Smartphones don’t suck. People do: We shouldn’t let our phones bore us so often.

Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People: Not to justify murder, but I’m sure there were a lot of desperate people very unhappy with Brian Thompson’s company.

Looking Back: On the evolution of how we read - ‘Where once we were rapt, now we are gift-wrapped’.

OpenAI’s new model tried to avoid being shut down: By disabling its oversight mechanism and copying itself elsewhere, tho the context is important.

The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something: A 2020 attempt by the US government to, in practical terms, outlaw secure encryption.

A brief history of U.S. encryption policy: “law enforcement will always want access to encrypted communications, and technology companies will always have incentives to produce stronger encryption”.

Why you should use a different email address for every site: The list of things you might want to do in order to maintain some semblance of privacy/safety on the internet these days grows ever longer.

Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info: A Japanese government agency was phished.

Don’t call it a Substack: Anil implores us not to refer to our writing using some other dubious entity’s brand name - ‘Imagine the author of a book telling people to “read my Amazon”’.

Blue skies ahead: Leon wrangles with whether to join Bluesky.

Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of power: How decentralised Bluesky is depends on what exactly you mean by decentralisation.

On Bluesky: Regarding its vibes and its technology.

What I want from Mozilla: To fulfil their stated mission by ‘fostering an ecosystem of open, accessible software that promotes user independence, privacy, and safety’.

Introducing ChatGPT search: OpenAI releases its search engine.

Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI: Their computer programmers are turning into code reviewers.

Why I Am (Still) a Liberal (For Now): ‘Thin’ vs ‘thick’ liberalism, and the Cruelty Culture of 2022-era Twitter.