amac at UMass: How do we regulate AI? - Ethan Zuckerman
One of the most experienced tech policy makers - Alex MacGillivray - offers advice on regulating the real problems of AI.| Ethan Zuckerman
“Post-post-truth”, or how the SignalGate story is forking reality| Ethan Zuckerman
Alex MacGillivray – better known as “amac” – is a lawyer and technologist who was most recently deputy assistant to the president and principal deputy… Read More »amac at UMass: How do we regulate AI?| Ethan Zuckerman
I’m starting my day at MIT at a conference on the quantitative analysis of news, hosted by the folks behind Media Cloud. I shared the stage in the first session with an inspiring set of students, Jack Vu and Abby Manuel, who’ve developed icemap.dev, a map of ICE activity across the US using news data.… Read More »Tracking ICE with Media Cloud data The post Tracking ICE with Media Cloud data appeared first on Ethan Zuckerman.| Ethan Zuckerman
One of the most experienced tech policy makers - Alex MacGillivray - offers advice on regulating the real problems of AI.| Ethan Zuckerman
A road trip almost comes to an abrupt end, until the junkyards of Akron Ohio come to your correspondent's rescue.| Ethan Zuckerman
Elmira, NY, is a palimsest of history, nowhere more so that John Jones's farmhouse, across the street from the Confederate graveyard.| Ethan Zuckerman
A tour of Binghamton NY is a tour of American manufacturing, welfare capitalism and the joys of undervalued cities.| Ethan Zuckerman
Demographic information tells us a lot about small cities, but we need to know their history to understand their futures.| Ethan Zuckerman
What are the most undervalued cities in America? My 2024 summer roadtrip will visit cities like Utica, NY and Decatur, IL to see what's there| Ethan Zuckerman
Road trip: The Company Town and the Corn Fields| Ethan Zuckerman
For twenty years, Global Voices has connected writers and translators around the world. That work is harder - and more important - that ever.| Ethan Zuckerman
No better way to prepare for my next road trip than indexing the many blog posts from trips taken from 2022 - 2024....| Ethan Zuckerman
Every small town has a Chinese restaurant. But when you see a Nepali or a Gambian restaurant, it's a clue about the local community.| Ethan Zuckerman
The statistically improbable restaurant is the unexpected awesome eatery, revealing something about the local population. Find them with data!| Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman on the politics of the public sphere, and how embedding past behaviors in AI may give a conservative bias to an AI age| Ethan Zuckerman
Don't Look Up anticipates the stupidity of our political moment, but misfires on the power of authenticity. Enjoy the apocalypse.| Ethan Zuckerman
Some news stories have the power to divide reality in two, based on what you - and the people you listen to - choose to believe.| Ethan Zuckerman
Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen close out the first day of “Attention: Freedom, Interrupted”, in a live taping of a podcast (Machines Like Us) for the Globe and Mail. The topic is the evolution and collapse of journalism in democratic societies… and it would hard to imagine a better pair of conversants for this topic.… Read More »Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen: Can journalism survive Trump? Can democracy? The post Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen: Can journalism survive Trump? Can democracy? appeared...| Ethan Zuckerman
(Ongoing coverage of Attention: Freedom, Interrupted at McGill University in Montreal. Liveblog – I will get things wrong – feel free to correct me if I have misrepresented you.) How does a nation become resilient to foreign election interference? Atte Jääskeläinen, director of Finnish foundation Sitra, argues that it’s part of Finland’s national character. Finland… Read More »Focus on the player, not the puck: Finnish approaches to combatting electoral interference The post Fo...| Ethan Zuckerman
Canada’s information environment, heading into 2025 elections, is a highly contested space with low trust and a new source of disinfo: the US| Ethan Zuckerman
America's legacy cities are shrinking, but they are as vital as our national parks. And they have much better food.| Ethan Zuckerman
How big is YouTube? It's not easy to find out, but we did two years of research and figured out how...| Ethan Zuckerman
