It's time to get real: I'm not 25 anymore
Last week, without warning, my back went “crunch”.I’ve been dealing with what feels like a painful, bruised coccyx ever since. It should heal up within a few weeks, but until then, getting up from a...
View ArticleA Link Blog in the Year 2024
"After 17 of using Twitter daily and 24 years of using Google daily neither really works anymore. And particular with the collapse of the social spaces many of us grew up with, I feel called back to...
View ArticleWhat if we worked together
"Remember! If you only signed up to hear when this feature is available, or you're wondering what ActivityPub even is: This probably is not the newsletter for you. This is a behind-the-scenes,...
View ArticleFormer Politico Owner Launches New Journalism Finishing School To Try And Fix...
"There’s an ocean of problems with journalism, but the idea that there’s just too damn much woke progressivism is utter delusion. U.S. journalism generally tilts center right on the political...
View ArticleStudy finds 1/4 of bosses hoped RTO would make staff quit
"The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO...
View ArticleORG publishes digital rights priorities for next government
"Open Rights Group has published its six priorities for digital rights that the next UK government should focus on."These are things every government should provide. I'm particularly interested in...
View ArticleJustice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America ‘Can’t Be...
"Justice Samuel Alito spoke candidly about the ideological battle between the left and the right — discussing the difficulty of living “peacefully” with ideological opponents in the face of...
View ArticleCommunity survey 2024
I consider myself really lucky that people stop by and read my posts. Thank you!Every year I like to pause and ask folks a little bit more about themselves, what they’re worried about, and what...
View ArticleThese Wrongly Arrested Black Men Say a California Bill Would Let Police...
[The Markup]"Now all three men are speaking out against pending California legislation that would make it illegal for police to use face recognition technology as the sole reason for a search or...
View ArticleCalm Company Fund is taking a break
[Calm Company Fund]"Inhale. Exhale. Find the space between… Calm Company Fund is going on sabbatical and taking a break from investing in new companies and raising new funds. Here’s why."Calm Company...
View ArticleMicrosoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack
[Renee Dudley at ProPublica]"Former [Microsoft] employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the...
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Innovation depends on inclusion
A few weeks ago I wrote about how solving the challenges facing the news industry requires fundamentally changing newsroom culture. While newsrooms have depended on referrals from social media and...
View ArticleThe Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AI
[Janet Vertesi at Public Books]"Our lives are consumed with the consumption of content, but we no longer know the truth when we see it. And when we don’t know how to weigh different truths, or to...
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Escaping the 9-5
Imagine a life where you dictate your own schedule, free from the confines of a traditional job.That’s a thought experiment I’ve been playing with lately: what would it look like if this was my last...
View ArticleOn being human and "creative"
[Heather Bryant]"What generative AI creates is not any one person's creative expression. Generative AI is only possible because of the work that has been taken from others. It simply would not exist...
View ArticlePentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines
[Chris Bing and Joel Schechtman at Reuters]"The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame...
View ArticlePerplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent
[Robb Knight]Perplexity AI doesn't use its advertised browser string or IP range to load content from third-party websites:"So they're using headless browsers to scrape content, ignoring robots.txt,...
View ArticleUnited Airlines seat ads: How to opt out of targeted advertising
[Michael Grothaus at FastCompany]"United Airlines announced that it is bringing personalized advertising to the seatback entertainment screens on its flights. The move is aimed at increasing the...
View ArticleSuccor borne every minute
[Michael Atleson at the FTC Division of Advertising Practices]"Don’t misrepresent what these services are or can do. Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither...
View ArticleProgress on the book
A sound shook Frances fully awake. Her dreams faded quickly into the cold air, her sleeping memories of San Francisco collapsing into the smell of stone and moss and rot.There was someone in the...
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