Tag: Pocket

“Data is the modern lighthouse, helping us plan our lives: it shows where we are so we can plan where we’re going,” Cushman said.

— Read on www.yahoo.com/news/archivists-scrambling-save-us-public-191322244.html

Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers just ruled that, effective immediately, Apple is no longer allowed to collect fees on purchases made outside apps and blocks the company from restricting how developers can point users to where they can make purchases outside of apps. Apple says it will appeal the order.

— Read on www.theverge.com/news/659246/apple-epic-app-store-judge-ruling-control

It is odd that science fiction did not predict the internet. There are no vintage science fiction movies about the world wide web, nor movies that showed the online web as part of the future. We expected picture phones, and online encyclopedias, but not the internet. As a society we missed it. Given how pervasive the internet later became this omission is odd.

— Read on kk.org/thetechnium/the-unpredicted/

Overheard: “AI is bullshit’s superpower.”

— Read on doc.searls.com/

Modern generative AI systems are opaque in a way that fundamentally differs from traditional software.  If an ordinary software program does something—for example, a character in a video game says a line of dialogue, or my food delivery app allows me to tip my driver—it does those things because a human specifically programmed them in.  Generative AI is not like that at all.  When a generative AI system does something, like summarize a financial document, we have no idea, at a specific or precise level, why it makes the choices it does—why it chooses certain words over others, or why it occasionally makes a mistake despite usually being accurate.

— Read on www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretability

California’s community colleges are reporting a rise in financial aid fraud. In January, suspected bots represented 1 in 4 college applicants. Schools have given away millions to these scams, and college officials say fraudsters are getting smarter with the help of AI.

— Read on calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/04/financial-aid-fraud/

It’s a lot of responsibility, and being a father is one of the two most important jobs in the world; the other, of course, is being a mother, but you’re not cut out for that role. No offense.

— Read on www.ncregister.com/blog/letter-to-a-young-stoic

According to some researchers, puffins cannot fly unless they have a view of the ocean; that’s why the best way to rescue the babies is literally to throw them off the cliffs.

— Read on www.aol.com/people-iceland-collecting-baby-puffins-152349435.html

How to win an argument with a toddler:
You can’t.

That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one.

— Read on seths.blog/2025/04/how-to-win-an-argument-with-a-toddler/

More recent content lookup are equally alarming:

• In 2023, 38% of all pages created in the previous decade – gone;
• 1 in 5 links on government pages – broken (of which 86% were internal to the sites);
• 32% of links from news site – dead;
• 11% of reference links on Wikipedia – unreachable (with 53% of pages having at least one broken link);
• On social media, 90% of tweets disappeared within 46 days.

The issue is so widespread that it has a name: Link rot.

— Read on tnlnet.substack.com/p/digital-amnesia