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The indieweb is for everyone
Tantek Çelik has posted a lovely encapsulation of the indieweb:The #IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants to be part of the world-wide-web of interconnected people. The social internet of...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-writtenSimon Willison...
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Stripping the web of its humanity
I tried Arc Search, the new mobile app from the Browser Company. Its central insight is that almost every mobile browsing session starts with a web search; rather than giving you the usual list of...
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The four phases
This post is part of February’s IndieWeb Carnival, in which Manuel Moreale prompts us to think about the various facets of digital relationships.Our relationship to digital technology has been through...
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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, by Ursula K. LeGuin:They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Zuckerberg's Going to Use Your Instagram Photos to Train His AI MachinesDuring Meta's...
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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...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?"Local news publishers, [VP...
View ArticleThis week's notable links (really)
Earlier today you received a weekly notable links email with exactly one link in it. As it turns out, this was a bug with my newsletter service provider, which I'm told will be fixed this week. (For...
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Social, I love you, but you’re bringing me down
This weekend I realized that I’m kind of burned out: agitated, stressed about nothing in particular, and peculiarly sleepless. It took a little introspection to figure out what was really going...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces again last year — and the gap is growing"Americans...
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Stop what you're doing and watch Breaking the News
Breaking the News, the documentary about The 19th, aired on PBS last night and is available to watch for free on YouTube for the next 90 days.It’s both a film about the news industry and about...
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ASCAP for AI
Hunter Walk writes:The checks being cut to ‘owners’ of training data are creating a huge barrier to entry for challengers. If Google, OpenAI, and other large tech companies can establish a high enough...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Demoted, Deleted, and Denied: There’s More Than Just Shadowbanning on InstagramThe...
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Platforms are selling your work to AI vendors with impunity. They need to stop.
404 Media reports that Automattic is planning to sell its data to Midjourney and OpenAI for training generative models:The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are not spelled...
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Some personal updates
I write a lot about the intersection of technology and society here, and lately a lot about AI, but over the last year I’ve written a little less about what I’ve been up to. So, this post is an update...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!TinyLetter: looking back on the humblest newsletter platform"That is sort of the...
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Startup pitch: Social VIP
Here’s my pitch for a fediverse product for organizations.Think of it as WordPress VIP for the fediverse: a way for organizations to safely build a presence on the fediverse while preserving their...
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Some asides
These are some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week.Introducing asidesI’ve set up a new post type, “asides”, on my site. I’ve been kind of worried about writing shorter thoughts here for a...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!AI gives the news you needI can't share a quote from this one without ruining it. But...
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...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!The weird world of altruistic YouTubeThis is such an interesting trend:"It seems like...
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Building engineering
I’ve spent most of my career— now well over two decades of it — building things on the web. I’ve worked as a software developer, I’ve founded a couple of my own companies, and I’ve often found myself...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Threads has entered the fediverse"We’re taking a phased approach to Threads’ fediverse...
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Share Openly
You know all those “share to Facebook” / “share to Twitter” links you see all over peoples’ websites? They’re all out of date.Social media has evolved over the last year, yet nobody has “share to”...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, by Jordan MechnerJust fabulous. Maybe it's...
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72
It’s my mother’s birthday. She would be 72 today.The week we lost her, I wrote this piece, which I re-read today.In it, our friend Anita Hurrell remembered her like this:One time you drove us in the...
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This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know!Making version noirThis is completely lovely: a responsive, noir-inspired personal...
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Asides for April 19, 2024
Some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week: Backdoors are an everyone problemFrom the OpenJS Foundation:The recent attempted XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) may not be an isolated incident...
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The xenophobic, un-American TikTok ban
The requirement for TikTok to relinquish Chinese ownership or face a nationwide ban was signed into law today, as an add-on to a foreign aid bill:But even as ridiculous as it is to tack on a TikTok ban...
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