- The AI Bubble
- Know What the Internet Knows About You
- CBS News: All Dershowitz, All the Time
- The Data Centers Resistance
- AI Stereotypes LGBTQ+
- Bezos’s New AI Startup
- Whose BBC?
- Unionizing Digital Media
- Those Pesky Democratic Socialists
- Visualizing Trans Coverage
The AI Bubble
By Justin HendrixTech Policy Press
Does today’s massive AI investment boom reflect real economic fundamentals or an unsustainable bubble? How could a potential crash reshape AI policy, public sentiment, and narratives about the future that are embraced and advanced not only by Silicon Valley billionaires, but also by politicians and governments?
Know What the Internet Knows About You
By Jack WallenZDNET
Your digital footprint is the trail of data you leave behind on the internet, including browsing history, social media posts, and online interactions. It can be pretty disturbing what’s out there. The list of IP addresses and services associated with a URL you’ve visited can be eye-opening. If you want to find out exactly what your footprint looks like, there’s a free Python tool called ‘theHarvester’ that was created for this very thing.
CBS News: All Dershowitz, All the Time
By Stephen PragerCommon Dreams
“I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Bari Weiss said, describing her political plans for CBS News. She cited a debate between torture-promoter Alan Dershowitz and NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch as an example of "the center-left and the center-right."
The Data Centers Resistance
By Molly TaftWired
Data centers house IT infrastructure like servers, storage systems, and networking equipment to store, process, and manage data. Miquel Vila, a data center watchdog, says that opposition to their spread is growing. “Before, was something that could happen,” he says. “Now it seems that it’s very likely that when you are developing [a data center], potentially someone is going to organize.”
AI Stereotypes LGBTQ+
By Aaron SpitlerGlobal Voices
Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ (LGBTQ+) community have paid more attention to the downsides associated with AI. Many problems can be traced back to the data used to train models, which is often rife with stereotypes and misconceptions about LGBTQ+ people. Yet AI’s “offline” impacts can be equally alarming.
Bezos’s New AI Startup
By Scott ClarkVKTR
Jeff Bezos steps back into an operational leadership role as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new AI startup focused on building “AI for the physical economy.” Prometheus is positioning itself as an AI research lab focused on manufacturing, logistics, engineering and other real-world systems. Bezos’s self-appointed return to a CEO seat suggests he sees an untapped opportunity in industrial and infrastructure-focused AI.
Whose BBC?
By Des FreedmanLondon Review of Books
The BBC is embroiled in a crisis that has so far seen the resignations of two senior executives and the threat of a billion-dollar lawsuit from Donald Trump. The immediate trigger was a dossier of allegations of liberal bias that was leaked to the hardcore conservative Daily Telegraph.
Unionizing Digital Media
By Sarah JaffeTalking Points Memo
Truthout workers transforming their own working conditions helped change the reputation and power of digital publications, and to shape a generation’s thinking about labor unions. Unionization has helped to stabilize an industry, and smoothed the landing when digital outlets go bust. The overall momentum created a wave that shows no sign of stopping.
Those Pesky Democratic Socialists
By Ari PaulFAIR
Seattle voters ousted incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell for community organizer and democratic socialist Katie Wilson, who had the endorsements of unions, Democratic clubs and the Stranger, the city’s alt-weekly. Corporate media are not happy about her victory, priorities or rhetoric.
Visualizing Trans Coverage
By Carolina Abbott GalvãoColumbia Journalism Review
The Trans News Initiative tracks coverage of trans communities for the benefit of journalists, media organizations, and researchers. The data visualizes scale of coverage by representing news events as circles, made up by dots that signify individual articles, on Montana’s drag ban, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s transphobic tweets, Donald Trump’s prohibition on trans military members, and many other subjects.
