'Before there is genius'
'The soil that grows genius is something all of us can be.' Revisiting Lu Xun's 1924 talk to Beijing students.
Patrick Boehler
Five recent papers on what AI models hold back
What it takes to get past a censor's, erm moderator's, classifiers.
Re:filtered #33: Broken little guys and instant soup
Three insights how we talk to machines, what they will make for us, and how we talk about them.
Re:noted #5: tbd/con is over. Here's what we learned building it
In case you want to create your own pixel-world convening…
Join us this November: a five-week book club on Making the shift to service
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Re:noted #4: Ask what people would lose to understand 'why' and 'how'
Our first RJI innovation column is on interviewing your audience without collecting polite yeses.
Re:filtered #32: They have some records. We have the world.
A script now reads my district's council record every week. Everything it can't reach is where the work starts.
What audience interviews tell you that analytics can't
People rarely tell you what they need. They tell you where they are struggling, and the reading is yours to do.
Re:noted #3: Claiming to be a public good isn't good enough
There’s a lot of talk right now about how to make the case for journalism’s value. It’s tempting to argue from intrinsic worth, especially if your rent is paid by making such claims.
A weekend of HOPE, sorted
All 93 livestreamed talks from HOPE 26 in New York, grouped by theme, with the ones closest to our work flagged.