Digital Crossroads

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This is the 86th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jeremy Keith and his blog, adactio.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every Friday. Not a fan of...

I cannot overstate what a gem Stefano Marinelli is to the BSD operating system community. He’s kind, clear headed, and curious. He operates several Mastodon instances from the delightfully-named BSD.cafe server, from which I follow a significant number of people, and we’ve DM’d a few times on some h...

The history of this blog might very well be a cautionary tail (sic) about scope creep. The Original Vision For Dhole Moments Originally, I just wanted a place to write about things too long for Twitter (back when I was an avid Twitter poster). I also figured, if nothing else, it would be a good […]

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash I'm reviving my personal blog to share thoughts, stories, and reflections that last—beyond the fleeting nature of social media. Technical posts will stay on IT Notes; everything else finds a home here.

Many moons ago I wrote a primer here for how I used social media, but time has passed and how I use social media has also changed a bit. So I decided it might be useful to have a new and updated Social Media FAQ, detailing who I am, how I use social media, how […]

On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we unpack the trial between Meta and the FTC.

Sorry, EFF doesn't hand out candy like the Easter Bunny, but we are here to keep you updated on the latest digital rights news with our EFFector newsletter! This edition of EFFector explains how you can help us push back against the TAKE IT DOWN Act, an internet censorship law; why we oppose site-bl...

Mark Zuckerberg took the stand for two days during the FTC's antitrust trial against Meta. Here's what we learned.

OpenAI is reportedly planning on making a social media platform because content to train on ain't cheap.

Extending Jonathan Lethem's arguments to the LLM era

There's a hidden market of customers who want to play games on the web.

Since “The Event” in late 2022, I have not been in a full-time role (which I’m privileged to say, has been my first time in that situation). Apart from developing my hobbies and interests into an art practice, I’ve been continuing to do some public speaking, and also freelancing as fractional lead f...

OpenAI working on a social app? From The Verge: Entering the social media market also puts OpenAI on more of a collision course with Meta, which we’re told is planning to add a social feed to its coming standalone app for its AI assistant. When reports of Meta building a rival to the ChatGPT app fir...

OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed. CEO Sam Altman has been privately askin...

tldraw raises $10M, WordPress launches a free AI-powered website builder, how to make decision fatigue a thing of the past, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly.

Here’s a way to combat hate on social media without quashing speech.

I've struggled with focus earlier this year. I felt pulled in all directions, overwhelmed by the world, and generally miserable. I decided to abstain from using social media for a week to see if anything would change. The Joy of Missing Out was so strong that I ended up staying off social media for ...

Neptune is one of the newest short-form video apps on the block seeking to compete with major players like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. The app, currently in beta, has attracted attention from hundreds of thousands of users, with 970 testers participating and 400,000 people on the wa...

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