Good connection of the worrying story about removing anti-ICE apps to bigger problems in tech.

Oof, hadn’t thought of this, but as much as I’d like to further reduce Google dependence, this would really hurt.

This seems performative to me, and this paragraph gets at why I think so: AI companies are increasingly pushing into education — perhaps in part to try and fight the reputation that AI tools have acquired that they help students cheat. Features like Gemini’s guided learning mode and ChatGPT’s similar study mode, which was announced last week, could theoretically help with actual learning, but the question is whether students will want to use these modes instead of just using the AI chatbots for easy answers.

This article is one more push in the direction of my finally subscribing to Kagi.

Voilà pourquoi il faut parler de la théorie de connaissance quand on parle de IA: On est passé d’un moteur de recherche à un moteur de réponse. C’est-à-dire que les algorithmes proposent des versions rédigées à partir des données qu’ils auront collectées sur Internet, puis reformulées sans que vous ayez rendu visite aux sites contenant ces éléments de réponse à votre requête.

Look, I have some sympathy for Mozilla because it’s Mozilla… but Mozilla’s dependence on Google is a real problem.

I didn’t need to read a printer recommendation article today, but I’m so glad I did. The rage about the world we live in is great.

I have been meaning for months to embrace Kagi, and this is pushing me further over that edge.

What reckless hubris. As I wrote earlier today, I’m in favor of more liberal IP law, but not so that businesses can swallow up content to profit from it.

It’s that time of year (again) for signing the acceptable use policy for kiddo’s school, and I’m again grumpy about a lot of the details in here. Some of these details are me being a nitpicky academic, like the use of the word “technology” to refer to digital technologies alone. Others strike me as more serious, though. Let’s take a look at this paragraph, listed under a “Roles and Responsibilities of Parents/Guardians” header: