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jeffjarvis, 9 months ago to random

Mozilla: Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/sign-our-petition-to-stop-france-from-forcing-browsers-like-mozillas-firefox-to-censor-websites/

jeffjarvis, 4 months ago to random

For damned good reason, 1.5 million Germans came out to demonstrate against the far-right AfD. Where are our demonstrations against the far-right GOP in the US? We must stand up in this crisis in democracy as Germans do in theirs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/23/germany-far-right-alternative-for-germany-afd-reckoning-protest-future/

jeffjarvis, 18 days ago to random

Google blew it. They could have stood back and said: "Ha! Microsoft is so desperate for hype, it is irresponsibly linking LLMs to Bing. Google instead stands for reliable search and won't do that." But instead, Google did. They knew better. They all knew better. LLMs have no sense of meaning. They should be nowhere near the expectation of credibility.

jeffjarvis, 8 months ago to random

I wish I could celebrate news of the departure of the single most malign influence in English-speaking democracy, Rupert Murdoch, but I fear Fox will only be worse under son Lachlan & that this is a means to solidify his power before Dad's death.
We have Murdoch to curse for giving us Trump, Brexit, and a right-wing news monopoly in much of Australia. I also blame him for launching media's war against the internet--because he was pissed off he failed so badly online, a story rarely told. 1/

jeffjarvis, 28 days ago to random

Germany now calls the United States the land of forbidden books. Think about that for ten seconds, please.

jeffjarvis, 4 months ago to random

To be feared: 90% of legit news sites are blocking AI reading but right-wing sites are in there. Garbage in, garbage multiplied.

Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them
https://www.wired.com/story/most-news-sites-block-ai-bots-right-wing-media-welcomes-them/

jeffjarvis, 1 year ago to random

Now maybe the WSJ can do a fancy feature on where a Black woman is sent to prison for, say, voting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-prison-where-elizabeth-holmes-could-serve-her-sentence-a4e27ca?mod=hp_lead_pos8

jeffjarvis, 9 months ago to random

Judge upholds Copyright Office: No copyright protection for AI. “Human authorship is a bedrock requirement.” No soup for you, machine.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ai-works-not-copyrightable-studios-1235570316/

jeffjarvis, 9 months ago to random

Burning Man is a festival of narcissism: The privileged who have so much privilege they can give up privilege for a few days and call that self-reliance. It is the paradox of narcissism: self-obsession is not self-awareness.

Yes, it’s OK to laugh at wealthy Burning Man attendees mired in muck | Moira Donegan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/06/burning-man-wealthy-attendees?CMP=share_btn_tw

jeffjarvis, 7 months ago to random

POLLS ARE BULLSHIT. Pollsters are bullshitters. Reporters who report polls report bullshit. The only polls that matter are the ones that come on election day. Anything else preempts democracy.

jeffjarvis, 4 months ago to random

Companies flatter themselves to think they have cultures. It's a job. Amusing here: after being told to return to the office, almost half of Grindr employees swiped and left...
Companies’ hard-line stance on returning to the office is backfiring https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/02/return-to-office-punishments-remote-hybrid-work/

jeffjarvis, 1 year ago to random

CNN gives Trump an event in front of a audience that gives him a standing ovation. Fuck you, CNN.

jeffjarvis, 5 months ago to random

Another ride on the Elon Bullshit Express comes to an end:
Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-21/hyperloop-one-to-shut-down-after-raising-millions-to-reinvent-transit

jeffjarvis, 5 months ago to random

His opener: "I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis." What abrogation of editorial responsibility. Substack's not the whole net. It's a platform where its proprietors choose what to carry. They choose to carry Nazis. Not carrying Nazis is not censorship.

https://substack.com/

jeffjarvis, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

The Post buried this in a little box to the side. No, shout it from the mountaintops. Thanks, Joe...
Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the world’s best recovery
UPDATE: It later became the lead story. Good.
https://wapo.st/4bbV6sC

jeffjarvis, 17 days ago to random

Meta’s new AI council is composed entirely of white men https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/metas-new-ai-council-is-comprised-entirely-of-white-men/

jeffjarvis, 7 months ago to random

They made the black woman resign:
N.Y. Times writer quits over open letter accusing Israel of ‘genocide’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/11/04/nyt-jazmine-hughes-resigns/

jeffjarvis, 5 months ago to random

They are neither religious nor evangelical. They found a euphemism for "white supremacist/nationalist" that reporters buy, every time:
Trump Is Connecting With a Different Type of Evangelical Voter https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/us/politics/donald-trump-evangelicals-iowa.html?smid=tw-share

jeffjarvis, 3 months ago to random

The fucking Times. It follows up yesterday's awful poll with another. That they even asked this question is evidence of the bias--the agenda--in their poll. Who made age an "issue"? The credulous Times falling into the right-wing's projection. This is not journalism. Shameful.

jeffjarvis, 2 months ago to random

Look at this: The Forward takes down its paywall and revenue increases 37%. https://fundjournalism.org/case-studies/beyond-our-wildest-dreams-how-the-forward-removed-its-paywall-and-generated-37-more-revenue/

jeffjarvis, 8 months ago to random

Internet companies attack the open web on multiple fronts: FB/IG, Twitter, now TikTok test paywalls. FB/IG, now Twitter deprecate links, the basis of the web. Thank goodness for Mastodon.

jeffjarvis, 6 months ago to random

OpenAI is the pure bullshit company.
Altman's contention that they are building "artificial superintelligence": Bullshit.
Board members' cult of effective altruism: Bullshit.
Output from the machine: Bullshit.
It's all hallucinations: Pure bullshit.

jeffjarvis, 4 months ago to random

Penguin Random House, after a fiery board meeting, decided to actively challenge book bans in school libraries. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/penguin-random-house-book-ban-publishing-giant-risky-fight-230eb685?st=fhqtk03vo1k2i9t

jeffjarvis, 1 month ago to random

Oh, Lord, Washington Post, It's not "political baggage." It is an attack from the racist right, resulting in a retreat from equity and progress, a retreat made possible by credulous media coverage such as this. Call racism by its name.

jeffjarvis, 11 months ago to random

Prigozhin v. Putin :: DeSantis v. Trump.
There is no one to root for.