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🔗 linkblog: PayPal is building an ad network based on your Venmo data'
This is why I include nonsense descriptions for all my Venmo transactions.
🔗 linkblog: Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline'
Some good thoughts here by Masnick.
🔗 linkblog: Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230'
I got skeptical of Section 230 for a while, but folks like Doctorow and Mike Masnick have brought me back around.
🔗 linkblog: OpenAI loses its voice'
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.)
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: You were promised a jetpack by liars (17 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
Compelling essay about vain hopes for the future.
🔗 linkblog: Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions'
Such a depressing article.
🔗 linkblog: I’m the Word “Utilize” and I’m Loving Every Moment of Your Overblown Rhetoric'
I love this article precisely because I hate the word “utilize.”
🔗 linkblog: Eurovision 2024: Here are the songs with the best shot at glory'
Love to see Eurovision coverage from US news outlets.
🔗 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.