This just makes me like Andy more. Shame on Cameron and everyone else using queerphobia to influence an election.

Good reflecton here. I’d been wondering if Apple’s Journal app would hold up to Day One, but I was never inclined to betray Day One, and I do NOT like the idea of algorithmic journaling.

Vive la dictée !

A good glimpse at content moderation, and why it’s important to do it correctly.

This is a real shame.

Really loving this (six year old) podcast episode. I don’t care much about the Trinity except when it’s understood in the ways that Karin Peter and Susan Ocley describe here.

This is… I don’t know what this is. Besides a whole bunch of nonsense.

Last paragraph here is an important one: I’ve seen a lot of headlines about OpenAI calling for regulation, but it’s noteworthy that it’s hypothetical future regulation.

Masnick makes a good point here. I’m sympathetic to “for the kids” motivations, but I’m increasingly convinced that Masnick is right, that it’s meant to make bad policy sound impossible to argue against.

Bookmarking this for later. Community of Christ isn’t very big in Kentucky, and I wonder how digital technologies could help connect us and provide people easier ways to visit us. This seems like an interesting model.

I was not familiar with the term “glass cliff,” so this was an insightful read.

Can’t believe it’s been ten years; can’t believe we’re not collectively furious about this.

I have been furious with Intuit since ProPublica did their great reporting on this, but I’ve continued to use TurboTax because the system is broken. Very excited for this news, and I appreciate Doctorow’s passionnate take.

Good podcast episode; what stands out the most is the authors’ comments at the end that merely researching the book gave them nightmares.

Bellingcat does good work; Twitter continues to be a joke.

Using AI for customer service is the stuff of my nightmares.

I know I can always count on Masnick to write this article when a story like this comes up.

Some good comments in here—especially on how AI enforces and normalizes certain kinds of writing instead of allowing us to determine what writing should look like.

A great column from Jana. It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years—or that I’ve changed so much in my own Mormonism over that time.

This is a neat game that shows how difficult content moderation is. Excited to have my content management students play it in the Fall.

This sounds worrying to me. Surveillance can and will be abused, and we should be wary about embracing it on this scale.

This is indefensible, and no amount of spin from a comms director can change how harmful this is.

Content moderation is hard, and it’s especially hard at scale. Because AI makes doing things at scale easier, it necessarily makes content moderation harder.

Very interesting look at some of the less obvious implications of generative AI.

I haven’t read much on the coronation and don’t plan to read much more, but even if I were, I think this would still take first place. A surprisingly deep dive into internet culture.