Jennifer 8. Lee
@jenny8lee.bsky.social
Entrepreneur, journalist, film produceru. Also co-creator of 🥟🥡🥠. Member of Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. Working on a literary x AI project with @srhm.bsky.social.
Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet won the People’s Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival (big predictor of Oscars nominee and sometimes winner). Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein was first runner up, Knives Out second runner up. Chloe’s video played (charmingly) upside down.
September 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet won the People’s Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival (big predictor of Oscars nominee and sometimes winner). Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein was first runner up, Knives Out second runner up. Chloe’s video played (charmingly) upside down.
Palme d’Or at 2025 Cannes Fim Festival goes to Un Simple Accident, directed by Jafar Panahi, who got out of prison in Tehran in 2023.
Sixth Palme d’Or in a row that Neon has distribution for, starting with Parasite in 2019.
Sixth Palme d’Or in a row that Neon has distribution for, starting with Parasite in 2019.
May 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Palme d’Or at 2025 Cannes Fim Festival goes to Un Simple Accident, directed by Jafar Panahi, who got out of prison in Tehran in 2023.
Sixth Palme d’Or in a row that Neon has distribution for, starting with Parasite in 2019.
Sixth Palme d’Or in a row that Neon has distribution for, starting with Parasite in 2019.
Full house for the @hackshackers.com AI x Journalism Summit hosted by the Real News Network in Baltimore.
Organized by @pcheung630.bsky.social and @burtherman.com
Schedule: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Speaker list: www.hackshackers.com/join-us-for-...
Organized by @pcheung630.bsky.social and @burtherman.com
Schedule: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Speaker list: www.hackshackers.com/join-us-for-...
May 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Full house for the @hackshackers.com AI x Journalism Summit hosted by the Real News Network in Baltimore.
Organized by @pcheung630.bsky.social and @burtherman.com
Schedule: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Speaker list: www.hackshackers.com/join-us-for-...
Organized by @pcheung630.bsky.social and @burtherman.com
Schedule: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Speaker list: www.hackshackers.com/join-us-for-...
Our WikiPortraits project covered by the BBC!
I loved that they asked for before/after examples. Of those, Nobel Prize winner John Jumper of Deepmind is one of my favorite contrasts.
Also they used a bright blob of a human as example of terrible photos on Wikipedia
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I loved that they asked for before/after examples. Of those, Nobel Prize winner John Jumper of Deepmind is one of my favorite contrasts.
Also they used a bright blob of a human as example of terrible photos on Wikipedia
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The amateur photographers fixing Wikipedia's 'terrible' pictures
The site is littered with awful photos, particularly of celebrities - but a volunteer project is trying to fix that.
www.bbc.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Our WikiPortraits project covered by the BBC!
I loved that they asked for before/after examples. Of those, Nobel Prize winner John Jumper of Deepmind is one of my favorite contrasts.
Also they used a bright blob of a human as example of terrible photos on Wikipedia
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I loved that they asked for before/after examples. Of those, Nobel Prize winner John Jumper of Deepmind is one of my favorite contrasts.
Also they used a bright blob of a human as example of terrible photos on Wikipedia
www.bbc.com/news/article...
WikiPortraits has our first press article! From @404media.co (I cold pitched them after reading all their very excellent Wikipedia coverage).
I love quotes from all our wiki volunteer photographers Jeremy Strong, Jaipur Literature Fest. www.404media.co/photographer...
I love quotes from all our wiki volunteer photographers Jeremy Strong, Jaipur Literature Fest. www.404media.co/photographer...
Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits
WikiPortraits, a group of volunteer photographers, has been covering festivals and shooting celebrities specifically to improve images in the public domain.
www.404media.co
March 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
WikiPortraits has our first press article! From @404media.co (I cold pitched them after reading all their very excellent Wikipedia coverage).
I love quotes from all our wiki volunteer photographers Jeremy Strong, Jaipur Literature Fest. www.404media.co/photographer...
