madelyne xiao
@madxiaodisease
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now @cylab, @princetoncitp // formerly @newyorker, @amnh
Joined October 2014
Save the date: "AI & Journalism: Transforming the News" on Tues, March 26 at 4:30pm in collaboration with @Princeton Journalism. Featured panelists - CITP's @HilkeSchellmann, @madxiaodisease, Dylan Freeman of @nytimes, @AnjDelgado of @Hearst. Prof @elizagriswold to moderate.đź”»
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We're pleased to share CIPPIC's submission to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's consultation on Age Assurance: "Ready for Prime Time? Are Age Assurance Systems Sophisticated Enough to Verify Users' Age Without Breaching their Privacy Rights?"
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Take action: Sign the open letter to publishers, asking them to restore access to the 500,000+ books removed from our library ⤵️
change.org
Let Readers Read: An Open Letter to the Publishers in Hachette v. Internet Archive:
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proud to share this study, conducted jointly w @m0namon, @anunaykul, and @jonathanmayer, calling into question the legality of twitter blue:
Since today is the blue check apocalypse, here’s a new research paper on Twitter’s paid account “verification.” What we learned: 1) Most people don’t understand what blue checks now mean. 2) Paid accounts are disproportionately crypto bros, Elon stans, new, and conservative.
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some news ! come hang w us on feb 15 !!
Hi everyone! We're having an ✨event✨but we need your help to pull it off! If you can spare a few bucks, here's our PayPal: https://t.co/3cjtWtdh3A We really appreciate it! Can't wait to see you all next week :)
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Rejoice! What a wild, wild ride it's been. The @believermag returns home to @mcsweeneys.
nytimes.com
The magazine, bought by a marketing company, briefly hosted clickbait content. Scandal ensued. After a flurry of negotiation, it is now back with its first publisher, McSweeney’s.
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🚨Bargaining Update🚨 We’re excited to share we’ve reached a deal with management on our first contract! After 2 years of bargaining & a 5 day strike, we’ve secured an agreement that makes meaningful improvements to our working conditions. We came together to demand better & won!
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gutted to see @believermag go, even temporarily -- i owe it (and @mcsweeneys) a debt of gratitude for the best three months i ever spent in the bay area
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she's back !!
"There is no one like Mitski for making sense of alienation, of the confusion that comes with emerging shiny and dumb into a world that feels too cynical for shininess or dumbness." @madxiaodisease on cicadas and Mitski. https://t.co/2Zg0bz1gkz
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a fascinating essay on Derrida’s relationship to Mac computers and word processing, via @mervatim
https://t.co/hSHh3jwtGr
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Our members have unanimously voted to ratify our first contract. Congratulations, everyone!
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Over the past six and a half years, @MicrobiomDigest has identified more than 4,900 scientific articles containing potentially doctored images, using her eyes and memory alone.
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I’ll be splitting the prize money between everyone who worked on my pieces last year—every editor, copy editor, fact checker, artist, and more. Even when individuals win Pulitzers, their work depends on a community. I want to honor mine.
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“Guo���s English [is] better able to capture a certain kind of alienation that people feel when being forced to communicate in a language that isn’t native to them.” On Xiaolu Guo’s A Lover’s Discourse and the language of global literature in @nybooks: https://t.co/JftgRVK5zf
nybooks.com
Never have the literary habits of so many readers been determined by so few people. Publishing is more centralized than it has ever been—with the proposed
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Major opening today, Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, Jia Zhangke's documentary of writers' lives and times, with richly detailed talk that's literature in itself; now at @FilmLinc (word x2: https://t.co/fmh8RLMHEz
newyorker.com
Some top selections from the festival come from three veteran filmmakers, who provide illuminating views both of their longtime artistic obsessions and of the present day.
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