Q&A with Marc Andreessen on his political evolution from a “normie Democrat” to a Donald Trump supporter, and what he and others expect from the administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o... Jan-Werner Mueller / @jwmueller-pu : “The E.U. is, as you know, regulating itself to death. And they're damaging themselves mostly, but what they're also doing is dama...
A look at Mastodon's “antiviral” design and culture, where users push back at features and behaviors that promote virality, and embrace things that add friction
for some—much better than twitter (though not for everyone) On anti-viral design https://uxdesign.cc/... Julia / @thalassa_14 : About the antiviral design of Mastodon. Tbh I'm really looking forward t...
A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets
On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site's most bizarre pages. Tweets: @nytimes , @raju , @pomeranian99 , @macmccanntx , @joshuatopolsky , @markyarm , @yaso , a...
Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level
we just don't use the ‘S’ word around here.” 🤦🏿♂ ️ https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @dhh : Holy fuck. The word dystopian is not nearly strong enough to describe the fresh hell...
A GPT-3 AI bot posing as a human went seemingly undetected for a week on r/AskReddit, answering one question per minute on various topics including suicide
it didn't end well Tweets: Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick : This is great https://twitter.com/... Clive Thompson / @pomeranian99 : A bot based on GPT-3 was answering questions on Reddit for a week, and ...
How extremists exploit tech's respect of “free speech” and media's bias to cover “both sides” to amplify fringe messages and get into mainstream conversation
This is a crib of a talk that Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave at the Online News Association conference … Tweets: @zephoria , @peteforsyth , @fabiochiusi , @marklittlenews , @anne...
Buggy, obsolete, costly electronic voting machines often cause more problems than they solve
Bloomberg : Tweets: @hoofnagle , @pomeranian99 and @mkyeg Tweets: Chris Hoofnagle / @hoofnagle : Thanks to revolution in voting technology, “Election officials now have more ways than ever to screw u...