| Emerson's words, my sentiments: | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7042536M/Emerson%27s_essay_on_compensation |
| Leftovers are tossed after 2 weeks: | https://justmytoots.com/@overtondoors@infosec.exchange |
Another incredibly bad use of AI: fake polling. See an interesting poll? Be sure to check the methodology!
NYT gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/ai-polling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y1A.npWr.AjQbQQEbSFQS&smid=url-share
A recent Axios story on maternal health policy referenced “findings” that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. On the surface, there’s nothing unusual about that. What wasn’t originally mentioned, however, was that these findings were made up.
Clicking through the links revealed (as did a subsequent editor’s note and clarification by Axios) that the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions.
The practice Aaru used is called silicon sampling, and it’s suddenly everywhere.
He was mentally unfit for office when he was first elected in 2016. Mocking disabled people and bragging about sexually assaulting Women were wholly disqualifying, along with his lifelong history of fraud, corruption in NY, and rape. And decades long friendship with the most horrific rapist and child abuser in history.
Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story: “The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mark-jacob-interview-trump-coverage
There are only a few places online where people can gather and interact that _isn't_ massively tipping the scales in favor of AI. But there's no secret cabal of terminally online posters coordinating harassment campaigns to keep AI fans out. (As a terminally online poster, I feel like I would know) It's just that they're not popular here. Which is, actually, extremely predictable. They are artificially supported everywhere else, so if course this space has a higher proportion of members who are less than interested.
So, if we're an unusually tough crowd, it's because they did a bunch of crowd manipulation most everywhere else. And if they can't handle a tough crowd, that is no reason to suggest doing that same crowd manipulation here. 🤷♀️
A sad day for more than 120 #AssociatedPress employees as the organization announced that it is having to close down its newspaper-focused business, which represents only 10% of its revenue and is shrinking. More buyouts are expected.
The general public does not seem to value information quality, and at this point only governments will be able to sustain quality #journalism. https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-buyouts-ap-newspapers-dd790effc6a385514b3323560161ea4f
The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sustained the company for more than 1½ centuries. The news organization is becoming more focused on visual journalism and developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence. That's to cope with the economic collapse of many legacy news outlets. Once the lion’s share of AP’s revenue, big newspaper companies now account for 10% of its income. Julie Pace, AP's executive editor, says that “we’re not a newspaper company and we haven’t been for quite some time.
I LOVE this woman.
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