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🔗 linkblog: Trump Is Already Boosting Election Conspiracies Ahead of the Midterms'
I’ve been worrying about 2024, but 2022 is going to be bad enough. GOP needs to do something about this.
🔗 linkblog: Kentucky’s county clerks deal with misinformation as election approaches – 89.3 WFPL News Louisville'
We’ve had it better than some states, so it’s disappointing to hear all of this.
🔗 linkblog: Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler - The Verge'
Oh no. This can’t be good.
🔗 linkblog: Public Transportation – Design Goodiness'
Enilda is great, and I appreciate her thoughts here.
🔗 linkblog: Students Are Using AI to Write Their Papers, Because Of Course They Are'
Really important story here, and glad to see George Veletsianos quoted. I’ve long been an advocate for developing assessments that are impossible to cheat at, but I don’t know if that’s the entire (or even a practical) response to GPT-3. We are continuing to develop technologies whose societal effects we are not prepares for.
🔗 linkblog: Watch how Peter Howell helped remix the 80s Doctor Who theme'
I love this theme tune, so this video was a delight to watch.
🔗 linkblog: Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face | WIRED'
I had not thought this much about the privacy implications of VR, and ooooof.
🔗 linkblog: Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn’t Put on Air'
Wild story, and heck of a scoop. Says far more about Tucker Carlson than about Ye.
🔗 linkblog: How to Protect Yourself If Your School Uses Surveillance Tech | WIRED'
I hate that there’s a need for articles like this, but I’m glad WIRED is putting them together.
🔗 linkblog: Arizona GOP Secretary Of State Candidate Insists ‘Deep State’ Google Is Blocking His Website; Turns Out He Requested It Not Be Indexed | Techdirt'
Politicians need to better understand the internet. This is just as dumb (and perhaps more devious) than the nonsense the governor of Missouri was up to.
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: 07 Oct 2022 “Don’t install spy on a privacy lab,” and other lessons for university provosts – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
There is so much of both horrible and hopeful in this story. The way we’re normalizing surveillance is really worrying, and I’m glad some people are fighting back.
🔗 linkblog: Who is ready for a fleet of cubesats flying over cities, displaying ads? | Ars Technica'
This is a terrible idea, and it is wildly irresponsible to do research like this.
🔗 linkblog: Talk of ‘Civil War,’ Ignited by Mar-a-Lago Search, Is Flaring Online - The New York Times'
I am growing more and more nervous about our future.
🔗 linkblog: When School Superintendents Market Surveillance Cameras'
Lot of worrying stuff in here. Edtech needs to take surveillance tech more seriously, because the two are increasingly simultaneous.
🔗 linkblog: A tradition ends: Paris says goodbye to iconic paper Metro tickets'
Love the paper tickets, and this makes me sad.
🔗 linkblog: In Washington, Putin’s Nuclear Threats Stir Growing Alarm - The New York Times'
Russia is currently demonstrating just how powerful and dangerous nuclear weapons are—and, unfortunately, how complicated disarmament is.
🔗 linkblog: Rand Paul declines to debate Charles Booker on KET – 89.3 WFPL News Louisville'
Unsurprising but disappointing.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Won’t Fix Iran Internet Censorship'
Good read on the emptiness of recent Musk bluster.
🔗 linkblog: Gab Founder Andrew Torba Wants to Build a Christian Nationalist Internet'
Good reporting on a scary but important subject. I’ve been collecting Gab blog posts to eventually study some of this Christian nationalism.
🔗 linkblog: How ‘Lord of the Rings’ Inspires Italy’s Giorgia Meloni - The New York Times'
Very interesting article on how Tolkien can inspire far right thinking.
🔗 linkblog: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/26/subreddit-discriminates-against-anyone-who-doesnt-call-texas-gov'
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.
🔗 linkblog: AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It's Not Easy to Opt Out'
Ooof. AI-generated art is fun, but it comes at a price, and we can’t afford to forget it.
🔗 linkblog: Not All Bots Are Bad, and Twitter Knows It | WIRED'
This is a good response to Musk’s complaining about bots.