value of a college education.

chronicle.com

I've been thinking about this a lot - is it possible to copyright yourself to protect your individuality being sucked into the LLMS? www.fastcompany.com/91360589/den...

Denmark wants you to copyright yourself. It might be the only way to stop deepfakes

Copyrighting our faces will be an effective way to effortlessly force platforms to take down deepfakes.

fastcompany.com

Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/f... via @techcrunch.com

Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books | TechCrunch

A federal judge sided with Meta in a lawsuit that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on copyrighted works.

techcrunch.com

"By automating these decisions, we replace them with references to generalized, previously established, socially constructed imaginaries." mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-decision...

The Decision Not to Decide

Interfaces, and design of all kinds, exercise decision-making. Decision making is a form of power. What, then, is generative AI for design?

mail.cyberneticforests.com

"People do not believe journalists try to be fair, balanced or impartial — or do not agree that what we are offering meets those standards. This is their experience, and our defensiveness will not change that." - trustingnews.org/heres-the-pu...

Here’s the public’s wish list for trust. Let’s get busy.

Reuters Digital News Report share insights into four things the public says they want from journalists.

trustingnews.org

"Every year scores of Australians and thousands of others are denied entry to the United States. C.B.P. has full discretion, after all. What is new is the politically motivated deployment of that power to exclude speech that the government does not want to hear." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

newyorker.com

“I think many people assume there’s some baseline level of confidentiality there. There’s not. Everything you submit to an AI system at bare minimum goes to the company that’s hosting the AI.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Meta users don’t know their intimate AI chats are out there for all to see

Some people are unwittingly posting their private and sometimes mortifying conversations with the Meta AI chatbot to the world.

washingtonpost.com

“First is using AI for research and investigations,” Zach said. “Number two is internal workflows and processes those like knotty or just robotic parts of everybody’s job… And then the last area of focus is reader experiences.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

How a Five-Person AI Team Is Powering Innovation at The New York Times: In Conversation with Zach Seward

Plus: Join us at New York University for a Live Podcast Recording, June 3!

substack.com

"...we are heading towards a place where not only are image and video [AI] generations likely to be good enough to fool most people, but that those capabilities will be widely available and, thanks to open models, very hard to regulate or control." www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent...

The recent history of AI in 32 otters

Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals

oneusefulthing.org

As the CJC hands out millions to ‘Canadian’ media under the federal Online News Act, our Indigenous newsroom is left behind indiginews.com/first-person... via @indiginews.bsky.social

Why you won’t see IndigiNews among those sharing in the $100M Google news fund

As the CJC hands out millions to ‘Canadian’ media under the federal Online News Act, our Indigenous newsroom is left behind

indiginews.com

"To come up with a good AI policy for a university ... one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Opinion | What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee

What I learned serving on a university AI committee.

chronicle.com

This is why our student newsroom at OTR is filled with plant life! “According to a 2020 study, researchers found that 27% of participants saw a significant reduction of pulse rate when staring at a small plant on their desk" www.fastcompany.com/91334123/wha...

How bringing nature into your workspace can jump-start productivity

On average, people spend 90% of their time indoors. Adding nature-inspired touches to your work environment can do wonders for your health.

fastcompany.com

"These fraudsters — sometimes called ghost students, Pell runners, or straw students — are hitting the system’s central application portal at an alarming rate."

Is Your Online Student a Bot?

As AI gets better, online education becomes more vulnerable to fraud. Just ask instructors in California.

chronicle.com

via @thestar.com & @andytakagi.bsky.social #TTC track diversions for streetcars comin' in slow just in time for summer www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-s...

Check out my latest with lead author @karmicangel.bsky.social — and see how discussions on AI ethics in newsrooms may not be keeping up with practice

Digital Journalism@digitaljournalism.bsky.social · last yr.

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Angela Misri, @nicoleblanchett.bsky.social & April Lindgren examines how Canadian #newsrooms are using #ArtificialIntelligence, and whether ethical frameworks are adequately evolving alongside #technology. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New and open access from @karmicangel.bsky.social me and April Lindgren - re. how AI is being used & how AI ethics guidelines are being developed (or not) in Canadian newsrooms #journalsim #AI www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom

The burgeoning use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create journalistic products is challenging the ethical standards in Canadian newsrooms and calling into question the efficacy of existing no...

tandfonline.com

A public inquiry cleared former MP Han Dong’s name, but the cloud of foreign meddling still looms over candidates of Chinese descent. thelocal.to/don-valley-n...

“Everybody is Terrified of Getting the Label”—Why the Spectre of Chinese Interference Hangs Over Don Valley North | The Local

A public inquiry cleared former MP Han Dong’s name, but the cloud of foreign meddling still looms over candidates of Chinese descent.

thelocal.to

23andMe has declared bankruptcy - delete all your data ASAP: wapo.st/4kUsBEF

Column | Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now

The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California’s attorney general has issued a privacy “consumer alert.”

wapo.st

"...if Singh can’t convince Canadians his party represents more than a protest vote, it never will." via @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/with-the-ndp...

With the NDP Dropping in the Polls, What’s Left for the Left? | The Walrus

Jagmeet Singh is running out of time—and so is his party

thewalrus.ca

#APPLY The ‘Friends of Canadian Media’ Scholarship will be awarded annually to a student who demonstrates a strong enthusiasm for politics and a solid comprehension of journalism’s role in a thriving democracy. rtdnacanada.com/rtdnf-launch...

Right now, the fine print on how Twitter/FB/Insta are using your social media data is more transparent than how Musk will use your social insurance data, America.