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🔗 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.” 😂😂😂
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: The antitrust case against Apple (22 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
I’ve been waiting for Doctorow’s take on this, and it’s good. I’m an Apple user, but Doctorow’s criticisms all ring true to me.
🔗 linkblog: Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126 Million in Tech Stocks'
I doubt this is as straightforward as the headline makes it sound, but there are lots of interesting points in this article.
🔗 linkblog: Call for Submissions: The Deleted Comments Department - Exponent II'
Bookmarking for future research. What a fascinating (if frustrating) interplay of social media platforms and religious authority.
🔗 linkblog: As The US Freaks Out About TikTok, It’s Revealed That The CIA Was Using Chinese Social Media To Try To Undermine The Gov’t There'
Oh, so the moral panic is hypocritical, too.
🔗 linkblog: “Line upon line, precept on precept”? Maybe not.'
Fascinating perspective. I’d never learned this before.
🔗 linkblog: Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses'
I don’t understand how this has a chance to win in November. gift link
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk abruptly cancels Don Lemon’s X talk show hours after interview'
Free speech absolutism wins again.