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🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Is Your Google Scholar Profile Looking A Bit Empty? Need To Bulk Up Your Citations? Simple – Buy Some'
- kudos:Interesting read wirh important implications for how we think about research quality. link to “Is Your Google Scholar Profile Looking A Bit Empty? Need To Bulk Up Your Citations? Simple – Buy Some”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI Checkers Forcing Kids To Write Like A Robot To Avoid Being Called A Robot'
- kudos:I am way more pessimistic about AI than Masnick is, but we agree on this sort of thing. Algorithmic surveillance is no more appropriate in response to AI concerns than it is to cheating concerns. link to “AI Checkers Forcing Kids To Write Like A Robot To Avoid Being Called A Robot”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending'
- kudos:In a weird kind of Streisand effect, I’ve only started using the Internet Archive library since this lawsuit began and it’s a fantastic service. I won’t pretend to know the ins and outs of copyright law, but this sucks. link to “The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How a Group of Teenagers Pranked 'One Million Checkboxes' - Slashdot'
- kudos:Sometimes the internet is good. link to “How a Group of Teenagers Pranked ‘One Million Checkboxes’ - Slashdot”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Zuckerberg’s Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP Narratives'
- kudos:This is one of these stories where I’ve been waiting to get Masnick’s take on it, and he does not disappoint. link to “Zuckerberg’s Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP Narratives”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr'
- kudos:I’ve been trying to think through Durov’s arrest since I first heard about it—there are a lot of complex things going on here. I think this captures nicely my thoughts and taught me a few things, too. Telegram is a sketchy platform (technically even more than in terms of content), but that doesn’t mean arresting the founder is warranted. Yet, that doesn’t mean that outcry on the right is in good faith, either.
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'CAPTCHAs Becoming Useless as AI Gets Smarter, Scientists Warn'
- kudos:One thing this article misses is how often CAPTCHA has been used to train AI. It’s always been playing both sides against each other. link to “CAPTCHAs Becoming Useless as AI Gets Smarter, Scientists Warn”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Ask God (Terms and Conditions Apply)'
- kudos:This article speaks to a deep tension in Mormon theology: You can pray to God to tell you what is right, but you shouldn’t expect it to tell you something different than what church leaders say. To what extent, then, does prayer become subordinated to obedience? link to “Ask God (Terms and Conditions Apply)”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'KY prisoners hack state-issued computer tablets to digitally create $1M. How’d they do it?'
- kudos:Prisoners got punished for taking advantage of a hilarious exploit in an app for transferring money from their commissary accounts to a private company’s media store, but no one at that private company is being held accountable for unironically describing prisons as a “growth industry.” This sounds like something Doctorow would have made up for The Bezzle, and it’s kind of amazing that I’m reading it in the news instead.
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'KY inmates and their families spend millions on for-profit computer tablets'
- kudos:The state and a private company are splitting millions of dollars that they earn from charging a literally captive audience to use tablets. This is straight out of Cory Doctorow’s The Bezzle, and I hate it so, so much. link to “KY inmates and their families spend millions on for-profit computer tablets”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Senator Calls U.S. Support for Saudis a “National Disgrace” After Intercept Reveals Unpaid Debt to Pentagon'
- kudos:Rand Paul is so often wrong, but when he’s right, he’s often really right. link to “Senator Calls U.S. Support for Saudis a “National Disgrace” After Intercept Reveals Unpaid Debt to Pentagon”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How MIT copes without Elsevier'
- kudos:Interesting—and hopeful—read. link to “How MIT copes without Elsevier”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Apple vs the “free market” (15 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:I’ve only skimmed this, but I’m posting it as a reminder to myself that everything I said about Disney yesterday also applies to Apple, and that I need to find ways of extracting myself from their ecosystem, as hard as it may be. link to “Pluralistic: Apple vs the “free market” (15 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’'
- kudos: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. link to “Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk’s SuperPAC Is Misleading (Some) Voters Into Thinking They Registered To Vote; Collecting Tons Of Data'
- kudos:Finally read up on this, and it’s worrying. link to “Elon Musk’s SuperPAC Is Misleading (Some) Voters Into Thinking They Registered To Vote; Collecting Tons Of Data”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Project 2025 Contributors Are Abandoning Ship as Trump Turns Against Them'
- kudos:I… did not realize that there were BYU connections to Project 2025. link to “Project 2025 Contributors Are Abandoning Ship as Trump Turns Against Them”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'What France and America Know About Each Other'
- kudos:This is clever, spot on, and sometimes hilarious. link to “What France and America Know About Each Other”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change'
- kudos:This sucks so much—and encapsulates our world’s obsession with financial success over environmental health. link to “AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI means Google's greenhouse gas emissions up 48% in 5 years'
- kudos:If AI is indeed going to help us reduce emissions, it seems to me that that will be the product of targeted, scientific and industrial use of AI, not shoving AI into a load of commercial products. Are these commercial companies using AI to figure out how to reduce emissions? If not (and maybe even if so), it seems disingenuous to express optimism that their increased energy use will be magically cancelled out by someone else.
