Oof, what a read.

I think this is dumb, I feel strongly that “Mormonism” is larger than LDS institutions, and I’m pleased that the EFF has weighed in on this.

ProPublica does good work, and I haven’t been reading enough of them lately.

That this article talks up (and uncritically repeats) purported advantages of surveillance and only briefly acknowledges privacy concerns is a real failure. Reporting needs to do better so that we can walk back surveillance instead of sleepwalk into more of it. Gift link

Are we willing to pay this price in order to have some neat image generation tools? (I’m not.)

This sucks—and even more so because the Reddit company is willing to play nice with AI to get their pretty penny.

Wait what

Surely Elon “assassination coordinates” Musk is outraged that his own AI would do this. Right?

Things are piling up for Hegseth.

Very helpful context—especially as I consider writing a paper on Grokipedia.

Bookmarking this so that I can return to it and quote the man verbatim when necessary. Gift link.

Good on the publisher, and what a dumb world we live in. Also, “narco terrorist” reminds me of the poli sci class I had where we spent an entire day (week?) talking about the difficulty of clearly defining terrorism. It was mostly an abstract conversation, even with a GWOT backdrop, but I feel like it was preparing me to detect nonsense from this DoD.

Flock continues to suck.

Powerful read on the need for (and absence of) hope this Advent for immigrant Christians.

If one idea from Ellul has made the most impact on me, it’s his fierce criticism of attitudes of inevitability.

Some real cathartic rage in here.

I genuinely don’t know what legal liability for generative AI products should look like, but arguing that the onus was on the kid and his family because of TOS strikes me as incredibly shitty, not to mention falling back on “look, we have a mission to benefit humanity by building AI, have you taken that into account?”

This just makes me want to dig my heels in further.

Dammit, now is not a great time to be looking for a replacement ebike. And it looks like Rad is going under, too? Ugh.

Beautiful and damning post.

Hope this isn’t a canary for Lexington’s coal mine.

This provides some helpful context, including confirming my suspicion that Twitter!Grok works differently than Base!Grok when it comes to these weird episodes.

Le sigh.

Sometimes, AI news gets so depressing that it loops back around to hilarious.

I’m glad we never started down this rabbit hole, but that’s not to claim that I’m a superior parent for not ever using YouTube Kids. As Johnson says, it’s capitalism all the way down, and all parents are stuck in scary media ecosystems in one way or another.