Chilling read.

I especially appreciate this article in the wake of Meta’s recent announcements. There are cases in which content moderation is inconsistent or overreaching, and there are cases in which less moderation fixes the problem. However, it’s the arbitrary distinctions and self-serving nature of the changes that make the “free expression” argument so flimsy.

Uggggggh, ALPRs suck.

Moderating employees but not users seems telling to me.

Modern cars are creepy.

Look, I don’t know all the finer points of this debate, but Mullenweg has repeatedly struck me as petty and juvenile, so it’s hard to imagine taking his side on any of the more substantive issues here.

This is a solid article. I think the opening is reflective and that there’s an effort to be open minded (more than I would be). It’s also amazing to me, though, how explicitly the goal here seems to be profiting from a surveillance-supported content mill.

What a wild story.

The unceremonious end of Redbox is a reminder of how much stuff we make and buy, and how, when companies fail to plan for end-of-life or go out of business, they often leave a bunch of devices that suddenly become e-waste behind.

It’s uncomfortable for me to think about how close my “digital traces” research is to surveillance and YOLO data mining.

This is an important take, and I appreciate that the article concludes with a reminder that indie is the answer as we move forward with the social web.

Wild to read this so soon after finishing Character Limit, because I’m getting very similar vibes.

This was a hell of a semester to decide to not dedicate a whole lecture to WordPress in my CMS class.

I’ve been trying to think through Durov’s arrest since I first heard about it—there are a lot of complex things going on here. I think this captures nicely my thoughts and taught me a few things, too.

Telegram is a sketchy platform (technically even more than in terms of content), but that doesn’t mean arresting the founder is warranted. Yet, that doesn’t mean that outcry on the right is in good faith, either.

ALPRs suck.

I don’t think intellectual property is the way to fight back against generative AI, but it is wildly out of line for a company who profits off using other’s intellectual property to be this petty.

I have not been following this discourse, but I feel like I’d agree with this article even if I had and, besides, the article makes me glad I haven’t been following it.

Ugh, so creepy.

Funny meme, depressing reality.

Helpful reminder that it’s low-paid, underappreciated workers who contribute to AI as much as high-paid programmers and household-name executives.

This strikes me as illustrating the digital labor issues associated with generative AI. It’s someone else profiting off of one’s work.

Aw, geez, and I liked Automattic, too. I get that financing Tumblr is hard, but why this?

There are few phrases grosser than “monetizing our user base.”

This is straight-up awful. Shame on the university for doing this.

I work on a campus with Starship robots, so this was a fascinating read.