Lila Shroff
@LilaShroff
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Hate when :) corrects to 🙂 like omg that was not the vibe I was going for
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Life update: I graduated, moved to DC, and joined
@TheAtlantic
as an assistant editor on the Science, Technology, and Health team! So excited for this next chapter and so grateful to everyone who made it happen. (Let me know if you’re in the area, I’d love to meet new people!)
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Welcome to my NYC coffee shop, book store, etc. thread of threads. Pls add!
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What is the playbook for collective action in the platform age?
New essay examining how workers are organizing on platforms — and what the alternatives may be.
Written w/
@ljin18
&
@skominers
for
@HarvardBiz
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wrote a piece on the difficulty of getting started with creative work!!!
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hands down one of the best communities out there - Interact and everyone in it are magic.
if you are less than 24 yrs old + searching for a community of intensely warm-hearted and creative-minded technologists - apply!!!!!!!!
Applications are now open for the 2022 Interact Fellowship!
Learn more and apply here by February 15th: .
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Web2 content pricing is so broken: a subscription to 70 million songs costs the same amount as a subscription to one newsletter.
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This fall I took a
@stanfordio
course taught by
@shelbygrossman
on Online Open Source Investigation.
Today, we published a report summarizing our findings from research done in class.
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Excited to cover all things arts, media, and policy...
Send me your pitches on:
- artists exploring technology in interesting + provocative ways
- media creation tools you wish existed
- fiction that changes how you think about technology
- anything else you want!
today i want to extend a big welcome to
@reboot_hq
's new editorial board, ie the coolest cats in the biz 😎
keep reading to hear about each editor & what role they'll play in envisioning a better collective future 👇
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In April,
@ljin18
& I wrote a piece on UCI. Today, an NFT based on the piece is being auctioned.
But there's a twist.
Proceeds from the sale will be used to establish a scholarship to empower new people to start earning in the metaverse.
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Come pitch your startup to an incredible group of creators!! 😜
Apply here:
Are you raising for your startup and want to pitch a group of creators who collectively represent 48 million followers?
I'm teaching a cohort of amazing creators about angel investing, and we're doing group pitches every Friday in June.
Apply here!
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👉 Curated a reading list with
@isabelle_levent
on designing generative AI systems to positively augment human creativity:
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Cool artist alert:
Seattle 18 y/o (!!!)
@fewocious
will be selling a series of 5 NFT works w/
@ChristiesInc
, speaking to his experiences as a young, transgender artist.
To date, Victor has already earned over $18M from NFT sales, money that helped him move out at age 17.
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Atelier is official & I can't stop smiling! With
@AtelierVentures
, Li is backing the future I want to live in: a future that celebrates individuality, creativity, and joy.
Forever blown away by Li & endlessly grateful that she somehow decided to include me on this crazy journey!
New year, new VC firm ✨
Meet
@AtelierVentures
, a new VC fund that is dedicated to advancing the passion economy!
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This morning, I published a short story for
@reboot_hq
told entirely through emails. The story explores themes of friendship, AI, personalized media, and loss. I hope you enjoy it!!
Link below 👇
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I feel like audio "screenshots" have so much unrealized potential
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In the digital world, user rights are civic rights, and creator rights are worker rights.
New post from
@ljin18
& me on The Case for Universal Creative Income:
In 1935, the US enacted various New Deal cultural programs to provide relief for jobless artists and democratize public access to art.
A century later, it’s time to renew that spirit.
Enter: Universal Creative Income 🪙
New blog by me &
@lilashroff
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Meet Side Hustle Stack! 🎉
People are increasingly turning to online platforms to earn $$$ but figuring out where to begin can be overwhelming. We created a database of income-earning opportunities to make things easier.
New product alert!
Side Hustle Stack is a resource to find platform-based work, ranging from gig work and side hustles to platforms that help you start a small business. 🧑🍳🚓🛍️🛒🎮✍️
Made by me,
@brndnwll
, &
@lilashroff
!!
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In today’s essay for
@reboot_hq
, I imagine a world where artist collectives develop imaginative, speculative, and consciously subjective datasets.
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"In centuries past, worker rights didn’t just emerge spontaneously, but were hard-won.
Likewise, creator empowerment will be the product of concerted efforts to craft structures and platforms that prioritize creator control and ownership."
The creator economy is starting to resemble the gig economy, with commoditization of workers and economic precarity masqueraded as entrepreneurship.
New post about the perils of the creator economy and how we move forward from here:
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Launch Party 🎉 happening right now:
Hi friends 👋 we're excited to officially introduce Geneva — an all-in-one communication app for groups, clubs, and communities.
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Entering the $WRITE RACE 💨 on
@viamirror
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want to be added to the Li bday wall of love? ❤️
dm me ur response to the prompt "what I love most about Li is...." and it will get added!!!
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Crowdfunding history:
When Marie Curie couldn't afford 1g of radium for research, a crowdfund raised today's equivalent of 2M from women nationwide!
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What if artists curated the datasets used to train generative AI models?
By working at the data level, artists can take advantage of the rare opportunity to directly embed values into a new raw material available for others to use.
