🔗 linkblog: Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-18-w...

Screenshot from WIRED reading “Earlier on Friday, the company announced a new series of AI models-GPT-Rosalind—built to help life sciences researchers work faster.”

Wait, is Open AI naming a science-oriented product after a researcher whose work was famously appropriated by others for their personal benefit?

🔗 linkblog: Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-04-17-i-dont/

Just posting to say how much I love the way that Creative Commons licenses are allowing publications (say, Techdirt or States Newsroom) to repost good writing from other sources (say, The Conversation or ProPublica).

🔗 linkblog: The Right Wing Origins Age Verification Laws Don’t Disappear Just Because They’re Going Bipartisan. spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-17-s...

🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: A Pascal’s Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-16-i...

🔗 linkblog: Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-16-t...

🔗 linkblog: The Cybertruck of e-bikes is here to replace your car spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-04-16-look-i...

hallucination in the LLM-based Kagi Translate spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/hallucination-in-...

🔗 linkblog: The Senate is voting to save free IRS Direct File today spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-15-g...

🔗 linkblog: Apple quietly threatened Grok to curb sexual deepfakes or get pulled from App Store spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-15-t...

🔗 linkblog: The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2026-04-15-audrey-w...

🔗 linkblog: Trump picks fight with Pope Leo as Iran peace talks dissolve • Kentucky Lantern spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-13-i...

Screenshot of a ParentSquare email reading “Continue Conversation at Home Try asking your child: What did you hear about how to let the school know if your ride home changes today? Why do you think it’s important for the chool to know exactly how you’re getting ome each day? Powered by ParentSquare Intelligence”

Love to get unsolicited AI-generated parenting advice from the communication platform kiddo’s school district has invested in.

🔗 linkblog: The Strait of Hormuz blockade is causing a slow-moving food crisis spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-13-h...

📺 tvblog: Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-04-13-i-reme...

📚 bookblog: Automatic Noodle (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-04-13-finall...

🎙️ radioblog: The Havoc of Empires (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-04-13-im-rat...

on mowing lawns and climate catastrophe spencergreenhalgh.com/relationships/on-mowing-...

🔗 linkblog: To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2026-04-13-really-a...

🔗 linkblog: Trump Threatens CNN For Very Basic Reporting On His Shitty, Unpopular War spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-10-d...

Screenshot from an article from The Verge reading “A new Gallup report released this week, based on responses from nearly 1,600 people ages 14 to 29 across the US, suggests the hype is wearing off for the digital-native generation as AI becomes more embedded in school and work. Enthusiasm is falling and resentment is growing, even as many young people feel they still need to use the technology.”

I am in my late 30s. “Digital native” was first used for my age cohort in the early 2000s—and was riffing off of John Perry Barlow’s 1996 “Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.” It is a USELESS term because its frame of reference keeps shifting to “kids these days” (and other re

🔗 linkblog: Here's what to expect from the fiery, 14-minute return of Artemis II spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-04-10-i-foun...

📚 bookblog: Reminding Myself That Despite What that Sign on the Highway Says, Hell Isn't Real (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-04-10-im-sti...

🔗 linkblog: Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-09-s...

🍿 movieblog: Project Hail Mary (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️) spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-04-09-excell...

📚 bookblog: My Peer Group's Smoochy Chart is Basically Now an Ouroboros (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-04-09-still-...

la joie d'acheter (mais vraiment acheter) de la musique spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/la-joie-dacheter-...

📚 bookblog: Her Hugs Are Traps (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-04-08-this-r...

🔗 linkblog: Money for War, But... | Friends Committee On National Legislation spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-04-07-s...