Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet won the People’s Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival (big predictor of Oscars nominee and sometimes winner). Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein was first runner up, Knives Out second runner up. Chloe’s video played (charmingly) upside down.

Palme d’Or at 2025 Cannes Fim Festival goes to Un Simple Accident, directed by Jafar Panahi, who got out of prison in Tehran in 2023. Sixth Palme d’Or in a row that Neon has distribution for, starting with Parasite in 2019.

Full house for the @hackshackers.com AI x Journalism Summit hosted by the Real News Network in Baltimore. Organized by @pcheung630.bsky.social and @burtherman.com Schedule: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Speaker list: www.hackshackers.com/join-us-for-...

Our WikiPortraits project covered by the BBC! I loved that they asked for before/after examples. Of those, Nobel Prize winner John Jumper of Deepmind is one of my favorite contrasts. Also they used a bright blob of a human as example of terrible photos on Wikipedia www.bbc.com/news/article...

WikiPortraits has our first press article! From @404media.co (I cold pitched them after reading all their very excellent Wikipedia coverage). I love quotes from all our wiki volunteer photographers Jeremy Strong, Jaipur Literature Fest. www.404media.co/photographer...

A description of Reliable Sources/Perennial Sources list on Wikipedia (transparent evaluation of reliability of sources, legacy media and otherwise) in the New Yorker apple.news/AVkzkxQQyR2i...

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber at the Knight Media Forum in Miami with Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, CEO of Knight Foundation.

Festivus celebration! With a real legit aluminum pole. And airing of grievances. (None of this Christmas Adam bit).

On this 🦃 eve, worth reposting this from last year 9! Bluesky!

Was surprised that Derek Tran, who has now pulled ahead of Representative Michelle Steele in the hotly contested California-45 House race, didn’t have a Wikipedia page, just a redirect. So here it is! Created by an editor we trained Wikipedia Inmersive Training (WIT) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_T...

Started the Wikipedia page for “slop”, a new-ish term akin to “spam” but to describe low quality content generated by AI. Come add! “Shrimp Jesus” images were contributed by someone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slop_(a...

A visit to the Banned Books Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Opened to 2020 by a Scotsman as a passion project in Catholic church rental property. Surprising number of children’s books, including Winnie the Pooh (“banned in China because Winnie looks like President Xi”), Where the Wild Things Are.

Totality from Hot Springs, Arkansas. On iphone 15 right before it died. At a very well timed wedding.

Wiki(pedia) and AI hackathon in San Francisco on Monday, April 15 at @GrayAreaorg in the Mission. Brainstorm and develop AI tools on Wikipedia and other wikis, for drafting, curating, summarizing and illustrating articles! The clever name: Waikiki! lu.ma/k84uw71w

I’m an executive producer on Sasquatch Sunset, which is coming to theaters in April With Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg. It has NO DIALOGUE, which made for an interesting (and short) script. Premiered at Sundance and played at Berlin. Here is the unusual trailer: youtu.be/KgfkthLpeXw?...

We are hosting an AI x Journalism hackathon at Columbia in NYC. April 5-7, 202, Hosted Hacks Hackers and Brown Institute, with Hugging Face and Coding Space. Apply here! lu.ma/hh-ai-hackat...

First of its kind! Public webinar on how to craft the best emoji proposal it can be. Moderated by Jennifer Daniel with Wilder Wells of Google and Samantha Sunne of emojination April 16, 12 pm ET. Well worth it. Emoji submissions start April 2, 2024! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This splayed heritage turkey made me feel… uncomfortable.

Want to go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August? Our friend group booked a block of 30 rooms (upscale dorms with private baths in a good location). And we have artists support for BIPOC comedians (performing or writing). https://forms.gle/MvBKaZe9bwxDWffM6

I finally saw Old Faithful! Unexpectedly. It’s in the bottom part of Yellowstone, far way from the interesting stuff in the northern parts, so missed it last time I was at Yellowstone.

Canadian judge rules that 👍 (given context) was agreement to a contract and not just acknowledgement of receipt of photo of the contract. (There is a lot of case law on contracts, so this is not too surprising). https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/world/canada/canada-thumbs-up-emoji-contract.html

This iPhone vs. Pixel video literally made me laugh out loud. It mirrors my conversation with @srhm.bsky.social to the last plop. (that being said, he got an IPhone 14 this month) https://youtu.be/MIeJ-etE36o

Sil Hamilton and I created this Venn diagram of concepts/product in AI for our Computer History Museum talk on the future of news. Feedback/corrections? Still tweaking. We moved Deep Blue bc the museum staff told us we had it in wrong place and they knew because “We have the box” downstairs.

Aftermath of Cannes premiere of Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny with Harrison Ford (who is 80!), Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, and Shaunette Renée Wilson. The festival honored Ford with a surprise Palme D’Or. 📸: Emmanuel Even (who scored one of the precious tickets).

This made me realize that I rarely met any non-Asian Connies my generation, but plenty of older ones! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/11/opinion/connie-chung-named-after.html

If you have never been to Annenberg Hall for first years at Harvard, it’s like Hogwarts. Our friend John Sears managed to get in for breakfast with a swipe from Hana Kiros, and after students left got this photo panorama using auto-stitching and content-aware fill in the corners. Yay for AI.

Does anyone need housing for the Cannes Film Festival in a few weeks? Our group has extra housing for second week starting around May 22-29. Also one bed slot starting May 15.

@ninaberries.bsky.social Okay. Finally got myself up and situated (profile, photo, follows). Thanks for the invite! Feel like it’s a nice reciprocal echo of early Clubhouse.

Always impressed at global and campus distribution muscle of Harvard’s CS50. Ted Benson and Sil Hamilton gave a talk on GPT and meeting apps on Monday (with 🍕!): 102 IRL, 325 in Zoom and 3500+ on YouTube. Now video is up to 137,000 views. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw-KWfKwvTQ

Visiting Heidi Pitlor, series of The Best American Short Stories and Plympton’s editorial director, with Sil Hamilton outside Boston. She has all the books going back (almost) to the very beginning. Her collection starts in 1923.