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The Influencer Next Door: How Misinformation Creators Use GenAI
Advances in generative AI (GenAI) have raised concerns about detecting and discerning AI-generated content from human-generated content. Most existing literature assumes a paradigm where 'expert' organized disinformation creators and flawed AI models deceive 'ordinary' users. Based on longitudinal ethnographic research with misinformation creators and consumers between 2022-2023, we instead find that GenAI supports bricolage work, where non-experts increasingly use GenAI to remix, repackage, an…

A window on a quiet small courtyard in the old town, Edinburgh.
#SilentSunday #FensterFreitag

In 1970, fifth-grader Joel Lipton sent a fan letter to Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, asking him what makes a good citizen.
Schulz's response couldn't be more relevant today.
Schulz wrote, "Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call 'American Virtues' who lack this faith in our country."
Schulz's letter emphasized the importance of following one's conscience and protecting "our s…

Charles Schulz's 1970 letter to a schoolchild describes the fake patriotism of today's MAGA movement
50 years ago, Peanuts' Charles Schulz presciently said those who "cry out the loudest in favor of 'American virtues'" lack faith in democracy.

Tomorrow I am giving a talk around the importance for designers to not strive for ‘digital literacy’ but rather for ‘nature literacy’.

I believe an understanding of our connection to nature is the only way people will find incentive to stop destroying it, and to make better decisions as creators. A willingness to spend time in nature every day is part of that mindshift.

Which is why I found this statistic so very disturbing. Our tech-centric world is teaching us to ignore natu…

🌟 Explore the mission and vision behind 'fun code()', the magazine revolutionizing Kotlin development, with its creators Chet Haase & Marc Reichelt. Full discussion here: https://youtu.be/qJ8YpOyT5-o

"Go into the night, creatures of the night," a voice mocked. "Oh, fools, your doom hounds your heels like a blind dog, and you know it not."

"Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness," growled the Stygian, his dark eyes flickering with menacing lights and shadows. "Had I not lost the Ring, our positions might be reversed."
The Phoenix on the Sword (1932) (Conan) by Robert Ervin Howard

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
[Blake and the others descend a ladder down a wall lit in red, then travel through some red-lit corridors. They see a door down the next corridor.]
AVON: [Blocking Blake] Hold it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/462 B7B2

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'Tokyo Vice' Canceled After Two Seasons on Max
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Canceled By Max After Two Seasons
Max series Tokyo Vice has ended after two seasons. The news was revealed today during a Produced By panel at the Fox Studios with participants Max Head of Original Content, Sarah Aubrey, Tokyo Vice creator J.T. Rogers and EP/director Alan Poul. Said a Max spokesperson in a statement in regards to the series farewell, “From Tokyo […]

Ukrainian intelligence ‘strikes Su-57 warplane deep inside Russia’
Ukraine’s forces have hit an advanced Su-57 warplane on an airbase in Russia nearly 600km from the frontlines, according to Ukrainian military intelligence.
The GUR shared satellite photos appearing to show an aircraft among scorch marks and craters. “The pictures show that on June 7th, the Su-57 was standing intact, and on the eighth, there were ruptures from the explosion and characteristic spots of fire cau…