Personally, I’m not very optimistic about ChatGPT, and I think OpenAI should have better considered disruptions to fields like education before releasing the tool. That said, I don’t think a ban is the solution here.

Steve Shields does good work and has an interesting perspective on things. It’s fun to hear from him.

Such an interesting book. I’m going to have to get a copy to read one day.

Edtech professionals aren’t paying nearly enough attention to this sort of thing.

Yes, yes, and yes. I don’t know what the future of the social web will look like, but blogs are what it should look like.

Mastodon isn’t perfect, but this strikes me as a good sign.

What a weird week it has been in Twitterland.

Just when you thought this couldn’t get any worse. Will be really interested to see if Dorsey gets banned.

This has been one of the most delightful moments I’ve experienced in my relatively short time on Mastodon. This week has been a good one for Mastodon: Musk’s continued missteps have brought more people, and a meme like this one helps give the fediverse more of a shared culture.

I’ve posted a bunch of articles about this already, but Masnick’s take is super helpful.

Free speech is genuinely important, but it’s hard to take the ideal seriously when its advocates twist it to mean something specific and self-serving.

I’ve been trying to avoid dire predictions for Twitter since Musk took over, but this seems more and more like a turning point in the identity and reputation of the platform.

I mean, I’m willing to wait a bit and see what Twitter and Musk have to say about this, but this sure doesn’t seem like the approach that a free speech absolutist would take.

Musk is getting pettier and more self-centered.

Well, this is terrifying.

How does such an already bad story get so much worse over the course of a single day?

Twitter left up other flight tracking accounts but took down Musk’s?

This is petty and concerning.

I think this headline captures one of the worst parts of all of this: Musk isn’t just dismissing concerns about behavior, he’s fueling that behavior.

I haven’t been following Ken White as much as I used to, but this reminds me why I appreciate his perspective. This is someone who knows what free speech is and advocates for it, not someone who uses it as a buzzword justification for reprehensible behavior, à la Musk.

I see a worrying future for edtech ahead, and I’m not sure the academic discipline is adequately prepared for it.

Oh please no.

Oh, so this is why my family’s gotten rocked by flu the past five days.

If I could pick one story to demonstrate that Musk’s Twitter tenure has been blundering and inconsistent…

I have deliberately not been following the Twitter Files stuff, but I did read this and found it helpful.