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🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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. '
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'
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'
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''
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'
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?'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'I Miss What The Mandalorian Was'
Excellent article that sums up a lot of my thinking on this show. link to “I Miss What The Mandalorian Was”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A classic that really made me laugh this morning: Pachelbel’...'
Nearly spit out my lunch while watching this! link to “A classic that really made me laugh this morning: Pachelbel’…”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'And Yet It Moves'
I don’t agree with Ken on everything, but I always appreciate his perspective. I could quibble about some of his finer points here, but I think this is worth a read. link to “And Yet It Moves”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web'
Well, this sucks. link to “Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
I appreciate these thoughts from Doctorow. I understand the excitement around Bluesky, I’m happy to follow people there, and I will likely lean into it more as a POSSE vector. That said, I still don’t know that it’s what I want the future of social media to look like. link to “Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Beshear calls for electing president by popular vote, says it would be better for Kentucky • Kentucky Lantern'
Andy is a good one. link to “Beshear calls for electing president by popular vote, says it would be better for Kentucky • Kentucky Lantern”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says'
I stopped using Strava over five years ago when the stories were about secret military bases being identified through the service were coming out. link to “Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Long lines reported on first day of early voting in Kentucky'
Standing in one of these lines right now! Fingers crossed for the future. 🤞🏻😬🤞🏻 link to “Long lines reported on first day of early voting in Kentucky”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles'
Some powerful stuff in here. link to “A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report'
Rank hypocrisy. I don’t necessarily think Musk should have been deported way back when, but I think he should be called out on this. link to “Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Real Monsters of Street Level Surveillance'
This is cute, but also Ring doorbells are seriously the thing that scares me most on Halloween. link to “The Real Monsters of Street Level Surveillance”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment'
There are countless GOP politicians and voters who believe Harris is unqualified for the job for lesser (and often exaggerated or fabricated controversies), and yet none of this seems to bother them. gift link link to “For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment”