👀
When did you last look up?What’s the best thing you’ve seen lately?Who did you want to show it to?Why?
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg: Fact-Checking on Meta Is Too "Politically Biased"
[Alex Weprin at The Hollywood Reporter]I don't think this is a great thing at all:"Meta will also move its trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, with content review to be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
46 books
Previous birthday posts: 45 wishes, 44 thoughts about the future, 43 things, 42 / 42 admissions, 41 things.One. I lie in bed as Ma read Dodie Smith’s The Hundred and One Dalmatians to me. It was the...
View ArticleHeritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
[Arno Rosenfeld at the Forward]The Heritage Foundation is out to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors, using antisemitism as a cover:"Employees of Heritage, the conservative think tank that...
View ArticleMeta’s Free Speech Grift
[Jason Kottke]Jason nails what the supposed focus on free speech by Meta and others is really about:"What Zuckerberg and Meta have realized is the value, demonstrated by Trump, Musk, and MAGA...
View ArticleIndonesia kicks off ambitious $45b free meal plan
[Natasya Salim, Najma Sambul, and Bill Birtles at ABC News]This is something that every nation should provide. It's really impressive that Indonesia is putting it into action:"Indonesia has launched a...
View ArticleMullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash
[Rae Morey at The Repository]The bananas activity continues over at Automattic / Matt Mullenweg's house:"Members of the fledgling WordPress Sustainability Team have been left reeling after WordPress...
View ArticleThe Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta’s New Content Moderation Policies
[Mike Masnick in TechDirt]Mark Zuckerberg is very obviously running scared from the incoming Trump administration:"Since the election, Zuckerberg has done everything he can possibly think of to kiss...
View ArticleBuilding an open web that protects us from harm
We live in a world where right-wing nationalism is on the rise and many governments, including the incoming Trump administration, are promising mass deportations. Trump in particular has discussed...
View ArticleIs Ignorance Bliss?
[Jared White]I've been thinking about this paragraph since I read it:"In times past, we would worry about singular governmental officials such Joseph Goebbels becoming a master of propaganda for their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The indie web should be a universe of discovery
In Oxford, my hometown, the flagship Blackwell’s bookshop looks like any ordinary bookstore at ground level. But if you go down a set of stairs, you find yourself in the Norrington Room: one of the...
View ArticleDoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review
[Adria R Walker at The Guardian]A full century after the Bureau of Investigation blamed the Tulsa race massacre on Black men and claimed that the perpetrators didn't break the law, the DoJ has issued...
View ArticleContent Policy on the Social Web
[Social Web Foundation]The Social Web Foundation's statement about Meta's moderation changes is important:"Ideas matter, and history shows that online misinformation and harassment can lead to...
View ArticleThe people should own the town square
[Mastodon]Mastodon is growing up:"Simply, we are going to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets) to a new non-profit...
View ArticleFree Our Feeds
[Free Our Feeds]The non-profit social media foundation space is really heating up. Which is not a bad thing!Enter Free our Feeds:"It will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s...
View ArticleUS finalizes rule to effectively ban Chinese vehicles, which could include...
[Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge]I think this is the wrong kind of protectionism:"The Biden administration finalized a new rule that would effectively ban all Chinese vehicles from the US under the...
View Article"I have fired Meta as a client."
[Mark Lemley on LinkedIn]Meta's lawyer in its AI case has fired them as a client, and is not beating around the bush as to why:"I have struggled with how to respond to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's...
View ArticleMake America More Like Europe (please)
I realized some time ago that all the ways I want America to change just bring it closer to being Europe. Like, what if we had this can-do attitude and all the good parts without the guns and with...
View ArticleMeta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump’s Mass Deportations
[Joseph Cox at 404 Media]Not just obeying in advance but actively collaborating:"Multiple speech and content moderation experts 404 Media spoke to drew some parallels between these recent changes and...
View ArticleLook Up Private School Demographics With ProPublica’s New Database
[Sergio Hernández, Nat Lash, Brandon Roberts and Ken Schwencke at ProPublica]Private schools in the US are much whiter than public schools. My colleagues over in the newsroom at ProPublica explored...
View Article