Sadness is a wall
/Sadness is a wall between two gardens. -Kahlil Gibran
Sadness is a wall between two gardens. -Kahlil Gibran
Sentiment Analysis (also known as opinion mining or emotion artificial intelligence) – A tool that uses natural language processing techniques to collect and analyze the tone behind how people interact online with a brand. It attempts to get past numbers (mentions, comments, etc.) to extract subjective qualities from data—including attitudes, emotions, sarcasm, confusion or suspicion. Sentiment analysis makes use of data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics to arrive at actionable insights.
The government can’t look at the location information on your phone without a warrant, but if a dataset that the government has purchased contains your phone’s location data, and the government is able to link it to you, then it can effectively perform an end run around the Fourth Amendment. The advantage of using LLMs for mass surveillance is that they can do far more work than human analysts far more quickly, but that also makes thoroughly checking their work impossible. -MIT Tech Review
Rising above the fray is a grown up thing to do.
What: Addressing the challenge for researchers and journalists of how to bridge the gap between the better aspects of the putative golden age and the realities of today and to do so from a perspective that is not rooted in Anglo conventions, anxieties, and shibboleths.
Who: Toby Miller, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; Sharon Coen, School of Health and Society, Media Psychology Team, The University of Salford, UK; Stina Bengtsson, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden; Lusófona University, Portugal; Emiliano Treré, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Cardiff University, UK; Cristina Pulido Rodríguez Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
When: 10 am – 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, Journalism and Media journal
What: Journalists and experts share insights and best practices on the smart use of AI in journalistic work.
Who: Roberta Carlini, European University Institute; Elda Brogi, European University Institute; Nisrine Salameh, International Federation of Journalists; Anthony Bellanger, International Federation of Journalists; Konrad Bleyer-Simon, European University Institute, Dariia Opryshko, NGO “Human Rights Platform.”
When: 8 am – 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: European University Institute
What: In this webinar, we’ll dig into the implementation challenges and opportunities at the heart of the administration’s AI literacy push: What is AI literacy—and how does it connect to the baseline digital skills that people already need but don’t always have? Who bears the responsibility for building these skills? What funding is available to support these initiatives, and how can it be effectively deployed? Which groups are being left behind as the administration forges ahead on AI upskilling? And how does all of this relate to the broader field of connectivity policy?
Who: Kyla Williams Tate, Director of Digital Equity for Cook County; Rachel Riggs, Sr. Technical Advisor, AI for Learning and Work at World Education; Annmarie Lanesey, CEO and Founder, Can Code Communities; Kara Kennedy, Founder of AI Literacy Institute; Jessica Dine Policy Analyst, Open Technology Institute and Wireless Future, New America.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New America
What: You'll learn: The basics of data reporting; The basics of audio reporting; How to bring the two together — without losing your listeners.
Who: Hannah Reale, GBH News.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New England First Amendment Coalition
What: We’ll walk through research‑driven recommendations to help you integrate AI in ways that elevate (rather than overwhelm) your learning strategy. You’ll leave with concrete steps for improving communication around AI, strengthening employee adoption and leveraging agentic capabilities to streamline training.
Who: Tom Whelan, Director of Research, Training Industry.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Industry
What: A panel of physical safety, digital security, and legal experts will provide practical advice for journalists covering events in the U.S, including best practices for covering protests, interacting with police and federal law enforcement, and crossing borders. Journalists will learn about securing their devices, their legal rights at the border and during newsgathering, and de-escalation techniques in a hostile crowd.
Who: Charles Kuck, Founding Attorney, Kuck Baxter LLC; Harlo Holmes, Chief Security Programs Officer, Freedom of the Press Foundation; Jeff Belzil, Security Director, International Women Media Foundation; Jen Nelson, Director of Pre-Publication Review and Journalist Support, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Viktorya Vilk, Director, Digital Safety and Free Expression, PEN America.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: U.S. Journalist Assistance Network
What: Why the AI model collapse threat could become journalism’s unexpected leverage point; How original reporting becomes scarce and commercially valuable in an AI-driven content ecosystem; Where journalism sits in the emerging four-layer AI economy; What “journalism-first, AI-enabled” looks like through examples from The Hindu Group; What this shift means for subscriptions, licensing, content strategy, and revenue growth.
