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🔗 linkblog: Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D'
Bookmarking for later reference. I get that there are some complicated factors at play here, but this still seems wrong to me.
🔗 linkblog: Legend in the Mist is ‘counter-D&D,’ a game where words are more powerful than numbers'
Love seeing this kind of narrative- and character-focused mechanic,
🔗 linkblog: Taylor Swift joins Elon Musk in trying to silence student who tracks celebrity jets'
Hate to see Swift taking a page out of Musk’s book here.
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
Fascinating post. Grateful for Doctorow’s honesty at his being scammed and interested in the idea that lowering quality of services through AI trains us to accept fraud.
🔗 linkblog: Internet : les moteurs de recherche veulent remplacer la liste de sites par une réponse synthétisée'
Une très mauvaise idée, celle-ci.
🔗 linkblog: The Absurd One-Sidedness of the Ethics of AI Debate: A rant | Punya Mishra's Web'
Punya is a bit warmer on AI than I am, so I wasn’t sure what I would be reading based off of the title, but this is one of the best things I’ve read on generative AI in education. These companies have so much power and could use a little more Parkerian responsibility.
🔗 linkblog: Generative AI course statement – George Veletsianos, PhD'
George’s example statement is one worth bookmarking.
🔗 linkblog: Why does Nephi keep the sword? | By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog'
Interesting Book of Mormon reading here.
🔗 linkblog: Spotify accuses Apple of ‘extortion’ with new App Store tax - The Verge'
I don’t like Spotify, but they’re not wrong here.
🔗 linkblog: The Taylor Swift deepfakes are a warning'
Good thoughts from Newton here. “Who could have predicted this?” indeed.
🔗 linkblog: N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says - The New York Times'
Well, this sucks. Appreciate Ron Wyden’s diligence in this area.
🔗 linkblog: Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone - The Verge'
Sideloading for Americans, too, please.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Spreads Election Misinformation on X Without Fact Checkers - The New York Times'
I was already fed up with Twitter before election season started. C’mon, Musk.
🔗 linkblog: X is being flooded with graphic Taylor Swift AI images - The Verge'
I don’t get what’s missing from a world without generative AI—and examples like this don’t make me any more convinced.
🔗 linkblog: Haine en ligne : Elon Musk promet de payer les recours en justice contre la future loi irlandaise'
Musk ne s’intéresse à la liberté d’expression que quand il peut en profiter.
🔗 linkblog: OpenAI went back on a promise to make key documents public | Ars Technica'
If OpenAI is going to be an influential company, it would be nice for it to be more transparent.
🔗 linkblog: House education chair says professor review bill is not aimed at limiting tenure in Kentucky - Kentucky Lantern'
You can say that, but it’s hard to understand how this isn’t limiting tenure.
🔗 linkblog: Palestinian death toll in Gaza soars past 25,000 with no end to war in sight : NPR'
1,200 deaths is an enormous tragedy. What does that make 25,000 deaths?
🔗 linkblog: Macron Shifts Rightward, and Charts a New Course - The New York Times'
My political views have shifted a lot over the past decade, and I think my attitude toward Macron demonstrates that pretty well. When he was first elected, I was pretty excited. I was fed up with the American right but not ready to identify with the left, and the idea of a new centrist party emerging out of nowhere was inspiring.
In the years since, though, I’ve moved steadily leftward—not least because Macron has demonstrated the ways that centrism tends to cede ground to the right on important issues. It’s been disappointing to see.
🔗 linkblog: ‘Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI’: How Universities Bend Over Backwards to Accommodate Food Delivery Robots'
I work on a campus with Starship robots, so this was a fascinating read.
🔗 linkblog: Cat and Girl'
Generative AI has a digital labor issue, and we aren’t paying enough attention to it.
🔗 linkblog: What is the Annotated Book of Mormon? – From the Desk'
Grant Hardy is doing great work with the Book of Mormon. I don’t see the text the same way that he does, but I’m deeply grateful for what he’s contributed to new readings of it, and I’m glad I have a copy if this.
It surprised me in this interview to learn that the LDS Church forebade a reprinting of the semi-official study edition Hardy had recently worked on. I found that to be a tremendously helpful text, and I’m glad I have a copy since it’s apparently doomed to go out of print.