What I'm Reading - 6/23/24
When you read this, I will likely be in the middle of Smoothrock Lake fishing for walleye and northern pike. Hopefully, I’ll have some good pictures to share with you all next week. If you are wondering where this is, you can see it’s about three hours north of Lake Superior on the map below. No roads to this lake exist, and we must take a float plane to get there.
Before I go I did want to plug two bracelets that I asked Meadow of Meadows Crystals to make me to help with writing and public speaking. I love them and she’s made them available publicly so I wanted to share them with you. You can buy the writer here and speak easy here. Pictures below.
Have a great Sunday!
PS: Good news for my fellow Yellowstone fans. The show is back November 10!
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What I’m Reading
Everything In Moderation: Who's in the corner of T&S?
Wired: The venom and antidote for GenAI in political campaigns
National Endowment for Democracy: Manufacturing Deceit: How Generative AI Supercharges Information Manipulation
Associated Press: AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns
The Conversation: Indian election was awash in deepfakes – but AI was a net positive for democracy
404 Media: AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell
The Media Copilot: The Unstoppable Rise of AI Summaries
The Daily Beast: The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn’t Need Warning Labels
Nieman Journalism Lab: Worldwide, news publishers face a “platform reset”
YouTube Blog: Testing new ways to offer viewers more context and information on videos - YouTube Blog
POLITICO: Tories brace for brutal civil war
Pew Research Center: How Americans Navigate Politics on TikTok, X, Facebook and Instagram
Aspen Digital: Responsible technology: A path towards an ethical innovation ecosystem
auditing TikTok: How young adults use TikTok
The Connector: The State of Civic Tech as Seen from TICTeC 2024
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism: Digital News Report 2024
Meta: Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR
Spotify Newsroom: How Spotify is Protecting Election Integrity in 2024
- : What Happened to People Magazine?
TrustLab: Panicking Responsibly During Elections: Lessons from Katie Harbath
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