ChatGPT as a writing partner
Confession: I’ve started to find ChatGPT to be useful in my fiction writing.And now, before proceeding, I must very quickly add that I haven’t let it write a word of the story, or come up with any...
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"We almost never never actually teach people how to use the ordinary tools of business communication in more effective ways. So, I'm gathering some advice that I regularly share with people, in hopes...
View ArticleIt’s snowing again. That’s it, I’m moving ...
It’s snowing again. That’s it, I’m moving to Spain.
View ArticleThe internet, addiction, and me
I used to have a night-time routine. I would help my mother up the six stairs from the living room to her bedroom, give her a hug, and set her up in bed. Sometimes, if she was feeling particularly...
View ArticleAI gives the news you need
I can't share a quote from this one without ruining it. But you should go read it. #AI [Link]
View ArticleDoing weeknotes
"Weeknotes are well suited to teams that want to communicate about their work to colleagues or management. But they’re useful in other circumstances, too, such as individuals communicating to the...
View ArticleHow do we make progress in America?
Someone I follow posted this weekend about how the progressive wing of the Democratic Party was stupid because it consistently pushed for projects that would require higher taxes. I don’t like the...
View ArticleAI news that's fit to print
"What I thought would be helpful, instead, is to survey the current state of AI-powered journalism, from the very bad to really good, and try to draw some lessons from those examples. I'm only...
View ArticleA Seattle Airfield Offers a Rare View of ICE Deportation Flights
"The observation room at Boeing Field offers what is arguably America’s best real-time window into our vast network of privately run deportation flights, a system that has generated troubling reports...
View ArticleExploring AI, safely
I’ve been thinking about the risks and ethical issues around AI in the following buckets:Source impacts: the ecosystem impact of generative models on the people who created the information they were...
View ArticleEU Parliament passes AI Act in world’s first attempt at regulating the...
Europe once again leads the way by passing meaningful AI regulation. Banned unacceptable-risk uses of AI include facial recognition, social scoring, and emotion recognition at schools and workplaces....
View ArticleTiktok and the Fediverse
"The House bill, then, is an acknowledgment that algorithmic curation of feeds is a powerful feature that can have a major influence on individuals and society. It at least makes the point that...
View ArticleSeeking a first-class Fediverse platform
Subsequent conversations have convinced me that I’m right about the assertions I made about the Fediverse for media organizations. There’s a huge need, a huge opportunity, and the underlying...
View ArticleFormer Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is putting together an investor group to...
"Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is building an investor group to acquire ByteDance’s TikTok, as a bipartisan piece of legislation winding its way through Congress threatens its continued...
View ArticleA smackdown over programmatic ads and why reader revenue is crucial
"There’s a reason that some 2,900 newspapers have closed since 2005, and that reason is the ad revenues publishers were hoping for to support what were initially free websites never materialized."...
View ArticleComing back to Obsidian
After some to-ing and fro-ing, I finally cracked how using Obsidian is useful.I’d previously been trying to work in the open and update my thoughts for a public website there — but, of course, that’s...
View ArticleCEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms
Something I've long suspected is often the case: the founder of a data privacy firm also ran dozens of the people search services the firm was set up to remove people from for a fee. "Onerep’s...
View ArticleFCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps
"The Federal Communications Commission today voted to raise its Internet speed benchmark for the first time since January 2015, concluding that modern broadband service should provide at least 100Mbps...
View ArticleSeeking share URLs for every platform
I wish there was a conclusive list of “share-to” URLs. For example, here’s the URL you can use to build a “share to Threads” button:https://threads.net/intent/post?text=Here’s the equivalent URL for...
View ArticleFBI sent several informants to Standing Rock protests, court documents show
"Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access...
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