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Yury Dudas
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Futurist, focused on gender relationships, bringing up children & religion
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Here's the piece if you want more than theTL;DR version above! www.ft.com/content/e2dd...
Are we becoming a post-literate society?
Technology has changed the way many of us consume information, from complex pieces of writing to short video clips
www.ft.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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For folks in the St. Pete / Tampa area, come to @poynterinstitute.bsky.social in May to drink and talk with us about truth on the internet www.poynter.org/event/the-fu...
The Future of Facts Online - Poynter
Join us for a Poynter Community Conversation about information integrity on social media platforms, how artificial intelligence is shaping messages, what dangers lie ahead, and the tools you can use t...
www.poynter.org
March 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Betteridge’s Law applies here.
Could AI help us build a more racially just society? | Sanmi Koyejo
We have an opportunity to build systems that don’t just replicate our current inequities. Will we take them?
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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OpenAI partners w/ MIT Media Lab on studies of chatbot use and loneliness.
OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional wellbeing
We’re starting to get a better sense of how chatbots are affecting us—but there’s still a lot we don’t know.
www.technologyreview.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Happy to share the second in a series of articles I'm doing on psychedelics in America. This one is a bit more of a cautionary (but still supportive) tale.

jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/the-coming...
The Coming Pivot in Psychedelic Medicine
Our society may soon switch from having too little access to psychedelics to having too much.
jaymichaelson.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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"Roger Ebert once said “The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before.” and the booing is people coming back to realizing this simple fact. You are not creative and then create something, you become creative by working on something, creativity is a byproduct of work." - @tante.cc
The growing backlash against AI
While the crowd at sxsw2024 booing a sizzle reel of people either promising the beauty of the future "AI" will bring or claiming it to be "without alternative" is funny and went viral for all the righ...
tante.cc
June 27, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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I'm seeing takes on this, such as, 'Why don't we make our own twitter?' I will offer my theory; if Black people disengaged and refused to operate in spaces that have been or have become hostile to us, there would simply be nowhere for us to go.
“Alterations to the algorithm and a laissez-faire approach to moderation have lent X an air of sustained mayhem. Black Twitter, though, is unbothered. Many users have doubled down on nourishing spaces of enjoyment amid the lawlessness happening across the timeline.”
Black Twitter Remains Unbothered
Many Black users who stayed amid the chaos and change on the platform, now named X, have found a renewed sense in what originally fascinated them: the mundanity in connection.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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1. Meta hires 15,000 content moderators for Facebook and Instagram. TikTok has 40,000.

2. It says a lot that all the bad press around hate speech, child sexual abuse, and gore on X elicited no such response.

3. This is proof that Community Notes couldn’t replace moderation.
Elon Musk's X to hire 100 content moderators in wake of Taylor Swift,...
The San Francisco-based company formerly known as Twitter announced on Friday that it will build a "trust and safety center" in Austin, Texas.
nypost.com
January 29, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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thing about all this ai hardware is it necessarily has to have an umbilical that phones every thing you do back to the mothership, like consumer ai is fundamentally incommensurable with privacy. here's another: www.wired.com/story/humane...
Humane’s Ai Pin is a $700 Smartphone Alternative You Wear All Day
If you’re willing to clip the Ai Pin to your chest, you can talk, gesture, and tap to take photos or summon a powerful virtual assistant.
www.wired.com
January 30, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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This interviews not a single user of color even though the moderation issues on Bluesky were almost entirely concentrated on anti pOC and specifically anti Black racism

" we are a really small team"

is not an acceptable answer to

" we actually laughed and mocked our targeted users" for a year
Bluesky CEO confronts content moderation in the fediverse | TechCrunch
The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation's Informed event is Elon Musk's nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter's former
techcrunch.com
January 30, 2024 at 5:56 AM
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“Luka has been developing a version of Tomo that works on Apple's new Vision Pro headset. The immersive aspect, Kuyda [the company’s founder] says, makes it a good match for the wellness features Tomo offers — whereas ‘when you are just on your phone, it is very easy to get distracted.’”
AI chatbots now aim to be your "wellness coach" and reduce loneliness
The latest product from Replika's maker offers yoga and meditation instruction.
www.axios.com
January 30, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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"Unlike any other TV in your life, the Vision Pro can DRM your eyes. ... It is strange to think of living in a reality where big companies can block you from capturing what you see" www.theverge.com/24054862/app...
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
The Apple Vision Pro is supposed to be the start of a new spatial computing revolution. After several days of testing, it’s clear that it’s the best headset ever made — which is the problem.
www.theverge.com
January 30, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Hey folks, my newest project just got released! I co-wrote and directed this short film that is a ‘book trailer’ for ASU’s new ‘Climate Action Almanac’ - a book of fiction and essays looking to the future. Really proud of our work and would love if you checked it out. 🎬🌍✨

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The Assignment – The Climate Action Almanac Trailer
“The Assignment” is a production of Scirens, in association with the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University.This film is a traile...
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January 18, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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We must tear down the internet's compulsory-reaction culture: "Reactions became so prevalent they devolved into another kind of reply. The replacement for the noise became the noise ... so obligatory and profuse that they only slow us down" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... @ibogost.bsky.social
I Will Not Thumbs-Up Your Email
Emoji, tapbacks, and thumbs-ups were devised to spare your time and attention. Now they’ve become a chore.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2024 at 3:01 PM
The final curtsy from sir Paul: the last song in Beatles anthology is officially written and sung by John 💔

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November 3, 2023 at 7:27 AM
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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
In a world of infinite AI, the new luxury item will be humans
An explosion of commoditized machine-generated products and services will make human-centered offerings rarer, more desirable and therefore more valuable.
www.businessinsider.com
October 25, 2023 at 1:21 PM
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