LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI
The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal.
In 2023, We Need Our Useless Little Treats More Than Ever
Why would you want to make these hard times even more miserable by eliminating that rush of happiness you get from a bite of chocolate or from watching four episodes of Emily in Paris in one day?
Linkfest #37: "Wind Theft", an HTML Bomb, and the Rice Theory of Culture
Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next Linkfest, in which I comb through the endless branching shelves of the Internet in...
Anyone can generate an app now. You open Cursor, describe what you want, and out comes clean, well-formatted code. It even has comments. It runs, and the...
Dark patterns are tactics websites or apps use to nudge, manipulate or trick you into spending more money than you’d planned or providing personal data that’s not needed.This page describes common dark patterns you will encounter online, so you can identify and avoid them when shopping online.
Recently, “the bitter lesson” is having a moment. Coined in an essay by Rich Sutton, the bitter lesson is that, “general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.” Why is the lesson bitter? Sutton writes:
Hypergraphia: On Prolific Writers and the Persistent Need to Produce
≠≠Up every morning promptly at 7, briefly enjoying breakfast around 8, consistently at his desk no later than 9, and then doggedly writing for five hours until no less than two-thousand words were …
Privacy isn’t dead – in fact, it’s more important and achievable than ever before. While it’s true that technology has enabled new forms of surveillance and data collection,…
How Brands Are Taking Back Social Media From Influencers
Instead of relying on celebrities, brands are controlling the message by making their own social media videos. You may not even realize they’re selling you something.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman celebrates capitalism in July 4 post
"We should encourage people to make tons of money and then also find ways to widely distribute wealth and share the compounding magic of capitalism," he wrote.