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  "Right now, about four babies are born every second. You become one of them and live that one life all the way to its end. Where you are born, and to whom, you don’t get to choose. Just as you didn’t." 1 in 8 Billion is a fascinating life simulator you can play in your browser: https://1in8b.life/en/ #games #simulation

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  Last weekend, roughly 200 media, IT, and policy people met at #FediDay Berlin to discuss the status quo & future of the #Fediverse & decentralized #SocialMedia. Our @lxplm@mastodon.social also attended – albeit on behalf of #SWR X Lab (welcome to the #ARD federation). Together with @Silbendrechsler@hessen.social (who runs the @3sat@zdf.social account), he discussed ongoing Fedi projects in the world of German public broadcasting. The session (& many others) will be available via @p...

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  This is a big one. “(...) standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (...) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten freedom of expression and thought.” (via Amnesty International) https://www.amnesty.org/...

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  Printed publications are in a major crisis, aren't they? Well, for some, they're "a novelty", "something different", and "something interesting". Apparently, there's still a market, a specific audience journalists can and should adapt to. Noëlle de Leeuw for CJR: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/something-novel-teens-print-renaissance-teen-vogue-cuqui-conde-nast-glamour-cosmo-girl-hearst-layoffs-social-media-void.php #publishing #magazines

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  Female politicians are increasingly being targeted with sexualized AI-generated content – a trend that is discouraging women from political life. 📺 Video report by Kathrin Wesolowski and Syeda Vania Ali for DW Fact Check: https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-female-politicians-hurt-by-sexualized-deepfakes/video-77264973 #deepfakes #politics #misogyny #sexism

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  Addressing both the trend of vertical video newsfluencers and the problem of littered mainstream platforms, SaySo is a mobile app that offers "vetted creators, real stories, zero doom scroll". A quick intro by Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/overwhelmed-by-news-on-social-sayso-is-betting-a-smaller-vetted-creator-feed-is-the-answer/  #socialmedia #news

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  Stanford University researchers have been tracking 1000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships. The Pudding has turned the data into an impressive #DDJ #scrollytelling piece: ➡️ https://pudding.cool/2026/06/love-story/

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  "Much of the general public still doesn't know anything about #smartGlasses, and that's a major problem. Some smart glasses wearers are exploiting the ignorance by harassing strangers and filming their reactions. Many of their victims are homeless people, service workers and women." Jason Chun for @cnet@flipboard.com: 👉 https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/smart-glasses-are-here-can-you-identify-their-hidden-cameras/

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  Steve Nowottny of Full Fact introduces his organization's suite of tools that help monitor claims from news sites, social media and video platforms. 👇 https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/full-fact-is-battling-ai-generated-elections-content-with-ai-tools-of-its-own/ (via @niemanlab@mastodon.social) #ai #tools #verification

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  #Laptops are pretty old school, but still indispensable when you're working in digital media and journalism. Unfortunately, devices have become incredibly expensive. Which has to do with limited availability of consumer-level DRAM. And data centers. And AI. And monopolies. https://gizmodo.com/laptop-prices-have-passed-the-point-of-no-return-2000778294

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  Big Tech AI systems have been sold to us as neutral tools. By now we should know: They're clearly not. And ask ourselves: To what extent do they amplify injustice? Do we really need them? How can we create a democratic AI eco system? Nehal Johri for DW: https://www.dw.com/en/do-large-scale-ais-make-societys-problems-worse/video-77388177 #AI #society #democracy

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  "About two-thirds of upcoming datacenters, which typically require a large amount of water to operate, are set to be built in places that have been among the driest in the country over the past year." In-depth #DDJ piece by Oliver Milman and Andrew Witherspoon for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/datacenter-ai-drought-water

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  "If you're not being mentioned in the places AI crawls, you effectively don't exist." In this video for DW Tech, Ha Thanh Le Nguyen explains how AI search is changing what we find online: https://www.dw.com/en/how-ai-search-is-changing-what-we-find-online/video-76726000 #AI #search

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  For Poynter, Louis Jacobson reflects on the mission of fact checkers – which is all about holding politicians to account, getting to the heart of the matter, and providing audiences with "a better understanding of often overwhelming news developments from across the globe." 👇 https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/why-fact-checking-matters/ #journalism #verification #factchecking

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  "Experts warn that Trump’s destruction of the country’s data infrastructure will have lasting impacts on all aspects of life – whether it’s the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to extreme weather, public health departments’ monitoring of harmful new drugs in their communities or how food banks get meals to hungry families." Amy Qin and Flávio Pessoa for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/trump-administration-deleting-data...

