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🔗 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.
🔗 linkblog: Mort d'Alexeï Navalny : propos racistes, nationalisme et positions conservatrices… L'autre visage de l'opposant russe'
On peut pleurer la mort de quelqu’un sans oublier ses problèmes. Je ne savais pas tout cela, et j’avoue que je vois Navalny différemment maintenant. C’est toujours quelqu’un qui a mené une lutte importante, mais on ne peut pas ignorer ces propos non plus.
🔗 linkblog: Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot'
Very interesting case.
🔗 linkblog: How the Kansas City shooting proves the 'good guy with a gun' idea is a fallacy'
Depressing but important read.
🔗 linkblog: Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act '
Look, it’s hard to oppose legislation that purports to be “for the kids,” but with the EFF, Mike Masnick, and other voices I respect still firmly against this, I’ll be calling my reps—and encouraging others to do the same.
🔗 linkblog: University of Michigan Sells Recordings of Study Groups and Office Hours to Train AI'
This is straight-up awful. Shame on the university for doing this.
🔗 linkblog: Russia Hides Its War Toll. We Pieced Together the Clues.'
Russia is in the wrong in this conflict, but that also means that Russians are among those being wronged.
🔗 linkblog: Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors'
You know, instead of assuming that we must grow AI data centers and asking how we should power them, we could look at the costs in terms of power and ask whether we should grow AI data centers.
🔗 linkblog: UK president to legislature: Proposed DEI, tenure legislation is ‘deeply concerning’ for Kentucky colleges'
I appreciate it when our president speaks up against legislation that would hurt the University of Kentucky.
🔗 linkblog: Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are using ChatGPT to improve cyberattacks'
Hmm. Unsurprising but all the more frustrating for it.