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Photoshop for Web
Insanely good. It blows my mind that this can be done on the web platform now. #Technology [Link]
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Amanda Zamora is stepping down as publisher at The 19th
Amanda is absolutely fearless and I was privileged to work with her. As co-founder of The 19th, she was an absolutely core part of what it became: both a strategist and culture instigator. What she does next will certainly change media; I'll be cheerleading. #Media [Link]
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Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup
"By that point, Meta had been receiving detailed and increasingly desperate warnings about Facebook’s role as an accelerant of genocidal propaganda in Myanmar for six years." We need more discussion of this - I'm grateful for this four-part series. #Technology [Link]
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US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out
"Somewhere between 300 to 400 physicians a year in the US take their own lives, the equivalent of one medical school graduating class annually." #Society [Link]
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Oxford University is the world’s top university for a record eighth year
This presumably means that the Turf Tavern is the best student pub in the world. #Society [Link]
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How the “Surveillance AI Pipeline” Literally Objectifies Human Beings
"The vast majority of computer vision research leads to technology that surveils human beings, a new preprint study that analyzed more than 20,000 computer vision papers and 11,000 patents spanning three decades has found.” #AI [Link]
Every company is a community
There’s a piece in the latest Harvard Business Review which starts with a premise I’d like to challenge: It’s well-known that firms where strategy and culture align outperform firms where they do not. It follows, then, that if the two aren’t aligned, you most likely need
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How I approach crafting a blog post
"I don’t think I’ve seen someone walk through their process for writing a blog post, though." I love this breakdown! Tracy's structured process shows up in the quality of her posts. I love the thoughtfulness here. #Media [Link]
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Privacy Party
This is really good: a browser extension (for Chrome-based browsers) that goes through your social networks and helps you update your settings to optimize for privacy and security. Really well-executed. #Technology [Link]
Unions work
The Writer’s Guild of America seems to have received everything it asked for: Delivering on issues that many scribes saw as core to their profession, the deal contains big leaps in AI guardrails, residuals and data transparency for writers — leaps that could be transplanted into the upcoming negotiations between
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Britain’s attitude to refugees shows, once again, that it’s a colonial nation
"Hostile immigration policy stokes racism but the foundation it builds upon itself is racist and maintains a 'colonial present'. Through dealing with migrants like pests, who deserve to be locked away in a prison barge, the British government continues to ignore the fact that, “Borders maintain hoarded
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In defense of aggressive small-town newspapers
This: "The prevalence of “news deserts” has apparently led some to think it’s normal for neighborhood news outlets to function as lapdogs rather than watchdogs." The purpose of journalism is to investigate in the public interest. #Media [Link]