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🔗 linkblog: Chokepoint Capitalism can break you free from big tech and big content - The Verge'


It’s a long interview, so I didn’t read the whole thing, but what I did read made me want to read this book even more. I have a copy, I just need to open it up.

🔗 linkblog: New York City schools ban access to ChatGPT over fears of cheating and misinformation - The Verge'


Personally, I’m not very optimistic about ChatGPT, and I think OpenAI should have better considered disruptions to fields like education before releasing the tool. That said, I don’t think a ban is the solution here.

🔗 linkblog: Bring back personal blogging - The Verge'


Yes, yes, and yes. I don’t know what the future of the social web will look like, but blogs are what it should look like.

🔗 linkblog: Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors - The Verge'


Just when you thought this couldn’t get any worse. Will be really interested to see if Dorsey gets banned.

🔗 linkblog: Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon - The Verge'


I’ve been trying to avoid dire predictions for Twitter since Musk took over, but this seems more and more like a turning point in the identity and reputation of the platform.

🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk starts banning critical journalists from Twitter - The Verge'


I mean, I’m willing to wait a bit and see what Twitter and Musk have to say about this, but this sure doesn’t seem like the approach that a free speech absolutist would take.

🔗 linkblog: Twitter suspends @ElonJet after Musk promises not to ban it - The Verge'


This is petty and concerning.

🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk proposes letting nearly everyone Twitter banned back on the site - The Verge'


Is he serious? Does he really think this is a good idea? Also, I love the increasing sass that The Verge and other outlets are putting into their comments about Twitter no longer having a communications team to respond to requests for comment.

🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk tries to blame ‘activists’ for his Twitter moderation council lie - The Verge'


This seems petty, immature, and misguided.

🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk begins reinstating banned Twitter accounts, starting with Jordan Peterson and the Babylon Bee - The Verge'


Oh good, so on top of the unexpected chaos, the expected chaos is also still happening.

🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk ignored Twitter’s internal warnings about paid verification - The Verge'


This doesn’t surprise me at all. So much of the current Twitter chaos is predictable.

🔗 linkblog: Twitter reactivated the new ‘Official’ gray checkmark for accounts that are actually verified - The Verge'


What an absolute mess this whole thing has been.

🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk’s first Twitter moderation change calls for permanent bans on impersonators - The Verge'


They’re so obvious as to almost not be worth pointing out, but two points: First, this is why making verification a paid feature is dumb; and second, penalizing parody because your business model is dumb is not what free speech absolutism looks like.

🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk tries to distract from Twitter layoffs by claiming advertisers are fleeing the platform - The Verge'


Choosing not to do business with someone isn’t an assault on free speech—it’s the very definition of the marketplace of ideas.

🔗 linkblog: Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler - The Verge'


Oh no. This can’t be good.

🔗 linkblog: Texas has teed up a Supreme Court fight for the future of the internet - The Verge'


We need to do more work to divorce free speech from content moderation. The world without content moderation would be a much worse world, and we don’t want to live in it. Sure, social media platforms are too powerful, but this is not the answer.

🔗 linkblog: Dozens of civil rights groups are calling on Amazon and MGM to cancel Ring Nation reality show - The Verge'


This is a gross idea for a TV show, and I’m glad people are pushing back against it.

🔗 linkblog: The Humiliating History of the TSA'


What a story. I knew how awful the TSA could be to passengers, but I never knew how bad it also was for its own employees.

🔗 linkblog: NASA delays launch of its massive SLS rocket amid engine issue - The Verge'


Sad news. I had the livestream up and was hoping to watch the launch before going into the office today.

🔗 linkblog: No cap, Sen. Mike Lee’s personal Twitter account is called ‘BasedMikeLee’ - The Verge'


Lots of directions to go with this one, but “based” is the red pill red flag for me. Lee is (unsurprisingly) borrowing the language of the far right.

🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a ‘public debate’ about bots - The Verge'


Musk continues his trolling. This is a dumb proposal, and Twitter shouldn’t accept it.

🔗 linkblog: Pearson says NFT textbooks will let it profit off secondhand sales - The Verge'


Ugh, Pearson. Why do we keep thinking about ways to make digital textbooks worse than physical ones?

🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk officially tries to bail on buying Twitter - The Verge'


Best line: “Musk seemed to relish the ability to make wishful product plans about free speech and corporate independence more than he wanted to develop a coherent business plan for Twitter.”

🔗 linkblog: This PC orchestra, built from 512 floppy disk drives, is wondrous to hear and behold - The Verge'


I remember the first Floppotron, and 3.0 continues to be delightful. I may have to show this in class next year.

🔗 linkblog: The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandate - The Verge'


Very, very interesting read on how the purported objectivity of big data is influencing how (conservative) judges use corpus linguistics.