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China’s sweeping new anti-espionage law will make it easier to arrest foreigners
Apr 27, 2023 | The Globe and Mail
New law expands the definition of spying amid a renewed crackdown on journalists and growing pressure on foreign businesses
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Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight, and Nate Silver (and his models) are leaving
Apr 25, 2023 | Nieman Lab
Silver on ABC: "They have limited rights to some models post–license term, but not the core election forecast stuff."
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NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
Apr 12, 2023 | NPR
NPR's official Twitter feeds have gone silent. The news organization cites the social media platform's decision to question NPR's editorial independence through a series of inaccurate labels.
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David Wolf – remembering a China hand
Apr 09, 2023 | Imagethief
David in his natural environment. From his Instagram. In June 2004, I quit a perfectly good job at a little PR firm in Singapore and went to Beijing to do a three month language program. Eight year…
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Apr 08, 2023 | ProPublica
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.
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We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
Apr 07, 2023 | simonwillison.net
Donald Trump Probably Should Not Have Been Charged With (This) Felony
Apr 04, 2023 | Slate Magazine
It is said that if you go after the king, you should not miss.
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Chefs vs Cooks
Apr 03, 2023 | forfuturecontext.substack.com
A mindset switch that expands possibilities
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Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'
Apr 03, 2023 | Business Insider
Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.
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Think of language models like ChatGPT as a "calculator for words"
Apr 03, 2023 | simonwillison.net
Lithium is becoming more crucial in a warming world, but Maine’s huge deposits may never be mined because of environmental concerns - The Boston Globe
Apr 02, 2023 | BostonGlobe.com
By some estimates, the lithium deposits near Newry may be the largest in the country — with the potential to become a critical domestic supply for automakers and so valuable that they could provide a needed boost to Maine’s economy. But there's more...
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Andor creator Tony Gilroy tells us why revolutions are always relevant
Apr 01, 2023 | Polygon
Also, what’s Kino Loy up to now?
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AI and the American Smile
Mar 30, 2023 | Medium
How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression.
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Texas Observer will continue publishing after staff crowdfunds more than $300,000
Mar 30, 2023 | The Texas Tribune
The crusading liberal magazine had planned to lay off its staff and shut down. But the board has now reversed course.
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AI assisted learning: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
Mar 29, 2023 | simonwillison.net
I’m using this year’s Advent of Code to learn Rust—with the assistance of GitHub Copilot and OpenAI’s new ChatGPT. I think one of the most exciting applications of large language …
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Andor’s prison trilogy weaponizes the iconic parts of Star Wars
Mar 29, 2023 | Polygon
Andor went to prison a good show and came out a great one
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