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This is an incomplete list of the shortform reading (and listening and watching) I've been doing lately.

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There are many legitimate criticisms of LLMs. The copyright issues involved in their training, their enormous power consumption and the risks of people trusting them when they shouldn’t (considering both accuracy and bias) are three that I think about a lot. The one criticism I wont accept is that they aren’t useful.
artificial intelligence
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A thought experiment! Let's reimagine the web with r-selected thinking.
decentralization, web
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In our coverage of the problems with KOSA and other legislative pushes to “protect the children” online, we usually (for obvious reasons) come at the subject from the technology side, and look at all the ways these laws misunderstand the internet. But that’s not their only flaw: these proposals also tend to lack any real understanding of child safety. Maureen Flatley is someone who has been vocal from the other side, having covered child safety issues for about as long as we’ve covered tech, and she joins us on this week’s episode to discuss how KOSA and its ilk aren’t rooted in what we really know about keeping kids safe.
Big Tech, child safety, children's rights, Facebook, KOSA, law, tech industry
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Robert Menendez gets indicted again, again; Donald Trump posts a $92 million bond in the E. Jean Carroll case; Michael Avenatti is still in prison
law, politics
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Ed Zitron of the new podcast Better Offline joins Scam Economy with Matt Binder to discuss Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies getting some a new wind, plus much more.
Apple, artificial intelligence, bitcoin, crypto, tech industry
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I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the "real" work.
frontend, programming
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journalism, media
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In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta, claiming that it was now a "Metaverse company," throwing the entire tech industry into one of its most specious hype cycles. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the tech industry wasted nearly two years chasing a concept that nobody could define, burning billions of dollars on an idea that would cost thousands of people their jobs.
Facebook, hype, metaverse, tech industry
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I’m quite enamoured with ideas like slow news and home cooked meals and this site is where I tinker with ideas, which is why it’s very much home made. But there’s been one thing missing for a while now — a smooth way to add new words.
indieweb
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cybersecurity, surveillance