I hated this project when I read about it in The Verge 5 years ago. I hate it even more now.

Good thing engineers really anticipated and considered these consequences before developing this software, right?

A helpful and thoughtful critique of how people are doing AI text generation.

I enjoy Herron’s books, so I enjoyed this article!

What a crappy future we are heading toward.

Long read but a good read.

Only thing better than a critique of utilitarianism is a critique of utilitarianism in the form of a comic.

I have to admit I was skeptical of the title, but this is a very interesting reading, and I’ll never read 4th Nephi the same again.

I have written council representatives about this more than anything else, and yet I suspect that it will go through again without a fuss. This isn’t the worst form of surveillance, but it is still surveillance, pure and simple.

This is such a frustrating story. I never wanted to work at a BYU, but as a Mormon earning a PhD, I often told myself I couldn’t afford to rule it out. This adds to the pile of reasons that I’m glad there weren’t jobs open for me to apply to.

Infertility sucks, and stories like this make me even more upset about Musk’s callous and chaotic Twitter takeover.

I’m glad I began reading Techdirt before this whole mess started… Masnick’s persective has been a helpful guide.

Is he serious? Does he really think this is a good idea? Also, I love the increasing sass that The Verge and other outlets are putting into their comments about Twitter no longer having a communications team to respond to requests for comment.

This seems petty, immature, and misguided.

What a load of garbage.

I didn’t expect 1,200 resignations!

Oh good, so on top of the unexpected chaos, the expected chaos is also still happening.

Very interesting read.

The midterms could have been a lot worse, but this is a reminder that there’s still real danger lurking out there.

Helpful summary of the current state of QAnon.

This doesn’t surprise me at all. So much of the current Twitter chaos is predictable.

What an absolute mess this whole thing has been.

Move fast and break things, indeed. Checks as verification and checks as business model are inherently at odds with each other, and I get the vibe that Musk (team business model) is unhappy with internal pushback from team verification.

This reminds me of all the pastors doing guest posts on the official Gab blog. Also, of course Glenn Beck was involved in this somehow.

They’re so obvious as to almost not be worth pointing out, but two points: First, this is why making verification a paid feature is dumb; and second, penalizing parody because your business model is dumb is not what free speech absolutism looks like.