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The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
Joan Westenberg on The Case for Blogging in the Ruins: …we have more information than any civilization in history. But aside from Wikipedia, we’ve organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats …
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A Very Good Guess
Matt Birchler links to a piece from 404 Media about chatbots being terrible doctors: I think there’s something to be understood here about the difference between memorizing every bit of information about something, with …
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Apple Hands Siri to Google
Joint statement from Google and Apple Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology. …
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Locked Out Of Your Life
Nick Heer writing about a high-profile Apple account lockout: Customers need a level of protection from any corporation with which they are required to have an ongoing relationship. This single high-profile incident …
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Filling In The Gaps
Casey Newton wrote about Australia’s new social media ban for under-16s, touching on Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation”: The book has been criticized for its lack of empirical data on the central claim that social …
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Interoperability Is The Feature
Darren Cohen on moving back to Gmail: Going back to Gmail wasn’t about giving up my principles; it was about accepting that interoperability is itself a feature, and right now, Gmail is where most of the tools I care …
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90% Synthetic
Salvador Vilalta on the future of AI content: A study by Amazon Web Services estimates that 57% of online content is already generated or translated by artificial intelligence. And the boldest prediction comes from …
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Connecting No One
Nick Heer writing about Meta prevailing in the U.S. antitrust case: Meta is now fully an entertainment company There is a lot to dig into regarding the legal ruling, but this single line struck me as the perfect summary …
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Simple, Local, TXT
Steph Ango on Mastodon: oops I missed the outage, I was too busy writing in Obsidian The internet broke again. Cloudflare had a wobble, taking down a massive chunk of the web, and everyone panicked. Unless you were …
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The Best Camera Has A Habit
Lee Peterson on iPhone photography. With an iPhone I have a choice of lenses, it’s blends in more, I have filters I can use in real time and I can edit on the device itself if I want to edit there and then. I completely …