Hear me out: A "Murder She Wrote" and "Columbo" crossover.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.”

Also: it misquotes the Pope.

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How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.

This is why AI companies went to integrate AI into everything. They need your data.

These layoffs are an absolute bloodbath.

I wonder if he could smell space on her. Like, “Mom, good to see you. Am I picking up notes of Nutella, rocket fuel, and sea water?”🐶

Seems accurate.

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Are you an early career research who would like to spend a semester at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen? We have a call out now for a stipend to cover mobility expenses for 3-4 months in the first half of 2027. Apply before 15 May! skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=...

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Trump, hours until deadline, threatens Iran's 'whole civilization will die tonight' President Trump issued the grave new warning against Iran's "whole civilization" if it doesn't agree to his demands by Tuesday night.

U.S. citizens: CALL your elected leaders NOW, and demand they take action in response to Trump's statement: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again..." It is a threat of genocide against Iran. He needs to be removed from power.
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This.‼️‼️‼️ (Except now we are the ones who are going to start it)

The Artemis crew can’t get any news from earth for the next few minutes, and I’m so jealous of them right now.

#76 Robot Friends?: A Conversation With Dr. Julie Carpenter YouTube video by The Internet is Crack

I was interviewed on @theinternetiscrack.bsky.social podcast about culture, AI, people, robots, design, ux, governance, ethics, and where the hell we go from here. youtu.be/HUylKg_R4EQ?...

I’m watching the new essential film, Ghosts in the Machine, featuring many esteemed colleagues of mine, and noting how many of the great men scientists making claims about the ability for machines to mimic humanity also denied the humanity of women in myriad ways.

Two dogs posing for an Easter picture. One dog is large with white, brown, and black fur, has floppy ears, and is wearing a green doggie vest and tie. The second dog has mostly brown fur, is slightly larger than a chihuahua and is wearing a green tie

The Chaos Brothers are wishing everyone who celebrates a Happy Easter.

What Cambridge is reading Personalized picks, curated by the team at MIT Press Bookstore for Cambridge Day.

Book recs from our crew at the MIT Press bookstore!

I'm sorry. Wut, now?

This is a serious blow not only to all of these fields but also to society and science. The core of our society is how we interact with one another.
#academicsky

There's a wide range with Lutherans I find.

The Boston Globe ends its use of the AI tool Nota after Poynter reports that it plagiarizes Angela Fu of Poynter Online published a story on Thursday that’s been rocketing around media circles. Her lead: “Artificial intelligence company Nota — whose clients include organizatio…

New at Media Nation: The @bostonglobe.com ends its use of the AI tool Nota after @poynterinstitute.bsky.social reports that it plagiarizes, although the Globe says it wasn't using *that* part of Nota. #journalism dankennedy.net/2026/04/03/t...

I was raised in a conservative Lutheran household, and we had to be quiet growing up on Good Friday. There also is no speaking or greeting of others after the service.

Also, Good Friday is not exclusively Catholic. Christians generally celebrate it, and some Protestant churches, like Lutherans, have formal church services. Rarer now, but some of them would last 3 hours, marking the last hours of Christ on the cross from noon-3 pm.

A lot of schools and businesses in the Chicago area will either have it off. For schools, it is either part of spring break or a teacher institute day. A lot of banks used to be closed or close at noon. It was much more common when I was younger.

At least it's not CoPilot. 😬

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This is the challenge among every scholarly field.

If you want to understand the scope of data center demands on water and electricity, I highly recommend this recent report by Crain's Chicago Business. It does an excellent job of breaking down the issues in plain language with excellent use of graphics. www.chicagobusiness.com/forum/ccb-fo...

This is Nessie and Millie. Neither of them ever really learned how to dig, but Millie is pretty sure it's like giving CPR. 12/10 no one tell her (TT: millieandazula)