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.

Interesting read here from Masnick. I’m not familiar with everything he writes about here, but I always appreciate his perspective.

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Insightful speculation by Masnick. Ye’s said some horrible things recently, but that doesn’t mean Parlement can’t be taking advantage of him.

Politicians need to better understand the internet. This is just as dumb (and perhaps more devious) than the nonsense the governor of Missouri was up to.

Amazing stuff here.

This is juvenile enough that I feel guilty finding it funny, but it’s a good demonstration of the problems with this backlash against content moderation.

Great movie, great example of the difficulty of content moderation.

Americans should be more worried about the NSA than they are.

Intellectual property is a social justice issue.

I appreciate the way that Masnick uses examples from the news to call out how dumb some of these laws are.

I read Torba’s blog post last week but hadn’t been aware of the context. Interesting read.