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Alex Fink

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg

July 14, 2024

Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a scholar of digital media. He and his team work to understand the contemporary digital world and build social media systems that are focused on communities, not on profits. Ethan is currently suing Meta (i.e. Facebook) in a landmark case that might (and likely should) change our interpretation of section 230. Please tune in to hear the details of the case and the various ways it could change the social media landscape. It's fascinating!

Prof. Jeff Jarvis - Rewriting Media's Business Model (Yet Again)

May 24, 2024

Jeff Jarvis is a journalism professor at the City College in New York (CUNY), the author of six books, and the cohost of the successful podcast "This week in Google and AI". Jeff spent many years teaching entrepreneurial journalism - and God knows journalism could use some entrepreneurial spirit, right about now. Please check out Jeff's books, The Gutenberg Parenthesis and Magazine, both from Bloomsbury (discount codes here: gutenbergparenthesis.com).

Donald Robertson - Where Philosophy Meets Psychology

June 22, 2024

Our guest today is Donald Robertson - Donald is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and author of several books, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and, more recently, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. He is one of the founders of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit organization and the founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens, Greece. He was born in Scotland but now lives in Montreal, Canada. His upcoming book, How to Think Like Socrates, will be released later this year, and can be preordered on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or anywhere else books are generally sold.

Rick Edmonds - Analyzing the Financial Decline of Legacy Media

July 8, 2024

Rick Edmonds is the media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a school and study center for working journalists. He has been doing research and writing for 25 years on the financial decline of legacy media, newspapers particularly, and the rise of new media alternatives. His reporting and commentary appear regularly on the Poynter Online site. He has spoken to conference groups in the U.S.A. and in Paris, Norway, Madrid, Vienna and Chile.

Jonathan Green - How To Make ChatGPT and Other Tools Useful (Right Now)

July 5, 2024

Welcome to the Otherweb. Our guest today is Jonathan Green - a bestselling author of hundreds of books, a celebrity ghostwriter, and an expert in using artificial intelligence tools to their utmost capacity. This is the best conversation I've had on the practical implications of ChatGPT and how regular people can augment their own capabilities by using these tools as a shortcut.

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News from trains

Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about trains, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 63 stories have been published about trains which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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Global News

Global News

Via Rail says trips in Ontario, Quebec may take longer after CN rule change | Globalnews.ca

Global News

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Engadget

Engadget

Microsoft recruits accessibility app to make its AI more useful to blind and low-vision users

Engadget

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BBC

BBC

Wales weather: Roads and land flood, trains hit and schools close

BBC

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Last of the week

ABC News

ABC News

Train crash in Egypt injures 20 people

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The New Statesman

The New Statesman

How to salvage the HS2 embarrassment

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The Kyiv Independent

The Kyiv Independent

Lithuania confiscates military goods from Kaliningrad-Moscow trains, gives them to Ukraine

The Kyiv Independent

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze | TechCrunch

TechCrunch

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Theregister

Theregister

China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure

Theregister

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CNN

CNN

How Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains changed the world of rail travel forever

CNN

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BBC

BBC

Train disruption as wind and rain batter Devon and Cornwall

BBC

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The Times & The Sunday Times

The Times & The Sunday Times

Worst station in Britain? Welcome to the Battle of Euston

The Times & The Sunday Times

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edmontonjournal

edmontonjournal

Edmonton explores sign and signal changes on Valley Line LRT for safety

edmontonjournal

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Reuters

Reuters

US-Mexico rail delays hit farm sector ahead of possible ports strike

Reuters

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GlobalData

GlobalData

Automatic gangway coupling and a whole new Stadler

GlobalData

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edmontonsun

edmontonsun

GUNTER: Don't expect Edmonton administration to try to correct the Valley Line LRT collision problem

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vancouversun

vancouversun

Traffic alert: Unstable crane prompts evacuation, closure of Great Northern Way in East Vancouver

vancouversun

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edmontonjournal

edmontonjournal

More than 20 crashes on Valley Line train since southeast LRT leg opened

edmontonjournal

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ABC7 San Francisco

ABC7 San Francisco

Caltrain launches all-electric train service from SF to Silicon Valley

ABC7 San Francisco

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Lura

Lura

Caltrain completes launch of all-electric fleet

Lura

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service | TechCrunch

TechCrunch

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