May 17, 2023
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How singing has changed over the centuries
“Modern singing – whether on the charts or Eurovision – is radically different to the kind familiar to our ancestors. There was hysteria in the air at 81st…”
May 12, 2023
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The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small | Defector
“Because my brain was infested with worms at a very early age, I value continuity of username across platforms more than my own sanity. I have used the same…”
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Why Chatbots Are Not the Future of Interfaces
“Why Chatbots Are Not the Future Last night, over wine and seafood, the inevitable happened… Someone mentioned ChatGPT. I had no choice but to start into an…”
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“Blue skies over Mastodon In the early 80s, my mom worked a couple shifts a month at a little small-town food co-op that smelled like nutritional mummy. She…”
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‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
“Dr. Geoffrey Hinton is leaving Google so that he can freely share his concern that artificial intelligence could cause the world serious harm. Credit… Chloe…”
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Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build
“I met Geoffrey Hinton at his house on a pretty street in north London just four days before the bombshell announcement that he is quitting Google. Hinton is a…”
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“Contributed by XYZ Type on May 11th, 2023. Artwork published in April 2023 . 5 Source: scottboms.com Scott Boms . License: All Rights Reserved . Scott Boms…”
May 10, 2023
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Those scary warnings of juice jacking in airports and hotels? They’re nonsense
“The hidden OTG adaptor allows the O.MG Cable to inject keystrokes into Android and Apple devices equipped with USB-C connectors with no user interaction…”
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The radical reinvention of the English language
“Over the past century, each generation has generated its own slang . During the 1920s, catchphrases included “23-skidoo,” “the cat’s pajamas,” “hotsy-totsy,”…”
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Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
“The text below is a very recent leaked document, which was shared by an anonymous individual on a public Discord server who has granted permission for its…”
May 9, 2023
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On Social Media Nazi Bars, Tradeoffs, And The Impossibility Of Content Moderation At Scale
“Content Moderation from the decentralizing-the-nazi-bar-problem dept Thu, May 4th 2023 09:34am – A few weeks ago I wrote about an interview that Substack CEO…”
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AI-written content isn’t the web’s future. It’s already here.
“Chris Cowell, a Portland-based software developer, spent more than a year writing a technical how-to book. Three weeks before it was released, another book on…”
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Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
“When we talk about artificial intelligence, we rely on metaphor, as we always do when dealing with something new and unfamiliar. Metaphors are, by their nature,…”
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“King George III, as played by Rory O’Malley in “Hamilton” the Musical on Broadway. (Photo by Joan Marcus) Let’s be honest. The British Monarchy is a very weird…”
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Pamela Paul, Cancel Culture Grifters, and the Republic of Letters
“I am so tired of this grift . It’s 2023. States are banning books. In Florida, they are dismantling a reputable Liberal Arts College , denying tenure cases of…”
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“As generative artificial intelligence continues to permeate all aspects of culture, the people who steward Wikipedia are divided on how best to proceed. During…”
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Bluesky, AT Protocol, and the exciting possibilities of URLs as usernames
“07 May 2023 I’ve been posting for a few weeks now on bluesky , a new social network built on new technology called the AT Protocol . Everything about that…”
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What happens when Google Search doesn’t have the answers?
“Google turns 25 this year. Can you imagine? It’s only 25 — yet it’s almost impossible to recall life without being able to just Google it, without immediate…”
April 30, 2023
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The Internet Thinks We Don’t Know Its Secret. But I Do.
“ou Lou Ann Dagen died in April 2020 in a Grand Rapids, Michigan, hospital, without her family. She had lived in a nursing home for 10 years, and communicated…”
April 29, 2023
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Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options
“Copyright from the the-decentralized-world dept Fri, Apr 28th 2023 11:59am – Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of…”
April 25, 2023
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Nobody knows how many jobs will “be automated”
“Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash Good news: Substack links are working on Twitter again, so you can share this post to your heart’s content! One…”
April 23, 2023
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Thoughts on AI safety in this era of increasingly powerful open-source LLMs
“This morning, VentureBeat published a story by Sharon Goldman: With a wave of new LLMs, open source AI is having a moment — and a red-hot debate . It covers the…”
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[email protected] – Extracting Words Sung on 100 year-old 78rpm records – Internet Archive Blogs
“A post in the series about how the Internet Archive is using AI to help build the library. Freely available Artificial Intelligence tools are now able to…”
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“This interview was first published in April 13th’s edition of Command Line , my weekly newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation. You can…”
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Can ActivityPub save the internet?
“The hottest new thing in social isn’t vertical video, and it’s not AI-driven algorithmic feeds. Instead, it’s a little-known, years-old protocol called…”
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Bluesky Plans Decentralized Composable Moderation
“Content Moderation from the power-to-the-people dept Thu, Apr 20th 2023 03:30pm – We just wrote about Substack’s issue with content moderation and the Nazi bar…”
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“They’re all here waiting. Anxiously swaying on the Sabbath. Impatiently jostling for better sight lines. Blinking with the neuroses that begin to take root when…”
April 16, 2023
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“Rams Palette. – Present & Correct We are open at 23 Arlington Way, London EC1R 1UY Colours taken from Dieter Rams legendary product collection for Braun. Made…”
April 12, 2023
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How Many New Songs Are Released Each Day?
“Can you have too many songs? That seems like a nice problem to have, until you start looking at the implications. They’re scary—both for musicians and fans.…”
April 10, 2023
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Our big problem is not misinformation; it’s knowingness | Psyche Ideas
“For the better part of a decade, scholars and writers across the globe have lamented the growing prevalence of misinformation, conspiracism , ideology, mistrust…”