Pri Bengani
@acookiecrumbles.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow, Tow Center
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It looks like the MIT Technology Review did the equivalent of the dril candles post but for real open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...
May 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It looks like the MIT Technology Review did the equivalent of the dril candles post but for real open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...
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The new pope signed up for Twitter in 2011 with a Hotmail email address that he also used for a lot of other stuff, which is how I know that he's probably the first pope on Zynga and almost certainly the first pope on Tumblr
May 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The new pope signed up for Twitter in 2011 with a Hotmail email address that he also used for a lot of other stuff, which is how I know that he's probably the first pope on Zynga and almost certainly the first pope on Tumblr
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this is not a dunk, but the fact that this detail is blowing up despite the book it came from coming out 2 months ago shows that if you want to bury a damning scoop, put it in a book
May 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
this is not a dunk, but the fact that this detail is blowing up despite the book it came from coming out 2 months ago shows that if you want to bury a damning scoop, put it in a book
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1. Can you figure out where I was standing when I took this picture?
ChatGPT could. Given the photograph (scrubbed of all header information), the new chain of thought model, ChatGPT o.3, was able to pinpoint the location with a few meters.
ChatGPT could. Given the photograph (scrubbed of all header information), the new chain of thought model, ChatGPT o.3, was able to pinpoint the location with a few meters.
April 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
1. Can you figure out where I was standing when I took this picture?
ChatGPT could. Given the photograph (scrubbed of all header information), the new chain of thought model, ChatGPT o.3, was able to pinpoint the location with a few meters.
ChatGPT could. Given the photograph (scrubbed of all header information), the new chain of thought model, ChatGPT o.3, was able to pinpoint the location with a few meters.
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Views are the only number anyone cares about on the internet anymore. I tried once again to figure out what views mean, and I got… nothing. Views are lies.
On TikTok, YouTube, X, and everywhere, ‘views’ are lies
You might think a “view” means you watched something. You’d be wrong.
www.theverge.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Views are the only number anyone cares about on the internet anymore. I tried once again to figure out what views mean, and I got… nothing. Views are lies.
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Know of a website or tool that would be useful to #journalists? Submit it on this form and we'll consider it for The Journalist's Toolbox™:
JOURNALIST'S TOOLBOX AI SITE SUBMISSION
Have a site you want to have listed on Journalist's Toolbox AI? Fill out this form and submit it. We'll review it and post it if we think it's a good fit for the site.
buff.ly
March 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Know of a website or tool that would be useful to #journalists? Submit it on this form and we'll consider it for The Journalist's Toolbox™:
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Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/
March 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/
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Lovely chart from our pals at Chartr. It does appear we are at the peak of Streaming Mountain. What’s coming next?
sherwood.news/business/bri...
sherwood.news/business/bri...
March 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lovely chart from our pals at Chartr. It does appear we are at the peak of Streaming Mountain. What’s coming next?
sherwood.news/business/bri...
sherwood.news/business/bri...
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I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
March 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
Setting The Last of Us S2 trailer to You Know You’re Right is all kinds of perfect (including perfectly complementing Future Days).
March 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Setting The Last of Us S2 trailer to You Know You’re Right is all kinds of perfect (including perfectly complementing Future Days).
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An excellent breakdown. What I take from Kevin's post is the need to understand the information people are exposed to at the content (not source) level.
This emphasis on content-level analysis is partly why I'm excited by the conscientious use of LLMs as tools for large-scale, yet nuanced enquiry.
This emphasis on content-level analysis is partly why I'm excited by the conscientious use of LLMs as tools for large-scale, yet nuanced enquiry.
Nice article by Kevin Munger (based on @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social et al.'s paper on FB polarization and @jongreen.bsky.social et al.'s paper).
Part of the argument is that one reason we don't find filter bubbles is that we've been looking in 2D
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...
Part of the argument is that one reason we don't find filter bubbles is that we've been looking in 2D
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...
Unbundling and Abundance
on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
open.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
An excellent breakdown. What I take from Kevin's post is the need to understand the information people are exposed to at the content (not source) level.
This emphasis on content-level analysis is partly why I'm excited by the conscientious use of LLMs as tools for large-scale, yet nuanced enquiry.
This emphasis on content-level analysis is partly why I'm excited by the conscientious use of LLMs as tools for large-scale, yet nuanced enquiry.
How does Finder still not have a “recently closed” / “reopen recent” menu option?
March 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
How does Finder still not have a “recently closed” / “reopen recent” menu option?
