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🔗 linkblog: Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal'
Some better, broader coverage of complaints I made in a blog post earlier this week.
🔗 linkblog: OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo'
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.
🔗 linkblog: The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass'
Jana Riess is one of my favorite Mormons, and Melissa was another. This is a great combination of the two.
🔗 linkblog: 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'
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.
🔗 linkblog: How do you build without over polluting? That's the challenge of new Catan board game'
Really interested in this game.
🔗 linkblog: Courageous LDS scholar whose life and writings exemplified — and expounded on — earthly struggles dies at 44 '
A beautiful obituary for a beautiful person.
🔗 linkblog: We Can, and We Must, Clown on the Humane AI Pin Forever'
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.
🔗 linkblog: AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?'
I think this might be one of the best things I’ve read on generative AI.
🔗 linkblog: We Are Not a School—We Are a Hospital System with a Football Team'
I don’t know if I love or hate that McSweeney’s has so much content for academia.
🔗 linkblog: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal'
This criticism of “learning things they won’t use in real life” has always been frustrating to me, so I appreciate this response.
🔗 linkblog: The Story Behind The XZ Backdoor Is Way More Fascinating Than It Should Be'
I’ve been meaning to read more about this story, so I’m grateful for Masnick’s summary here.
🔗 linkblog: Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools'
Sure, Midjourney is fun, but this is the price we’re paying for that kind of technology out in the world.
🔗 linkblog: LDS leaders announce new Mormon temple for Cincinnati'
I’m no longer a practicing Latter-day Saint, but having grown up near Cincinnati, this is still something I’ll be paying attention to! Jana’s take is (unsurprisingly) a thoughtful and good one.
🔗 linkblog: New Catan game has overpopulation, pollution, fossil fuels, and clean energy'
Interesting! I haven’t been into Catan for years, but this could bring me back.
🔗 linkblog: After years of trying, the U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws'
I have a scar from a nearly 20-year old table saw injury, and that made this fascinating to read.
🔗 linkblog: How anti-vaccine activists and the far right are trying to build a parallel economy'
Gab’s been showing up more in the news lately, so I guess I should dust off some of that Gab data I have and move it closer to publication.
🔗 linkblog: Even The Most Well-Meaning Internet Regulations Can Cause Real Harm'
I’ve only skimmed this so far, but while I firmly believe that the fetishizing of freedom of expression is causing real issues in our world, I appreciate Masnick’s critique. I expect I’ll always be more keen on regulation than he is, but that doesn’t make him wrong in the points he’s making here.
🔗 linkblog: College DEI programs survive as clock runs out on KY Republican supermajority'
This feels too good to be true? But if the legislation is really dead (at least this time around), I’ll take it.
🔗 linkblog: AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.'
There are some important and interesting pieces of information in here.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Discovers When Content Moderation Makes Sense: When He Can Use It To Protect Racist Bigots From Being Called Out'
“Mentioning names both is and isn’t allowed. It’s a quantum superposition of content moderation that only collapses when observed by Musk himself.” 😂😂😂