Faut pas oublier ces liens quand-même.

Litmus tests like this are making me even more worried about the future.

Wish that I’d been paying better attention to this legislation. Libraries are pillars of our communities and ought to retain partisan independence.

I think today demonstrates both the superority of France’s two-round presidential elections to U.S. first-past-the-post BUT ALSO the inferiority of both compared to ranked-choice voting.

Faut pas transformer l’Ukraine un héros irréprochable.

Insightful piece on trolling and feeding trolls.

All platforms moderate content, most content moderation isn’t censorship.

If I can help it, I will never buy a smart TV. I appreciate the suggestion to consider a monitor as a dumb TV.

Weaponization of copyright filters is awful, and it’s not even the worst thing about this story.

Keeping an eye on France’s elections in April and then Idaho’s in May, I guess.

Frustrating to see steps that feel like progress seem to shore up the tech giants I hoped were being kept in check.

I have been meaning to read this for quite some time, as it is the first volume in the most recent official history of Community of Christ. I’m also looking forward to the next two volumes, since they cover history that I am not familiar with, but it was especially interesting to read a Community of Christ perspective on the 1830-1844 era. I appreciated the frankness and openness of the volume—it’s impossible to imagine an LDS version of this book taking the same approach.

Worries about this picking up. General Assembly took steps in a bad direction this session, but they could go further next time.

GOP needs to do more about MTG.

Not that I was inclined to believe Russian cries of fake news anyway, but I still appreciate Bellingcat on the case.

This kind of article is why I read The Intercept—to give me fresh perspectives on important issues.

Nooooo thank you. Don’t like this about Grammarly, don’t like this about Word, won’t like this about Google Docs. I am very skeptical of giving algorithms authority over style.

TikTok should not be protected from criticism, but it should not be subjected to this garbage either.

Indefensible for a student to be treated this way. The settlement is good news, but I still worry about the larger issue. Thinking about how to teach my kid about the Pledge and the right not to participate.

I have spent a few hours this week reading violently anti-trans posts as part of a research project. My patience for queerphobic dog whistles disguised as feigned concerns about girls’ sports is at zero. So disappointed in the Kentucky legislature.

Really appreciate Masnick’s perspective here—especially the point that EVERYONE believes in content moderation even if there are disagreements on how to do it. It’s irresponsible for so many (on the right) to describe moderation as censorship.

Very uncomfortable with this. Tweet wasn’t great, but not sure if it’s criminal. I’m sympathetic to the idea that we underpolice social media, but this is a fantastic example of why so many (including me) are worried about attempts to police it more.

Do not be fooled by the headline, the article’s best contribution is its indictment of U.S. politicians and companies for their complicity in this sort of thing.

This is a fascinating article on prepper communities on reddit. Great example of the importance of a gender lens.

Speaking of the non-neutrality of platforms… Granted, Google has a difficult line to walk here, but this is still disappointing.

Glad to see reporting on Rumble, but disappointed to see uncritical repeating of claims about “free speech,” “neutrality,” and “censorship.” There are no neutral platforms, and content moderation is the real key idea here.

Seems to me that not using proctoring software is the best response to these concerns, but glad to see the EFF sponsoring efforts to regulate its inevitable use.

I bike past this house and its flags every day; seeing them is always a boost. How upsetting that people would want to burn one.

I have been waiting for days to see what Techdirt would have to say on this, and it doesn’t disappoint.

This article is the most helpful thing I’ve seen on the cosmonauts’ uniform choice so far.

This idea increasingly resonates with me.

I’m generally a fan of Doctorow’s writing—his recent collection of novellas (“Radicalized”) is one of my favorites and I also own his entire “Little Brother” trilogy. This collection of stories just didn’t land for me, though, and there are other stories/books of his that felt the same. I wonder if his weirder, more optimistic stories don’t work for me in the same way his bleak ones do. This collection dates to 2007, and while Doctorow has long been a critic of certain uses of technology, there are some stories in here that seem like they have more faith in the future of tech than I think is warranted in a post-Snowden, post-Cambridge Analytica world.

This was a bit of a slog sometimes—one of the reasons why it took me so long to read and why it didn’t get a full five hearts—but it’s one of the most interesting things I’ve read recently. This is supposedly one of the great classics of Mormon fiction, though I hadn’t heard of it before BCC Press released a free ebook of it a few weeks ago. It is a frank but respectful tale of Mormon pioneers “settling” St.

Oh good, our fears about deepfakes are coming true.

Intellectual property is a social justice issue.

Latest guest post on official blog of far right Gab platform could have been a Latter-day Saint General Conference sermon. Sure, rejecting truth and embracing evil sounds bad, but there are a lot of assumptions that need to be surfaced and interrogated about what both terms mean.