Daring Fireball

Dave Winer:
The new Amazon Alexa with AI has the same basic problem ofall AI bots, it acts as if it’s human, with a level of intimacythat you really don’t want to think about, because Alexa is inyour house, with you, listening, all the time. Calling attentionto...

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Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic:
X’s decision to show where accounts are based is, theoretically, apositive step in the direction of transparency for the platform,which has let troll and spam accounts proliferate since Musk’spurchase, in late 2022. And yet the scale of the deception...

The New York Times:
Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation, began a new campaignon Wednesday that he called “The Golden Age of Travel Starts WithYou,” complete with a 1960s-style public serviceannouncement that spliced together scenes of the country’s firstair travelers...