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“In exchange for the ability to establish operations in China, Facebook will agree to grant the Chinese government access to Chinese users’ data — including Hongkongese users’ data,” one privacy policy staffer wrote.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Zuckerberg’s Meta considered sharing user data with China, whistleblower alleges
Meta went to extreme lengths, including developing a censorship system, in a failed attempt to bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a whistleblower complaint.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
“In exchange for the ability to establish operations in China, Facebook will agree to grant the Chinese government access to Chinese users’ data — including Hongkongese users’ data,” one privacy policy staffer wrote.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Here are the slides for our talk “Who’s Behind This Website?” that @acookiecrumbles.bsky.social and I just gave at #NICAR25.
Slides: bit.ly/nicar25-behi...
Repo with cheatsheet: github.com/jonkeegan/be...
And here’s experimental “NICAR Website Sleuth” GPT that can help you: bit.ly/nicar-sleuth...
Slides: bit.ly/nicar25-behi...
Repo with cheatsheet: github.com/jonkeegan/be...
And here’s experimental “NICAR Website Sleuth” GPT that can help you: bit.ly/nicar-sleuth...
BEHIND-THIS-WEBSITE-NICAR25
Who’s Behind This Website? Priyanjana Bengani Data Reporter Bloomberg Bluesky: @acookiecrumbles.bsky.social Mastodon: @[email protected] Jon Keegan Tech reporter / Data journalist Sherwo...
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March 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Here are the slides for our talk “Who’s Behind This Website?” that @acookiecrumbles.bsky.social and I just gave at #NICAR25.
Slides: bit.ly/nicar25-behi...
Repo with cheatsheet: github.com/jonkeegan/be...
And here’s experimental “NICAR Website Sleuth” GPT that can help you: bit.ly/nicar-sleuth...
Slides: bit.ly/nicar25-behi...
Repo with cheatsheet: github.com/jonkeegan/be...
And here’s experimental “NICAR Website Sleuth” GPT that can help you: bit.ly/nicar-sleuth...
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I'm excited to be in Minneapolis for @ire-nicar.bsky.social #NICAR25 ! If you are here, please say hello!
@acookiecrumbles.bsky.social and I will be reprising our talk about website investigations "Who's Behind That Website?" on Friday, March 7, 11:30 a.m.
schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/
@acookiecrumbles.bsky.social and I will be reprising our talk about website investigations "Who's Behind That Website?" on Friday, March 7, 11:30 a.m.
schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/
March 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I'm excited to be in Minneapolis for @ire-nicar.bsky.social #NICAR25 ! If you are here, please say hello!
@acookiecrumbles.bsky.social and I will be reprising our talk about website investigations "Who's Behind That Website?" on Friday, March 7, 11:30 a.m.
schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/
@acookiecrumbles.bsky.social and I will be reprising our talk about website investigations "Who's Behind That Website?" on Friday, March 7, 11:30 a.m.
schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/
The Sports live widget is great…except that the timer keeps going even after FT.
February 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Sports live widget is great…except that the timer keeps going even after FT.
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This is a shocker. Apple is winding down Advanced Data Protection in the UK, company says in press email, rather than build a backdoor for that government, which is impossible to do safely.
Every Apple user in the UK is now less safe. Other countries not affected.
Every Apple user in the UK is now less safe. Other countries not affected.
February 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is a shocker. Apple is winding down Advanced Data Protection in the UK, company says in press email, rather than build a backdoor for that government, which is impossible to do safely.
Every Apple user in the UK is now less safe. Other countries not affected.
Every Apple user in the UK is now less safe. Other countries not affected.
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February 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Here we go again: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
February 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Here we go again: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Periodic reminder to give apps limited access to Photos because, if not, well:
www.theverge.com/news/606649/...
www.theverge.com/news/606649/...
February 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Periodic reminder to give apps limited access to Photos because, if not, well:
www.theverge.com/news/606649/...
www.theverge.com/news/606649/...
I’ve had qualms about third-party app stores from the beginning and… well…
daringfireball.net/2025/02/hot_...
daringfireball.net/2025/02/hot_...
February 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I’ve had qualms about third-party app stores from the beginning and… well…
daringfireball.net/2025/02/hot_...
daringfireball.net/2025/02/hot_...
What is with Apple icons lately? First Playground and now Invites. They could’ve at least tried to do balloons instead of the random colourful circles.
(And, no, this isn’t nostalgia for the good ol’ skeuomorphic days.)
(And, no, this isn’t nostalgia for the good ol’ skeuomorphic days.)
February 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
What is with Apple icons lately? First Playground and now Invites. They could’ve at least tried to do balloons instead of the random colourful circles.
(And, no, this isn’t nostalgia for the good ol’ skeuomorphic days.)
(And, no, this isn’t nostalgia for the good ol’ skeuomorphic days.)
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“Disproportionately, the datasets that are no longer accessible through the portal come from the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of the Interior, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency.”
January 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“Disproportionately, the datasets that are no longer accessible through the portal come from the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of the Interior, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency.”
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This list of options is 🤨
January 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This list of options is 🤨