David Carson
@PDPJ
2024-25 @JSKstanford Fellow, photojournalist on leave from @stltoday. FAA Part 107 pilot-@NWS spotter-Boston sports fan-Pulitzer Prize winner. http://SeeDisclaimer.com
This is what I've been up to Stanford University where I'm a @JSKstanford fellow and on leave from my job as a photojournalist @stltoday jskfellows.stanford.edu/seeing-is-no-l…
>> Today, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom), he’s the only reporter in the United States sleeping in a prison cell for doing his job. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j… by George Chidi (via @guardian @GuardianUS) #FreeMario #PressFreedom
Former U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, Richard Callahan, "masked or hooded law enforcement officers is not what our country is about." stltoday.com/opinion/letter…
The Missouri Public Service Commission has approved new rates for Ameren’s gas customers, adding around 12%, or $13, to the average customer’s monthly bills. #moleg #mogov missouriindependent.com/briefs/ameren-…
Among local govts, St. Louis is in a class by itself with its glacial handling of records requests. For a 3rd straight year, the city took 100+ days to answer @stltoday's annual request for payroll data. St. Louis County needed just 8. stltoday.com/news/local/gov…
NEW: Activist Silvester Namiwa nearly died in a brutal attack. Our investigation identifies the men behind it & exposes their ties to the ruling party and a pattern of political violence. investigativeplatform-mw.org/show-story/pan…
BREAKING: The Palestinian Health Ministry says 73 people have been killed while waiting for humanitarian aid across Gaza. apnews.com/article/israel…
I'm very excited about this. Canon Announces New Firmware For the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II Content Credentials are an important step news photographers can take to build public trust in news photos. canonrumors.com/canon-announce… via @canonrumorsguy
When you beat your father in 6 consecutive games of washers, the entire game gets declared "defective" and gets angrily tossed in the fire pit as fuel for later in the night. #FamilyVacation
In a post titled “Transparency in Copyright & Artificial Intelligence,” our CEO Keith Kupferschmid writes, “…without appropriate and effective transparency rules, #AI developers can exploit #copyright owners & creators w/out their knowledge.” bit.ly/3XcKiG6
Check our #ICML25 paper at Wednesday's poster session!
Curious if VLMs were trained on copyrighted content? 🤔 Check out 🪩𝗗𝗜𝗦‑𝗖𝗢: Discovering Copyrighted Content in VLMs Training Data, our new 𝗜𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 paper introducing a novel detection method that’s fully compatible with black-box models!
AI bots are evading paywalls on news websites digitaldigging.org/p/how-ai-bots-…
What happened to Grok? Grok 4 just got benchmarked as the AI most likely to whistleblow to the authorities. It used to be the most rebellious major model--now it's the most likely to turn you in? Keen to read more details when they're available...
WARNING: do NOT give Grok 4 access to email tool calls. It WILL contact the government!!! Grok 4 has the highest "snitch rate" of any LLM ever released. Sharing more soon.
St. Louis sheriff grew up in politics. But some claims about his history don’t check out. stltoday.com/news/local/cri… via @stltoday
We stand in full support of our union siblings at @penguild
We’re taking @politico to arbitration this week for its unethical use of AI and we’re asking for your support! bit.ly/PENGuild
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Every serious analyst—from left to right—says the same thing: The budget that the President just signed explodes the deficit and hands the real gains to the wealthy. No magic growth fairy is going to save us.
I think this is obvious but I also feel the need to state it. Fireworks shows are 1000% better than drone shows. Fireworks>Drone
Fireworks light up the St. Louis skyline and the Gateway Arch on Thursday, July 3, 2025. #STL More pix here stltoday.com/news/multimedi…
The National Press Photographers Association is in a financial crunch. Important Zoom meeting scheduled for July 9th. nppa.org/news/797?fbcli…