NEW: Ahead of our meetings with @massgovernor.bsky.social and @massago.bsky.social this week @fightforthefuture.org is sharing a draft of proposed alternative social media legislation. Our model bill cracks down on Big Tech abuses without destroying privacy and throwing LGBTQ+ youth under the bus.

Let’s just say there is a lot of Gender happening underneath the decision of who gets a presumption of reasonableness and who doesn’t.

I was impersonated by Grammarly as well. Besides the lack of consent, a big problem is that the LLMs do a highly plausible impersonation of my views for anything not specific to me but miss exactly where my views differ from many AI experts or critics. So worse than useless. Actively misleading.

The article makes this fairly explicit, but it's worth emphasizing that Grammarly doesn't have any clear option to request a specific reviewer (hence you can't easily check if you're included) and even a cursory attempt gets it to produce a bunch of random scholars from my or adjacent fields.

It strikes me that even the writing-adjacent areas where LLMs are likely to be useful, a lot of these benefits are still essentially unproven, and I am honestly dubious that the automation will routinely speed or enhance output when factoring in essential human scrutiny and review.

The big thing that interests me in Lakshya's data is that the answers re: which side is better on LGBT rights seem to diverge much more sharply from others. The individual rights questions aren't that dissimilar to Pew, etc. But I'm very curious how/why Lakshya gets this result:

Democrats had a good night, winning major races including governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey and a redistricting ballot measure in California, while also confronting the future of the party. n.pr/3JKZzJO

And #ica25 presentation done! Open call: we’re still looking to do more interviews with D&D players who are considered ethnic minorities. Interested? Please reach out!

if i thought this site was going to moderate properly i'd subscribe to it happily & talk about the benefits of doing so to my million+ followers across youtube, twitter & twitch. as things are i'll be saying it isn't worth it. hearing similar things from my pals with big online followings

"Bluesky's decentralized protocol offers news organizations unprecedented control over their data and audience relationships."

BREAKING On the day the UK government announces a permanent puberty blocker ban I learn: ALICE’S DATA WAS NOT INCLUDED in data sent to Appleby to assess for his rushed DHSC report, that dismissed whistleblower claims of increased suicides in trans youth since Bell. The report is a proven sham.

How the Social Media Ban Harms Children *Social media is a life line for socially excluded children

The discourse around Jesse Singal is interesting. To many unfamiliar, I suspect it looks like well-intentioned, but censorious prone, activists trying to shut down liberal skeptics. The objection is much more the well-documented accusations of serial harassment of trans women who challenge him.

Quite the headline: 295,000 journalists in 44 countries will drop X EJC: we can “no longer ethically participate in a network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda” www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

As Bluesky takes off, it’s important to remember how much of the culture was shaped by the early trans/queer cluster. I do worry that could get buried in the cultural narratives around the current phase of growth and the platform’s better utility for journalism. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Hi! I don't have anything to post at the moment, but I look slightly less like I'm pretending ot be a human being if I have something here, so here we go.