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Joan Westenberg on The Case for Blogging in the Ruins: …we have more information than any civilization in history. But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private profitability. Joan'

Matt Birchler links to a piece from 404 Media about chatbots being terrible doctors: I think there's something to be understood here about the difference between memorizing every bit of information about something, with the ability to deploy that information effectively. This is the bit that gets lost

Joint statement from Google and Apple Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri

Nick Heer writing about a high-profile Apple account lockout: Customers need a level of protection from any corporation with which they are required to have an ongoing relationship. This single high-profile incident should raise alarm bells within Apple about its presumably-automatic account security mechanisms and its support procedures. An Apple

Casey Newton wrote about Australia's new social media ban for under-16s, touching on Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation": The book has been criticized for its lack of empirical data on the central claim that social networks are largely responsible for the mental health crisis

Darren Cohen on moving back to Gmail: Going back to Gmail wasn't about giving up my principles; it was about accepting that interoperability is itself a feature, and right now, Gmail is where most of the tools I care about live. I'm currently using an Android

Salvador Vilalta on the future of AI content: A study by Amazon Web Services estimates that 57% of online content is already generated or translated by artificial intelligence. And the boldest prediction comes from experts such as Nina Schick and Europol: by 2026, up to 90% of content on the

Nick Heer writing about Meta prevailing in the U.S. antitrust case: Meta is now fully an entertainment company There is a lot to dig into regarding the legal ruling, but this single line struck me as the perfect summary of where we are. The facade is gone. Meta isn&

Steph Ango on Mastodon: oops I missed the outage, I was too busy writing in Obsidian The internet broke again. Cloudflare had a wobble, taking down a massive chunk of the web, and everyone panicked. Unless you were working locally. Then you probably didn't even notice until you

Lee Peterson on iPhone photography. With an iPhone I have a choice of lenses, it’s blends in more, I have filters I can use in real time and I can edit on the device itself if I want to edit there and then. I completely agree with this. The