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After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm

Not everything that makes police dangerous comes from culture. Some comes from the law—and the way cops train to operate within it.

Some thoughts on why journalists pretend Mastodon is impenetrable.

Twitter’s showing an excess of tweets and replies from Elon Musk on some users’ For You feeds. This comes just days after Musk complained about not getting enough views on the platform.

Reddit users are pushing the limits of popular AI chatbot ChatGPT – and finding ways around its safeguards.

Automation is not the enemy by karlgroves@gmail.com

Before you read this, I want you to spend a few moments looking around where you are right now. Ponder, for a moment, the furniture you’re sitting on, the room…

Continue readingAutomation is not the enemy

To those who seek to stop young people from reading <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em>: Good luck with that. It’ll only make them want to read it more.

Upcoming Christian Super Bowl ads are framed as diverse and inclusive. But the money behind them comes from a rabidly antiabortion and antigay organization.

No stone unturned, no empty folder unsubpoenaed.

Another linguistic ruse by the people who actually want to weaponize government

Never trust a politician who wears a big-ass cowboy hat indoors. That means I’m not a fan of the Wyoming Republican party. More sensible Wyoming politicians are proposing a bill that disallow…

"He Gets Us," a Christian outreach campaign, has spent millions in advertising and on Sunday will debut two new commercials during the Super Bowl. The campaign's murky motivations have some Christians feeling confused and betrayed.

It’s been hard to make a living as a journalist in the 21st century, but it’s gotten easier over the last few years, as we’ve settled on the world’s newest and most lucrative business model: invasive…

The noted speculative-fiction writer Ted Chiang on OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, which, he says, does little more than paraphrase what’s already on the Internet.

Plus: DeSantis goes darker

The touchy-feely ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads hide a dark truth The advertisements seem to recast Jesus for a new era, but their real purpose is rehabilitating pro-Trump evangelicals.

Expensive memberships, pricey equipment out of reach for many

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Recent revelations about Republican election strategies targeting minority communities in Wisconsin's biggest city came as no surprise to many Black voters .

The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom has perfected a tactic for twisting the First Amendment: casting discriminators as visionaries persecuted by despotic laws.

The New York congressman had the charge dismissed and his record expunged after claiming his checkbook was stolen.