Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “link”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Courageous LDS scholar whose life and writings exemplified — and expounded on — earthly struggles dies at 44 '
- kudos:A beautiful obituary for a beautiful person. link to “Courageous LDS scholar whose life and writings exemplified — and expounded on — earthly struggles dies at 44 “
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'We Can, and We Must, Clown on the Humane AI Pin Forever'
- kudos:I have not been following this discourse, but I feel like I’d agree with this article even if I had and, besides, the article makes me glad I haven’t been following it. link to “We Can, and We Must, Clown on the Humane AI Pin Forever”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Lausanne ouvre son premier espace oecuménique urbain'
- kudos:Sympa, et hyper intéressant. link to “Lausanne ouvre son premier espace oecuménique urbain”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?'
- kudos:I think this might be one of the best things I’ve read on generative AI. link to “AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child'
- kudos:Ugh, so creepy. link to “Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'We Are Not a “School”—We Are a Hospital System with a Football Team'
- kudos:I don’t know if I love or hate that McSweeney’s has so much content for academia. link to “We Are Not a “School”—We Are a Hospital System with a Football Team”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal'
- kudos:This criticism of “learning things they won’t use in real life” has always been frustrating to me, so I appreciate this response. link to “Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'All Bad Bosses at Amazon Are Now Named ‘Wayne’'
- kudos:Funny meme, depressing reality. link to “All Bad Bosses at Amazon Are Now Named ‘Wayne’”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Story Behind The XZ Backdoor Is Way More Fascinating Than It Should Be'
- kudos:I’ve been meaning to read more about this story, so I’m grateful for Masnick’s summary here. link to “The Story Behind The XZ Backdoor Is Way More Fascinating Than It Should Be”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools'
- kudos:Sure, Midjourney is fun, but this is the price we’re paying for that kind of technology out in the world. link to “Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'LDS leaders announce new Mormon temple for Cincinnati'
- kudos:I’m no longer a practicing Latter-day Saint, but having grown up near Cincinnati, this is still something I’ll be paying attention to! Jana’s take is (unsurprisingly) a thoughtful and good one. link to “LDS leaders announce new Mormon temple for Cincinnati”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'New Catan game has overpopulation, pollution, fossil fuels, and clean energy'
- kudos:Interesting! I haven’t been into Catan for years, but this could bring me back. link to “New Catan game has overpopulation, pollution, fossil fuels, and clean energy”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'After years of trying, the U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws'
- kudos:I have a scar from a nearly 20-year old table saw injury, and that made this fascinating to read. link to “After years of trying, the U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How anti-vaccine activists and the far right are trying to build a parallel economy'
- kudos:Gab’s been showing up more in the news lately, so I guess I should dust off some of that Gab data I have and move it closer to publication. link to “How anti-vaccine activists and the far right are trying to build a parallel economy”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Even The Most Well-Meaning Internet Regulations Can Cause Real Harm'
- kudos:I’ve only skimmed this so far, but while I firmly believe that the fetishizing of freedom of expression is causing real issues in our world, I appreciate Masnick’s critique. I expect I’ll always be more keen on regulation than he is, but that doesn’t make him wrong in the points he’s making here. link to “Even The Most Well-Meaning Internet Regulations Can Cause Real Harm”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'College DEI programs survive as clock runs out on KY Republican supermajority'
- kudos:This feels too good to be true? But if the legislation is really dead (at least this time around), I’ll take it. link to “College DEI programs survive as clock runs out on KY Republican supermajority”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Special Features of Trump’s Bible'
- kudos:This is pretty good. link to “Special Features of Trump’s Bible”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.'