I love quotes from all our wiki volunteer photographers Jeremy Strong, Jaipur Literature Fest. www.404media.co/photographer...
A description of Reliable Sources/Perennial Sources list on Wikipedia (transparent evaluation of reliability of sources, legacy media and otherwise) in the New Yorker apple.news/AVkzkxQQyR2i...
Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia — The New Yorker
Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.
apple.news
March 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A description of Reliable Sources/Perennial Sources list on Wikipedia (transparent evaluation of reliability of sources, legacy media and otherwise) in the New Yorker apple.news/AVkzkxQQyR2i...
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber at the Knight Media Forum in Miami with Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, CEO of Knight Foundation.
February 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber at the Knight Media Forum in Miami with Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, CEO of Knight Foundation.
Festivus celebration! With a real legit aluminum pole. And airing of grievances. (None of this Christmas Adam bit).
December 24, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Festivus celebration! With a real legit aluminum pole. And airing of grievances. (None of this Christmas Adam bit).
On this 🦃 eve, worth reposting this from last year 9! Bluesky!
This splayed heritage turkey made me feel… uncomfortable.
November 28, 2024 at 12:56 AM
On this 🦃 eve, worth reposting this from last year 9! Bluesky!
Was surprised that Derek Tran, who has now pulled ahead of Representative Michelle Steele in the hotly contested California-45 House race, didn’t have a Wikipedia page, just a redirect. So here it is! Created by an editor we trained Wikipedia Inmersive Training (WIT) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_T...
Derek Tran - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 18, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Was surprised that Derek Tran, who has now pulled ahead of Representative Michelle Steele in the hotly contested California-45 House race, didn’t have a Wikipedia page, just a redirect. So here it is! Created by an editor we trained Wikipedia Inmersive Training (WIT) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_T...
Started the Wikipedia page for “slop”, a new-ish term akin to “spam” but to describe low quality content generated by AI. Come add! “Shrimp
Jesus” images were contributed by someone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slop_(a...
Jesus” images were contributed by someone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slop_(a...
Slop (artificial intelligence) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 6, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Started the Wikipedia page for “slop”, a new-ish term akin to “spam” but to describe low quality content generated by AI. Come add! “Shrimp
Jesus” images were contributed by someone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slop_(a...
Jesus” images were contributed by someone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slop_(a...
A visit to the Banned Books Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Opened to 2020 by a Scotsman as a passion project in Catholic church rental
property.
Surprising number of children’s books, including Winnie the Pooh (“banned in China because Winnie looks like President Xi”), Where the Wild Things Are.
property.
Surprising number of children’s books, including Winnie the Pooh (“banned in China because Winnie looks like President Xi”), Where the Wild Things Are.
May 8, 2024 at 12:11 AM
A visit to the Banned Books Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Opened to 2020 by a Scotsman as a passion project in Catholic church rental
property.
Surprising number of children’s books, including Winnie the Pooh (“banned in China because Winnie looks like President Xi”), Where the Wild Things Are.
property.
Surprising number of children’s books, including Winnie the Pooh (“banned in China because Winnie looks like President Xi”), Where the Wild Things Are.
Totality from Hot Springs, Arkansas. On iphone 15 right before it died. At a very well timed wedding.
April 11, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Totality from Hot Springs, Arkansas. On iphone 15 right before it died. At a very well timed wedding.
Wiki(pedia) and AI hackathon in San Francisco on Monday, April 15 at @GrayAreaorg in the Mission. Brainstorm and develop AI tools on Wikipedia and other wikis, for drafting, curating, summarizing and illustrating articles! The clever name: Waikiki! lu.ma/k84uw71w
April 4, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Wiki(pedia) and AI hackathon in San Francisco on Monday, April 15 at @GrayAreaorg in the Mission. Brainstorm and develop AI tools on Wikipedia and other wikis, for drafting, curating, summarizing and illustrating articles! The clever name: Waikiki! lu.ma/k84uw71w
I’m an executive producer on Sasquatch Sunset, which is coming to theaters in April
With Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg. It has NO DIALOGUE, which made for an interesting (and short) script. Premiered at Sundance and played at Berlin.
