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🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request'
- kudos:This sucks. If even Mozilla is selling out, then we’re in a real bad place. link to “Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp (12 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:I’ve been thinking recently that I need to reread Doctorow’s The Lost Cause (about beating back the climate catastrophe), so this blog post was welcome. Doctorow’s hopefulness—all while rejecting naïve optimism—is what I needed to read this morning. link to “Pluralistic: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp (12 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway'
- kudos:Generative AI suuuucks, but AI detection software may suck even more. link to “AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Apple’s new custom emoji come with climate costs'
- kudos:I am very grumpy about this. Also, the point of emoji is that they exist within Unicode, yeah? So these aren’t really emoji in the way that those icons are useful—they’re just a fun trick that’s helping advance the climate crisis. link to “Apple’s new custom emoji come with climate costs”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'La droite française se déchire sur une possible alliance avec le RN en vue des législatives'
- kudos:Quelle honte ! link to “La droite française se déchire sur une possible alliance avec le RN en vue des législatives”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements'
- kudos:I’ve been feeling for a while like I need to move away from Apple eventually, but I’m so entangled in the ecosystem that I’m dragging my feet on it. Seeing the company drink the AI Kool-Aid is definitely accelerating my plans—and will even more so if there’s no easy way to turn these featutes off. link to “Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'UK, KCTCS create pathways allowing community college students to transfer into UK'
- kudos:I’m all for this, but in line with earlier posts from today, I wish it weren’t just about workplace readiness. Higher ed needs to be more than that. link to “UK, KCTCS create pathways allowing community college students to transfer into UK”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Academia’s emphasis on job training harms free speech, bodes ill for democracy | Opinion'
- kudos:Some important points in this op-ed from a UK colleague. I was just thinking earlier today how I have trouble getting concerned about the “summer slide” when I know that even K-12 education is increasingly seen as an economic—not democratic—priority. link to “Academia’s emphasis on job training harms free speech, bodes ill for democracy | Opinion”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Wallace & Gromit's New Movie Will Bring Back the Greatest Villain In Animation History'
- kudos:I suspect the return of Feathers McGraw will ultimately be a disappointment, but I love the character enough to be very excited in the meantime. link to “Wallace & Gromit’s New Movie Will Bring Back the Greatest Villain In Animation History”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting'
- kudos:I had forgotten Kentucky did this, and that just makes me more mad. link to “Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic'
- kudos:In a roundabout way, I think this helps demonstrate why scraping data for generative AI isn’t a question of copyright. Even when there is a legal agreement, it can still be exploitative—it’s a question of digital labor. link to “Journalists ‘deeply troubled’ by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits'
- kudos:Oh, please no no no. I usually read a whole article before posting it, but just the first few paragraphs are giving me such a visceral reaction that I don’t know if I’ll make it through the rest. The existing tech giants already have such a hold on us, let’s please not let OpenAI in the door. link to “OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'YouTuber Has Video Demonitized Over Washing Machine Chime'
- kudos:Bookmarking so I have enraging examples to show my students. link to “YouTuber Has Video Demonitized Over Washing Machine Chime”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil Dash'
- kudos:I appreciate Anil’s perspective here and want to try to start thinking this way. link to “Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil Dash”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The hidden potential of bicycles'
- kudos:What a great ode to the bike. link to “The hidden potential of bicycles”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'PayPal is building an ad network based on your Venmo data'
- kudos:This is why I include nonsense descriptions for all my Venmo transactions. link to “PayPal is building an ad network based on your Venmo data”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline'
- kudos:Some good thoughts here by Masnick. link to “Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230'
- kudos:I got skeptical of Section 230 for a while, but folks like Doctorow and Mike Masnick have brought me back around. link to “Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'OpenAI loses its voice'
- kudos:Look, it shouldn’t take this story for people to realize that OpenAI exploits others’ contributions to make its products, but if it does the trick, I’ll take it. (And this is admittedly creepier than its base-level exploitation.) link to “OpenAI loses its voice”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on '25 Great Things About The Phantom Menace'
- kudos:This is a fun article. link to “25 Great Things About The Phantom Menace”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: You were promised a jetpack by liars (17 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:Compelling essay about vain hopes for the future. link to “Pluralistic: You were promised a jetpack by liars (17 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions'
- kudos:Such a depressing article. link to “Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'I’m the Word “Utilize” and I’m Loving Every Moment of Your Overblown Rhetoric'
- kudos:I love this article precisely because I hate the word “utilize.” link to “I’m the Word ‘Utilize’ and I’m Loving Every Moment of Your Overblown Rhetoric”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Eurovision 2024: Here are the songs with the best shot at glory'
- kudos:Love to see Eurovision coverage from US news outlets. link to “Eurovision 2024: Here are the songs with the best shot at glory”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal'
- kudos:Some better, broader coverage of complaints I made in a blog post earlier this week. link to “Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo'
- kudos:I don’t think intellectual property is the way to fight back against generative AI, but it is wildly out of line for a company who profits off using other’s intellectual property to be this petty. link to “OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit’s Logo”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass'
- kudos:Jana Riess is one of my favorite Mormons, and Melissa was another. This is a great combination of the two. link to “The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The solution to the problems that we have now is not in a perfect platform...it’s just in people. - Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye - Exponent II'
- kudos:I worked a lot with Melissa over five years, but I still didn’t know her terribly well. I didn’t know many of these things about her, and learning them just makes me miss her more. She was truly the best of Mormonism in so many ways. link to “The solution to the problems that we have now is not in a perfect platform…it’s just in people. - Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye - Exponent II”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How do you build without over polluting? That's the challenge of new Catan board game'
- kudos:Really interested in this game. link to “How do you build without over polluting? That’s the challenge of new Catan board game”
🔗 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”