Who: Pradeep Gairola, Chief Digital Business Officer, The Hindu.
When: 4:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to members
Sponsor: The HinduNews Media Association
What: Discover practical, ready-to-use insights through live demos of Box Agents, Box Extract, and Box Automate, brought to life with real customers from financial services, life sciences, technology, and more.
Who: BOX CEO and Co-Founder Aaron Levie.
When: 9 am, Eastern & 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Box
What: We will analyze current research on AI summaries and their impact on clicking and reading behaviors, including a recent Pew Research Center study finding that when an AI summary appears, users are almost half as likely to click on traditional search results and far less likely to visit the original sources cited.
Who: Maryska Connolly, MLIS, CloudSource Director of Partnerships & Communications, SirsiDynix; Rick Branham, Senior Vice President, Sales Support, Academic & Content Solutions, SirsiDynix.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: SirsiDynix and Library Journal
What: A presentation on trademark basics and their value for small businesses, including helpful tips when applying for a federal trademark registration and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Who: Liz Jackson, Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Temple University
What: You'll learn strategies for writing more effective image prompts to minimize bias and reflect more inclusive representation in your learning. You'll get tips to more authentically represent your training audience by using AI images. While AI tools are improving all the time, they still have limitations that you need to be aware of. We'll discuss some of the ongoing challenges with inclusive representation in AI image generation and options to minimize those issues.
Who: Christy Tucker, Learning Experience Design (LXD) Consultant.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
What: We will explore the flaws in AI tools, what happens when you push them further, where they break, and how to revise your approach to use them more effectively. Tools like ChatGPT are already part of many journalists’ daily workflows, but understanding how they behave is key to using them responsibly and accurately.
Who: Andrea Ball, an Investigative Reporter from the Austin Current.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: MuckRock
What: AI Impact Hour is a practical, interactive conversation designed for executive directors, staff, board members, and volunteers who want to understand what AI can realistically do in a nonprofit setting. You’ll see simple demonstrations and real examples, and you'll have a chance to share your experiences, challenges, and insights with the group.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
What: This session focuses on how journalists and editors can build sourcing practices that strengthen disability coverage by centering disabled expertise and reducing over-reliance on institutional voices. Grounded in the practical newsroom tools in Fix the Frame, the workshop will help participants think more critically about authority, accountability, and verification in disability reporting. Participants will leave with concrete strategies for building stronger sourcing plans that improve both rigor and representation.
Who: Russell Midori, board chair of Military Veterans in Journalism and a board member of both the Disabled Journalists Association and the Overseas Press Club Foundation.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Military Veterans
What: You’ll learn how to use Substack as more than just a newsletter tool. We’ll explore how it can serve as the hub of a broader ecosystem that includes social media, podcasts, video, and direct audience engagement. You’ll gain clarity on how to define your editorial identity, grow your subscriber base organically, and turn casual readers into a loyal and potentially paying community.
Who: Aaron Parnas, Independent Journalist
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $40
Sponsor: The Knight Center for Journalism
What: Brooke will share her personal journey into journalism and give students an insider look at what working in the news industry is really like today. Together, students will explore how news and media are changing in a digital world, how information is shared online, and what journalism could look like in the future.
Who: Brooke Hargraves is an experienced journalist and media adviser.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Trellis Media
What: Practical tools to strengthen your local news work
Who: Ellen Clegg, co-founder, board member, editorial adviser, Brookline.News; Dan Kennedy, professor of journalism, Northeastern University; Emily Turner, community deputy editor, Boston Globe; John Wihbey, Professor of Media & Technology at Northeastern University; Dan Lothian, Editor-in-Chief and General Manager of Local News; Lee Hill, Executive Editor, GBH News; Jonathan Kaufman, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, editor, and author, Northeastern University; Iris Adler, WBUR Public Radio.