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In nyc from now-Aug! hmu if you are here & wanna go book store/coffee shop/museum exploring!
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The crowdfund for
@jasminewsun
's essay on The progressive case for techno-optimism is $160 away from $500!
$$ raised will be used to support
@reboot_hq
and for donations $25+, Jasmine will curate you a personalized reading list!
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wishing there was a "really want to read" button on Goodreads for when you go to mark a book "want to read" that you already marked "want to read"
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second time's the charm? 😜
🏁 $WRITE RACE 💨 Round 19
🏃♀️ Begins now. Start your engines!
The starting grid:
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@ran_dom
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@sweetkeats
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@Darrenlautf
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@BlockchainatCU
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@0x_Lucas
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@ShawnKanungo
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@LilaShroff
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@fednovikov
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@tubefilter
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@RajitWrites
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@jasminewsun
@reboot_hq
shoutout to
@sariazout
@jessicadai_
@hoctopi
@a_vadini
@jaesmail
@NikDevraj
@astrachan
@y1huen
@anhphamprog
@ninzucchi
@gucaslelfond
for the support so far!
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@ljin18
thank YOU 🥺 !!!!! for the wisdom, the support, the opportunities, & the laughs ❤️ can’t wait to see you take over the world first
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magical last day in new york featuring
@cyberneticslib
serendipity & learning about black hole ringdowns from a stranger on the train
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People won't determine the future "based on vague ideals of decentralization. Only if and to the extent that Web3 truly benefits their lives will they push past our legacy networks into a next phase."
(h/t
@jaesmail
)
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Exciting stuff --
@mdiforg
will "invest in projects located or serving audiences in countries where access to free and independent news and information is under threat."
Applications open through June 21.
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For our final project,
@GuruDetective
and I collaborated on an investigation into the spread of mis/disinformation on TikTok.
Here is a summary of our findings:
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@ljin18
and I spent the past few weeks watching and making waaayyyyy too many TikToks.
Here are our learnings (complete with many examples) on how startups can use TikTok to succeed:
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required reading ‼️
Excited to finally share some collaborative writing work done w/
@joininteract
's support over the last year, together with the wonderful
@saffronhuang
,
@mattyj612
,
@annarmitchell
,
@marannelson
, and
@_TamaraWinter
, "Letters to a Young Technologist" ✨
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marie kondo's web store sending me veryyyy mixed messages. defeat clutter once and for all with a....$48 wooden paperweight? $75 tuning fork? smh marie noooo🤦♀️
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It was incredible having
@juliewdesign_
join our
@StanfordHAI
student group for a workshop on post-photography & AI cinema!
We are so grateful! <3
just held my first workshop about MidjourneyxDesign for the Stanford University — and it was a lot of fun ✨🥹
thanks so much
@isabelle_levent
and
@LilaShroff
for the opportunity 🫶🏼
we did a quick mini workshop creating a moodboard together for a new commercial ad for Whole
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In 30 minutes (4pm PST): How startups should leverage TikTok
with
@ljin18
,
@bysandylin
,
@chris__lu
,
@creatorhood
,
@pricelesstayy
, &
@JohnHeezy
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For more details, check out the full report which includes research from other class members on: misleading health insurances offerings, telegram analysis & immigration in Belarus, QAnon on Tumblr, and misinformation on
@Stanford
campus.
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Some very exciting news from
@GlowDotFM
- the company that gave me my first taste of the creator world! Congrats to
@amiravalliani
& team for making the world a better place for podcasters 🎉🥂
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@jasminewsun
is made of magic & money raised from this will be used to support
@reboot_hq
(an INCREDIBLE community)
Let's get crowdfund to AT LEAST $500! 🙏❤️
👻 🧠
@LilaShroff
requested
@jasminewsun
(via
@reboot_hq
) to write about taking back the future: the progressive case for techno-optimism
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Watching Death to 2020 & it’s so bad but I can’t stop watching. Very 2020.
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appreciation for new friendships <3
Appreciation for dimly lit reading nooks and conversations about co-evolution of friendships + nature metaphors + personal growth with
@LilaShroff
💕
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Sat down
@StanfordHAI
with speculative fiction writer & Stegner fellow
@yodelnyc
to discuss all things creative writing x AI.
This is part of an ongoing series
@isabelle_levent
and I run called EMBEDDINGS.
Check out our conversation here:
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And join us (w/
@bysandylin
,
@chris__lu
,
@blondgoblin
,
@JohnHeezy
&
@pricelesstayy
) on Clubhouse at 7PM EST to chat TikTok & startups:
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Will be speaking about media literacy & objectivity in journalism this Thursday at 7pm with
@kuowradioactive
for the Seattle MLK Jr Coalition.
Sign up for the webinar here:
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This led me to wonder—what if artists played a bigger role in developing the infrastructure powering generative AI?
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50% projected YoY growth of digital in-game item sales 👀
(also, love this newsletter...
@FactoftheDay_1
)
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#3
The spread of misinformation through sound
One of the unique features of TikTok is the way users are encouraged to create and customize their own audio bytes.
