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🔗 linkblog: X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post - The New York Times'
What a mess Musk has made Twitter into.
🔗 linkblog: Karl Tremblay, le chanteur des Cowboys Fringants, est décédé à l'âge de 47 ans - rts.ch - Musiques'
Quelle tristesse ! Je ne savais même pas qu’il combattait le cancer. Les Cowboys Fringants, c’est un de mes groupes préférés, et je suis donc bouleversé par cette nouvelle.
🔗 linkblog: The GOP Presidential Debate Is Livestreaming on Rumble, Home to White Nationalist Nick Fuentes | WIRED'
Torn on this article. I think you can choose to patronize a platform without being associated with its worst users, so I wonder if the Fuentes connection is overstated. That said, choosing to livestream on Rumble is absolutely pandering to Fuentes-type right-wingers, so it’s a bad, bad move.
🔗 linkblog: Democrat Andy Beshear defeats Trump-endorsed Daniel Cameron for Kentucky governor
Yesssss! Andy Beshear, governeer! So very happy about this.
🔗 linkblog: Daybreak, a game about fighting climate change, is blindly optimistic - Polygon'
This is an interesting review of a game that I hadn’t heard of but am now intrigued by. I wouldn’t mind playing an overly optimistic game right now, but I also appreciate the central critique of the game in the review. I think there’s value in recognizing the tensions that prevent us from defeating these obstacles as (relatively) easily as we can in a game.
🔗 linkblog: Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform | Ars Technica'
The headline obscures something important—that this is about research, access to data, and Terms of Service. Worrying stuff.
🔗 linkblog: Aller Versoix - rts.ch - Portail Audio'
J’aime bien Gare à vous, mais j’aime en particulier les épisodes qui parlent des endroits que je reconnais. Ayant habité à Chambésy pendant plusieurs mois, j’ai passé un peu de temps à Versoix, et c’est sympa d’en apprendre l’histoire.
🔗 linkblog: Mario et ses amis font équipe dans 'Super Mario Bros. Wonder' - rts.ch - Arts visuels
Il a l’air bien sympa ce jeu. Ma fille ne sait pas encore qu’on lui achète un Switch pour Noël, et je me demande si on va finir par y jouer.
🔗 linkblog: Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies | WIRED'
Even more than AI’s potential to replace humans in the name of saving money, I think we need to talk about the way companies are exploiting humans to save money—so that it can train AI.
🔗 linkblog: Victor Wembanyama Star Wars: NBA Rookie Star's Wild Ranking'
I’ve gotten this same vibe from my students: Prequels are okay, and it’s the sequel trilogy that must not be acknowledged. I don’t fully understand this thinking, but to each their own.
🔗 linkblog: Stockholm fait campagne contre la confusion entre la Suisse et la Suède - rts.ch - Suisse'
Trop marrant. Je me souviens du moment après mon séjour en Suisse où une Américaine m’a demandé si j’y avais appris le suédois. Quelques mois plus tôt, aprés m’avoir vu bavarder avec un Sénégalais, une autre Américaine a répondu avec « tiens, je savais pas que tu parlais l’africain ! ». Oh là là, les Américains.
🔗 linkblog: Blue checks on X are ‘superspreaders’ of Israel-Hamas war misinformation - The Verge'
Looks like Masnick’s (and others’) predictions about Musk’s changes to Twitter are coming true. This isn’t what verification is for.
🔗 linkblog: Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink | WIRED'
Don’t know how I missed this story yesterday, but what the heck? Like the article says, nothing particularly new revealed by these stunts, but it’s still a compelling critique of Amazon.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood – The Markup'
Free speech absolutism at its finest.
🔗 linkblog: How Ring Cameras Have the Power to Perpetuate Bias to Police – The Markup'
Solid article right here.
🔗 linkblog: Littérature québécoise, anatomie d’un succès programmé - rts.ch - Livres'
J’ai un grand amour pour la littérature franco-canadienne depuis avoir suivi un cours à ce sujet à l’université.
🔗 linkblog: Amazon’s ‘Neighborhood Watch’ Might Be Turning Police Officers Into ‘Reddit Moderators’ – The Markup'
Public-private surveillance is the worst of both worlds. Ring is creepy.
🔗 linkblog: Sellers say Amazon undercuts their prices, charges high fees : NPR'
Amazon: also the worst.
🔗 linkblog: Why a search engine that scans your face is dangerous : NPR'
Facial recognition is the worst.
🔗 linkblog: Church Marks Indigenous Peoples' Day | News | Community of Christ International Headquarters'
I’ve been attending Community of Christ for over three years now, and I’m still surprised by all the little things it does that the LDS Church would never do. Both churches were born with problematic attitudes towards indigenous peoples of the Americas, but while Community of Christ isn’t perfect, I’m impressed with the steps it takes.
🔗 linkblog: The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation | WIRED'
How a platform is managed has real consequences.
🔗 linkblog: Anarchist Chess - Existential Comics'
What I like about this comic is the way it shows that we build values we don’t agree with into games because games are more fun with conflict.
🔗 linkblog: Indigenous TTRPG Coyote & Crow is free for today only - Polygon'
I’ve posted a lot about TTRPGs and values recently, and I’ve heard good things about this game, so this is welcome news.