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As all publishers face down the gaping maw of large language models gobbling their content, what can a long history of syndication and editorial IP licensing teach us about equitable and profitable partnerships? Reflecting on lessons from her years at The New York Times and now The Daily Mail Group, Alice explores the current opportunities in news licensing in a fragmented distribution ecosystem....

David Farrier's books include Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (2020) and Anthropocene Poetics (2019). Footprints won the Royal Society of Literature’s Giles St. Aubyn award and has been translated into nine languages. He is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Edi

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Ben Zhao, Session Closing Keynote, Open Repositories 2025 (OR2025) , Chicago, Illinois, USA, 15-18 June 2025 Citation: Zhao, B. (2025, Haziran 16). Dealing with Generative AI, Harms and Mitigation Techniques. Open Repositories 2025 (OR2025), Chicago, Illinois, USA. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15790708 License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Summary: This keynote addresse...

In this week's episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, Dr Lyndsey Jenkins talks to the award-winning writer and historian, Richard King, about his new book, Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-1997, which was published by Faber earlier this

More: https://2025.berlinbuzzwords.de/sessions/Unpacking-Digital-Sovereignty-How-to-avoid-fueling-the-nationalist-rise Speaker: Aline Blankertz This talk shows that digital sovereignty is prone to open the door to a nationalist agenda which favours the power concentration that led to Big Tech, and it easily slips into alt-right narratives that put colonising space over the needs of most our planet...

L’exposition "Fragments du rêve" et un livre éponyme explorent l’expérience du récit de rêves à travers manuscrits, dessins, collages et notes personnelles. Nos invités, le philosophe Olivier Schefer et la commissaire d’exposition Claire Paulhan tentent de percer le mystère.

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Local author Mike Tidwell will share insights from his new book "The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue" in a conversation with U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin. The book is a riveting and elegant account of the impacts of climate change both on dying trees and Tidwell’s neighbors on Willow Avenue in Takoma Park. Tidwell also highlights Raskin’s efforts to battle cancer and climate change at the same tim...

May 8, 2015 If the world is in a constant state of motion, expansion and collapse, then all arrivals are a moving rest, a hesitation in motion. Arrival is never passive. It is not neutral and it is never innocent for those who arrive or those who are preceded. Arrival could be imagined as the continuous evolution of the self, a form of renewal or reinvention. We seek it out, anticipating an ending...

Roundtable discussion with Akeel Bilgrami, Jonathan Israel, Steven Nadler, Joel Whitebook, and Catherine Wilson.

A conversation between musical visionaries Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe about how art can play a vital role in response to the climate emergency, with Brian sharing his music industry charity EarthPercent and Beatie sharing 'From Green to Red,' an environmental protest piece built using 800,000 years of NASA data to visualise rising CO2 levels. About SXSW: SXSW dedicates itself to helping cr...

Episode Transcript Speaker 1Also media. Speaker 2Hey, everybody, welcome to Behind the Bastards, and I know what you're all saying. Congratulations Robert on finally being appointed the new Pope of the Catholic Church Pontiffects Maximus. I was as surprised as anybody. I wake up in the morning, I see a phone notification that says, you know, Vatican Conclave...

Our infrastructure is usually invisible. Not any more. Engineer Deb Chachra explains how climate change is forcing a global reimagining of neglected infrastructure systems.

Wesley Goatley est un artiste critique et un chercheur basé à Londres, au Royaume-Uni. Son travail porte sur les technologies de l’intelligence artificielle et leurs relations avec la société, la géopolitique et la crise climatique, ainsi que sur la manière dont la pratique artistique peut intervenir pour explorer ces outils et ces sujets. Il a donné des conférences sur sa pratique et ses recherch...

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“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “broligarchy” — the powerful tech executives who are using their global digital platforms to amass unprecedented geopolitical power, dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the wor...

Paul Frazee, CTO of Bluesky, https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com ATmosphereConf Seattle 2025 https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf/

When it comes to the wellbeing of the fediverse, Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi are big thinkers, tireless researchers, community practitioners, and thoughtful human beings.

Jason, Sam, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant discuss how AI slop has taken over the internet, how it is a brute-force attack against the algorithms that control what we see on social media, and what we can do to fight back against it. This panel was held at Speakeasy in Austin, Texas at SXSW on March 10, 2025. Thanks to our friends at Flipboard for giving us the space and to DeleteMe...

For the final installment of this year's Beyond the Web series, “Think Globally, Eat Here. Small Solutions for Big Tech Problems”, NY Times best selling author Cory Doctorow presents, "To Make Big Tech Less Harmful, Make it Less Important."

Achille Mbembe received the 2024 Holberg Prize for his groundbreaking research in African history and politics, and related fields. Mbembe is research professor of history and politics at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand. Interviewer: Kari Jegerstedt, associate professor of gender studies in the humanities and Head of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Re...

Mon invitée pour cet épisode est l’auteure de plusieurs ouvrages, dont le très remarqué “Plutôt couler en beauté que flotter sans grâce”, paru aux éditions Libertalia en 2019, ainsi que l’essai ““Alors nous irons trouver la beauté ailleurs. Gymnastique des confins”. Ancienne conseillère régionale en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpe, Corinne Morel Darleux a également été à la direction nationale du parti de gau...