If the Pentagon Papers came out today, 100% Meta, Google, and X would censor it.
Just a week after both Meta & Google promised Senators that they would never block a potentially embarrassing story related to a candidate for national office, both companies did just that. Apparently the promise only applied to embarrassing info on GOP candidates. www.techdirt.com/2024/09/30/b...
It probably will not shock you to find out that big tech’s promises to never again suppress embarrassing leaked content about a political figure came with a catch. Apparently, it only applies when …
Just going by the title — is this another entry into @rsbenedict.bsky.social’s beautiful/not-horny canon?
Rabbits with Eyeliner: Gender and Prosocial Education in LEGO Sets by @gwenckatz.bsky.socialwww.typebarmagazine.com/2024/08/29/r...
thinking about how the male loneliness epidemic of late is most likely a direct result of an entire generation of men being socialised in their formative teens and twenties by playing online video games where their only form of communication is engaging in casual cruelty and swapping slurs
Here's a new piece from ex-Copyright Office GC Jacqueline Charlesworth that generative AI proponents will hate, laying out a straightforward case for courts to rule against fair use for LLM training. Not a prediction or agreement, but I'd be unsurprised if the Second Circuit adopted ~this reasoning.
The TDSB cancelled my child's field trip to an Indigenous led, government sponsored event marking the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation & I am furious. The idea that honouring residential school survivors is too 'political' tells you all you need to know about the state of 'reconciliation'
the post-modernism of a wrestler’s entrance theme simply being ambient noise
this is a town of less than 60,000 people! these rumors are extremely easy to confirm, or disconfirm. there are probably like five grocery stores. fucking insanity.
With each new flavour of orange-shaped chocolate that isn't orange flavoured, Terry's strays further from the eyes of god
One of my jokes about Twitter was that Twitter was the only place where it was normal to be furiously angry at the mayor of a city you don’t live in or even have ever been to. I’m glad Bluesky has taken that mantle up.