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🔗 linkblog: When Viral Advocacy Fails: TikTok’s Call Flood To Congress Backfires'
Masnick puts this better than I could. This legislation is dumb, but this advocacy feels dumber.
🔗 linkblog: Une Miss Allemagne âgée de 39 ans et originaire d'Iran : un pied de nez aux racistes et misogynes'
On vit dans un monde pourri, mais quelle jolie façon d’apprendre la phrase « pied de nez ».
🔗 linkblog: Roku Will Bork Your TV Unless You Promise Not to Sue'
Companies can really suck. I liked Roku, too.
🔗 linkblog: ALPR Maker Flock Broke Laws Repeatedly While Installing Cameras, Courting Cop Shops'
Flock provides the ALPRs here in Lexington, which makes this especially frustrating.
🔗 linkblog: The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’'
So, if employers save time from AI, and applicants save time from AI, where’s the net benefit? Or does it become a new burden for everyone?
🔗 linkblog: Tech Billionaire Tries to Ease Fears of Hawaii Takeover by Donating $150 Million to Hospitals'
Last few sentences of the article really make the point.
🔗 linkblog: Kirtland Temple purchased by LDS church for $192.5 million'
I have my own (complicated) thoughts to share on this later, but more than anyone else, I’ve wanted to hear from David Howlett (and, okay, Lach Mackay). Appreciate Jana’s coverage here.
🔗 linkblog: AI’s craving for data is matched only by a runaway thirst for water and energy | John Naughton'
Bookmarking for future reference. Are the purported benefits of generative AI worth these (and other) costs?
🔗 linkblog: Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money'
Helpful reminder that it’s low-paid, underappreciated workers who contribute to AI as much as high-paid programmers and household-name executives.
🔗 linkblog: Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books'
This strikes me as illustrating the digital labor issues associated with generative AI. It’s someone else profiting off of one’s work.
🔗 linkblog: Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools'
Aw, geez, and I liked Automattic, too. I get that financing Tumblr is hard, but why this?
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: Vice surrenders (24 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
Dammit, I literally just started following Motherboard again.
🔗 linkblog: UK looks to change role of faculty senate. Employees worry it will take away authority'
Need to read more on this before I fully understand what’s being proposed and what the consequences will be. I struggle, however, with the argument that reducing the power of faculty is somehow improving faculty governance.
🔗 linkblog: Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base''
There are few phrases grosser than “monetizing our user base.”
🔗 linkblog: Blue Origin Builds $8 Billion Barrel For Jeff Bezos To Ride Over Niagara Falls'
This made me laugh out loud while reheating my leftovers for lunch.
🔗 linkblog: Criminologists cited in support of Safer Kentucky Act wonder why'
Look, even academics cite the wrong papers sometimes, but if the researchers you cite to support your crime bill don’t actually support your crime bill, that should be a warning…
🔗 linkblog: Elon Only Started Buying Up Twitter Shares After Twitter Refused To Ban Plane Tracking Account'
Musk’s pettiness knows no bounds.
🔗 linkblog: Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data'
We live in a dumb timeline. Why are we turning TVs into surveillance machines?
🔗 linkblog: Reddit Signs $60 Million Deal to Scrape Your Online Community for AI Parts: Report'
Look, I’ve never been really into Reddit, but I’m still really disappointed in the company. This sucks.
🔗 linkblog: Despite ‘mass fraud’ claims, data shows few Kentuckians use student IDs to vote'
I’ve never voted for Michael Adams, but I appreciate his being a voice of reason within his own party.
🔗 linkblog: Christian Man Persecuted Simply For Driving 90 Miles Per Hour In School Zone'
I recently started following The Onion again, and it’s already paying off.
🔗 linkblog: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Academia When You’re Six Raccoons Living in a Fjällräven Parka'
I really ought to be reading more McSweeney’s.