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  "They’re certainly not abandoning #audio, but they’re aware that many young people hear #podcast and think YouTube." Laura Hazard Owen for Nieman Lab: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/news-podcasts-are-increasingly-something-you-watch-but-the-daily-still-works-best-as-audio/

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  In a world where AI agents consume, remix, and redistribute content at machine speed, three questions become urgent: ➡️ How do you prove what's yours? ➡️ How do you declare what AI did to it? ➡️ And how do you set the terms under which it can be used? @mirkolorenz tackles the issue in this longread: https://innovation.dw.com/articles/why-content-needs-a-fingerprint-not-just-a-watermark #AI #information #attribution #provenance

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  Why do people become reporters today? Check out the replies these young students gave: https://www.collegejournalism.org/student-press-report/the-next-generation-of-journalism-graduates-is-ready-to-fight (via College Journalism / Sydney McGarr) #journalism

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  ✨ New *Babylon* #newsletter dropped today! Our colleague @mirkolorenz published Issue No. 10 – which tackles the topic: “Killing the Bees of Information – Why are news sites blocking the Wayback Machine?” 👉 Read it here: https://www.babylon-newsletter.com/p/babylon-newsletter-issue-10 Subscription is free. #AI

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  For the BBC, Kali Hays reports on the dark side of Meta Ray-Bans. Among the issues: women filmed without their consent. 👇 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj37z8357e5o #technology #SmartGlasses #privacy

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  The AIB International Media Excellence Awards (#TheAIBs) are open for entry. Submit your outstanding factual content (plenty of formats and platforms) via this website: https://theaibs.tv #journalism #awards

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  The #OSINT navigator by Buried Signals is all about finding the right #tools for your #verification / #Investigation workflow. The DB is compiled from different toolkits: A crawler checks all sources, adds new tools, flags deprecated ones. The Navigator also adds a structured documentation. And what's really cool: no hallucinations / BS (apparently) thanks to a reined in #LLM. 👇 https://navigator.indicator.media

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  🌕 "Artemis II represents an important cultural moment for space exploration. We’ve used technology to add an interactive layer to traditional media coverage, designed to inform and inspire (…) audiences by sending them on our guided mission to the Moon and back." The BBC’s R&D department is at it again. Claire Buckingham about a project that helps school children explore Nasa's latest moon mission in an immersive way. 👇 https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2026...

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  "The challenge is no longer only to correct the public record, but to intervene in the private, communal and relational flows where falsehoods often take hold before they become visible to institutions." For Poynter, Laura Zommer and Natalia Colombo discuss how journalistic fact-checking could and should evolve in this day and age: 👇 https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/fact-checking-has-to-go-where-misinformation-actually-spreads/ #misinfo #disinfo #factchecking

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  If you're into #XR and #3Dmodels, check out the FUNES project. This community is building "an ever-groving 3D #archive, a digital memory of our shared heritage." Free access 24/7, #opensource FTW! 👉 https://funes.world/

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  "This year, the (.) analysis highlights an alarming deterioration in the conditions for journalism in many parts of the world (...) as 100 out of 180 countries and territories have seen their press freedom score decline." https://rsf.org/en/classement-mondial-2026-par-r%C3%A9gions-une-d%C3%A9gradation-de-la-libert%C3%A9-de-la-presse-dans-100-pays-sur #journalism #pressfreedom #rsf

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  First Fedi post after a long weekend. And it seems that we've hit 7777 followers – and entered the Top 1000 of Mastodon accounts. 😮 We know, it's not about the sheer numbers. It's about the community and the impact. But still... 🤗 Many thanks for your interest in our projects and prototypes, our comments and curated links. Cheers! 🥂 #journalism #technology #research #innovation #fediverse #community

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  "Satellite imagery has long helped investigative journalists gather intelligence on conflict zones and track changes in remote landscapes. Now, in a new wave of satellite-based investigations, reporters are leaning on machine learning models to automate parts of this work and scale up their analysis to an unprecedented degree." Andrew Deck for @niemanlab: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/geospatial-ai-is-reinventing-the-rainforest-beat/ #satellites #journalism #AI

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  How about picking up your old, favorite comic books instead of doomscrolling the next time? "I realised that I needed to preserve my mental health and make new routines before I became entirely consumed with fear and anger. And who knows more about self-care than your inner child?" Joel Harley for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/27/the-one-change-that-worked-i-swapped-doomscrolling-for-reading-comic-books

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  "Have you ever used a Generative AI tool to finish a task in five minutes that once required five hours of deep, agonizing focus? As you watch the results flash across the screen, instead of a surge of pride, you might feel a creeping sense of dread. (...) This article explores the cognitive dissonance of the AI era (...)." David-Ștefan Lăpușneanu for @hackernoon: https://hackernoon.com/ai-is-making-workers-faster-and-more-insecure