As usual, I find Masnick’s recap of this recent nonsense helpful in terms of summary and interpretation.

Is this the same feature Elon says will be sufficient for keeping Alex Jones in check?

Good observations by Masnick here.

The digital could have been used to expand access to content, but we’re using it to actually restrict that access. What a crappy future.

Masnick’s frustration here is fun to read.

I’ve been waiting for Masnick’s response to this, and it’s good.

I bristle a bit at Moody’s suggestion that academics are dumb for signing over copyright—it’s dumb that we have to, but there are systemic issues at play here. Yet, especially now with tenure taken care of, I do wonder if we consent too readily to the system.

What a wild story.

I’ll admit that I’ve been wary of Masnick’s hostility to KOSA, but Blackburn’s comments justify his stance. This ought to kill support for KOSA.

I’ve instinctively never liked t.co links, and this demonstrates what the problem with them are.

This is dumb. Copyright is important, but this example shows how much we’ve made it overreach.

Yet another wild story in the wild history of Twitter.

USA! USA! Seriously, though, bookmarking for future teaching.

I appreciate Masnick’s thinking, and I’m a big Doctorow fan, so it’s always neat to see them come together.

Helpful summary by Masnick; bookmarking for later.

I’ve linkblogged a lot of stuff on Reddit lately, but this is a good summary and reaction, so I’m adding it to the list.

Lots of ugh here.

Here’s Masnick saying some of my thoughts but better—and adding some observations I would not have come to on my own.

This is… I don’t know what this is. Besides a whole bunch of nonsense.

Masnick makes a good point here. I’m sympathetic to “for the kids” motivations, but I’m increasingly convinced that Masnick is right, that it’s meant to make bad policy sound impossible to argue against.

Bellingcat does good work; Twitter continues to be a joke.

I know I can always count on Masnick to write this article when a story like this comes up.

This is a neat game that shows how difficult content moderation is. Excited to have my content management students play it in the Fall.

I’m tired of reading Twitter news, but I’m professionally obligated to do so, no matter how dumb it gets.

This is another dumb move by Musk. Masnick is excellent at calling him out on hypocrisy.

Happy to hear podcasts aren’t working out for Spotify, because I was always upset about Spotify trying to wall off this garden.

I’d seen some of the headlines Masnick is critiquing here, but I hadn’t read the articles. I appreciate this critique and overview.

Just because some worries about ChatGPT are, indeed, moral panics doesn’t mean that there aren’t legtimate criticisms of the technology—including from an educational perspective. I happen to agree with Masnick that schools ultimately need to roll with the punches here, but given how much we already expect of our schools and teachers, it’s reasonable to resent being punched in the first place. Masnick’s point about the error rate for detecting AI-generated text is an important one, though: I don’t think plagiarism-detecting surveillance is at all the right response.

Welp, all the more reason to leave birdsite behind.

Repeat after me: Content moderation is a good thing.

I’ve posted a bunch of articles about this already, but Masnick’s take is super helpful.

Musk is getting pettier and more self-centered.

How does such an already bad story get so much worse over the course of a single day?

Oh please no.

If I could pick one story to demonstrate that Musk’s Twitter tenure has been blundering and inconsistent…

I’m glad I began reading Techdirt before this whole mess started… Masnick’s persective has been a helpful guide.