Here are some articles aI am reading and found interesting:

• Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites
  digiday.com

  The Verge and 404 Media are exploring the fediverse as a way to take more control over their referral traffic and onsite audience engagement.

  Tagged: internet

• People swear this adorable new app helped break their phone addiction
  woodtv.com

  I’m intrigued by this app but somehow the article failed to mention the name of the app

• AmigaVision
  amiga.vision

  I didn’t have an Amiga, but I always thought the stuff that came out of the demo scene was neat. Glad to see this stuff being archived and made accessible.

  Tagged: internet, bbs

• I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like
  bobdahacker.com

  Monster Energy’s corporate infrastructure exposed: employee training, customer stereotypes, Beast Bux rewards, and a file system API that’s STILL wide open.

  Tagged: security

• Why the Internet is Turning to Shit
  currentaffairs.org

  A good indictment of the current state of the Internet.

  Tagged: internet

• How one password destroyed a 158-year-old business
  secretsofprivacy.com

  This is an extreme example, but it shows how dangerous it can be to rely on weak passwords.

  Tagged: security

• The Open-Office Trap
  newyorker.com

  This was an interesting examination of the “open offices” that have come to dominate workplaces in the U.S.

  Tagged: work

• Podcast: The Inside Story of Tea
  404media.co

  This podcast about Tea (the recently hacked viral app) is wild. What a sketchy company.

  Tagged: internet, privacy

• ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
  tomshardware.com

  But the figures rely on hardware and usage assumptions that may be inaccurate.

  Tagged: ai

• From Nintendo Power Hotline To Now, Human Labor Has Always Been The Soul Of Video Game Guides – Aftermath
  aftermath.site

  Despite its boosters’ claims, AI will never be able to replace a human guides writer

• AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
  bloodinthemachine.com

  Brian Merchant put together this collection of stories from tech workers displaced by AI.

  Tagged: ai

• We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online – The Markup
  themarkup.org

  Not at all surprising. The data broker world is a black hole of bad practices.

  Tagged: privacy

• Kenneth Thomasma's books
  americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com

  I was curious about the portrayal of Native Americans in a book from my youth and this blog post does a good job of covering all the problematic aspects.

  Tagged: books

• From bootcamp to bust: How AI is upending the software development industry
  reuters.com

  Bootcamps always sold inflated promises, but I’d imagine it’s much worse now.

  Tagged: ai, internet

• ChatGPT Shared Chats Were Indexed: SEO Visibility Gone Wrong
  growtika.com

  Over 100,000 ChatGPT chats were shared publicly. Some were indexed, many archived. What went wrong, what it means for SEO & what happens next.

  Tagged: ai, privacy

• Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum
  apple.news

  What is truth? What is history?

  Tagged: history

• First Came Tea. Then Came the Male Rage.
  apple.news

  “What Tea has accomplished, though, is showing what women are up against. The men so hell-bent on revenge against Tea’s users are illustrating that hatred of women is alive and well.”

  Tagged: internet

• tokens are getting more expensive
  ethanding.substack.com

  An interesting look at pricing for AI usage and how costs scale.

  Tagged: ai

• A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like NBA Stars.
  nytimes.com

  This is just absurd.

  Tagged: ai

• Confessions of the Working Poor – Macleans.ca
  macleans.ca

  I work hard, buy quality clothes and fake my way through dinner-party conversations. I’m also part of a fast-growing Canadian underclass.

• A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
  technologyreview.com

  Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.

  Tagged: ai, privacy

• Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
  404media.co

  Not surprisingly, folks are clicking less on individual links in search results and are instead relying on Google’s AI Overviews.

  Tagged: internet, ai

• The Ancient Land of Ys
  alltimebangers.com

  Released: Jun 21, 1987Version played: Ys I Chronicles+ (2013)

  There is an invisible third pillar in the development of the first decade of RPG video games. The first pillar is of course Wizardry and Ultima, the two titans that emerged as the commerical successors to the early hobbyist RPG scene o

• US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident
  theverge.com

  

  Tagged: ai

• Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers?
  theverge.com

  Will we ever see a non-WebKit browser on iOS?

  Tagged: internet

• Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews
  theguardian.com

  Good grief

  Tagged: ai

• MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
  blog.decryption.net.au

  40 years later and the art people painstaking made in MacPaint on their little Macs still amazes me.

  Tagged: internet

• Grok Is the Latest in a Long Line of Chatbots To Go Full Nazi
  theintercept.com

  Grok’s recent antisemitic turn is not an aberration, but part of a pattern of AI chatbots churning out hateful drivel.

  Tagged: ai

• Grok searches for Elon Musk’s opinion before answering tough questions
  theverge.com

  A mouthpiece for its master.

  Tagged: ai

• US court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule designed to make unsubscribing easier
  theguardian.com

  Of course they’d stop this rule

• Would you like an IDOR with that? Leaking 64 million McDonald’s job applications
  ian.sh

  This is a pretty wild vulnerability

  Tagged: privacy

• Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon
  404media.co

  LLMs don’t read the danger in requests if you use enough big words.

  Tagged: ai

• The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
  404media.co

  This sounds like a neat tool.

  Tagged: ai

• HTML for People
  htmlforpeople.com

  This is a neat resource for folks making their personal website.

  Tagged: indieweb

Here are 2 bookmarks I’ve collected recently:

• HTML for People
  htmlforpeople.com

  This is a neat resource for folks making their personal website.

  Tagged: indieweb

• Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
  blog.cloudflare.com

  This is an interesting proposal to deal with the AI scraping issue.

  Tagged: ai

Here are 12 bookmarks I’ve collected recently:

• Hitchhiking on steroids: inside the reckless TikTok train…
  screenshot-media.com

  The Internet and social media eventually destroys everything

  Tagged: trains

• The Hobo Handbook by Jeremiah David
  theparisreview.org

  While the tone of this article is off putting at times, it was an intriguing look at the Crew Change Guide which has managed to stay a print-only resource for train hoppers.

  Tagged: trains

• Why Are Hundreds of Data Brokers Not Registering with States?
  eff.org

  Not a surprise that a bunch of shady data brokers would flaunt the laws designed to regulate them.

  Tagged: privacy

• How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes
  nature.com

  The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.

  Tagged: health

• This Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol
  404media.co

  This is a neat experiment in what some call the slow web.

  Tagged: indieweb

• Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
  404media.co

  A judge rules that Anthropic’s training on copyrighted works without authors’ permission was a legal fair use, but that stealing the books in the first place is illegal.

  Tagged: ai

• The internet used to be fun
  projects.kwon.nyc

  A nice collection of essays on the Indieweb, personal websites, and joy.

  Tagged: indieweb

• Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time
  theverge.com

  ‘It is a gift. They stole it without my permission.’

  Tagged: ai

• You sound like ChatGPT
  theverge.com

  AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

  Tagged: ai

• Brain activity lower when using AI chatbots: MIT research
  theregister.com

  : EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren’t learning much

  Tagged: ai

• Nathan Gray & Becky Fontaine (THE IRON ROSES, BOYSETSFIRE, I AM HERESY, THE CASTING OUT)
  podcasts.apple.com

  Boysetsfire was one of my favorite 90s hardcore bands so I was glad to stumble upon this interview.

  Tagged: punk

• url.town
  url.town

  This is a neat attempt at a human curated directory of interesting websites.

  Tagged: indieweb