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Look, I get that publications are hurting for revenue and AI companies are handing out cash but you're not *just* providing access to written and human-generated output — you're giving up goodwill.
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I wasted around 300 words over the last day in back-and-forths discussions on the Fediverse about the ramifications of "voting blue no matter who", the ideology that voting for Democrats with no means of accountability for their failures, aggressive amnesia and weak …
I don’t think it’s possible to morally support the ongoing bombardment of Gaza, but that’s too weak a statement. What’s happening there seems to be — based on what I’ve read through the news, what I’ve seen in video, the stories that have been sent back to us — an atrocity. The …
If I was a nefarious software company, here’s how I might be thinking:AI functionality tends to require that data is sent to a centralized service for processing.This is often data that is not being shared online in any other way that is easily available for analysis: existential …
I’ve been mulling over Tracy’s “Webbing” the IndieWeb for a couple of days now, and the more I think about it, the more I find myself nodding along, especially around readers being just as important as writers to the “success” (however we want to define that… more on this later) …
