Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2024
Thu Jun 27
β˜… Liked https://virtualmoose.org/2024/06/25/indie-game-roundup-june-25-2024/
Wed Jun 26
β˜… Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/release-the-bats/
β˜… Liked https://gusbus.space/smallweb-subway/
β˜… Liked https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/common-future
Tue Jun 25
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/fighting-bots-is-fighting-humans
post from Fighting bots is fighting humans
[Molly White]"I fear that media outlets and other websites, in attempting to "protect" their material from AI scrapers, will go too far in the anti-human direction."I've been struggling with this.I'm not in favor of the 404 Media approach, which is to stick an auth wall in front …
β˜… Liked https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/fighting-bots-is-fighting-humans
post from Fighting bots is fighting humans
One advantage to working on freely-licensed projects for over a decade is that I was forced to grapple with this decision far before mass scraping for AI training.In my personal view, option 1 is almost strictly better. Option 2 is never as simple as "only allow actual human …
β˜… Liked https://buttondown.email/PixelProphecy/archive/the-pixel-prophet-20/
β˜… Liked https://mastodon.social/@mweinberg/112677856516707009
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For the 4th time (+1 on youtube), WMG has targeted an Engelberg Center podcast recording of a "how do music experts analyze songs in copyright infringement lawsuits?" panel with a copyright takedown on Spotify. This is so …
Sun Jun 23
β˜… Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozillas-original-sin/
β˜… Liked https://livelaugh.blog/posts/kissy-lips-wont-delete/
Sat Jun 22
β˜… Liked https://crookedtimber.org/2024/06/20/occasional-paper-fungal-banking/
β˜… Liked https://sarajaksa.eu/projects/indieweb-movies/
β˜… Liked https://sarajaksa.eu/2024/06/do-you-have-any-private-parts-off-your-site/
Sara JakΕ‘a
post from Do you have any private parts off your site?
Me and Benji have recently touched upon the private parts of the websites. The context was the loss of context, if we are only providing our side of the conversation vs. problems of hosting what other people created.
Fri Jun 21
β˜… Liked https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/
Thu Jun 20
β˜… Liked https://gregorlove.com/2024/06/adventures-in-healthcare/
β˜… Liked https://openfuture.eu/publication/the-impact-of-share-alike-copyleft-licensing-on-generative-ai/
β˜… Liked https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochuls-push-to-restrict-masking-on-the-subway-faces-legal-and-public-health-concerns
Wed Jun 19
β˜… Liked https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/bonus-design-emmas-website-easter-egg
β˜… Liked https://www.404media.co/lancaster-drag-queen-story-time/
β˜… Liked https://frontendmasters.com/blog/footnotes-progressively-enhanced-to-popovers/
β˜… Liked https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
Mon Jun 17
β˜… Liked https://dbushell.com/2024/06/17/ai-pollution/
β˜… Liked https://omglol.news/2024/06/16/blocking-bad-bots
β˜… Liked https://omglol.news/2024/05/26/omg-lols-people-principles
Sun Jun 16
β˜… Liked https://themillions.com/2024/06/rise-of-the-ghost-machines.html
post Rise of the Ghost Machines
I was halfway through writing the first draft of a novel about artificial intelligence when I heard that Christie’s planned to auction a portrait produced by AI. This was before DALL-E, before GPT3, before Gemini, Grok, and the latest chatbots. At the time, the idea of an …
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21210
post from The machine stops
Large language models have reaped our words and plundered our books. Bryan Vandyke:
β˜… Liked https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/#fnref1
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-their-user-agent
post from Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent
[Robb Knight]Perplexity AI doesn't use its advertised browser string or IP range to load content from third-party websites:"So they're using headless browsers to scrape content, ignoring robots.txt, and not sending their user agent string. I can't even block their IP ranges …
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/united-airlines-seat-ads-how-to-opt-out-of-targeted
post from United Airlines seat ads: How to opt out of targeted advertising
[Michael Grothaus at FastCompany]"United Airlines announced that it is bringing personalized advertising to the seatback entertainment screens on its flights. The move is aimed at increasing the airline’s revenue by leveraging the data that it has on its passengers."Just another …
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/links/21214
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Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent β€’ Robb Knight