This is juvenile enough that I feel guilty finding it funny, but it’s a good demonstration of the problems with this backlash against content moderation.

Ooof. AI-generated art is fun, but it comes at a price, and we can’t afford to forget it.

This is a good response to Musk’s complaining about bots.

Lots to love in this article, but I especially appreciate the point that God and Creation resist binaries.

Great movie, great example of the difficulty of content moderation.

I had heard about this kind of software at a conference last year, but reading about it just makes it scarier.

What a dumb allegation. Just makes me want to vote for Wu even more.

My optimism about internet culture has been waning for several years, but I still appreciate a deep-dive into how rich and complex a given meme can be.

This article provides good examples of how the efficacy and efficiency of a given technology is often less important than deeper questions of reliance and roles.

I knew my distrust of spellcheck would be validated one day! Seriously, though, this is bad news.

I missed the vertical integration aspect of this in earlier reporting I’ve read. It makes this story even worse.

We need to do more work to divorce free speech from content moderation. The world without content moderation would be a much worse world, and we don’t want to live in it. Sure, social media platforms are too powerful, but this is not the answer.

This is a gross idea for a TV show, and I’m glad people are pushing back against it.

This isn’t the first article I’ve read comparing Q to an ARG, but I may still send it to my students next semester. I’m also interested in the book this comes from…

I am very much here for Matt Potts criticizing Hogwarts for not embracing the humanities and the importance of the humanities.

Trump’s leaning into Q is not a good sign for the future.

Look, Parler isn’t as bad as Gab, but this kind of softball, uncritical approach to the platform is not helpful. WSJ should know better.

What a cheap, cynical about-face. The fact that candidates think this is something they can do to drum up voters and then change strategy is worrying.

Good article on an important subject. I may have to assign this to my students next semester!

I loved the original book and hope to pick up the second. This was a good interview on how surprisingly many important things this kind of weird project overlaps with.

Caring about privacy ought to be common sense. It’s difficult to push back, but that doesn’t mean those of us who do are crazy.

I hope the Fairphone will be sold in the U.S. one day. It’s an awesome project.

Maybe it’s because of my area of research, but I think the headline here is misleading. Being a teacher on TikTok is one thing, and I’m not opposed to that. Putting your students on TikTok is entirely different, and I struggle to see that being ethically justified. Josh’s research is absolutely the right reference point here.

Americans should be more worried about the NSA than they are.

This is a tragic detail in an even more tragic story. Government can absolutely be good, and our allergic reaction to spending, laws, and policy only makes these situations worse.