I recall seeing a thread with trustworthy tech newspapers that were worth subscribing to.
Anyone know which thread I may be referring to?
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And if they refuse to offer an RSS use Kill-the-Newsletter to make an RSS feed from the email. 🤓
axbom.com/newsletter-r...
Rowenna speaks the truth.
@missiggeek.bsky.social: Better yet, post the RSS link and let people decide for themselves how to route incoming content…. Email is Satan’s more successful work IMO 😋
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If you're reading about Iceland's biometric abuse, it's not the country - it's the British supermarket chain.
newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com/740/740abc92...
I click on a link to a Medium article and am met with two modals telling me how distraction-free their reading experience is. 🤦
My wish is for more writers to leave Medium and write their own blogs, that are truly distraction-free.
If you offer newsletters as part of a broader service, don't just make it a checkbox. I don't want your newsletter anywhere near my regular inbox.
Give me an input field for a separate email address.
#DigitalCompassion
The launch of yet another bot, putting machine regurgitation ahead of human connection, made me rather sad. This time it was too close to a place of care.
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That is a good starting point. Thanks Alastair!
I’ve underestimated how much people want – nay, need – to believe the nonsensical.
If a person appears to be more productive using an automated tool, but psychologically feels worse and is more downhearted, what has the world gained?
What studies are looking at human wellbeing rather than corporate wellbeing?
«Therapy is high-stakes, […] harm can come to a patient through a chatbot’s “misdiagnosis or failing to catch suicidal ideation. Unfortunately, this is precisely the behavior we found in various commercially-available therapy bots used by millions.”»
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
One of ChatGPT's popular uses just got skewered by Stanford researchers
Newton describes this as if he makes quite a number of factual errors. Go figure.
@kvanaren.bsky.social: am i having a stroke
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When topics of discourse prove difficult to approach, stories can help us on our way. This famed short story about a graceful city with an unexpected abberation helps me reflect on where I want to apply my capacity for writing, sketching and teaching.
axbom.com/omelas/
#DigitalEthics
2010s: "Haha, autocomplete is so bad. It can create some serious miscommunication."
2020s: "Damn I have an important life decision to make. My best option is probably to ask autocomplete."
Design for universal wellbeing.
Why I avoid the term human-centric and what I mean by universal wellbeing.
axbom.com/design-for-u...
Regarding the idea that human brains are just probability distribution machines ("The Bayesian Brain"): rahnevlab.gatech.edu/documents/pa...
https://rahnevlab.gatech.edu/documents/papers/Rahnev(2019)BBS.pdf
Thank you for this breath of fresh air, Allison. For a moment I feel like the world is making sense again – media seeing the grifters for what they are, asking the relevant questions.
@amorrow.bsky.social: If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality... www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...
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