This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit Mastodon has established itself as a US 501(c)(3) with a really exciting new board. I'm a long-term fan of Esra’a Al Shafei in pa … | Continue reading
Some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week: Backdoors are an everyone problem From the OpenJS Foundation: The recent attempted XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) may not be an isolated incident as evidenced by a similar credible takeover attempt intercepted by the OpenJS … | Continue reading
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 noir This is completely lovely: a responsive, noir-inspired personal homepage in the form of a comic. I'm inspired. #Indieweb [Link] The Thing That's … | Continue reading
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 Mechner Just fabulous. Maybe it's because his family history is not a world of different from mine, or maybe it's be … | Continue reading
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 integration to ensure we can continue to build responsibly and get valuable … | Continue reading
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 YouTube This is such an interesting trend: "It seems like a pretty well-worn path at this point. Start a YouTube channel with some com … | Continue reading
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 need I can't share a quote from this one without ruining it. But you should go read it. #AI [Link] Make better documents. "We almost never … | Continue reading
These are some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week. Introducing asides I’ve set up a new post type, “asides”, on my site. I’ve been kind of worried about writing shorter thoughts here for a while, because all of my long-form blog posts make it into the newsletter in re … | Continue reading
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 original spirit of the internet. [...] What if we made no money? What if money wa … | Continue reading
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 Instagram The Markup found that Instagram is removing content about Israel and Palestine: "Ou … | Continue reading
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 cost, they implicitly prevent future competition. Not very Open. It’s fair to … | Continue reading
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 bought 21 percent more heat pumps in 2023 than the next-most popular heating ap … | Continue reading
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 the record, Buttondown is responsive and highly recommended.) In the meantime, he … | Continue reading
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 Platforms at The Boston Globe] Karolian told Engadget, almost entirely depend on sel … | Continue reading
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 Machines During Meta's earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook and Instagram data is used … | Continue reading
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 Machines During Meta's earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook and Instagram data is used … | Continue reading
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-written Simon Willison called this, and it makes sense: the George Carlin AI special was human-written, … | Continue reading
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! How The Guardian raised a record amount of reader revenue in the U.S. | Nieman Journalism Lab Roughly a third of revenue for the Guardian - a firmly British paper - … | Continue reading
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Why return-to-office mandates fail "My advice to business leaders is this: If your “personal belief” tells you that in-office work is better, approach the question … | Continue reading
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell's 1984, by Sandra Newman Not just a retelling but a complete recasting of 1984. It's helpful to consider this as a separate wor … | Continue reading
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! 10 blogs for your newsreader I really like this: a starter pack of blogs to follow if you're new to RSS. Some of them are new to me (and others have familiar autho … | Continue reading
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. (It's a light week because of the holidays.) Did I miss something? Let me know! They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like I enjoyed Get Back and They Shall Not Grow Old, but what's obvious to m … | Continue reading