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It’s hard to overstate how liberating the early years of internet publishing were. After a century of publishing driven by the needs of an audience, we could finally switch to a model driven by the…

Will AI change the way we build design systems? Probably. For the better? Eh… A white robot with glowing angry eyes wearing black rimmed glasses with the Figma logo embossed on its chest. A white robot with glowing angry eyes wearing black rimmed glasses with the Figma logo embossed on its chest. ...

Forget A TikTok Ban, We Need To Regulate Data Brokers And Pass A Real Privacy Law by Karl Bode

We’ve noted for a while now how the great TikTok moral panic of 2023 is largely a distraction. It’s a distraction from the fact we’ve refused to meaningfully regulate dodgy data brokers, who traffic in everything from your daily movement habits to your mental health diagnosis. And it’s a distraction from our corrupt failure to […]

Real recordings will be called fake and fake recordings will be leaked as purportedly real. I don’t think the general population is prepared for this, and I worry that news media organizations aren’t either.

Matt Taibbi Can’t Comprehend That There Are Reasons To Study Propaganda Information Flows, So He Insists It Must Be Nefarious by Mike Masnick

Over the last few months, Elon Musk’s handpicked journalists have continued revealing less and less with each new edition of the “Twitter Files,” to the point that even those of us who write about this area have mostly been skimming each new release, confirming that yet again these reporters have no idea what they’re talking […]

Plus: Remembering what the Iraq War was like, 20 years later.

Spoiler: It's Trump's fault.

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans have returned to social activities that were too risky in the early days of the virus. But, as the coronavirus remains active in every city in the country, people who are immunocompromised continue having to make hard, and often isolating, choices.

The Twitter owner's response to a BBC investigation highlights how abuse is thriving on the platform.