end of year links

Another not a blog post. Clearing the output of the link collector script for the end of the year. All good reading material in case you missed these the first time. More: links for 15 June 2024

Bonus links

NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances

The Stories that Made Us Jealous in 2023

Germany hits 80 GW milestone

s16e11: Substack’s Thin End of the Quora Wedge

REUTERS: TESLA blamed drivers for failures of parts it knew were defective…

Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse

Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling — and could lead to a brain drain

On Substack Nazis, laissez-faire tech regulation, and mouse-poop-in-cereal-boxes

Science journalism has its Defector moment

The demise of digital voice assistants

Microsoft and CWA Union reach AI agreement

Croatia could be Europe’s hidden tech haven in 2024

Neil Gaiman’s Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet

Elon Musk’s new enemy: Nordic workers

Companies Incentivize Layoffs

How bird feeders help small species fight infection

The State of Local News in Alameda

Rats are more human than you think – and they certainly like being around us

Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

Announcing the Flask Mega-Tutorial, 2024 Edition

Book excerpt: Manipulating customer reviews

The Chimeralogists

The depressing fall of Sports Illustrated reveals the real tragedy of AI

SF Bay Ferry Lands $16 Million Grant for Fleet Electrification

European consumer groups band together to fight Meta’s self-serving ad-free sub — branding it ‘unfair’ and ‘illegal’

With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding. (An up-to-date POV on the old Man in the Chair ad)

Weird HTML Hacks

Knuth Airgaps & Knuth Buffers

Getting the world off Chrome

The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work

The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.

Global Privacy Control Empowers Individuals to Limit Privacy-Invasive Tracking

PLANNING IS STRATEGY, CREATIVE IS TACTICS

Why worker-owned publications like Defector and 404 Media are winning

AI investors say they’ll go broke if they have to pay for copyrighted works. Don’t believe it

Android isn’t cool with teenagers, and that’s a big problem

We Should Be Thanking Chris Christie

Why Google and Meta owe news publishers much more than you think – and billions more than they’d like to admit

Logitech’s webcam with articulating arm launches on Indiegogo

Kids have been used like guinea pigs on Big Tech’s platforms. How much harm will we tolerate? (I wouldn’t let my guinea pigs have an Instagram accounts either)

Ukrainian Special Forces Officer Allegedly Involved in Nord Stream Attack

The West Has to Defeat Russia

The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault | Margaret Sullivan

Launch: Unprocrastinator

It’s shockingly easy to buy sensitive data about US military personnel

The SEO world is up in arms after a story said they’re ‘ruining the internet.’ Here’s the spicy drama.

Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V

Young, female voters were the key to defeating populists in Poland’s election – providing a blueprint to reverse democracy’s decline

Intel’s failed 64-bit Itanium CPUs die another death as Linux support ends

Big landlords are colluding to raise rents, D.C. lawsuit alleges

Meta’s latest privacy rip-off will test the EU’s mettle for reining in Big Tech

UAW Tells Other Unions to Align Contracts to Set Up Possible National General Strike in 2028

advancement at large corporations

I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars

The Future of Drone Warfare

Should Social Media Go the Way of Cigarettes? Addressing Evidence of Consumer Harm

Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050 – even without more ambitious climate policies

‘How Much Blood Is Your Fun Worth?’

University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade

What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections

What Happened to San Francisco, Really? | The New Yorker

How to fix the internet

Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun

Building The Next Web

Facebook’s sexist, ageist ad-targeting violates Calif. law, court finds

Newsom signs bill that would make it easier to delete online personal data

Why Taylor Swift is arguably the most powerful person in tech

Meet the zombie brands: Why Blue Apron, Allbirds, and others are still alive, only different

An electric Caltrain is a simple way to make commuting better