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🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Death Of A Forum: How The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Killing Communities'
- kudos:I don’t like Big Tech, but I’ve become more wary of regulation in recent years because folks like Masnick have compellingly made this argument over and over: It’s the smaller, better companies and sites that suffer the most from it. link to “Death Of A Forum: How The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Killing Communities”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pregnant Kentucky woman cited for street camping while in labor'
- kudos:Horrific story; not sure why we’re so eager to punish the unhoused. link to “Pregnant Kentucky woman cited for street camping while in labor”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Christ in the Rubble: A Liturgy of Lament (2023 Christmas Message by Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac) | Red Letter Christians Podcast'
- kudos:I’m bookmarking this so I can sit with it and return to it. It is powerful, searing, and condemning. link to “Christ in the Rubble: A Liturgy of Lament (2023 Christmas Message by Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac) | Red Letter Christians Podcast”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:I don’t think I’ve ever been more angry about the gig economy than when reading this post. link to “Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Flipboard’s Surf app is a big new idea about the future of social'
- kudos:I don’t see myself pivoting away from Reeder, but this looks interesting, and I want to see more of this kind of app out there. link to “Flipboard’s Surf app is a big new idea about the future of social”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good'
- kudos:Look, I don’t know all the finer points of this debate, but Mullenweg has repeatedly struck me as petty and juvenile, so it’s hard to imagine taking his side on any of the more substantive issues here. link to “To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits (14 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:Some more reflection by Doctorow on Bluesky and Mastodon. link to “Pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits (14 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A Message Of Hope From Global Tetrahedron'
- kudos:This is the best possible response to a bad situation. link to “A Message Of Hope From Global Tetrahedron”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Some Other America, One I Do Not Know'
- kudos:Some good observations here. link to “Some Other America, One I Do Not Know”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads'
- kudos:Well put: TCL plans to get more into original content, fueled by a dystopian strategy that seems largely built around minimizing costs and pushing ads. link to “TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies'
- kudos:This is a solid article. I think the opening is reflective and that there’s an effort to be open minded (more than I would be). It’s also amazing to me, though, how explicitly the goal here seems to be profiting from a surveillance-supported content mill. link to “I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Wallace & Gromit studio Aardman is working on a Pokémon project'
- kudos:Look, I’m a bit hesitant here, but Aardman’s take on Star Wars was great, so fingers crossed!! link to “Wallace & Gromit studio Aardman is working on a Pokémon project”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:Like anyone who’s read Cory Doctorow’s Radicalized (now free to read here, and you should go read it), I’ve thought a lot recently about its central conceit of an online message board where people stiffed by insurance radicalize each other into gruesome acts of violence. The story is hard to read: It’s vicious in its implied critique of U.S. healthcare companies, but the people being radicalized are also ugly in their response to those companies’ callousness.
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'New KOSA, Same As Old KOSA, But Now With Elon’s Ignorant Endorsement'
- kudos:Post election is a great time to realize the dangers that KOSA poses. link to “New KOSA, Same As Old KOSA, But Now With Elon’s Ignorant Endorsement”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Battery rationality (06 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:Some interesting reflections (and reasons to up one’s baseline existential terror) in here. link to “Pluralistic: Battery rationality (06 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Gender Is Determined by God, Biology, and the Highest Governing Body of Some Random Sport'
- kudos:Listen, The Onion is great, but sometimes McSweeney’s is where it’s at. link to “Gender Is Determined by God, Biology, and the Highest Governing Body of Some Random Sport”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Six hours under martial law in Seoul'
- kudos:I’ll admit that I haven’t read much on all of this, but I can’t imagine any coverage better than this article. link to “Six hours under martial law in Seoul”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester'
- kudos:McSweeney’s content on academia is always darkly hilarious, and this is no exception. link to “A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why'
- kudos:Interesting stuff here. I think most complaints about OpenAI “censorship” are hogwash, but it’s still fascinating—and worrying—to see how much control the company exercises over its product. link to “Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump Doubles Down on Defiance After the Collapse of the Matt Gaetz Selection'
- kudos:Here’s hoping the Senate shows some spine. Gift link. link to “Trump Doubles Down on Defiance After the Collapse of the Matt Gaetz Selection”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Twitter Board made a historic mistake and the World will pay the price. '
- kudos:Some good points in here about how “shareholder value” can lead to bad decisions. link to “The Twitter Board made a historic mistake and the World will pay the price. “
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Redbox Removal Team'
- kudos:What a wild story. The unceremonious end of Redbox is a reminder of how much stuff we make and buy, and how, when companies fail to plan for end-of-life or go out of business, they often leave a bunch of devices that suddenly become e-waste behind. link to “The Redbox Removal Team”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Bluesky, AI, and the battle for consent on the open web'
- kudos:Lots of interesting reflections here. link to “Bluesky, AI, and the battle for consent on the open web”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research''
- kudos:It’s uncomfortable for me to think about how close my “digital traces” research is to surveillance and YOLO data mining. link to “Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for ‘Machine Learning Research’”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts'
- kudos:This is an important take, and I appreciate that the article concludes with a reminder that indie is the answer as we move forward with the social web. link to “X’s Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Looking for the Answer to the Question, Do I Really Own the Digital Media I Paid For?'
- kudos:This is a question that everyone should ask—and then be infuriated by the answer. link to “Looking for the Answer to the Question, “Do I Really Own the Digital Media I Paid For?””
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'If You Like Mille Bornes, You’ll Love One Billion Users'
- kudos:I wasn’t sure about a retheming of Mille Bornes for this game, but this post on design decisions was actually really reassuring. link to “If You Like Mille Bornes, You’ll Love One Billion Users”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Inside Bluesky’s big growth surge'
- kudos:Lots of interesting stuff in here, including the difficulty of content moderation, and yet another way that generative AI is screwing everything up. link to “Inside Bluesky’s big growth surge”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'I’m a Good, Normal Family Man Who Just Wants to Inspect Your Genitals Before You Pee'
- kudos:McSweeny’s strikes again. link to “I’m a Good, Normal Family Man Who Just Wants to Inspect Your Genitals Before You Pee”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash'
- kudos:Some strong arguments from Dash here. link to “Don’t call it a Substack. - Anil Dash”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The thing about the Kobayashi Maru'
- kudos:The Kobayashi Maru scenario is one of the best things to come out of Star Trek, and this is one of the best takes on it I’ve read. link to “The thing about the Kobayashi Maru”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump’s Historically Small Victory'
- kudos:I’ve seen this argument floating out there, but this is the first time I looked at some of the numbers. link to “Trump’s Historically Small Victory”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'In France, a family reckons with World War II Allies' legacy of rape and murder'
- kudos:If there were such a thing as a good army fighting a good war, it would be the Allies in World War II. It’s wildly irresponsible to overlook the awful things done by that army in that war for the sake of holding both up as “good,” though. link to “In France, a family reckons with World War II Allies’ legacy of rape and murder”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on '[Article] <You have reached the clipping limit for this item> – Alex'
- kudos:It never occurred to me that you could use a Kindle in such a “de-Amazoned” way… and it also infuriates me that Amazon still interferes this much. link to “[Article] – Alex”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media'
- kudos:I agree with a lot of this post. link to “Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Refuge In Kakistocracy'
- kudos:Interested by Ken’s take here, even if it doesn’t necessarily make me feel better about gestures at everything. Also, this line cracked me up: Pete Hegseth’s chief qualification to be Secretary of Defense is that Trump saw him on the teevee a lot and his tattoos are not, technically, Nazi symbols. link to “Refuge In Kakistocracy”