This is the first in a series of posts (cross-posted at Medium).Dear journalists: This is your moment.It’s your opportunity, maybe your final one, to stand proudly for reality and democracy, for freedom of expression, for human rights. To stand up as journalism’s best — think Ida …
I accepted an offer for a permanent job in one of the most prestigious British institutes. To get there, I had to first understand I'm not cut for the web industry anymore.
The Dark Forest idea comes from the Remembrance of Earth’s Past books by Liu Cixin. It’s an elegant but dispiriting solution to the Fermi paradox. Maggie sums it up:
Let’s assume for a minute that the New York Times’ months-long and now frantic campaign to remove Biden from the Democratic ticket is based on a sincere desire to keep Trump from getting back into the White House. (I don’t assume this, given the Times’ incessant normalization of …
[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 …
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 …
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 …
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