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🔗 linkblog: Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child'


Ugh, so creepy.

🔗 linkblog: Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse - The Verge'


I think folks are right to distrust Meta, but Threads with ActivityPub seems to me to be clearly better than Threads without.

🔗 linkblog: Meta May Offer Ad-Free Subscriptions for Instagram and Facebook in the E.U. - The New York Times'


I’m in no way Team Meta, but this may not be a terrible thing?

🔗 linkblog: A Leaked Memo Shows TikTok Knows It Has a Labor Problem | WIRED'


I think this is a much bigger deal than any purported security risk.

🔗 linkblog: Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com'


Lots to appreciate here.

quoted in EducationWeek about Seattle Public Schools' social media lawsuit


Yesterday afternoon, I had the pleasure of talking with Arianna Prothero at EducationWeek about Seattle Public Schools’ suing Snap, Alphabet, Meta, and ByteDance, and she ended up quoting me—and colleagues like Jeff Carpenter and Josh Rosenberg—in her article.

I appreciate that all three of us were quoted in the article, because Jeff and Josh both made points that I didn’t articulate as well in my conversation with Arianna. For example, Jeff’s comments summed up a lot of the complexities that have gone through my head:

🔗 linkblog: Facebook Pulls Its New ‘AI For Science’ Because It’s Broken and Terrible'


Very interesting read.