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🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first - The Verge'
This is just so petty. I don’t know how his leadership at Twitter is defensible anymore.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk’s reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it - The Verge'
Every time I think this acquisition can’t get dumber, it does.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter to remove free API access in latest money making quest - The Verge'
I presume this decisuon also cuts off academics; this is going to have a huge impact on research, and not in a good way. I’m glad I’ve pivoted to other platforms, but this is still infuriating.
🔗 linkblog: 4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech - The Verge'
Why… why don’t we better anticipate better misuses like this? Are technological “progress” and market opportunities more important than these side effects?
🔗 linkblog: Discord acquires Gas, the popular app for teens to compliment each other - The Verge'
A couple of months ago, I spoke to Education Week about the Gas app. I thought it had an exploitative business model then, and its being acquired does nothing to calm that fear.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter says it’s intentionally blocking apps like Tweetbot - The Verge'
Ah, the kind of answer that only raises more questions.
🔗 linkblog: How ‘radioactive data’ could help reveal malicious AIs - The Verge'
Fascinating read on potential threats posed by AI—and potential solutions.
🔗 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.