Notices by Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)

The Internet Archive lost its appeal in the Hachette case. What a huge, devastating loss for all of us.

#InternetArchive

eleven of the Bitcoin 2024 speakers are named Matt

(screenshot is a portion of a longer list, not the entire list of speakers)

#crypto #Bitcoin2024

Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $115 million to influence US elections this cycle, and they’re just getting started. We need to closely watch how cryptocurrency companies are influencing US politics. https://www.citationneeded.news/2024-cryptocurrency-election-spending/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #newsletter #CitationNeeded #superPACs #USpolitics #lobbying

just realized i've had the mollywhite.net domain for over 10 years(!!)

related sneak peek into an upcoming piece: i firmly believe that if you're going to spend money on one thing online it should be a domain, particularly as online identity gets more fragmented. as platforms come and go, you can always find me there.

#domains #web

back in my day we called this spyware

#AI #privacy #Microsoft

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"[The moderator crackdown is] just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you." – @ben

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

h/t @dangillmor

Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

#web #newsletter #CitationNeeded

I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #newsletter #CitationNeeded

When I boil it down, I find my feelings about AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about blockchains.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #newsletter #CitationNeeded

I had to say goodbye to my Max this week after an unexpected and rapid decline. I'm heartbroken, but more than anything, I'm so grateful for the 6½ years we got to spend together. He was my first pet, and he taught me so much. He never, ever stopped purring. I miss him terribly.

super cool that all these companies have decided to make customers opt OUT of having their data sold for AI training purposes

"but no one would do it if it was opt-in!"

yeah, THAT IS THE PROBLEM

drop your blog below please ⬇️

When people say you should "own your own data", or that the future of the web is "ownership", what does that mean?

We need to talk about digital ownership.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-need-to-talk-about-digital-ownership/

#CitationNeeded #newsletter #blog #web

fuck i love blogs. if i had nothing but time i would just read blogs all day.

it's impossible for me to be a multimillionaire without robbing a bank, therefore i should be allowed to rob banks

(headline: "‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says")

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

Since Bill Ackman and his followers have so many questions about how Wikipedia works now that his wife has been accused of plagiarizing from it, I figured I'd help him out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jM6aoTDK0
#Wikipedia #BillAckman #plagiarism

My Citation Needed newsletter is no longer on Substack!

https://citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/

#substack #SubstackMigration

sorry to everyone who lost internet points on this

can't wait for the future of finance, where
[checks notes]
everyone will have to make sure they check the dependency management practices of their financial service providers

"alright grandpa, time to learn how to verify a checksum and check on github if a project is pinning its JS dependencies"

#crypto #cryptocurrency #ledger