Below are posts associated with the “wired.com” source.
🔗 linkblog: The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’
There are many worse things happening in our country right now, but also: this is petty and embarrassing.
🔗 linkblog: The Mysterious Shortwave Radio Station Stoking US-Russia Nuclear Fears
Super interesting, but I prefer my numbers station content to be the fun kind of spooky.
🔗 linkblog: The Fairphone (Gen. 6) Is the Antidote to Yearly Phone Upgrades
Been thinking for years that I should own a Fairphone one day.
🔗 linkblog: The Trump Administration Is Using Memes to Turn Mass Deportation Into One Big Joke
Bookmarking this so I can point to it if anyone asks why I’ve shifted my research from ed tech to right-wing Mormonism.
🔗 linkblog: Mark Zuckerberg Is Expanding His Secretive Hawaii Compound. Part of It Sits Atop a Burial Ground
Personally, I’m not sure why anyone needs to be this rich.
🔗 linkblog: I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat
Musk leans into the bro in tech bro.
🔗 linkblog: AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
On, look, it’s two of my least favorite things about generative AI (NCII and raking in money without concern for ethics) IN THE SAME STORY.
🔗 linkblog: Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’
It feels like it’s Big Tech’s world and schools are just living in it.
🔗 linkblog: Kentucky’s Bitcoin Boom Has Gone Bust
I somehow missed a lot of this history, so I’m bookmarking this for future reference.
🔗 linkblog: Star Wars’ ‘Andor’ Season 2 Depicts the Banality of American Fascism
Very excited to watch this.
🔗 linkblog: DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards'
DOGE continues to insist on the dumbest way to carry out its dumb goals.
🔗 linkblog: Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein'
The rules seem to be that it’s okay to do whatever in the GOP, but no Democrat can even seem to be in a sticky situation. What a joke.
🔗 linkblog: A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System'
Resubscribed to WIRED because despite my efforts to focus more on tech news than political news, THEY HAVE BECOME ONE AND THE SAME IN REALLY WORRYING WAYS.
🔗 linkblog: The GOP Presidential Debate Is Livestreaming on Rumble, Home to White Nationalist Nick Fuentes | WIRED'
Torn on this article. I think you can choose to patronize a platform without being associated with its worst users, so I wonder if the Fuentes connection is overstated. That said, choosing to livestream on Rumble is absolutely pandering to Fuentes-type right-wingers, so it’s a bad, bad move.
🔗 linkblog: Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies | WIRED'
Even more than AI’s potential to replace humans in the name of saving money, I think we need to talk about the way companies are exploiting humans to save money—so that it can train AI.
🔗 linkblog: Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink | WIRED'
Don’t know how I missed this story yesterday, but what the heck? Like the article says, nothing particularly new revealed by these stunts, but it’s still a compelling critique of Amazon.
🔗 linkblog: The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation | WIRED'
How a platform is managed has real consequences.
🔗linkblog: Why Do Video Games Want Me to Be a War Criminal: WIRED'
Some interesting writing on a topic I’ve posted about a few times recently.
🔗 linkblog: You Are Not Responsible for Your Own Online Privacy | WIRED'
Some important—if disheartening—observations from Marwick.
🔗 linkblog: Scammers Used ChatGPT to Unleash a Crypto Botnet on X | WIRED'
Three cheers for ChatGPT or whatever.
🔗 linkblog: Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect | WIRED'
Good article on a worrying trend. It’s things like this that make me skeptical of arguments that generative AI could have real benefit when used properly. It’s not that I disagree—it’s that in the aggregate, I’m not sure the proper uses will outweigh the problems.
🔗 linkblog: Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data | WIRED'
This is not a future I look forward to (or a present I want to live in).