- kudos:There are some important and interesting pieces of information in here. link to “AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job'
- kudos:Too much truth in this. link to “Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Discovers When Content Moderation Makes Sense: When He Can Use It To Protect Racist Bigots From Being Called Out'
- kudos:“Mentioning names both is and isn’t allowed. It’s a quantum superposition of content moderation that only collapses when observed by Musk himself.” 😂😂😂 link to “Elon Discovers When Content Moderation Makes Sense: When He Can Use It To Protect Racist Bigots From Being Called Out”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: The antitrust case against Apple (22 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:I’ve been waiting for Doctorow’s take on this, and it’s good. I’m an Apple user, but Doctorow’s criticisms all ring true to me. link to “Pluralistic: The antitrust case against Apple (22 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126 Million in Tech Stocks'
- kudos:I doubt this is as straightforward as the headline makes it sound, but there are lots of interesting points in this article. link to “Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126 Million in Tech Stocks”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Call for Submissions: The Deleted Comments Department - Exponent II'
- kudos:Bookmarking for future research. What a fascinating (if frustrating) interplay of social media platforms and religious authority. link to “Call for Submissions: The Deleted Comments Department - Exponent II”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'As The US Freaks Out About TikTok, It’s Revealed That The CIA Was Using Chinese Social Media To Try To Undermine The Gov’t There'
- kudos:Oh, so the moral panic is hypocritical, too. link to “As The US Freaks Out About TikTok, It’s Revealed That The CIA Was Using Chinese Social Media To Try To Undermine The Gov’t There”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on '“Line upon line, precept on precept”? Maybe not.'
- kudos:Fascinating perspective. I’d never learned this before. link to ““Line upon line, precept on precept”? Maybe not.”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses'
- kudos:I don’t understand how this has a chance to win in November. gift link link to “Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk abruptly cancels Don Lemon’s X talk show hours after interview'
- kudos:Free speech absolutism wins again. link to “Elon Musk abruptly cancels Don Lemon’s X talk show hours after interview”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Meek Who Shall Inherit the Earth Lodge a Complaint'
- kudos:Really enjoyed this. link to “The Meek Who Shall Inherit the Earth Lodge a Complaint”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Hackers are targeting a surprising group of people: young public school students'
- kudos:Audrey Watters was warning about something like this almost a decade ago. It’s time for edtech folks to step up and recognize that technology in schools goes far beyond that exciting new classroom tech—and that we can’t do something about stuff like this if we’re overly focused on efficiency and effectiveness. link to “Hackers are targeting a surprising group of people: young public school students”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'When Viral Advocacy Fails: TikTok’s Call Flood To Congress Backfires'
- kudos:Masnick puts this better than I could. This legislation is dumb, but this advocacy feels dumber. link to “When Viral Advocacy Fails: TikTok’s Call Flood To Congress Backfires”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Une Miss Allemagne âgée de 39 ans et originaire d'Iran : un pied de nez aux racistes et misogynes'
- kudos:On vit dans un monde pourri, mais quelle jolie façon d’apprendre la phrase « pied de nez ». link to “Une Miss Allemagne âgée de 39 ans et originaire d’Iran : un pied de nez aux racistes et misogynes”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Roku Will Bork Your TV Unless You Promise Not to Sue'
- kudos:Companies can really suck. I liked Roku, too. link to “Roku Will Bork Your TV Unless You Promise Not to Sue”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'ALPR Maker Flock Broke Laws Repeatedly While Installing Cameras, Courting Cop Shops'
- kudos:Flock provides the ALPRs here in Lexington, which makes this especially frustrating. link to “ALPR Maker Flock Broke Laws Repeatedly While Installing Cameras, Courting Cop Shops”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’'
- kudos:So, if employers save time from AI, and applicants save time from AI, where’s the net benefit? Or does it become a new burden for everyone? link to “The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Tech Billionaire Tries to Ease Fears of Hawaii Takeover by Donating $150 Million to Hospitals'
- kudos:Last few sentences of the article really make the point. link to “Tech Billionaire Tries to Ease Fears of Hawaii Takeover by Donating $150 Million to Hospitals”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Kirtland Temple purchased by LDS church for $192.5 million'
- kudos:I have my own (complicated) thoughts to share on this later, but more than anyone else, I’ve wanted to hear from David Howlett (and, okay, Lach Mackay). Appreciate Jana’s coverage here. link to “Kirtland Temple purchased by LDS church for $192.5 million”