Lexington has lots of room to improve, but I’m glad they’re getting credit for the good work they’ve done.

This sucks. If even Mozilla is selling out, then we’re in a real bad place.

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.

Generative AI suuuucks, but AI detection software may suck even more.

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.

Quelle honte !

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.

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.

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.

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.

I had forgotten Kentucky did this, and that just makes me more mad.

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.

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.

Bookmarking so I have enraging examples to show my students.

I appreciate Anil’s perspective here and want to try to start thinking this way.

What a great ode to the bike.

This is why I include nonsense descriptions for all my Venmo transactions.

Some good thoughts here by Masnick.

I got skeptical of Section 230 for a while, but folks like Doctorow and Mike Masnick have brought me back around.

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.)

This is a fun article.

Compelling essay about vain hopes for the future.

Such a depressing article.

I love this article precisely because I hate the word “utilize.”

Love to see Eurovision coverage from US news outlets.