Games
Moderator Mayhem: A Content Moderation Game
This is HARD. Which is the point. #Games [Link]
Narrative over numbers: Andreessen Horowitz's State of Crypto report
“The result of this approach is an incredibly shameless piece of propaganda showing the extents to which Andreessen Horowitz is willing to manipulate facts and outright lie, hoping to turn the sentiment on the crypto industry back to where retail investors were providing substantial pools of liquidity with which they
Why elite dev teams focus on pull-request metrics
“What’s clear from this study is elite development workflows start and end with small pull request (PR) sizes. This is the best indicator of simpler merges, enhanced CI/CD, and faster cycle times. In short, PR size affects all other metrics.” #Technology [Link]
See the Neighborhoods Internet Providers Excluded from Fast Internet
“A Markup analysis revealed that the worst internet deals disproportionately fell upon the poorest, most racial and ethnically diverse, and historically redlined neighborhoods in all but two of the 38 cities in our investigation.” #Technology [Link]
Finding time to write
I’m learning that I cannot write at night. Many writers do their best work once everyone else has gone to bed when the house is quiet; I, on the other hand, am a ragged, sorry mess. This is a bit of a turnaround for me: I wrote the first
How people are archiving the storytelling and community behind Black Twitter
“They see an urgency to preserving Black Twitter in a world in which Black history and Black women’s cultural labor are undervalued or unacknowledged — and where the future of Twitter seems unknown. They also want to document the racist and sexist abuse that Black women on the platform received,
AI and privacy
A quick reminder: if your favorite service has added generative AI to its core functionality, that means it’s almost certainly also added sending your data to an AI service. Depending on which service that is, that may include sending your data across borders and adding personal information to a
Google AMP: how Google tried to fix the web by taking it over
“In 2015, Google hatched a plan to save the mobile web by effectively taking it over. And for a while, the media industry had practically no choice but to play along.” #Technology [Link]
OpenAI's ChatGPT Powered by Human Contractors Paid $15 Per Hour
“OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, has been paying droves of U.S. contractors to assist it with the necessary task of data labelling—the process of training ChatGPT’s software to better respond to user requests. The compensation for this pivotal task? A scintillating $15 per hour.” #AI [Link]
Schools Spend Millions on Evolv's Flawed AI Gun Detection
“As school shootings proliferate across the country — there were 46 school shootings in 2022, more than in any year since at least 1999 — educators are increasingly turning to dodgy vendors who market misleading and ineffective technology.” #AI [Link]
It’s Time to Acknowledge Big Tech Was Always at Odds with Journalism
“Do we want to preserve the dominance of companies that like to act as if they are neutral communications platforms, when they also act as publishers without the responsibilities that come with that? Do we want digital behemoths to accumulate so much power that they can exploit personal data in
Hustle culture is over-rated
“When hustle culture is glorified, it incentivizes people to work longer hours, not because it’s a good way to get the work done, but because they want to be perceived as working long hours.” #Business [Link]