“I know that’s right!” is perhaps the highest compliment a Black person can give you.

Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

“Whether you're using ChatGPT text or voice, asking it personal questions, or just brainstorming for work, it seems that the longer you use the chatbot, the more likely you are to become emotionally dependent upon it.”

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This man is pickle French toast walking so the rest of us can skibbidy run.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

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Increasingly hard to distinguish whether someone is deliberately spelling words wrong in their social posts so they can generate engagement or if it’s a genuine misspelling.

Still haunted by someone writing “ease dropping” in their caption.

Great conversations and insights at the NABJ Media Institute this weekend at Morehouse. Lots of conversations around the current landscape of DEI and the rise of AI for personal and professional development.

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Oh, the places your PDF can go! From chatbots to AI podcasts, the ways you can interact with documents have evolved.

What do AI 2Pac and Lake Sheboygan have in common?

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Assortment of Gullah dishes in a box.

Was blessed to sample Gullah cuisine in Savannah GA with my colleagues. Also the best okra I’ve ever had.

Here’s a picture of me taking a picture of my food. For research.

Virtual room with African inspired motifs

Turns out Google Meet has a Black History Month” virtual room option

AI Tools, Transcriptions, and a Digital Grandma Walk Into a Newsletter... Transforming your audio, your eyes, and the way you talk to grandmothers.

The first edition of dots & dashes, my new newsletter on journalism and AI, is now live! Learn about how you can tackle your transcriptions, correct your eyeline, and hopefully not get tricked by scammers. And of course, be sure to subscribe!

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Yes he is 🤓

Built my guy his own custom crane machine for his birthday 🎉

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Bring It On but for marching bands?

Also… the unexpected foreshadowing of this @washingtonpost.com headline www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-an...

Getting my priorities in order this weekend.

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Media and digital literacy are key to disrupting disinformation.

--clapping back/arguing just helps to amplify bad faith accounts & false material

--don't share "funny" disinfo to dunk on it; some will still believe it

--BLOCK, REPORT, and tell others to do same *without* sharing disinfo content

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Bacon, Bad Bunny and BlueSky. A great morning.

Shout out to the graphic design team for helping a cub reporter shed more light on the (unfortunately ongoing) issue

Just remembered that my very first multimedia project in a newsroom was a series of Flash animation explainers on California wildfires

X hires former WSJ editor and bureau chief to lead news group | TechCrunch X wants to make its platform a home to the future of news and journalism. On that front, the company has now hired John Stoll, a former editor and Detroit

Full circle moment

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Chicken box: “you had me at first dip”

Me when “Da Dip” came out in 1997:

A last minute flight out of Hartsfield Jackson airport.