However, sometimes audio is intentionally layered onto unrelated film footage to create misleading narratives.
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look what’s out today !!!!! everyone go read
@masumaahuja
’s new book
✨ MY BOOK IS OUT IN THE WORLD TODAY! ✨
GIRLHOOD documents the lives of 30 girls around the world, in their own words. It's full of realness and teenage angst and also, hope and joy and friendship and big dreams.
Buy it here:
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#1
An absence of labeling on state-controlled media
Unlike other social media platforms, TikTok does not label content affiliated with known state-backed media channels.
Research has shown these labels to be effective in counteracting foreign misinformation.
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Last year,
@isabelle_levent
& I co-led
@StanfordHAI
group on generative AI & creative expression.
Our convos w/ artists, writers, & CS researchers revealed a fundamental tension between the aesthetic potential of GenAI systems & the political ecosystems in which they are built.
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especially appreciated the "What Might Not Work" section which opens the convo up to some of the questions I've been thinking abt recently (e.g. impact of self-subscribed third party content moderation systems on filter bubbles)
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Work is changing and
@contrahq
is enabling the shift.
Check out their incredibly informative (& aesthetically gorgeous) report on the state of independent work... anyone building or thinking about this space should definitely take a look!
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"We're not building social media. We're building social utility to help us stay connected to the groups we love digitally when we can't be together physically." 🔥
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What are the coolest cafes to work from / read in NYC, preferably in Manhattan
dislike “productivity” vibes, like artsy relaxed booky vibes. A room I’d find in Howl’s moving castle
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@JLSearch
@hunterwalk
@eji_org
@Blklivesmatter
@NAACP_LDF
@jennifer
@stewart
@gsands
@saranormous
@sarahtavel
@jennylefcourt
@cklemke
@mamoonha
@DrAaliya
$4000 raised from over 500 people. Let us know if you are able to match!!!! Thank you!!!!!!
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stumbled across this delightful interview with
@deewhock
in
@PlazmMagazine
"Participation and ownership should be open to all relevant and affected parties. A rain forest doesn’t choose which seed will sprout. They’re all eligible to belong."
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Read here:
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@viamirror
a publication on the future of narrative, oral vs lit cultures, media depictions of reality, design of communities + spaces on/offline, info econ, using ICT to enable sustainable & circular economies, post-truth politics, Web3, short stories & poetry
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#2
Accounts with inauthentic attributes
At least one group of inauthentic accounts posing as human users was discovered in our investigation.
Importantly, we found that even once removed, banned accounts continue to contribute to a user’s follower and following counts.
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vibey places to get ☕️ in soho
-Felix
-blank st
-vesuvio
-ground support
-aime Leon dore
-real real back patio
-Saturday’s back patio
-urban backyard
-cafe integral
-plantshed
-yours truly
-happy bones
-dr smood
-now or never
-Everyman espresso
-Brooklyn diamond
-Artizia upstairs
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@noampomsky
a ton here!
Welcome to my NYC coffee shop, book store, etc. thread of threads. Pls add!
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roommate is currently on a virtual field trip for geology class where she has to rate her favorite rocks on a call with strangers. this is peak zoom school I’m dying
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It was such an honor to play a small part in this huge project! Excited to see what grows out of it.
A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
#CHI2024
👩🏻✏️🤖
What writing assistants do you use? What else are out there and how do they differ? What do we need to consider when designing new writing assistants?
🔗 (1/6)
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"Can we redesign or create an information ecosystem that engenders sufficient consensus for governance functions? If not, how do we transition to a non-toxic form of dissensus that can sustain governance?"
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“GPT-3 produced language that moved me and came across to me as creative. For me, that being true is harder to deal with than if I felt that everything that is produced by AI is garbage.”
Check out
@isabelle_levent
& I's latest interview w/
@vauhinivara
👇
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friend had a rough year, now she's listening to sad music just to feel something. really hope she’s ok...
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Get ready for the ultimate startup TikTok binge!!!
Over the last few weeks,
@lilashroff
and I have gone deep into the TikTok rabbit hole, studying dozens of startups & brands on the platform.
We made TikTok vids and grew our account to 14K followers in 2 weeks 🙈
We're publishing our learnings tomorrow👇
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@brndnwll
& team have rebooted
@sidehustlestack
to be the ultimate source for high-quality info about earning opportunities online.
in awe of their hardwork & commitment to creating such a thoughtful and well-researched resource.
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p.s. I just started this Substack! I want it to feel like a secret garden, a hidden oasis for my creative work, a soft place online removed from the harshness of the internet, saturated and full of growth and color, sunlight and shade, warmth and respite.
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Lol
@amazon
’s breaking podcast news is cool and all but have you read my latest article? Hint: it’s on building trust in journalism.
Take a look at today's PodMov Daily, featuring Amazon Music launching its own podcast platform and a teen audio journalist's approach to diverse storytelling from
@LilaShroff
of
@kuowradioactive
.
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(the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty was also crowdfunded by over 120K people)
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"our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old”
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