I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Homeland Security is seeking to gain access to a trove of federal information on child support payments but could potentially be used for immigration enforcement purposes. https://cnn.it/40YZGGB
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This is a fascinating conversation with the reporter who knows the most about Roblox, an often misunderstood platform that is so much more significant than many think
Watch, subscribe here for conversations like this every week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP6h...
A couple of young, viral developers are making $500,000 a month with ‘Quittr’; an app to help people with porn addiction. Insane money, living in a mansion, etc. We found they exposed the masturbation habits of 100,000s of users, then lied about fixing it www.404media.co/viral-quittr...
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“ChatGPT had convinced him that all of this was so obviously true... I felt like I was talking to a cult member.” With more and more people relying on chatbots, @samleecole.bsky.social asks experts how we can help someone experiencing "AI psychosis."
Read now: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...
With GDC only a few days away, I added @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant gaming union zine/explainer to archive.org. The previous host for the PDF added a monthly subscription.
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LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.
Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.
New: Despite an unexpected and significant dip in hiring last month — and other signs of economic strain, including an uptick in gas prices due to the war with Iran — the White House continues to insist the economy is fine and any setbacks are temporary
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/b...
A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI
aftermath.site/gameshub-click...
An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.
www.404media.co/man-opposing...
The Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is “not a huge fan of being *against* someone,” he said. The Republican candidate “Ken Paxton is a symptom, not the disease, and so is Donald Trump—they are the products of a broken system.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ZlEeYb
Supreme Court rules that Trump's sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal https://cnn.it/3MUK2Zs
i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)
“Email correspondence obtained by ProPublica shows that government officials were alerted to the presence of PFAS in pants used by wildland firefighters as early as 2021.”
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The mass layoffs at the Washington Post feel worse than the ones made during 2020, especially after the ones at NBC News, CBS, and the WSJ. So many smart and experienced people will leave the industry forever.
in interesting tech news, discord (the messaging platform) is looking to require facial recognition via ID or face scan from users starting next month. this is only about four months after a major break of user data.
from @theverge.com www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
i love it when NYT connections is something outlandish like symbols or emojis or just 2 letters, it's like an extra spin
democracy is getting snuffed out
these washington post layoffs are crazy. i posted about it on twitter because my TL there is full of incredible reporters who've lost their jobs, but i do prefer bluesky these days. but wapo's tagline being "democracy dies in darkness" is too ironic most days lately — most of all today
not from what i saw, no
i missed a few updates in this thread, but you can catch the rest here! sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-...
the group marched across the street, right in front of the convention center and super bowl opening night line
the message is clear, "ICE out of the Bay."
i'm a bit behind on this thread — we've heard speeches from Ortiz, Councilmember Pamela Campos, Silicon Valley NAACP President Sean Allen, Rapid Response Network steering committee member Rebecca Armendariz, among a handful of additional organizers and officials.
there are a few folks outside the convention center setting up for super bowl 60's opening night. right across the street is about 100 people
