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🔗 linkblog: Stream episode Mountain Meadows Massacre — What did Brigham Young know and when did he know it? | Episode 286 by Mormon Land podcast | Listen online for free on SoundCloud'
Good podcast episode; what stands out the most is the authors’ comments at the end that merely researching the book gave them nightmares.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter ‘Shadowbans’ Bellingcat After Musk Attacks Them, Then Tries To Retcon A Nonsense Explanation | Techdirt'
Bellingcat does good work; Twitter continues to be a joke.
🔗 linkblog: Zoom will soon integrate Anthropic’s chatbot across its platform - The Verge'
Using AI for customer service is the stuff of my nightmares.
🔗 linkblog: Once Again, ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Caves To Authoritarian Censorial Bullies | Techdirt'
I know I can always count on Masnick to write this article when a story like this comes up.
🔗 linkblog: Google’s AI pitch is a recipe for email hell - The Verge'
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.
🔗 linkblog: The 'Mormon Moment' 10 years later: Why Joanna Brooks and Mitch Mayne left the public eye'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Moderator Mayhem: A Mobile Game To See How Well YOU Can Handle Content Moderation | Techdirt'
This is a neat game that shows how difficult content moderation is. Excited to have my content management students play it in the Fall.
🔗 linkblog: Neighborhood Watch Out: Cops Are Incorporating Private Cameras Into Their Real-Time Surveillance Networks | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
This sounds worrying to me. Surveillance can and will be abused, and we should be wary about embracing it on this scale.
🔗 linkblog: Kelly Craft escalates anti-trans rhetoric, calls for excluding ‘transgenders’ from Ky. schools'
This is indefensible, and no amount of spin from a comms director can change how harmful this is.
🔗 linkblog: Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams | Ars Technica'
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.
🔗 linkblog: People are arguing in court that real images are deepfakes : NPR'
Very interesting look at some of the less obvious implications of generative AI.
🔗 linkblog: All Hail Charles, the Unmemeable King | WIRED'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk threatens to re-assign @NPR on Twitter to 'another company' : NPR'
I feel like I say this whenever I post a link to a Twitter story, but I honestly can’t believe how dumb this stuff gets sometimes. Also, is Musk going to give someone else control of @ldschurch?
🔗 linkblog: Texas agriculture department's new dress code based on 'biological gender' : NPR'
There’s no such thing as dressing according to one’s biological sex. Gender-based dress expectations are perhaps the best possible example of the social construction of gender. What inanity.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter Suspends Reporter For Reporting On Twitter Hack, Using Same Policy Old Twitter Used To Block NY Post Hunter Biden Story | Techdirt'
I’m tired of reading Twitter news, but I’m professionally obligated to do so, no matter how dumb it gets.
🔗 linkblog: Bing has a testimony of the Book of Mormon! And other adventures with AI chatbots.'
This is one of the most amazing things I’ve read on generative AI.
🔗 linkblog: Calls for action on gun violence meet silence from Kentucky's Republican legislative leaders - Kentucky Lantern'
Local shame in response to local tragedy.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk tweets, then deletes DMs from Matt Taibbi over his Substack snit - The Verge'
To paraphrase Mike Masnick, the defining motto of the Musk era seems to be ‘it can always get more stupid.’
🔗 linkblog: Substack writers say Twitter’s newsletter ban is bad for business — and worse for Twitter - The Verge'
How does this acquisition continue to get dumber and dumber?
🔗 linkblog: Twitter’s Open Source Algorithm Is a Red Herring | WIRED'
Some good commentary here. Musk loves certain buzzwords and flashy stunts, but they’re often in tension with the other decisions he makes.
🔗 linkblog: Tesla employees reportedly passed around personal videos from owners’ cars - The Verge'
I had never thought of a car as a creepy surveillance device, but this is horrifying.
🔗 linkblog: The poop emoji: a legal history - The Verge'
Fascinating read—and one that reminds me that academic journal software doesn’t always render emoji either, which is a problem for social media research.
🔗 linkblog: Your Used Car May Soon Come With Subscription Fees | WIRED'
A dumb future that no one is asking for.
🔗 linkblog: NPR Was Twitter’s Example Of What Should NOT Be Labeled ‘State-Affiliated Media.’ Then Musk Added The Label And Retconned The Policy | Techdirt'
This is another dumb move by Musk. Masnick is excellent at calling him out on hypocrisy.