Here is the unusual trailer: youtu.be/KgfkthLpeXw?...
With Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg. It has NO DIALOGUE, which made for an interesting (and short) script. Premiered at Sundance and played at Berlin.
Here is the unusual trailer: youtu.be/KgfkthLpeXw?...
Sasquatch Sunset | Official Red Band Trailer | Bleecker Street
Watch the official red band trailer for Sasquatch SunsetOnly In Select Theaters April 12. Nationwide April 19. Get Tickets:https://www.sasquatchsunset.film/t...
youtu.be
March 23, 2024 at 5:31 PM
I’m an executive producer on Sasquatch Sunset, which is coming to theaters in April
With Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg. It has NO DIALOGUE, which made for an interesting (and short) script. Premiered at Sundance and played at Berlin.
Here is the unusual trailer: youtu.be/KgfkthLpeXw?...
With Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg. It has NO DIALOGUE, which made for an interesting (and short) script. Premiered at Sundance and played at Berlin.
Here is the unusual trailer: youtu.be/KgfkthLpeXw?...
We are hosting an AI x Journalism hackathon at Columbia in NYC. April 5-7, 202, Hosted Hacks Hackers and Brown Institute, with Hugging Face and Coding Space. Apply here! lu.ma/hh-ai-hackat...
Open Source AI Hackathon: Catalyzing new forms of journalism and civic information · Luma
Join Hacks/Hackers and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University for a weekend of building with open source AI for experiments relating to journalism and civic...
lu.ma
March 23, 2024 at 4:16 AM
We are hosting an AI x Journalism hackathon at Columbia in NYC. April 5-7, 202, Hosted Hacks Hackers and Brown Institute, with Hugging Face and Coding Space. Apply here! lu.ma/hh-ai-hackat...
First of its kind! Public webinar on how to craft the best emoji proposal it can be. Moderated by Jennifer Daniel with Wilder Wells of Google and Samantha Sunne of emojination April 16, 12 pm ET. Well worth it.
Emoji submissions start April 2, 2024!
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Emoji submissions start April 2, 2024!
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How to make your emoji proposal the best that it can be!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Every year the Unicode Consortium receives hundreds of emoji proposals, and only very few make their way into keyboards across the world as encoded characters. There are many categories that are at or...
us06web.zoom.us
March 23, 2024 at 4:03 AM
First of its kind! Public webinar on how to craft the best emoji proposal it can be. Moderated by Jennifer Daniel with Wilder Wells of Google and Samantha Sunne of emojination April 16, 12 pm ET. Well worth it.
Emoji submissions start April 2, 2024!
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Emoji submissions start April 2, 2024!
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This splayed heritage turkey made me feel… uncomfortable.
November 24, 2023 at 3:11 AM
This splayed heritage turkey made me feel… uncomfortable.
Want to go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August?
Our friend group booked a block of 30 rooms (upscale dorms with private baths in a good location).
And we have artists support for BIPOC comedians (performing or writing). https://forms.gle/MvBKaZe9bwxDWffM6
Our friend group booked a block of 30 rooms (upscale dorms with private baths in a good location).
And we have artists support for BIPOC comedians (performing or writing). https://forms.gle/MvBKaZe9bwxDWffM6
Goodside @ Fringe 2023
Goodside has reserved a block of modestly priced housing (e.g. dorms with private baths) from August 1-August 28, 2023 (27 nights) for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We are looking to build a mix of ...
forms.gle
July 15, 2023 at 1:07 PM
Want to go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August?
Our friend group booked a block of 30 rooms (upscale dorms with private baths in a good location).
