Apple releases 'MGIE', a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image...
"Computer - enhance!" I like the approach in this release from Apple: an open source AI model that can edit images based on natural language instructions. In other words, a human can tell the engine...
View ArticlePoll Shows 74 Percent of Republicans Like Donald Trump’s Dictator Plan
"Only 44 percent of adults completely rebelled at the notion of giving the former president — who is currently facing 91 felony charges — dictatorial authority, calling it “definitely bad” for...
View ArticleBoeing Max 9s start flying again after door panel blowout
"“I would tell my family to avoid the Max. I would tell everyone, really,” said Joe Jacobsen, a former engineer at Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration." And so I shall. This is going to be...
View ArticleReview: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own
A characteristically great review from Molly White of Chris Dixon's disclosure-free shilling of blockchains as a way to save the web. Read, written, owned. I do think there are some areas where...
View ArticleWhat Medium's Tony Stubblebine has learned about tech and journalism
Tony is a smart, analytical person, which comes across strongly in this useful, transparent interview about the future of Medium. It's doing better than it ever has. Also, I like this, which is very...
View ArticleFCC Makes AI-Generated Voices in Robocalls Illegal
"The FCC announced the unanimous adoption of a Declaratory Ruling that recognizes calls made with AI-generated voices are "artificial" under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)." A sign of...
View ArticleMeta won't recommend political content on Threads
"Threads users will be allowed to follow accounts that post political content, but the algorithm that suggests content from users you don't follow will not recommend accounts that post about...
View ArticleEnough is enough—it’s time to set Julian Assange free
The former Editor in Chief of the Guardian on Julian Assange: "I know they won’t stop with Assange. The world of near-total surveillance, merely sketched by Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four, is now...
View ArticleHidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart
"Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year...
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A creative process
Over on Threads, Amanda Zamora asks:I'm plotting away on Agencia Media and some personal writing/reporting this weekend (over a glass of 🍷 and many open tabs). One of the things I love most about...
View ArticleAgainst Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books
"A wide swath of the ruling class sees books as data-intake vehicles for optimizing knowledge rather than, you know, things to intellectually engage with. [...] Some of us enjoy fiction. And color."...
View ArticleWho makes money when AI reads the internet for us?
"Local news publishers, [VP Platforms at The Boston Globe] Karolian told Engadget, almost entirely depend on selling ads and subscriptions to readers who visit their websites to survive. “When tech...
View ArticleExtending our Mastodon social media trial
The BBC extends its Mastodon experiment for another six months: "We are also planning to start some technical work into investigating ways to publish BBC content more widely using ActivityPub, the...
View ArticleCaribou High School to use fingerprinting to track student attendance
"[The ACLU] publicly challenged the school district in a statement to media outlets stating that it has filed a public records request seeking more information about the district’s decision to [a...
View ArticleBuilding Slack: Day 1
Catnip for me: the first post in a new blog that tells the story of building Slack from the ground up, by two of its former employees.This was surprising to me, although I guess I don't really know...
View ArticleThe text file that runs the internet
It's hard to read this without feeling like the social contract of the web is falling apart. And when social agreements fall apart, that's when we start having to talk about more rigid, enforced...
View ArticleLeaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring to Appease China
"A trove of leaked emails shows how administrators of one of the most prestigious awards in science fiction censored themselves because the awards ceremony was being held in China." What's remarkable...
View ArticleIt's kind of impressive to see Ghost ...
It's kind of impressive to see Ghost become a real open source alternative to WordPress. Many people have said it couldn't be done - but by focusing on a certain kind of independent creator (adjacent...
View ArticlePaying people to work on open source is good actually
"My fundamental position is that paying people to work on open source is good, full stop, no exceptions. We need to stop criticizing maintainers getting paid, and start celebrating. Yes, all of the...
View ArticleOpinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. I saw annihilation, not war
"On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head. These families were returning to their...
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