The Logbook

Every signal, dated and filed.

Append-only. Entries are never edited — only their status moves. Showing 10 of 136 entries.

  1. Economics

    Hollywood screenwriters shift to AI training gigs for income; writer completed 20 contracts across 5 platforms in 8 months as economic necessity.

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  2. Media

    AI-enabled dynamic research papers replacing static canonical versions. Macroeconomics example: papers auto-update with latest data, fragmenting authorship and versioning authority.

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  3. Media

    Conspiracy theorists building AI interfaces to Epstein files, leveraging data-analysis framing to legitimize narratives and link to QAnon.

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  4. Technology

    Chinese real-time deepfake software 'Haotian AI' documented being actively marketed for scams on WhatsApp, Zoom, Teams; enables face-swap fraud at scale.

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  5. Media

    Semafor used AI to distill 5-day conference with 500+ attendees and hundreds of speakers into 9 takeaways, April 2026.

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  6. Civic Life

    OpenAI, Google, Microsoft back bill funding AI literacy grants through NSF to schools, introduced by Schiff and Rounds May 2026.

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  7. Economics

    Journalism unions struggling to protect worker rights as AI tools (research, transcription, translation, illustration, podcast generation) integrate into newsroom workflows by 2026.

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  8. GIS & Spatial

    Geospatial AI tools being adopted for environmental journalism coverage, particularly rainforest monitoring and deforestation reporting.

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  9. Media

    150 ProPublica journalists strike for 24 hours over AI—first U.S. newsroom strike centered on AI labor concerns, signaling institutional tensions over technology adoption.

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  10. Media

    VTDigger union contract (ratified April 1, 2026) includes first formal guarantee of journalist input on AI use, plus 32.5% minimum salary increase.

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