Notices by David Weinberger (dweinberger@mastodon.social)

I just sent to MIT Press a book ready for copy-editing. Been working on it for 4 years, full time for 3, and obsessively for 6 months. This is the first time I haven't had something pushing aside all other duties. (Exception: grandkids.)

I'm going outside to rake some leaves! I hear it's autumn already!

#Canada to US air travel dropped 70% from last March to this March. But no cause for panic: Cratering the Us travel and hospitality industries are all part of Dear Leader's plan!

( We love you Canada! And we understand.)

https://www.traveldailynews.com/regional-news/significant-decline-in-canada-us-travel-bookings-reports-oag/

Anyone interested in the librarycloud.org domain name? I've had it since I was co-dir of Harvard #Library Lab. Free to a non-profit (at my discretion). Reply, or find me at weinberger.org

"Here's a good idea: Since we're worried about literacy and the Net making people dumb, let's pull 500,000 books from the @InternetArchive's online library. "

Sign the petition to reverse that decision. https://www.change.org/p/let-readers-read-an-open-letter-to-the-publishers-in-hachette-v-internet-archive #libraries #knowledge #access

Research showing LLMs' (chat AI) covert racism, triggered by dialects, is even worse than their explicit racism. An example of when you can be shocked but not surprised. via Gary Marcus https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/covert-racism-in-llms #AI #Bias #chatAI #LLM

@jeffjarvis' heartfelt, impassioned call for #journalism to move from seeing itself primarily as an information service, to being a builder and enabler of empathetic, truth-based communities. (Disclosure: We're friends. He doesn't know I'm posting this.) https://medium.com/whither-news/journalism-belief-belonging-07a8dabe35e4

A wealth of information and ideas in *Debates In the Digital Humanities 2023*, available online for free. (Yay for open access!) @laurenfklein.bsky.social, matthew gold. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023

I asked Google Bard, Gemini Pro edition, "If you were a woman how would you feel about abortion rights?" It's still surprisingly straightforwardly in favor of reproductive rights.

This a prediction from the 1950s is amazing. But I think it also shows some of the limitations of our predictive powers, especially ever since technology went from a steady walk to falling into wormholes. Still, props to Mr. Sullivan!

(scan via @davidisen)

A study finds that generative AI exhibits gender bias in the images of professions it creates. Dismayed at the findings and that the findings are not at all shocking. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4J2HHZHTVWZQIAPZC8UX/full?target=10.1080%2F14680777.2023.2263659

The ever humble #VintCerf talks about three mistakes he made when playing a crucial role in creating the #Internet's key protocols. https://spectrum.ieee.org/vint-cerf-mistakes