He Leaps for the Stars, He Leaps for the Stars by Grace Chan
I really enjoyed this short story in Clarkesworld about personas, fame, machine learning, and escape.
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The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess
"I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."
Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows
It's wild to me how many people are still engaging with X.
‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’
As more people look to AI to learn about the world, the people who control how it's trained and how it responds will control our prevailing narratives. That's wildly dangerous.
Family zoning actually means something cool
Forget San Francisco - I wish every single US city would do this. We're too car-dependent, too isolated, too unhealthy. (Honestly, European mixed-use development should be the model.)