When: 8:15 am - 3:15 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Northeastern University
What: This workshop offers a practical introduction to using AI for investigative journalism, focusing on real-world reporting applications. It covers workflows for extracting structure from text, cleaning data, identifying patterns, and checking findings with greater speed and depth, with demonstrations drawn from reporting on audit reports, public budgets, climate spending, and ad library data. It shows how investigative journalists can use AI tools to explore complex information and develop story ideas.
Who: Jaemark Tordecilla, a journalist, media advisor, and technologist.
When: 9:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Global Investigative Journalism Network
What: Discover how to elevate your nonprofit's impact through effective marketing strategies. From storytelling to digital outreach, this session will explore key tactics to enhance fundraising, volunteer engagement, and community support.
Who: Kiersten Hill, Director of Nonprofit Solutions, Firespring.
When: 3:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Firespring
What: How to approach storytelling across multiple social platforms. We’ll make sense of how to decide on different platforms to prioritize, how to decode analytics, how our guest works with reporters in the newsroom to translate in-depth reporting into video.
Who: Carissa Quiambao, Head of Social Video for ProPublica.
When: 3:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Eventbrite
Cost: $20
Sponsor: Video Consortium
What: We will explain why AI is quite proficient at some tasks while it performs poorly on others. AI safety concepts will be a significant part of the presentation. Leave with knowledge that will help you and your library be more prepared to serve your communities.
Who: Andres Ramirez, Director of Partnerships, AI Safety Awareness Project.
When: 3:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: WebJunction
What: Ways you can create and use podcasts in your organization to meet your learners where they are, build skills and confidence, and sustain and grow culture and alignment too
Who: Kevin Eikenberry, Chief Potential Officer, The Kevin Eikenberry Group and co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute.
When: 3:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
What: A virtual nuts and bolts discussion about the world of independent, audience-driven publishing — what it is, how to get started and how to keep it going and growing.
Who: Michele Hornish, communications professional; Martin Kuz, independent journalist; Liz Kelly Nelson, co-founder of Project C; Patty Rasmussen, independent journalist and SPJ GA Freelance Chair.
When: 6:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free for members, $10 for non-members
Sponsor: SPJ Georgia
What: This session will focus on research, reporting and data related to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with an emphasis on how public records and data can illuminate its operations and footprint. We will explore different ways reporters are using public records to build stories, analyze patterns, and uncover new angles.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: MuckRock
Respect people for who they are, not for what their titles are. -Herb Kelleher
How to Save Independent Journalism from AI – Washington Monthly
Reporters at McClatchy Withhold Bylines in Dispute Over A.I. Content – New York Times
Teaching journalism in the AI era – Editor & Publisher
Talking buildings and Pixar-like avatars: Cleveland Plain Dealer AI videos draw criticism – Poynter
Did I Really Say That? A European journalist apologized for using AI to fabricate quotes. But there’s little accountability in blaming a chatbot. – Columbia Journalism Review
News organizations reconsider ties to AI company Nota after plagiarism findings - Poynter
Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines – The Verge
ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
NYT union tells management its AI standards are "woefully inadequate" – Axios
AP threatens Lee over potential contract breach - Axios
Three ways AI is making reliable information harder to find - Poynter
New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use – The Wrap
Journalism students are more skeptical of AI than you might think - Poynter
Senior European journalist suspended for publishing AI-generated quotes – Euro News
A Fortune editor has cranked out more than 600 stories using AI – Wall Street Journal
AI advice from journalists who stopped talking and started building - Poynter
Can Jonah Peretti Save BuzzFeed From Extinction? Facing financial straits, the founder is betting on a skunkworks for A.I. experiments. - New York Times
An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work - Poynter
The stigma around AI in journalism may be easing, but trust is still fragile – Fast Company
Why communicators need to think like journalists when using AI - Ragan
"You can literally use AI to teach you AI. Go to ChatGPT or Claude and say you're interested in learning more about how to use AI in your role, and it will help you get started. Say, 'Over the course of two weeks or one month, can you build out a schedule of courses?' And it will give you a play-by-play of what you should do." -CBS News
The people who love you for real will notice your silence and come and sit in it with you.
