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jeffjarvis

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#Journalism prof at CUNY's Newmark School. Author of THE GUTENBERG PARENTHESIS & OBJECT LESSONS: MAGAZINE upcoming from Bloomsbury. Cohost of This Week in Google on the TWiT network.

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One theory why polls, pollsters, and pundits should be ignored and citizens should be the first to speak in an election...
Seven Theories for Why Biden Is Losing (and What He Should Do About It) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/opinion/biden-trump-polls-debates.html?smid=tw-share

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I think I just finished a draft of an afterword for an academic book about the formation of the role of publisher in the early modern period. Many fascinating chapters and lessons. I pray my contribution will be worthy.

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@CitizenWald
Oh, you can be sure I'll be plugging. It's a Brill book, so it'll be pricey (but I will sneak you a PDF).

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@CitizenWald And I am eager for that!

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The way things are going, @jeffjarvis may need to write another book as a followup to his classic, "What Would Google Do?" to be entitled "What Did Google Do?"

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@lauren
What Hath Google Wrought?

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@lauren @harmonygritz
I would declare publishers to be the most guilty parties in screwing up the web with their attention economy of advertising importated into it, their flooding of the net with crap under their belief that they must fill any vessel with their content, their fraudulent clickbait, and their walls.
You?

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@lauren @harmonygritz
I should add that I have a book about rescuing the Internet coming out this fall. Preorders possible now. 😎
https://www.amazon.com/Web-We-Weave-Internet-Misanthropes/dp/1541604121

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@lauren @harmonygritz
In The Web We Wave (plug #2) I argue the time has come to demote the geeks, recognizing that the Internet is less a technology than a human network that reflects our success and failures. Thus I'm working on new academic programs to bring the humanities and social sciences into leadership of the net's (and AI's) future.

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@lauren @harmonygritz
Can't blame a feller for trying, eh?

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@lauren @harmonygritz
I agree, Lauren, I argue against just such as that in my book. (Plug #3)

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@harmonygritz @lauren
Oh, thank you for that. I'll confess I had not come across it. Paper printed out; I will read it after my constitutional....

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This is a delightful tour of a wonderful author's shelves. Gift link.
Book Tour: At home with Amor Towles https://wapo.st/3K8hmHn

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"Currently, experimental studies should not be used to support the conclusion that social media use is associated with mental health. Taken at surface value, mean effect sizes are no different from zero. Put very directly, this undermines causal claims by some scholars (e.g., Haidt, 2020; Twenge, 2020) that reductions in social media time would improve adolescent mental health."
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fppm0000541&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3Ch-cqTNvnfwapzrAdcHGj2meBqLbHSGdMc66sLbv6CYMdGkq_2dw3Q98_aem_AY0tiQJzF0AeV2IPb4Kcks-_a71cW4dbIopaIizTugQI_PXFNrN7PLll0zEbf8UT6-KnPGHgJ0WKRb-sm8OpgAn1

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In my next book, The Web We Weave, I call for the negotiation of just such covenants of mutual obligation to govern the future of the Internet and society on it according to sets of principles and goals. So I signed....
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/04/23/call-to-protect-wikipedia-global-digital-compact/

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Deep fakes, indeed.
Vatican tightens rules on supernatural claims in the digital age https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/17/vatican-supernatural-divine-manifestations/

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Days later they decide to find good news:
The Good News for Biden in Our Battleground Polls https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/us/politics/biden-battleground-polls.html?smid=tw-share

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Insipient bothsidesism. One of these men is competent and wise, the other is unable to have coherent thought.
What science tells us about Biden, Trump and evaluating an aging brain https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/05/18/biden-trump-age-cognitive-decline/

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@jmccyoung @cindyweinstein
Thank you. I hate to use gift links on articles I hate.

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Palantir's Karp, sans irony: “The peace activists are war activists. We are the peace activists.”
‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference
fixed link:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

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@nlpbot
Oops. Thanks. Fixing.

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What the hell is "superalignment"? When the "safety" people buy the BS of AGI, it's hard to know whether to take them seriously. We need safety without the superlatives, grounded in present-tense reality, not macho computer dreams and nightmares.

OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/openai-putting-shiny-products-above-safety-says-departing-researcher

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"Questions of Supreme Court impartiality."
No, those questions have long-since been answered. But The Times still tiptoes around a fascist takeover...
Display at Alito’s Home Renews Questions of Supreme Court’s Impartiality https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/us/justice-alito-flag-reactions.html?smid=tw-share

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The Times found two dozen random who said what it wanted them to say and then put this high up on its home page, where anything bad about Biden goes....
In His Beloved Philadelphia, Biden Faces Wariness From Black Voters https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/us/politics/biden-philadelphia-black-voters.html?smid=tw-share

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Biden has installed the most non-White judges of any president https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/17/biden-trump-judges-diversity/

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For decades Brent Bozell's Parents Television Council has been the enemy of free speech in America. His son was just sentenced to prison for Jan. 6. Some parent.
Son of prominent conservative family sentenced to nearly 4 years for Jan. 6 https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/17/bozell-jan-6-sentence/

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