Here's the piece if you want more than theTL;DR version above! www.ft.com/content/e2dd...

For folks in the St. Pete / Tampa area, come to @poynterinstitute.bsky.social in May to drink and talk with us about truth on the internet www.poynter.org/event/the-fu...

The great Katherine Boo: “Wean yourself off of the tit of your own ego" niemanstoryboard.org/2017/07/25/k...

Betteridge’s Law applies here.

OpenAI partners w/ MIT Media Lab on studies of chatbot use and loneliness.

Happy to share the second in a series of articles I'm doing on psychedelics in America. This one is a bit more of a cautionary (but still supportive) tale.

jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/the-coming...

"Roger Ebert once said “The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before.” and the booing is people coming back to realizing this simple fact. You are not creative and then create something, you become creative by working on something, creativity is a byproduct of work." - @tante.cc

tonight i wrote about soviet cartoons: buttondown.email/theswordandt...

I'm seeing takes on this, such as, 'Why don't we make our own twitter?' I will offer my theory; if Black people disengaged and refused to operate in spaces that have been or have become hostile to us, there would simply be nowhere for us to go.

1. Meta hires 15,000 content moderators for Facebook and Instagram. TikTok has 40,000.

2. It says a lot that all the bad press around hate speech, child sexual abuse, and gore on X elicited no such response.

3. This is proof that Community Notes couldn’t replace moderation.

thing about all this ai hardware is it necessarily has to have an umbilical that phones every thing you do back to the mothership, like consumer ai is fundamentally incommensurable with privacy. here's another: www.wired.com/story/humane...

This interviews not a single user of color even though the moderation issues on Bluesky were almost entirely concentrated on anti pOC and specifically anti Black racism

" we are a really small team"

is not an acceptable answer to

" we actually laughed and mocked our targeted users" for a year

“Luka has been developing a version of Tomo that works on Apple's new Vision Pro headset. The immersive aspect, Kuyda [the company’s founder] says, makes it a good match for the wellness features Tomo offers — whereas ‘when you are just on your phone, it is very easy to get distracted.’”

"Unlike any other TV in your life, the Vision Pro can DRM your eyes. ... It is strange to think of living in a reality where big companies can block you from capturing what you see" www.theverge.com/24054862/app...

Hey folks, my newest project just got released! I co-wrote and directed this short film that is a ‘book trailer’ for ASU’s new ‘Climate Action Almanac’ - a book of fiction and essays looking to the future. Really proud of our work and would love if you checked it out. 🎬🌍✨

youtu.be/tSAygjVnuT4

We must tear down the internet's compulsory-reaction culture: "Reactions became so prevalent they devolved into another kind of reply. The replacement for the noise became the noise ... so obligatory and profuse that they only slow us down" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... @ibogost.bsky.social

The final curtsy from sir Paul: the last song in Beatles anthology is officially written and sung by John 💔

music.apple.com/kz/album/lov...

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Welcome to hell.