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump asks for conviction to be overturned after immunity ruling'
- kudos:Look, I’ve been trying to approach the SCOTUS decision with an open “I’m not a legal expert” mind, but I think this quickly demonstrates how dangerous the decision is. There’s no way this is an official act, and Trump’s insistence that it could be shows his confidence that he can get away with what he wants as president. This is not good for democracy. link to “Trump asks for conviction to be overturned after immunity ruling”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible'
- kudos:I’m not necessarily opposed to teaching the Bible in public schools, but if you’re going to do it, you should do it right: Compare and contrast the creation accounts, discuss different authors’ conflicting takes on issues, and treat it as literature. That’s clearly not what Walters is advocating for, and his approach is indefensible. link to “Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It'
- kudos:This is a darker version of some of the thoughts I had when I first heard about the “PhD comparison.” Before you click through to the article, I also want to use this short post as a complaint that I don’t think “intelligence” is a thing—and that PhDs certainly wouldn’t be a measure of it if it were. link to “ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Boone County High School alum still fighting for school to drop the ‘Rebels’ as mascot'
- kudos:I went to BCHS and was on speech and debate with Akilah. I was one of those naïve white kids who didn’t really register all of the problematic parts of our mascot, and I have regrets. I’ll be interested to listen to this podcast and do some more internal work. link to “Boone County High School alum still fighting for school to drop the ‘Rebels’ as mascot”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How Does the Book of Mormon Reinterpret the Bible? – From the Desk'
- kudos:Austin’s book was already on my ’to read’ list, but this interview really convinced me. There are some really interesting arguments in here, and while I want to evaluate them in more detail, they’d provide fascinating readings if they hold up. link to “How Does the Book of Mormon Reinterpret the Bible? – From the Desk”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Fast Crimes at Lambda School'
- kudos:What a fascinating, depressing read. The Mormon angle only makes it more interesting (even if it doesn’t really play in here). link to “Fast Crimes at Lambda School”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'What’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?'
- kudos:This is a helpful EFF overview that I’m posting to bookmark for later. link to “What’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used To Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers - Slashdot'
- kudos:This sucks on so many levels. link to “Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used To Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers - Slashdot”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'On What We Lose: Chai, AI and Nostalgia | Punya Mishra's Web'
- kudos:I appreciate Punya’s essay here. I’m very grumpy about generative AI, but that doesn’t change the fact that some grumpiness has more to do with moral panic than a reasoned response—but THAT doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for some of this kind of careful nostalgia that Punya is sharing. link to “On What We Lose: Chai, AI and Nostalgia | Punya Mishra’s Web”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complex'
- kudos:We should all be worried about what’s happening here. link to “My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complex”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Mozilla Defies Kremlin, Restores Banned Firefox Add-ons in Russia - Slashdot'
- kudos:Now, this is more the Mozilla I know. link to “Mozilla Defies Kremlin, Restores Banned Firefox Add-ons in Russia - Slashdot”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A major disinformation research center’s future looks uncertain'
- kudos:What a sucky situation. link to “A major disinformation research center’s future looks uncertain”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'UK board votes to dissolve university Senate, outlines role of new faculty body'
- kudos:I have tried to be open minded about this, and I am always hesitant to take a position on something that I haven’t done all the homework on. I also agree with the point the president’s made that staff, students, and non-tenure-track faculty don’t have enough of a voice, so I’m open to changing what inclusive governance looks like at UK. This doesn’t seem to me to be it, though. Even without having done all the homework, the president’s arguments don’t land for me, and I don’t see how removing the faculty’s voice gives staff and students more of a voice.
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns'
- kudos:Scary stuff. I don’t think I’ll ever be convinced that facial recognition tech does more good than harm. link to “Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Cops Released a Car’s Travel History to a Total Stranger'
- kudos:ALPRs suck. link to “Cops Released a Car’s Travel History to a Total Stranger”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Lexington’s 2-mile downtown trail system wins another national award'
- kudos:Lexington has lots of room to improve, but I’m glad they’re getting credit for the good work they’ve done. link to “Lexington’s 2-mile downtown trail system wins another national award”