Merry Christmas Eve to all of you who celebrate. I’m home in Green Bay, Wisconsin where my family will watch the Packers game together and then do our traditional evening of heavy appetizers and playing games. On Monday morning, we’ll open gifts and play more games. We’re very competitive and like to show our love by making it tough for each other to open some of the gifts. This year, my brother has frozen $40 worth of pennies in two five-gallon buckets with a present in the middle for each of my two nephews. We also have something out in the middle of the pond ….
This is my dad helping to get a part of someone’s Christmas present out on the ice. Given how warm it is, it will likely be floating by Christmas Day.
I’m going to be doing a 2023 in review this week and a 2024 look ahead the first week of January. However, there have been some excellent 2024 prediction pieces already coming out, so I’m including some of those here.
Happy Holidays!
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What I’m Reading
Observer Research Foundation: What to expect in 2024
The Economist: The World Ahead 2024
Bill Gates: The road ahead reaches a turning point in 2024
The Wikipedian by William Beutler
Rest of World: YouTube is the last bastion of unbiased journalism in India
Rest of World: Four predictions for 2024
Wall Street Journal: We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?
Financial Times: Narendra Modi: ‘Our nation is on the cusp of a take-off’
International Republican Institute: Artificial Intelligence and Our Democracies: A Look into AI in Ecuador
Washington Post: Opinion How the battle for democracy will be fought — and won
National Intelligence Council: Foreign Threats to the 2022 Elections
DFR Lab: How social media platforms shaped our initial understanding of the Israel-Hamas conflict
New York Times: Migrants Crossing the Darién Gap Find Success on Social Media
Financial Times: Elon Musk’s X in political advertising push to offset revenue falls
Washington Post: The rise of AI fake news is creating a 'misinformation superspreader'
The Atlantic: Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore
The Information: OpenAI Overhauls Content Moderation Efforts as Elections Loom
CNBC: How 2024 presidential candidates are using AI inside their election campaigns
New York Times: State Dept.’s Fight Against Disinformation Comes Under Attack
Washington Post: The AI election is here
The Information: Musk’s Mouthpiece: How Nick Pickles Fights Governments on Behalf of X
Hamish McKenzie: Substack Response on Nazi Content
OpenAI: Preparedness - The study of frontier AI risks has fallen far short of what is possible and where we need to be. To address this gap and systematize our safety thinking, we are adopting the initial version of our Preparedness Framework. It describes OpenAI’s processes to track, evaluate, forecast, and protect against catastrophic risks posed by increasingly powerful models.
Wiley Law: FEC Adopts New Rules for Internet Communications and Candidate Salaries
The Daily: The Year of Taylor Swift
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Merry Christmas! Would encourage you to read more independent voices on substack instead of linking to MSM, whose audiences continue to decline because no one trusts them anymore. Here’s one of the best posts of the year: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/ns-lyons-china-convergence-interview-banger