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🔗 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.
🔗 linkblog: BYU-I instructors fired for failing ‘ecclesiastical clearance.’ They can’t find out why.'
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.
🔗 linkblog: They Wanted a Baby, Then Twitter Fired Them | WIRED'
Infertility sucks, and stories like this make me even more upset about Musk’s callous and chaotic Twitter takeover.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Admits His Content Moderation Council Was Always A Sham To Keep Advertisers On The Site | Techdirt'
I’m glad I began reading Techdirt before this whole mess started… Masnick’s persective has been a helpful guide.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk proposes letting nearly everyone Twitter banned back on the site - The Verge'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk tries to blame ‘activists’ for his Twitter moderation council lie - The Verge'
This seems petty, immature, and misguided.