Sharing Openly About ShareOpenly
[Alan Levine at CogDogBlog]"ShareOpenly breaks the door even wider than sharing to Mastodon, and I intend to be using it to update some of my examples listed above. Thanks Ben for demonstrative and...
View ArticleSocial-Media Influencers Aren’t Getting Rich—They’re Barely Getting By
[Sarah E. Needleman and Ann-Marie Alcántara at the Wall Street Journal]"Earning a decent, reliable income as a social-media creator is a slog—and it’s getting harder. Platforms are doling out less...
View ArticleNew ALPR Vulnerabilities Prove Mass Surveillance Is a Public Safety Threat
[Dave Maass and Cooper Quintin at EFF]"When law enforcement uses ALPRs to document the comings and goings of every driver on the road, regardless of a nexus to a crime, it results in gargantuan...
View ArticleI Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
[Nikhil Suresh at Ludicity]"This entire class of person is, to put it simply, abhorrent to right-thinking people. They're an embarrassment to people that are actually making advances in the field, a...
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Don't let them tell you what to think
Last year I wrote a little about how I hope AI will be used, using the GPS navigation in my car as an analogy:I like my GPS. I use it pretty much every time I drive. But it’s not going to make the...
View ArticleSystems: What does a board of directors do?
[Anil Dash]"I realize that most people who've never been in the boardroom have a lot of questions (and often, anxieties) about what happens on a board, so I wanted to share a very subjective view of...
View ArticleWhy does moral progress feel preachy and annoying?
[Daniel Kelly and Evan Westra in Aeon]"Many genuinely good arguments for moral change will be initially experienced as annoying. Moreover, the emotional responses that people feel in these situations...
View ArticleThe Future of Fashion Commerce Is a Designer's AI Bot Saying You Look Great...
[Hunter Walk]"The best commerce platforms will be constantly grooming you, priming you, shaping you to buy. The combination of short-term and long-term value that leads to the optimal financial...
View ArticleLaw enforcement is spying on thousands of Americans’ mail, records show
[Drew Harwell at the Washington Post]"Postal inspectors say they fulfill [requests from law enforcement to share information from letters and packages] only when mail monitoring can help find a...
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Some polite words regarding the British General Election on July 4
On July 4th I’ll be on the beautiful Oregon coast, and I plan to have a bottle of champagne handy. Not so much because of the American Independence Day — although there’s nothing wrong with...
View ArticleAP to launch sister organization to fundraise for state, local news
"Governed by an independent board of directors, the 501(c)3 charitable organization will help AP sustain, augment and grow journalism and services for the industry, as well as help fund other entities...
View ArticleFighting bots is fighting humans
[Molly White]"I fear that media outlets and other websites, in attempting to "protect" their material from AI scrapers, will go too far in the anti-human direction."I've been struggling with this.I'm...
View ArticlePeter Capaldi says posh actors are smooth, confident and tedious
[Vanessa Thorpe in The Guardian]“Art is about reaching out. So I think it’s wrong to allow one strata of society to have the most access.”This is an older article, but it resonated with me so much...
View ArticleAn apology for my comments about the British election
I want to apologize for yesterday’s rant about British politics. That kind of rhetoric isn’t big or clever, and it runs against the tone I usually try for*. Over time, this space has shifted from more...
View ArticleCalm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just...
[Jonathan Zeller at McSweeney's]"We do not live in some tech dystopia in which our smartphones clandestinely use their mics to pick up every word we say and then feed us commercial messages based on...
View ArticleSotomayor says immunity ruling makes a president ‘king above the law’
[Rachel Leingang at The Guardian]"The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, he now will be...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the United Nations
[Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Hadley Beeman, Daniel Appelquist, Robin Berjon, et al]"Government engagement in digital and Internet governance is needed to deal with many abuses of this global...
View ArticleDeclare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a...
[Cloudflare]"To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free...
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Florence
I’ve spent the week in Florence, Oregon, a lovely little town on the coast. It’s a bit windy and a little cold, but as I’m fond of saying, I lived in Scotland for a decade. I can take it.Frank Herbert...
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📖 Mobility
[Lydia Kiesling]It took me a long time to get through the first third of this novel. The protagonist is so vapid, her point of view so incurious and at the same time so familiarly American, against a...
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