I usually don't link to FastCo on principle, but this piece is a worthwhile exception (and I recognize the writer's name--also writes for LeadDev)
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I usually don't link to FastCo on principle, but this piece is a worthwhile exception (and I recognize the writer's name--also writes for LeadDev)
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
When I give talks about the exploitation of GLAM by the AI industry I’m always asked “how can we defend ourselves from bots scraping our metadata?” I have no idea. That’s a question for an engineer. What I can and do say is that we shouldn’t be supporting this industry in the first place.
When AI not only deletes without confirming (cf. Replit) but installs more AI, because OpenClaw "is designed to take the initiative on your behalf based on what it knows about your life and its understanding of what you want done," and then ... shares the keys
krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/how-...
When Duolingo let me down, I went back to the old ways: aftermath.site/duolingo-ai-la...
What's so viscerally upsetting about this is that making up words and attributing them to real writers, alive or not, is essentially making and selling deepfakes of the writers. It's incredibly violating.
Mystery Solved! Turns out it is "Webinar.tv" whose disgusting and unethical business model is: register for a zoom call under a fake name and email address, record it without consent and put it on a public website with genAI summary and everyone's names and faces and then charge for access. WTAF.
If a tester of a new website (gratis) would be helpful at some future point, feel free to ping. Their current site is indistinguishable on the front end from what I remember of their initial web presence, 1990s
Ah, nice! And thank you for helping them make a new website--that would be a fine thing
p.s. I don't want one particularly--only intrigued by variants
Is this similar to or distinct from their LF11? (Something in my brain got pinged by the idea of physical loom variants, clearly)
How cool! Where did you obtain/find a cardboard one? Kliot is lacis.com, and various sellers show an oak version
_Hyperion_ (which I taught to undergrads) was the last good thing, I think. See also www.npr.org/2011/07/28/1... and perhaps (grain/salt) www.reddit.com/r/behindtheb...
Education isn’t busy work, just like lifting weights in the gym isn’t about getting weights from point A to point B. Education is about making you a better, more thoughtful human being who appreciates people, beauty, and science.
None of these guys have ever appreciated anything but money.
Neigh
(see thread)
Is it possible to reuse filament? (Real q--I've no clue)
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
@charity.wtf on taking a step back to consider systems and people's legacy decisions, not only software observability: charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/first-i-wr...
Some leaders' earnest embrace of AI is clearer to me now, in that they _used_ to be technical (and are now insecure/hiding)
When brands (I mean TikTok) are run by machines, comma,
Alpha School is also keeping video recordings of students in an a Google Drive anyone with the link can access. www.404media.co/students-are...
I haven't watched the show but am enjoying some of the discourse that's emerged around it
As someone who was glad to work in an archive for some years, I think "What if it doesn't belong in a museum" is a question we should (nonetheless) ask more often
I wrote up the talk I gave at CESTA a couple weeks ago, on how we're overdue on changing the narrative about what digital humanities prepares students for. It's not fallback jobs in tech, it's getting involved in your community in moments of crisis. And craft helps build those skills. #DHmakes
Photo of a clay cuneiform tablet with a crack down the centre shown from front and sides
Drawing of a cuneiform tablet that is arranged in a table.
The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name.
The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”.
It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving
IN THE KINGDOM OF MICE AND ANTS n winter, wind whips through the Virginia mountains where I live, whistling past my house, leaving the trees trembling. Many mornings: thick fog, rain. Sometimes: snow. Other days, sun warms the south-facing slope. On all but the coldest, wettest, snowiest, or windiest days, I am out, hunkered in the field, hands half-frozen, looking for food. To forage in winter is to occupy the mind of a creature very different from myself. It is to become as small as a rabbit or a mouse. To see like an ant or a bird or a bee. To put my face on the ground, right next to things that are able to grow in the cold: bitter cress, pennycress, dock, sheep sorrel, upland cress, and chickweed. Most so tiny that I might pick one hundred pennycresses and clip one hundred chickweed leaf rosettes to make a salad for dinner. To forage in winter is to move slowly, slowly, harvesting many things from one square yard of earth. I look for what I want among the mosaic of grasses, leaves, rocks, and inedible weeds. I think of the mouse nests in the tall grass bowing groundward. "What are you doing out there, digging around?" the nosy neighbor from up the hill asked me at a Christmas party
J.D. Ho, photographed in plaid and jeans on a log laying over a river
Read the opening page of Backyard Alchemy by J.D. Ho (and the opening essay on the book’s page!): riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor... 📚💙🎉
If people don't love it enough e.g. to add ep summaries on Wikipedia, it's tough to get more people interested, given that the studio's scheduling decision seems backed by falling ratings, not whim or scandal. Good luck (truly)
Job openings rate just reached its lowest level since spring 2020.
Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. 7um Jing FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35 There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Timeline cleanse
