'Before there is genius'

'The soil that grows genius is something all of us can be.' Revisiting Lu Xun's 1924 talk to Beijing students.

Five recent papers on what AI models hold back

What it takes to get past a censor's, erm moderator's, classifiers.

Re:filtered #33: Broken little guys and instant soup

Three insights how we talk to machines, what they will make for us, and how we talk about them.

Re:noted #5: tbd/con is over. Here's what we learned building it

In case you want to create your own pixel-world convening…

that's a wrap on tbd/con! 👾

woohoo!

Re:noted #4: Ask what people would lose to understand 'why' and 'how'

Our first RJI innovation column is on interviewing your audience without collecting polite yeses.

Re:filtered #32: They have some records. We have the world.

A script now reads my district's council record every week. Everything it can't reach is where the work starts.

What audience interviews tell you that analytics can't

People rarely tell you what they need. They tell you where they are struggling, and the reading is yours to do.

This was tbd/con

30 sessions across information, practice, thought and the garage.