Richard Kendall

Where did this episode avoid criticism of fossil fuel industry and downplay the climate crisis?

Imagine being so mad about a broadcaster publishing a badly edited documentary about you, but waiting over a year, and until someone else mentioned it, before threatening to sue... in order to assert your bigly power over media coverage

They only seem to take action when they publicly get into trouble. We need big tech to restart their moral compasses

Climate change is real, UK is committed to action...
"Late last night Downing Street confirmed that the UK would not be putting taxpayers’ money towards a flagship global fund to protect the world’s remaining tropical forests" BBC News

We've bottled it, and failed our children's futures again...

2028 is too late, our children need better online guidance now “As part of the new lessons children will learn things like how to spot fake news, including AI, identify misinformation and disinformation, and develop critical thinking skills to help prote…

2028 is too late, our children need better online guidance now richardkendall.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/2...

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.

“When the use is this concentrated — a.k.a tens of thousands of videos from one creator — it feels less like incidental inclusion and more like large-scale extraction of intellectual property without consent," said progressive YouTuber David Pakman.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...

Who knew. The Web, built on links

Is that a beta version? Incredible. So users are wasting all that extra energy, for what actual benefit??

I mean, who knew.... oh everyone

Landmark global shipping deal abandoned under US threats President Trump intervened in the talks calling the deal a

"the price rises Trump is so worried about will be dwarfed by those from crop failures and extreme weather if climate action is not taken seriously" - King Apprentice Trump is the biggest threat to all our futures www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Working blog post title: The gamification of school homework apps

"OpenAI also announced the formation of a council on “well-being and AI” to help shape OpenAI’s response to “complex or sensitive” scenarios..."

Surely. Horse. Bolted. But still, let's maximise engagement while we're here...

I think we've hit peak ladybird infestation. Presuming a seasonal/temperature related migration? They love our youngest's bedroom window, warmest part of the house, so having to regularly shepherd a group out😬🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞

Spoiler alert: "this isn’t true, according to both the government and the company in question"

I've unsubscribed from so many email newsletters and connections this week it's been refreshing, so many missed or never returned-to emails just wasting away on servers, using up more data, energy, water etc...

Just dealing with the annual 🐞 autumn migration to our youngest's bedroom window. Adorable little creatures. Hopefully all safely back out in the wild #animalmigration

Recall Me Maybe | FT Drama Stephen Fry and Gemma Whelan star in a new FT drama written by David Baddiel, exploring AI, memory and truth. Fry plays a grandfather with dementia who uses AI to fill in gaps in his memory. While rev...

Short film from @ft.com.web.brid.gy by @realbaddiel.bsky.social Recall Me Maybe, on how we will use AI and the ethics involved, and what is truth, how we all need to understand bias in our own lives, our memory's version of our life, added to the guesstimating of AI tools www.ft.com/video/a4d2ba...

So we're ruling there shouldn't be a big tech monopoly by mildly restricting a big tech company... and thus keep its monopoly? What did I miss here??

"As things get worse online [an increase in misinformation], in other words, trusted news organizations may have more opportunities to forge strong connections with readers..."👀

Parents blame ChatGPT for son's suicide in lawsuit against OpenAI The parents of a 16-year-old California boy who died by suicide have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company's ChatGPT chatbot fostered a months-long relationship with their son and ultimately provided explicit guidance that contributed to his death.

Parents blame ChatGPT for son's suicide in lawsuit against OpenAI

"surveys repeatedly indicate that the public would increase prioritization of NASA’s research in Earth and climate science above other areas, which currently receive significantly more funding at the space agency"

Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.

One for every editor who uses freelancers. Needs to be near the top of your to-read pile... Via @pressgazette.co.uk
- dealing with chatbot written PRs is one thing, but another if the story and author are also an AI guestimating reality, or just made up: pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

another content element that might need specific tailoring for Google...

"it’s not that we can’t focus; it’s that we’re trying to focus inside environments designed to fragment us. Too much structural noise... the attention crisis...: Can we trust the environments we spend our lives in to support the kind of thinking we value?" Rachel Botsman on Trust/distraction

Good 📰, on digital publishing's journey viewed from education: www.andydickinson.net/2025/08/04/2..., HT @adders.blog

"How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"

25 years of journalism teaching This coming academic year will be my 25th academic year. Here are a few observations on universities and journalism at university.

Good 📰, on digital publishing viewed from education, www.andydickinson.net/2025/08/04/2... by Andy Dickinson, HT @adders.blog

"How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles “The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

Rachel Botsman: "I’m not anti-AI... I’m using it to do incredible things in my own work. But research is mounting: AI, like many technologies before it, may be making us dumber and mentally lazier. I can see it in myself. It’s so easy to let the tool think for you": www.media.mit.edu/publications...

Some that think we should just give in to big tech's drive to monetise our children's attention as soon as possible, because a device-driven, video-driven future is... inevitable... spoiler: it's not, if we, the real people, don't let it - real world experience+perspective underpins tech use

Newer generations maybe not so bothered by not really 'owning' media as such, but once you realise the rights holders are giving the public such minimal and limited access for a not insignificant fee, then we begin the age old journey to owning things we really like...