Sree Sreenivasan’s Post

That's not Elvis and that's not me (nor was I Bill Clinton's chief speechwriter or executive editor of the NYT). In this week's newsletter (produced w/ Zach Peterson and Robert Anthony), I tackle AI mistakes, errors, problems that are being called "hallucinations." I hate that term! Featuring cameos by Zach Seward, Lauren Leffer, Pussy Riot and others. Please read and subscribe to the newsletter or the Substack version [ https://lnkd.in/gdmwqhr ]. Thanks for all your support!

Ali Velshi is our guest for the #NYTReadalong at a special 8:00am ET start time. He is an award winning journalist, host of "Velshi" and Chief Correspondent for MSNBC, and a weekly economics contributor to NPR's "Here And Now." In “Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy,” which will be released Tuesday, May 7, he “taps into 125 years of family history to advocate for social justice as a living, breathing experience―a way of life more than an ideology.” We will be live at 8:00am ET / 12:00pm GMT / 5:30pm IST on Sunday morning on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and our Digimentors website. If you miss the live show, you can always watch it later, on demand. Ali has covered multiple U.S. Midterm and Presidential elections and significant news stories around the globe, including extensive reporting from Israel during the war with Israel and Hamas, Ukraine and across Central and Eastern Europe during the Russian invasion, the Syrian refugee crisis from Turkey and Jordan, and the Iran Nuclear Deal in Tehran. He hosts the "Velshi Banned Book Club” on MSNBC, and the "Velshi Banned Book Club" podcast. Velshi is known for his immersive on-the-ground reporting and his interactive discussions with small groups, which form part of his ongoing series, Velshi Across America. He previously worked as an anchor and correspondent for Al Jazeera America and CNN. He has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards, and is the recipient of two National Headliner Awards and a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award. Click here for details, links to watch on other platforms and a gift link to the article. https://lnkd.in/ecsgzksa Click here for our #NYTReadalong YouTube Playlist: https://lnkd.in/gpY2HiP ------------------- We have been reviewing the print edition of the Sunday New York Times for eight and a half years. The show is produced by Digimentors. We produce high-quality virtual and hybrid events for organizations big and small around the world. We also do social and digital consulting, training and workshops. Neil Parekh is the executive producer and occasional guest host. If you're interested in having our team work with you, or are looking for sponsorship opportunities, please contact me: sree@digimentors.group or Neil Parekh at neil@digimentors.group. Subscribe to my YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/sreenet Thank you to Muck Rack for your support of the #NYTReadalong.

LAST CALL: Excited to partner w/ Josh Goldblum and Futurespaces to present a deep dive on AI. 🙌 3 hours 😮 Fully remote ✅ Friday, May 3, 1-4 pm ET 🗓 Here's a code for 50% off: SREE50 🎉 More info & registration: https://lnkd.in/e4hMmD3K Feedback from Jill Davison, global comms executive, about my much shorter November class: "What an excellent class... thank you! Generative AI is an unbelievably exciting and terrifying subject. Looking forward to participating in future classes." #sreeai

Excited to partner w/ Josh Goldblum and Futurespaces to present a deep dive on AI. 🙌 3 hours 😮 Fully remote ✅ Friday, May 3, 1-4 pm ET 🗓 Here's a code for 50% off: SREE50 🎉 #sreeai Feeback from Jill Davison, global comms executive, about my much shorter November class: "What an excellent class... thank you! Generative AI is an unbelievably exciting and terrifying subject. Looking forward to participating in future classes." https://lnkd.in/e4hMmD3K

Our #NYTReadalong guest is Amitava Kumar, a writer and journalist. He is the author of several books of non-fiction and four novels and is a professor of English at Vassar College. He is a Cullman Center Fellow (2023-2024) at the New York Public Library. His latest book is “My Beloved Life.” We will be live at 8:30am ET / 12:30pm GMT / 6pm IST on Sunday morning on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and our Digimentors website. If you miss the live show, you can always watch it later, on demand. His book is described as an “absorbing, exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn.” Salman Rushdie had this to say about Amitava’s latest book, “This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling. A father, a daughter, a crime, a country being born, a migration, another country, a plague. ‘We are in touch with a great astonishing mystery when we put honest words down on paper to register a life and to offer witness. Everything else is ordinary,’ Kumar writes. His novel offers magnificent witness, and is not ordinary but extraordinary.” Click here for details, links to watch on other platforms and a gift link to the article. https://lnkd.in/e3R8gzer Click here for our #NYTReadalong YouTube Playlist: https://lnkd.in/gpY2HiP ------------------- We have been reviewing the print edition of the Sunday New York Times for eight and a half years. The show is produced by Digimentors. We produce high-quality virtual and hybrid events for organizations big and small around the world. We also do social and digital consulting, training and workshops. Neil Parekh is the executive producer and occasional guest host. If you're interested in having our team work with you, or are looking for sponsorship opportunities, please contact me: sree@digimentors.group or Neil Parekh at neil@digimentors.group. Subscribe to my YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/sreenet Thank you to Muck Rack for your support of the #NYTReadalong.