I suspect this is because misinformation seems to work…
US politicians tweet far more misinformation than those in the UK and Germany
The Conversation: “Politicians from mainstream parties in the UK and Germany post far fewer links to untrustworthy websites on Twitter and this has remained constant since 2016, according to our new research. By contrast, US politicians posted a much higher percentage of untrustworthy content in their tweets, and that share has been increasing steeply since 2020. We also found systematic differences between the parties in the US, where Republican politicians were found to share untrustworthy websites more than nine times as often as Democrats…”
(Related)
https://www.bespacific.com/fcc-targeting-and-eliminating-unlawful-text-messages/
FCC Targeting and Eliminating Unlawful Text Messages
“The Federal Communications Commission today proposed new rules to fight back against malicious robotext campaigns. The agency will take public comment on ideas to apply caller ID authentication standards to text messaging and require providers to find and actively block illegal texts before they get to consumers…The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released today proposes and seeks comment on applying caller ID authentication standards to text messaging. It proposes requiring mobile wireless providers to block texts, at the network level, that purport to be from invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers, and numbers on a Do-Not-Originate (DNO) list. It also seeks input on other actions the Commission might take to address illegal texts, including enhanced consumer education. The FCC’s Robocall Response Team recently issued a Consumer Alert on the growing problem of scam robotexts. This warning noted the increase in consumer complaints to the FCC about unwanted text messages. It explained how scammers use texts to solicit information, defraud consumers, and/or spur responses from the consumers to possibly sell their number as a target. Consumers should look out for signs of possible scam texts including unknown numbers, misleading or incomplete information, misspellings, mysterious links, and sales pitches.
Getting to the new normal.
https://hbr.org/2022/09/4-steps-to-start-monetizing-your-companys-data
4 Steps to Start Monetizing Your Company’s Data
As artificial intelligence becomes ubiquitous in business, non-tech companies need to learn how to use their data to gain a competitive edge. Companies that are trying to decide where and how to use AI should take four steps: 1) survey the data they have and how other companies are generating and using data, 2) look for data- and AI-focused companies, such as startups, that can help jumpstart your data strategy, 3) buy, don’t build, and 4) start building a data moat.
Is this the equivalent of requiring auto makers to include a buggy whip with each new car?
France sets delivery fee for online book sales to help stores compete with Amazon
Reuters: “France plans to impose a minimum delivery fee of 3 euros ($2.93) for online book orders of less than 35 euros to level the playing field for independent bookstores struggling to compete against e-commerce giants, the government said on Friday. A 2014 French law already prohibits free book deliveries, but Amazon and other vendors such as Fnac have circumvented this by charging a token 1 cent per delivery. Local book stores typically charge up to 7 euros for shipping a book. Legislation was passed in December 2021 to close the one-cent loophole through a minimum shipping fee, but the law could not take effect until the government had decided on the size of that fee. “This will adapt the book industry to the digital era by restoring an equilibrium between large e-commerce platforms, which offer virtually free delivery for books whatever the order size, and bookstores that cannot match these delivery prices,” the culture and finance ministries said in a joint statement…”
Tools & Techniques.
https://petapixel.com/2022/09/27/palette-is-a-free-web-based-ai-powered-photo-colorizer/
Palette is a Free Web-Based AI-Powered Photo Colorizer
A new artificial intelligence-powered web-based tool called Palette is able to take any black and white photo and colorize it. The creator is so confident in the results that he is billing it “the Dall-E of color.”
Resource. For kids with Kindles?
Archive of 7,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online
Open Culture: “We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children’s literature. Occupying a space somewhere between the purely didactic and the nonsensical, most children’s books published in the past few hundred years have attempted to find a line between the two poles, seeking a balance between entertainment and instruction. However, that line seems to move closer to one pole or another depending on the prevailing cultural sentiments of the time. And the very fact that children’s books were hardly published at all before the early 18th century tells us a lot about when and how modern ideas of childhood as a separate category of existence began…by examining the children’s literature of the Victorian era, perhaps the most innovative and diverse period for children’s literature thus far by the standards of the time. And we can do so most thoroughly by surveying the thousands of mid- to late 19th century titles at the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. Their digitized collection currently holds over 7,000 books free to read online from cover to cover, allowing you to get a sense of what adults in Britain and the U.S. wanted children to know and believe…”
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