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I’m posting from micro.blog and pushing out, but it suggests href might work. Benefits of open protocol.
A gift link from The Atlantic, a reporter is given $10k to spend on emerging betting markets and reports on what he found. Spoiler: it’s dark!
Lean In girlbosses out, burned out babes in.
Interesting read: NYT is using a custom LLM tool to track trends within the “manosphere,” as reported by the Nieman Journalism Lab.
A friend of the blog told me a story about a Substacker who uses AI to summarize books and then publishes AI-generated content about those summaries, never reading the books herself, and yet has a ton of followers. I’d guess at l... https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/03/11/a-friend-of-the-blog.html
Anecdotally hearing about LLMs being weaponized in divorce and custody, including inundating the other party with slop to drive up the opponent’s legal fees. Worse, the sycophancy is tuned to and confirms the aggrieved party’s grievances, regardless of their real-world relevance in court.
Brooke Warner grapples with the implications around authorship and ownership in relation to AI writing, and how it’s showing up in the small publishing business.
NYT on the trend of “Luddite teens.” I have a growing suspicion that various neo-Luddist trends will largely map to class identity. In some areas of the world, in some areas of the US, Facebook is the internet, yellow pages and water cooler, and the internet experience is entirely mediated by apps.
From 2021, notes on supply chains and chip shortages in a global economy.
Twitter on a vape, the great e-waste crisis.
A good essay on writing and communication in this time. Ultimately the pickle of AI writing is that meaning is something best made through collaboration.
Forgive me, but I’d like to propose we call this a “sloppelganger.”
Excited about Inkwell, a contempotary treatment of the classic RSS reader.
Doing numbers on Twitter/X this week: this paper tested 70+ LLMs on open-ended prompts and found they all produce strikingly similar outputs. Worse, the systems used to improve models actively penalize diversity, reinforcing the convergence.
I need someone to talk me into/out of the new Macbook Neo. Is this just a Chromebook for design people?
I nailed McCarthy and Bishop and bungled the rest.
Through a new quiz, NYT asks readers to rate passages of writing against AI. Despite thinking I could spot the AI writing, my results were 50/50.
Telling the gods: I would love a micro.blog plugin that provides an easy way to bulk-manage post categories. If there is one, lmk.
Come look over my shoulder while I explore how and whether LLMs are good writing tools: Here’s a wee version of the LLM comparison exercise I did with my team. We’ll make it a two-fer so you can see how the “good writing” s... https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/03/08/come-look-over-my-shoulder.html
Winer on Doctorow on RSS.
A note on Ezra Klein: I’ve been looking across the NYT’s breathless reporting on the AI industry and seeing very few women represented across the commentary. Klein’s tech coverage tends to center a fairly narrow circuit of source... https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/03/07/a-note-on-ezra-klein.html
Finished reading: Life in Code by Ellen Ullman 📚
Thinking more about arXiv and public-facing publishing: Back in the day, my mentor was among the first on campus to successfully argue that public-facing publishing should count toward tenure, as service and outreach at ... https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/03/07/thinking-more-about-arxiv-and.html
Do you have what it takes to be the next McDonald’s CEO? A quiz about this week’s funniest business story.
Some notes on arXiv: arXiv is a preprint server hosted and maintained by Cornell University, where researchers post their work to establish priority and get it in front of other researchers quickly. This kind of server is co... https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/03/06/some-notes-on-arxiv-arxiv.html
First you must be pure of heart.
