Fascinating read. I can’t believe it’s been 20 years… I remember learning the news at a Boy Scout activity.

Seems like good news, but while I’ll be happy to join others’ D&D games, I think my preferences are locked into Paizo games and indie titles.

Ashamed to admit that until this week, I ’d never really thought about the origins of this name. This seems like a pretty straightforward argument, though, and I can’t think of any compelling reason not to change the name.

Glad to see more coverage of this so I can be more upset by what’s going on.

I’m skeptical of many technologies, most of which I can concede have some real value. In contrast, I have a lot of trouble seeing any value in facial recognition that outweighs the obvious, large-scale harms that can come from it.

I’ve been making a real effort to be less pessimistic about ChatGPT, and I imagine this makes a better headline than actual threat, but this is still the sort of thing that makes me wonder about AI. What is missing from our world that ChatGPT fills? And is it worth these increased risks?

Mastodon isn’t perfect, but this strikes me as a good sign.

I think this headline captures one of the worst parts of all of this: Musk isn’t just dismissing concerns about behavior, he’s fueling that behavior.

Good thing engineers really anticipated and considered these consequences before developing this software, right?

Move fast and break things, indeed. Checks as verification and checks as business model are inherently at odds with each other, and I get the vibe that Musk (team business model) is unhappy with internal pushback from team verification.

Noooo! I was just blogging about wanting to get into this once my kid’s a bit older!

This is a terrible idea, and it is wildly irresponsible to do research like this.

Exciting news! This still leaves a lot of research behind paywalls, though.

Look, I’m a critic of Apple’s closed system, but it’s laughable for Meta to set itself up as an oprn alternative.

I was worried this was going to be a gritty take on Astro City, but now I’m just mad they took the name of my favorite superhero for a different story.

Opting out of location sharing is a good and important step, but there are no tech solutions to this horror—only political ones. We need good legislation, and we need it now.

So, here’s a case where TikTok’s Chinese ownership is actually a really big deal—though, of course, YouTube and other U.S. companies have also been quicker to moderate than to archive material that could be valuable in a similar way.

I’m glad I got out of the Kindle game before they did on-screen ads. This feels dystopian.

So excited! This has been a great show, and this season seems topical.

Kid’s elementary school principal claims COVID is over, but pretty clear that’s not the case. Glad we can get her boosted now.

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

So tired of this pandemic.

This dumb story got even dumber.

This story just gets more and more ridiculous.

Facebook might need more moderators, but they shouldn’t be company executives…