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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Tl;dr: Automattic, the owner of of Tumblr and WordPress.com, is negotiating with Midjourney and OpenAI to sell them AI training data which would be scraped from platform users’ posts unless they opt out. It’
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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. I’m slowly working on another rambling blog post, this time about real-time bidding over your web browsing habits. It’s about how in spite of all the sophisticated spyware and NSA data harvesting tools we
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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Three weeks running and still doing a Weekly Roundup! Is it remotely newsletter worthy as a format or in substance? Would anyone actually subscribe to this? Is the content even martingally monetisable? I’m especially dubious
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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Spent the afternoon packing and prepping for family Xmas and listening to the 20203-ending episode of the “Reimagining The Internet” podcast, in which Ethan Zuckerman and Mike Sugarman quizzed their colleagues at the Initiative for Digital
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This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Here we are again. This site is once again under re-construction live, without a safety net. I’ve decided to up sticks and move inside WordPress itself. For the first time our show is broadcasting from