I am sad about David Crosby. The man was tweeting through the day yesterday.

The leak of private information part comes from a text message case, where a private but forwarded defamatory text triggered liability. I could look for the particular case, but here's the gist from a lawyer: "If someone sends a false statement of fact to a) a text message group or b) an individual, who then tells others about the text, the message could be defamatory." 1/

The Section-230-protects-you-as-forwarder from EFF. It's in the plain language of the statute, by virtue of the word "user": "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." Here's EFF eff.org/issues/cda230 They play up the "you can safely forward e-mail" stuff, because they are pro-230 and want to make the case it doesn't just shield big tech platforms. /fin

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“So I nailed it, then.” ~ toot.community/@openculture/10

Just wait until you see Amazon Frown.

@funnymonkey :openoffice:

airpods gave us a world where i text my wife when we're in the same room.

"[H]egemony is active: it is 'structural' only to the extent that the hegemon hegemons. And if domestic institutions complicate that performance, then the hegemon can’t." @profmusgrave musgrave.substack.com/p/fricti

So often user interfaces are made less informative in the name of "simplifying" them. I dislike this trend.

For Section 230 purposes, is AI generated text third party or first party content? If a site sets up basically unsupervised or algorithmically supervised routine publication of content, is it under current US law liable for what the robot says? Would OpenAI be? Would anyone at all be? (inspired by @emilymbender dair-community.social/@emilymb, though she presents a more traditionally publication-like, so arguably more likely liable, case.)

"When it comes to control, at the end of the day, building for everyone but not by and with everyone, irrespective of intentions, is just totalitarianism: morally despicable and bound to eventually fail." @robin, excellent on "The Internet Transition" berjon.com/internet-transition ht @blaine

Nobody knows who George Santos really is, but can it be a coincidence, that George Santos and George Soros are practically the same?! They're hiding it in plain sight, sheeple! Don't be blinded by the space lasers!

why are people who already have their fuck you money so often still so craven?

Good on Ardern, who was and is a good one.

most punditry fails to take into account the effect on the economy of an unprecedented boom in heist films.

the path to peace is our decisive victory is the one thing both belligerents could agree on.

"what came first, the concrete or the abstract?" is like "what came first, the chicken on the egg?"

Richard Hanania is a guy who (to his credit or discredit) is willing to acknowledge that much of his ("antiwoke") project is motivated by an aesthetic many of us might describe as fashy. Problematic would be an understatement. But he distinguishes himself by offering takes you'd not predict from his political identity, and these can be interesting. Though still plenty, um, problematic.

"Why the Media is Honest and Good" is one of these richardhanania.substack.com/p/

lots of recession predictions but i have a hard time wrapping my head around why. inflation seems to be a past problem, supply distortions due to war and pandemic are on the upswing (barring some awful escalation), Europe’s energy crunch has been milder than expected. so what’s the case for a recession or even unusually slow-growth 2023?

Deliver an optimized User Experience.

eventually the bad consequences you continue to cause overwhelm your pretensions to good intentions.