And we have artists support for BIPOC comedians (performing or writing). https://forms.gle/MvBKaZe9bwxDWffM6
Our friend group booked a block of 30 rooms (upscale dorms with private baths in a good location).
And we have artists support for BIPOC comedians (performing or writing). https://forms.gle/MvBKaZe9bwxDWffM6
I finally saw Old Faithful! Unexpectedly. It’s in the bottom part of Yellowstone, far way from the interesting stuff in the northern parts, so missed it last time I was at Yellowstone.
July 15, 2023 at 1:04 PM
I finally saw Old Faithful! Unexpectedly. It’s in the bottom part of Yellowstone, far way from the interesting stuff in the northern parts, so missed it last time I was at Yellowstone.
Canadian judge rules that 👍 (given context) was agreement to a contract and not just acknowledgement of receipt of photo of the contract. (There is a lot of case law on contracts, so this is not too surprising). https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/world/canada/canada-thumbs-up-emoji-contract.html
Canadian Court Rules 👍 Emoji Counts as a Contract Agreement
The ruling pointed to what a judge called the “new reality in Canadian society” that courts would have to confront as more people express themselves with thumbs, hearts and smiley faces.
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2023 at 3:49 PM
Canadian judge rules that 👍 (given context) was agreement to a contract and not just acknowledgement of receipt of photo of the contract. (There is a lot of case law on contracts, so this is not too surprising). https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/world/canada/canada-thumbs-up-emoji-contract.html
This iPhone vs. Pixel video literally made me laugh out loud. It mirrors my conversation with @srhm.bsky.social to the last plop. (that being said, he got an IPhone 14 this month)
https://youtu.be/MIeJ-etE36o
https://youtu.be/MIeJ-etE36o
June 23, 2023 at 5:34 PM
This iPhone vs. Pixel video literally made me laugh out loud. It mirrors my conversation with @srhm.bsky.social to the last plop. (that being said, he got an IPhone 14 this month)
https://youtu.be/MIeJ-etE36o
https://youtu.be/MIeJ-etE36o
Sil Hamilton and I created this Venn diagram of concepts/product in AI for our Computer History Museum talk on the future of news.
Feedback/corrections? Still tweaking. We moved Deep Blue bc the museum staff told us we had it in wrong place and they knew because “We have the box” downstairs.
Feedback/corrections? Still tweaking. We moved Deep Blue bc the museum staff told us we had it in wrong place and they knew because “We have the box” downstairs.
June 23, 2023 at 3:35 AM
Sil Hamilton and I created this Venn diagram of concepts/product in AI for our Computer History Museum talk on the future of news.
Feedback/corrections? Still tweaking. We moved Deep Blue bc the museum staff told us we had it in wrong place and they knew because “We have the box” downstairs.
Feedback/corrections? Still tweaking. We moved Deep Blue bc the museum staff told us we had it in wrong place and they knew because “We have the box” downstairs.
Aftermath of Cannes premiere of Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny with Harrison Ford (who is 80!), Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, and Shaunette Renée Wilson.
The festival honored Ford with a surprise Palme D’Or.
📸: Emmanuel Even (who scored one of the precious tickets).
The festival honored Ford with a surprise Palme D’Or.
📸: Emmanuel Even (who scored one of the precious tickets).
May 20, 2023 at 3:57 AM
Aftermath of Cannes premiere of Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny with Harrison Ford (who is 80!), Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, and Shaunette Renée Wilson.
The festival honored Ford with a surprise Palme D’Or.
📸: Emmanuel Even (who scored one of the precious tickets).
The festival honored Ford with a surprise Palme D’Or.
📸: Emmanuel Even (who scored one of the precious tickets).
This made me realize that I rarely met any non-Asian Connies my generation, but plenty of older ones! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/11/opinion/connie-chung-named-after.html
May 11, 2023 at 4:58 PM
This made me realize that I rarely met any non-Asian Connies my generation, but plenty of older ones! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/11/opinion/connie-chung-named-after.html