How AI, Digital Doubles, and New Laws Are Rewriting Fashion and Beauty – National Law Review
Can You Trademark Yourself? Inside Matthew McConaughey’s Novel Legal Strategy to Fight AI Theft – Variety
Celebrities are filing trademarks to combat AI clones. Should you? – Washington Post
Questions about AI liability for tax professionals – Reuters
Prosecutor suspended by state supreme court for artificial intelligence use in court docs – ABA Journal
Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors – Reuters
Five book publishers and a best-selling novelist accused Meta of stealing their work to help train A.I. models. – New York Times
AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you – Reuters
An incoherent patchwork of state laws threatens to handicap America in the artificial intelligence race. – Washington Post
U.S. OpenAI Sued by Seven Families Over Mass Shooting Suspect’s ChatGPT Use – Wall Street Journal
Taylor Swift Files to Trademark Her Voice and Likeness, Apparently to Protect Against AI Misuse – Variety
Alabama Supreme Court drops the gavel on lawyer who apparently used AI to apologize for using AI – Yellow Hammer News
Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman head to court in high-stakes showdown over AI – Associated Press
An elite Wall Street law firm has apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing full of A.I. “hallucinations.” – New York Times
Florida's attorney general announces criminal investigation into OpenAI over shooting – NBC News
Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era - New York Times
Health AI and the law: Could your chatbot doc testify against you? – Mashable
A Judge Mistakes the Claude Chatbot for a Person – Wall Street Journal
Judges are increasingly using AI to draft rulings and prepare for hearings – Washington Post
A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety - New York Times
Helping the legal profession get AI‑ready: A new advisory board takes shape – Reuters
Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era - New York Times
AI-Generated Content and Copyright Law: What We Know – Builtin
This monkey selfie will protect you from AI slop – BBC
AI meets the gavel: Key legal battles and regulatory trends in the United States – JD Supra
Rethinking lawyer development in future AI-enabled law firms - Reuters
Palm readers and chatbots share a fundamental trait: Both operate within closed universes of information. The reader has only the cues you bring into the room; the AI has only patterns extracted from its training data. Neither can verify claims against a world they do not independently observe and both draw authority from fluent performance rather than reality. - Herbert Lin writing in The Washington Post
People pursue happiness, but it’s always temporary. Pursue meaning instead. -Emily Esfahani Smith
College students are noticing their AI‑smoothed writing sounds strong — and not like them – The Conversation
Why the ‘Middle Path’ of AI Literacy May Be the Future of English Class – The 74 Million
Princeton Mandates Exam Proctors After Fears of ‘Widespread’ AI-Fueled Cheating – Wall Street Journal
Pedagogy Under Pressure: How AI Is Forcing Business Schools To Rethink How They Teach – Poets and Quants
AI was ruining my college philosophy classes. So I assigned a new kind of essay. – Boston Globe
Faculty Concerned About ASU’s New AI Course Builder – Inside Higher Ed
When AI Cheating Becomes a Legal Risk – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter – Nature
A new library-based initiative at the University of Virginia embeds hands-on AI learning and workforce skills across disciplines. – Inside Higher Ed
This new tool makes AI's role in student writing visible – Phys.org
How should universities define AI proficiency? – Times Higher Ed
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us. - Ergophere
What the research shows about generative AI in tutoring - Brookings
Faculty are right that AI output is mediocre. They’re wrong about why – Times Higher Ed
ChatGPT fed his students easy answers, so he built an app to argue with them – Washington Post
A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons – Associated Press
These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times
Perfect homework, blank stares: Why colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI – Associated Press
An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall – Block Club Chicago
How Are Your Teachers Handling Writing in the Age of A.I.? – New York Times
Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI - Inside Higher Ed
Blue books make an "out of step" campus comeback in the AI era – Axios
University of Minnesota professors concerned about AI faculty reviews - The Minnesota Daily
How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It) - New York Times
80% of Teachers Are Using AI Tools in the Classroom – Technological Horizons in Education
Teaching AI by Doing, Not Studying - Inside Higher Ed
Apache Spark - This data processing tool can be used on very large data sets. Its “cluster computing” uses resources from many computer processors linked together for rapid data processing and real-time analytics. Thus, it supports predictive analytics, a data science tool. For instance, it can analyze video or social media data automatically. It's a scalable so that users can easily introduce more processors into the system to make it more powerful.
