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Metaâs Threads is hanging by a thread. Meta bet that threading the political needle and protecting its brand from controversy would help Threads grow safely, but instead it alienated the very users it needed most. Meta sent a clear message from the start: user input came second. The result wanât jus...
Jason Koebler, 404 Media: The best way to think of the slop and spam that generative AI enables is as a brute force attack on the algorithms that control the internet and which govern how a large segment of the public interprets the nature of reality. It is not just that people making AI slop [âŠ]â„ P...
Yours truly back in May 2023, in a thread on Mastodon (at the time, you needed an invitation code to get into Bluesky, and it was just a few months after Muskâs takeover and remaking of what was once Twitter): Bluesky is going to skyrocket to mainstream popularity and actually replace Twitter, and M...
You know how they have walkability scores for different places to live? I live in a place now with a score of zero, you can't do anything without a car. I moved from a place with a score of 100. I didn't even own a car, the Columbus Circle lifestyle couldn't support one. Anyway, I'd like to have soc...
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A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we heading to build this new web together? The post Our Online Homes Need Infastructure appeared first on The History of the Web.
New research from OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization. Will AI companies learn from social networks' mistakes?
ActivityPub is now in public beta for Ghost(Pro), French and German governments launch open source Notion alternative, Butter gets acquired by Miro, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
I've been rewriting the Yakread codebase over the past many months. The first part of that involved a lot of experimenting with different ways to structure the code. I came out of that phase a couple months ago and progress on actually rewriting the app (instead of rewriting one part of it over and ...
Not sure why I didnât think of this earlier, but there is now a simple weekly email newsletter for all the posts on news.micro.blog. You can subscribe here. We post small and big changes throughout the week that are easy to miss.
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This is the 52nd week of this blog's life. It doesn't seem like I've been doing this for almost 365 days, but I have. I think I may have missed a day in there somewhere, but i made up for it the next. In fact, I've posted 377 times since March 28, 2024. It's a good thing I'm not as talkative in real...
This is the 52nd week of this blog's life. It doesn't seem like I've been doing this for almost 365 days, but I have. I think I may have missed a day in there somewhere, but i made up for it the next. In fact, I've posted 377 times since March 28, 2024. It's a good thing I'm not as talkative in real...
Cloudflare has built an 'AI labyrinth' to thwart AI companies training data off their customers' content.
There has been talk about Section 230 being repealed or replaced. The intent of the law was to protect owners of âInteractive Computer Servicesâ (ie websites, especially those that publish...
Iâve been enjoying blogs a lot more, especially as a way of staying connected and up to date with friends, a slew of which have been tagging each other to write up their answers to some blogging questions. Susan tagged me and thus, hereâs my entry. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I st...
A bare bones html only recipes website, built for the first project in The Odin Project's Foundations course. Read on for a brief description of the project and m thoughts on an afternoon in The Odin Project. One of the things that holds me back is role-play... I absolutely despise it. I despised ro...
Eric tagged me into this chain letter of a post. From what I can glean, you are supposed to steal the headings and treat them as questions. Why did you start blogging in the first place? Three key reasons: So I wouldnât have to keep repeating myself; to act asâŠ
I saw recently that YCombinator celebrated its 20th anniversary.
After my treatise on email newsletters last week I was greeted by this AI slop article at the top of my RSS feed Monday morning and it got me thinking about creativity and producing some type of content. Specifically, what is the purpose of the content youâre trying to produce? Is it about money? As...
If you're dodging news media because the alternative is catastrophic doomscrolling... perhaps you ought to be using a feed reader? It's a much healthier way to keep up with the Web.
Anthropic Claude just caught up with a ChatGPT feature from 2023âbut will it be accurate?