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Sunday Good Reads For June 16, 2024 [1]

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Date: 2024-06-16  

Happy Father’s Day! Absolutely none of these links has anything to do with Father’s Day.

AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children | WIRED: The insatiable need for training data makes stories like this inevitable, and show the danger of these systems.

Those late whistles NBA fans and players hate? There’s a method to the madness - The Athletic (nytimes.com): Its a reasonable explanation, but the NBA (and all sports leagues) don’t have a great record when it comes to referees and game managment.

Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for June 12, 2024 - GoComics; Tech bros are out to ruin unicorns!

Florida school board bans book about book bans (tallahassee.com): Not an Onion headline.

Uncovering the Cover-up: How Republican Pennridge School Board Directors Secretly Banned Books - Bucks County Beacon: Dishonesty AND book banning!

Special report: Newcastle United sponsor Noon and shocking allegations of worker mistreatment - The Athletic (nytimes.com): Sports washing works because teams care more about money than they do people.

Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo | PetaPixel; Also not an Onion headline.

Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes | Ars Technica: As every writer knows, pay in exposure is a sign that your work is not actually valued.

Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! - Reactor (reactormag.com): Excellent story about who gets to matter.

Have a great week, everyone.

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