Bookmarked this a while ago and am finally reading it. So infuriating.

Finally read the full quote from Noem and it’s so bad. Scary times.

So scary, so gross. Lexington needs to ditch Flock now.

Lots of interesting ideas in here. Certainly a different approach to “Sabbath” than the one I grew up with.

Beautiful read.

Flock sucks, and I’m so mad that Lexington drank the Kool-Aid instead of resisting local surveillance. Just wrote my city council representative, the vice mayor, and the two at-large representatives.

Lots of good observations in here, and I need to think through the implications for digital methods research.

The sheer hubris of this attitude! The AI industry must exist, even if it means that it will put others out of business, and therefore any moral standard that would put the AI industry out of business must be abandoned. Very Ellulian.

Beautiful story!

I somehow missed a lot of this history, so I’m bookmarking this for future reference.

What’s happening at the NSF is a tragedy, and I’m upset about all of these cuts. That said, I’ve long been skeptical about how the NSF has been used to promote STEM education at the expense of other worthy (but less economically productive) causes in schools. If Trump’s petty—and often cruel—cuts are a warning sign about how government can distort research priorities, there’s a deeper issue lurking in the background that we also need to wrestle with. [gift link]

I confess that I would have found this interesting in an earlier part of my career. Now, though, I’m reminded that I built that career on a methodological approach that’s uncomfortable close to surveillance, and I don’t love that.

After seeing a few headlines, this is the first thing I’ve read on this fiasco. What a mess.

I hate everything in this article.

We live in a dumb future.

Depressingly illuminating.

There are some critical perspectives in this piece, but certainly not enough in my book. [gift link]

Data centers are coming to Kentucky, and that has me worried.

The “You do not blindly defer to mainstream authority or media” system prompt is raising questions already answered by the system prompt. Also, lol that they have to explicitly tell Grok not to call it “Twitter.”

Aside from the headline-grabbing parts of Grok’s recent freakout, this story does a really good job of emphasizing that AIs don’t “think”… and that “truth” isn’t really a valid concept either, no matter Musk’s marketing.

Listened to Jason talk about this story on the 404 podcast while doing dishes last night (interspersed with watching clips of Moneyball, which I’ve never seem), and so I came back to skim the original article.

I don’t really care about baseball, so maybe I’m not allowed to have this opinion, but this all seems like a hellscape that Jacques Ellul’s technique explains pretty well.

Love this so much.

Fascinating piece that underscores how often cheerleading voices are the only ones valued in edtech—and also how much education has been forced to respond to big tech companies simply releasing their products into the world wirhout input from those it will effect.

Wish I’d done more to resist Flock adoption in Lexington.

Interesting point from Masnick.