The most dangerous ghost in the machine isn’t a technical bug, it’s the human instinct to resist what we don’t trust. In my experience leading global operations and data governance at Amazon and ADP, I’ve seen perfectly engineered algorithms fail not because of the code, but because of a psychological rejection by the people expected to use them. Digital transformation is not just a technical milestone we can check off. In reality, it is a psychological one. -Andrew Hallinson writing in CIO
Nothing is to be preferred before justice –Socrates
OpenAI unveils three audio models for real-time voice tasks – Reuters
AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it? – The Verge
An Idiot’s Guide to Music AI Companies - PitchFork
China’s Biggest Streaming Platform Wants Most of Its New Films to Be AI-Generated – Gizmodo
Inside Suno’s $2.5 Billion Bet That AI-Made Music Is Here To Stay – Forbes
YouTube Opens Up AI Deepfake Detection Tool to All of Hollywood – Hollywood Reporter
The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed A.I.-generated video Campaign – New Yorker
A new viral dating show featuring sexy, cheating fruit could be proof that AI content can actually captivate viewers. – Wall Street Journal
Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War – 404 Media
AI-generated ads are trickling into political campaigns, sparking big worries – NBC News
A.I. Replica of Val Kilmer to Appear in Film After His Death – New York Times
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts - 404 Media
Netflix to Pay as Much as $600 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Firm – Bloomberg
AI-generated fake voices becoming increasingly hard to detect - Yahoo News
Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? - New York Times
Senators F Brady Tkachuk objects to 'fake' AI-generated White House TikTok – Reuters
How AI music tools are changing audio production – Venture Beat
These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times
German voice actors boycott Netflix over AI training concerns – Reuters
Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio – Tech Crunch
The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds - New York Times
Data shows that most employers would hire a candidate with AI skills over one with additional years of work experience. Research from Resume Genius found that 8 in 10 hiring managers consider AI skills a priority. -CBS News
A lot of the issues or problems we get into, we get into because we’re doing it all by ourselves. We’re relying on ourselves. We’re making decisions as our own island, if you will. And if we consult, chat, schmooze with other people, often we learn things or get different perspectives that can be quite helpful.
An active social life, active social bonds, in many different ways tends to be something that’s healthy for people. Social bonds can also be informationally healthy as well. So that’s more on a top, more abstract level, if you will. That is, don’t try to do it yourself. Doing it yourself is when you get into trouble.
David Dunning quoted in Vox
Five Ways A.I. Search Beats an Old-School Google Search – New York Times
How AI Helps the Best and Hurts the Rest – MIT
Etsy launches app within ChatGPT to facilitate conversational shopping experience – Retail Brew
Even Without Internet Access, Prisoners Are Trying to Benefit From A.I. – New York Times
'Jagged Intelligence': The Illusion Of Reasoning In Modern LLMs – Forbes
Anthropic's AI downgrade stings power users - Axios
Gen Z Is Using A.I., but Doesn’t Feel Great About It – New York Times
Students Are Using AI to Guide College Decisions. What Is It Telling Them? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun – NPR
Don’t Use A.I. to Do This – New York Times
How to Switch AI Chatbots—and Why You Might Want To – Wall Street Journal
WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more – Tech Crunch
How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews? – New York Times
Artificial intelligence helps you work harder, instead of just outsourcing your brain. – Washington Post
A.I. Agents: They’re Fun. They’re Useful. But Don’t Give Them the Credit Card. – New York Times
AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice – Stanford
I gave my parents 7 ChatGPT prompts — now they’re using AI every single day – Tom’s Guide
I’ve taught thousands of people how to use AI – here’s what I’ve learned – The Guardian
Stanford just proved your AI chatbot is flattering you into bad decisions – AI for Automation
Employers are demanding AI skills. What's the best way to learn them? – CBS News
Sorry, Mom. You’re Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son. – New York Times
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