hitting a homer while the canadians are booing you for not signing w them… 😭

when mia sato 佐藤みあ makes her grand return to chicago to speak about her pioneering reporting on AI tech 👏🏻👏🏻

The Post contacted 25 aid groups, U.N. agencies and donor countries to ask about aid delivery to Gaza and found that Israeli authorities have denied or restricted access to items ranging from lifesaving medical supplies to toys to chocolate croissants.

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the yale people are fighting bookforum.com/print/3004/lau…

scoop: A former TikTok employee raised concerns about the company's connections to ByteDance in China for years. He appears to have spoken to elected officials, law enforcement, and journalists. In two new lawsuits, he makes a number of improbable claims wired.com/story/tiktok-w…

The funniest possible update to this story -- for a time this afternoon Meta wouldn't generate any Asian people using these same prompts lol:
theverge.com/2024/4/4/24121…

Meta's AI image generator is apparently unable to generate images of Asian men and white women using prompts like 'Asian man with caucasian wife.' Every single time I tried it made both people Asian:
theverge.com/2024/4/3/24120…

Wrote about sports gambling, Shohei, and why I’ve changed my mind about a few things, namely I don’t think it’s good for leagues and sports media to partner this aggressively w gambling apps. We are gonna see a lot of scandals and nobody’s ready for them newyorker.com/news/fault-lin…

I'm very excited to be back in Chicago next month for the Chicago Humanities Festival! I'll be moderating a panel on AI art and media production. How can we use AI tools to enrich our understanding of ourselves and others? Ticket info here: theverge.com/24099817/verge…

everyone iconic is a pisces i'm realizing....

kate middleton when you ask her for a picture of her family:

I'm not a royal family person but I was really curious about the 'kill notices' being issued over Kate Middleton's botched Photoshop job. I learned that retractions like this are VERY rare, and signal a serious breach of protocol/trust: theverge.com/2024/3/12/2409…

the oscars after doing land acknowledgments on the red carpet and then snatching the award away from lily gladstone