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The Trump administration is explicitly targeting libraries, museums, and the press in the latest executive order.

Also going after services for the homeless, minority businesses, and community development.

BlueSky’s “user intents” is a good proposal, and it’s weird to see some people flaming them for it as though this is equivalent to them welcoming in AI scraping (rather than trying to add a consent signal to allow users to communicate preferences for the scraping that is already happening).

I think the weakness with this and Creative Commons’ similar proposal for “preference signals” is that they rely on scrapers to respect these signals out of some desire to be good actors. We’ve already seen some of these companies blow right past robots.txt or pirate material to scrape.

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"

Perhaps someone should rescue her from where she's apparently stuck twenty years in the past, which is the only possible explanation for those hardware limitations and the apparent lack of access to cloud compute.

kind of a bummer to DNF a book I’d really been looking forward to (Children of Time), but life’s too short to read books you don’t want to read

Saturday night at the BlueSky/The Onion party at SXSW
(photo by Matt Bradford)