Spring has sprung in our little backyard.

Two green chairs and a teal chair around an old wooden table, pink chair in the background. Poppies, small white flowers, and an exuberant grape behind them.

This seems like the journalism version of the community reinvestment act -> techpolicy.press

A red pickup truck -- old an of indeterminate origin -- parked on the street in front of a building

At the same time, digital access gaps mean women produce less data than men, and a lack of data disaggregation leads to unequal representation in data sets.

From Power on: How we can supercharge an equitable digital future - UN Women – Europe and Central Asia

…President Carter showed the world by example what a public servant could be, what a public servant should be, and how a person’s ideas can grow and change as time brings more clarity to the true tenets of progress.

From www.dailykos.com

In this blog post, I will make the argument that prompt engineering is a real skill that can be developed based on real experimental methodologies.

From Prompt Engineering vs. Blind Prompting – Mitchell Hashimoto.

It’s a zero sum game–paying for a slot increases market share by stealing sales from the competition.

From seths.blog

The collective findings reveal an increase … in hate crimes and efforts to change classroom curriculums, attempts to make voting more difficult and extremist views being normalized in politics, the military and law enforcement.

From Report finds democracy for Black Americans is under attack

But ChatGPT’s availability has altered the landscape, enabling people to generate entire blogs' worth of content at a single click.

From The ChatGPT vs Bear Blog spam war

Cal Newport’s thoughts on ChatGPT: calnewport.com

Honestly, at this point using ChatGPT in the way that I do feels like a massively unfair competitive advantage. I’m not worried about AI taking people’s jobs: I’m worried about the impact of AI-enhanced developers like myself.

From simonwillison.net

Terrific breakdown of David Bowie’s Changes from www.ethanhein.com

Good marketing is the craft of understanding what people want and need and helping them achieve it.

From seths.blog

A gift to dictatorial leaders who hide behind claims of persecution, these corrosive changes occur in an increasingly hostile online environment, where censorship and suppression of free speech are major concerns.

From techpolicy.press

…how do I work with something that’s completely unreliable, that invents things, that comes up with APIs that don’t exist… how do I use that to enhance my workflow anyway?

From simonwillison.net

In looking at this, we wanted to frame the work of Makers — and the digital solutions they are building — in a way that could provide a base for conversation and collaboration with Makers and with key civil society stakeholders.

From The Makers Behind Apps for Good