Not particularly close and seems Lab gained far more votes in the run-off via 2nd choices compared to Reform.
Will Jennings📉🗳️MCR mayoral by-election result. Craig (Lab) 66.3% Astley (Ref) 33.7% Follow live on @news.sky.com
Lecturer in Digital Media Sociology. PhD in Journalism and US media. Researching digital streaming culture, political communication and authenticity.
Not particularly close and seems Lab gained far more votes in the run-off via 2nd choices compared to Reform.
Will Jennings📉🗳️MCR mayoral by-election result. Craig (Lab) 66.3% Astley (Ref) 33.7% Follow live on @news.sky.com
So Pirro is admitting Trump lied when he said Vandals caused the damage? Gonna be fun to see how he tries to gaslight his way out of this one.
Mueller, She WroteBREAKING: Pirro has dismissed the case against Davey Hearn for vandalizing the reflecting pool, saying that there's no way vandals could have caused the damage.
Are they trying to make streamers use their platform less? Do they think this is what audiences want? And training for what? Never ceases to amaze me how out of touch corporations are when it comes to AI.
Zach Bussey 🍁Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
As Burnham's comms game has been good (well better than most), the fact the audio is echoey and in a 'real' setting, I genuinely assume his team discussed whether to keep it low quality for authenticity or to do proper sound recording. Other pols would just have crap audio because they are lazy.
UK Prime Minister UpdatesWhat do you call one of these...
'I am an icon of ridicule online so please vote for me' certainly is a type of closing message.
HuffPostHow do you do, fellow kids?
But how many of those users are they actually making any money off? (It's not many)
TechmemeOpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
I always argue we live in 3 economies. 1. Traditional financial one 2. Attention economy 3. Authenticity economy. To be successful in many jobs, but especially politics, you need to be 'rich' in both 2 & 3. Pols now understand the currency of 2 in the digital age. Many dont for 3.
Will Jennings📉🗳️Across a number of quantitative and qualitative studies, our research team tended to find politicians 'saying what they think' (discursive integrity) was always a significant driver of public trust.
One can just imagine that Starmer would have just simply said some guff like "This is a matter for the FA and UEFA but hopefully the football fans are made the priority"
Will Jennings📉🗳️What's this? A PM who knows how to put the ball in the back of an open net?
That's an awful lot of land to blockade....
FinTwitterUS and Israeli authorities are discussing the possibility of a land blockade of Iran - REPORTS
One can only hope this is the start of the end of Infantino reign.
FinTwitterCARLOS CORDEIRO, SENIOR ADVISOR TO GIANNI INFANTINO, RESIGNS FOLLOWING FIFA PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL TO SELL STAKE IN WORLD CUP
I'd put money on AI use. "The speaker at the conference was Jeff Graham, the top U.S. health envoy who oversees an initiative known as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. He did not reply to requests for comment."
Daniel DreznerHeckuva job you’re doing Marco Rubio. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
If you are an astute political reporter in America, these numbers should not be a surprise.
Mediaite‘Wow’: CNN’s Dana Bash Can’t Help But Chuckle at Percentage of Americans Who Want Most of Congress Replaced
"Honest Bob has the unique ability to get people to dislike him on sight. It saves time that way. Why waste time getting to know him before you find you can’t bear him? He is a man who radiates inauthenticity."
John CraceWhen Honest Bob is too extreme even for GB News…
First question for GOP candidates: "Are you happy that money being made from deepfakes and csam is trying to get you elected?"
FinTwitterMusk super PAC to help elect republicans in midterms - NYT
On a list of things of how to kill your future economy, this would rank pretty highly.
FinTwitterU.S. WEIGHS $100,000 FEE FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS WANTING TO WORK AFTER GRADUATION - REPORTS
Carville saying the progressive left are "Too hardhead to know they are not popular" is some utterly wild projection. The contrasting clips here highlight how far out of touch Carville is.
Donie O’SullivanHasan Piker v. James Carville on the future of the Democratic Party. Watch: The Left Insurgency, 8p ET, Sunday on @cnn.com
There's definitely a bubble then...
FinTwitterWH Sr. Adviser Hassett: I don't see markets in bubble territory due to AI.