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🔗 linkblog: Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions Of Mastodon | Techdirt'
I’ve posted a bunch of articles about this already, but Masnick’s take is super helpful.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Is Taking Aim at Journalists. I’m One of Them.'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon - The Verge'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk starts banning critical journalists from Twitter - The Verge'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Elon’s Commitment To Free Speech Rapidly Replaced By His Commitment To Blatant Hypocrisy: Bans The JoinMastodon Account | Techdirt'
Musk is getting pettier and more self-centered.
🔗 linkblog: Experts Warn ChatGPT Could Democratize Cybercrime - Infosecurity Magazine'
Well, this is terrifying.
🔗 linkblog: Elon’s Promise Not To Ban Account Tracking His Jet Didn’t Last Very Long At All; Also Bans Guy’s Personal Account | Techdirt'
How does such an already bad story get so much worse over the course of a single day?
🔗 linkblog: Twitter Bans Elon Musk Flight Tracking Account After He Said It Wouldn’t, for Free Speech'
Twitter left up other flight tracking accounts but took down Musk’s?
🔗 linkblog: Twitter suspends @ElonJet after Musk promises not to ban it - The Verge'
This is petty and concerning.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter ditches Trust and Safety Council as Musk tweets fuel harassment | Ars Technica'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Goodbye, Twitter - by Ken White - The Popehat Report'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Brief – Hidden Harms: Student Activity Monitoring After Roe v. Wade - Center for Democracy and Technology'
I see a worrying future for edtech ahead, and I’m not sure the academic discipline is adequately prepared for it.
🔗 linkblog: Lexington & KY reports more than high flu cases this season | Lexington Herald Leader'
Oh, so this is why my family’s gotten rocked by flu the past five days.
🔗 linkblog: Before Musk Riled Everyone Up With Misleading Twitter Files About ‘Shadowbanning,’ Musk Used The Tool To Hide Account Tracking His Plane | Techdirt'
If I could pick one story to demonstrate that Musk’s Twitter tenure has been blundering and inconsistent…
🔗 linkblog: The Transparency Theater of the Twitter Files | WIRED'
I have deliberately not been following the Twitter Files stuff, but I did read this and found it helpful.
🔗 linkblog: Facial Recognition Researcher Left a Trans Database Exposed for Years After Using Images Without Permission'
I hated this project when I read about it in The Verge 5 years ago. I hate it even more now.
🔗 linkblog: Thanks to AI, it’s probably time to take your photos off the Internet | Ars Technica'
Good thing engineers really anticipated and considered these consequences before developing this software, right?
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT, Galactica, and the Progress Trap | WIRED'
A helpful and thoughtful critique of how people are doing AI text generation.
🔗 linkblog: Is Mick Herron the Best Spy Novelist of His Generation? | The New Yorker'
I enjoy Herron’s books, so I enjoyed this article!
🔗 linkblog: It’s Not Just You: Businesses Are Making Their Phone Numbers Hard to Find - WSJ'
What a crappy future we are heading toward.
🔗 linkblog: Mormons in Mexico and the Search for Truth, Pipe Wrench no. 8:'
Long read but a good read.
🔗 linkblog: Brave Sir Bentham, Utilitarian Knight - Existential Comics'
Only thing better than a critique of utilitarianism is a critique of utilitarianism in the form of a comic.
🔗 linkblog: The 4th Nephi Dystopia – Wheat & Tares'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Lexington, Ky Mayor wants to expand license plate cameras | Lexington Herald Leader'
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.