Well worth your time reading: “I really like Wikipedia, but I don’t trust it” Understanding First Nations peoples' experiences using Wikipedia as a reader and/or editors by Bronwyn Carlson & Lotus Rana doi.org/10.25949/76Y...

<i>"I really like Wikipedia, but I don't trust it"</i>: understanding First Nations peoples' experiences using Wikipedia as readers and/or editors

Pleased to have co-authored with my Digital Child colleagues Aleesha Rodriguez & Michael Dezuanni this piece which suggests some better paths fwd in equipping young ppl to meaningfully engage w social media rather than banning it: 360info.org/social-media...#socialmedia#Australia#digitalliteracy

Social media bans distract from real issue - 360

Proposed social media bans are distracting us from the real issue — how to make digital experiences better for children. Governments across Australia are proposing social media bans for children under...

These changes are exactly what we argued for in our submission from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child: (2/2) www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/defaul...

Very pleased to see Australia's Basic Online Safety Expectations (BOSE) updated to explicitly include the best interests of children as a primary consideration for any service children are likely to access (obviously including social media)! (1/2) minister.infrastructure.gov.au/rowland/medi...

I don't have a crystal ball, but I am willing to predict that with OpenAI paying for NewsCorp news just as Meta pulls out of those deals, reporting on ChatGPT is likely to get very positive while Meta is in for a good old fashioned Murdoch mud-slinging! openai.com/index/news-c...

A landmark multi-year global partnership with News Corp

News Corp and OpenAI today announced a historic, multi-year agreement to bring News Corp news content to OpenAI.

For #PrivacyAwarenessWeekwww.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

New tool allows more control over what appears when your name is Googled - ABC listen

What comes up when you google yourself? If there's something of concern, the search engine now offers a way for you to request that link is removed.

Google releases new tool to enable Australians to find their personal information and request removal

Google releases new tool to enable Australians to find their personal information and request removal

Exclusive: ‘Results about you’ allows users to see how they show up in search results and then request removal of details such as phone number or address Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Google has released a new tool that enables Australian users to easily find search results containing their personal information and request its removal. The “results about you” tool, available for the first time from Tuesday to coincide with Privacy Awareness Week, allows users to see how they show up in search results. They can then request the removal of results that contain personally identifiable information – such as phone numbers, emails or home addresses – via the Google app. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

"Each tragedy that attracts global attention is now an opportunity for social media accounts to attract followers and revenue off the back of inflammatory claims, or to fit the incident into a predetermined narrative before the facts have emerged, and this weekend was no different." - Ariel Bogle

False claims started spreading about the Bondi Junction stabbing attack as soon as it happened

Some accounts falsely linked the attack to Islamist terrorism, while others identified the wrong man, with the error repeated by a TV network

New piece from me in The Conversation about why Meta limiting political content is bad for young people, bad for democracy, and will have a significant chilling effect for content creators: theconversation.com/instagram-an...#Meta#Instagram#Threads#Politics#Democracy

Instagram and Threads are limiting political content. This is terrible for democracy

A new change to Meta’s apps will see users no longer recommended political content by default. The ramifications of this will be far-reaching.

If scientists got bizarre results in all particle accelerators at once and then saw a flashing countdown clock superimposed on their visual field, 100% of them would assume it was a grant deadline.

TUtedunderwood.meMar 23, 2024 3:27am

In simplifying Three Body Problem, Netflix has amusingly assumed that unexplained results that “break” all existing theory would make researchers commit suicide instead of pulling an all-nighter to get the preprint out. 🧪