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The monthly subscription is currently on sale for $5. The free-to-read articles swap out every day at 1pm. Now this is free to read.
It's too late to teach the "AI barons" reading comprehension
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timetraveling* incest
I now know entirely too much about Heinlein's "increasingly disturbing self-focused view of sexual liberation" (incest)
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this is the story of so many technologies and certainly almost every technology that centers itself around knowledge work. that's because the technology isn't built/marketed/implemented with the workers in mind, it is for the bosses, who implement it in order to extract more out of people
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"Rarely has a story filled me with such a profound sense of dread..." says @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-existen...
This is free to read on The Verge today if you have thoughts
New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online
You know I bet @terrenceobrien.bsky.social knows all about it
His Opal label stuff has weird licensing gaps but do you have a CD player shop.brian-eno.net?srsltid=AfmB...
The nonsense has ceased! “Based on the feedback we’ve received, we clearly missed the mark. We are sorry and will do things differently going forward.”
Nonsense continues. @seanhollister.bsky.social: "For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with."
Couple things here:
1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!
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Grammarly's "Expert Review" AI agents "inspired" by @reckless.bsky.social, @davidpierce.xyz, @seanhollister.bsky.social, and @tomwarren.co.uk are giving users """edits.""" There are several things wrong with this.
This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.
Last month, Anthropic told @haydenfield.bsky.social "Claude, and other AI models, are a new kind of entity altogether." Anthropic is "investigating" "questions about potential ... consciousness ... but we remain deeply uncertain about these topics." Great way to keep up the hype!
From Casey Means' own book: "the ability to prevent and reverse" conditions like cancer and Alzheimer's "—and feel incredible today—is under your control and simpler than you think."
This week on The Optimizer, @vicmsong.bsky.social lays out how wellness influencers exploit public hopelessness.
"Andrew Tate shared a video of himself dancing outside and smoking a cigar with the tagline: 'Me in Dubai while the bombs fall.'"
... I'm not going to say it.
I just wrote the words "nuts and bolts" in an email and Gemini told me I should say "fundamentals" instead, and I am apoplectic. I'm sorry a pile of nuts and bolts was your MOM but some of us can write our own emails.
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Milleanials are like
Millennials*
are the balls ... in the cereal
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.
It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.
My months-long investigation 👇
