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What Was the First Thing You Asked ChatGPT?
Stuart A. Thompsonm Tiffany Hsu, and Steven Lee Myers: As Chatbots Spread, Conservatives Dream About a Right-Wing Response
The program has, for instance, written an ode to President Biden, but it has declined to write a similar poem about former President Donald J. Trump, citing a desire for neutrality. ChatGPT also told one user
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Liberal Use of the Exploding Head Emoji Over Nothing
John Gruber: It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes
Now come this: a Twitter thread from John Meyer, who trained a clone of Jobs’s voice and then hooked it up to ChatGPT to generate the words. The clips he posted to Twitter are freakishly uncanny. It really sounds like Jobs. The only hitch is
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The Venture Capitalist's Dilemma
Molly White: The Venture Capitalist's Dilemma
We have found ourselves in a scenario where the investor class has, yet again, managed to privatize profits and socialize losses. While many of these powerful, wealthy, and connected individuals have pushed for policies that would scale back government and regulators, promoted cryptocurrencies they believe to be
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Off to Register Myself with the Florida Government
Jacob Ogles: Bloggers Having to Register With the State if They Want to Criticize the State.
The bill then requires reporting with the state “if a blogger posts to a blog about an elected state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation for that post.” Registration is required within five days of any blog mentioning
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More Asterisks Than Expected
Zoë Schiffer: How Twitter keeps competitors off its For You page
Shadow-banning corporate accounts of competitors is more unusual – but consistent with Elon Musk’s ill-fated decision to ban people from posting links to their Mastodon accounts in December, which he quickly rolled back.
Free speech absolutism sure comes with more asterisks than
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The Toothpaste is Out of the Tube
Isaiah Colbert: That ‘AI-Generated’ Anime Is a Slap in the Face to Pro Animators
Unlike the breathtaking Dragon Ball Z fan film, Dragon Ball: Legends—which took the indie studio Studio Stray Dog four years to make—Corridor Digital’s attempt at recreating the passion and energy displayed in early-aughts anime comes off
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The Oddest A.I. Opinion I’ve Read so Far
Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, and Karen Weise: How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race
The excitement around chatbots illustrates how Siri, Alexa and other voice assistants — which once elicited similar enthusiasm — have squandered their lead in the A.I. race.
This is a very odd article, and this specific paragraph
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My Year Of Dicks Should Have Won Best Animated Short
Dan Kois: That Oscar Absolutely Should Have Gone to My Year of Dicks
I’m here to tell you that yes, it is too bad My Year of Dicks didn’t win. And while even the most diehard cinema fans don’t usually spend a lot of time talking about the shorts categories at the
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From Stereotype to a New Kind of Hero
Walter Chaw: It Took Me Nearly 40 Years to Stop Resenting Ke Huy Quan
I carried resentment of these characters with me into adulthood. They amplified my feelings of otherness. I grew up wanting to be Luke Skywalker in a culture that could only see Asian men as sexless sidekicks or (also sexless) kung fu
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I Use Mastodon Like I Use RSS
Eric M.: Single-User Mastodon Instance Is a Bad Idea
If you're thinking about setting up your own single-user Mastodon instance for similar reasons, I urge you not to do it. The user experience is so broken that it's baffling that anyone would find it acceptable.
Everything the author points
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Tucker in the Group Chat vs Tucker on TV
Aaron Blake: 4 Takeaways From the New Dominion-Fox Lawsuit Documents
[Tucker] Carlson responded: “All of them fail. What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. It’s so obvious.”
And:
Two days before Jan. 6, Carlson
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WTF Was that Google Event?
Benj Edwards: In Paris Demo, Google Scrambles to Counter ChatGPT but Ends Up Embarrassing Itself
On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference from Paris that did not deliver the decisive move against ChatGPT and the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that many pundits expected. Instead, Google ran through a collection of previously announced technologies in
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When You Won't Admit Your Heart Sings
Barbara Krasnoff: Where Are the Good Android Apps for Mastodon?
Currently, the one that’s recommended most often seems to be Tusky, but I’ve tried that, and while it looks like a decent app, it just doesn’t do it for me. There are several others out there, some still in development, so I’
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My Attempt to Explain Federation (and why most people should use a large Mastodon server)
Masto.host: RE: Mastodon Media Storage
When you or another user in your server follows a remote user, from that moment on, all new posts from that remote user start to federate with your server. By federate, you can think of a copy of those posts are stored in the database.
I'm using
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1Password Thinks One Password is One Too Many
Steve Won writing for 1Password: Goodbye, Passwords
So we’re incredibly excited to announce that, starting this summer, you’ll have the option to create and unlock your 1Password account using only a passkey! No passwords required.
I'm very encouraged by 1Password's constant leaning into the future of authentication. They could
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Feedbin Has No Idea What to Do With Twitter
Ben Ubois on the Feedbin blog: The Plan for Twitter
A lot of customers have asked about the future of Twitter support in Feedbin. Even with today’s update there’s still not enough information to make a decision.
The API was supposed to change yesterday and Feedbin posted this today saying they have no
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Why I Use Sonos for my Home Theater
This video cropped up in my feeds this week, and it's quite good!
As someone who moved from two HomePods paired to my TV with eARC over to a Sonos setup about a year ago, I was obviously intrigued. His conclusion is that two new HomePods sound better and are more affordable than
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Artifact is Cool, but It Isn't TikTok for Text
Casey Newton: Instagram's Co-Founders Are Mounting a Comeback
The simplest way to understand Artifact is as a
