It’s legitimately worrisome that CEO of one of world’s largest social media platforms is unaware that technical specs for this *already exist*, that world’s leading camera-makers (except Apple) have embraced it (+most GenAI vendors), and that Meta is a C2PA signatory, too…

Not confidence inspiring!

Bluesky is an echo chamber of academics and journalists with overabundant leisure time, data point 3857384.

•The word “troubling” doesn’t occur in that highlighted footnote.
•This judge is…an Obama appointee
•H-1B is a non-immigrant visa, which there are longstanding critiques of from the Left

How do you trust someone with world-building that cannot even design a good logo, my god.

Uh-oh

One person who foresaw this - and much earlier than 2014 - was Dave Golumbia. And he saw that the next step was explicit techno-fascist rhetoric.

Cancel your subscriptions.

And predictably zero coverage from BBC - which is doing a segment on “May the Fourth” on their television channel and zero reporting on this on their homepage.

And yet still can’t bring himself to criticize Elon Musk whatsoever.

Still the best I’ve seen

It is completely unsurprising that the default response by Obama Alums (Vietor, Pahlka, Emanuel) a month ago was “directionally right, let’s just steer it!”

@evgenymorozov.bsky.social was right on this, and continues to be right in this.

The thing about Musk is that he’s exceedingly thin-skinned, vain, and insecure. A perfect target for really humiliating art and graffiti. Feels like there’s a real dearth of that - with the only examples I’ve seen coming from outside the US.