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"'Your funeral is inconvenient for my activism'

"On the weaponization of 'genocide,' polarization on the center-left over Israel-Gaza, and the still necessary work of building Israeli-Palestinian co-existence."

...another must-read newsletter post from @msifry:

https://theconnector.substack.com/p/your-funeral-is-inconvenient-for

“Your funeral is inconvenient for my activism"

On the weaponization of "genocide," polarization on the center-left over Israel-Gaza, and the still necessary work of building Israeli-Palestinian co-existence.

The Connector
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Who shares your personal info with Facebook?

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.@Tomhanks started a coffee brand giving all proceeds to vets orgs like @bwforg. Grateful to Tom for joining us on this mission to support all #vets across the US! #GotYour6

Any success I've had involves being at the right place at the right time by accident, which makes me the Forest Gump of the Internet.

On Techtonic this week I spoke with @pluralistic (Cory Doctorow) about "Chokepoint Capitalism" - his new book, co-written with Rebecca Giblin.

- Stream the interview:
https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=125826&archive=232636&starttime=00:4:59

- Download the whole show as a podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cory-doctorow-author-chokepoint-capitalism-from-mar/id1285537944?i=1000605088345

- Episode links & listener comments:
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/125826

- Techtonic homepage:
https://techtonic.fm

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Wired developed guidelines for how they will and won’t use AI tools for text and images - a thoughtful approach as #journalism institutions consider their own approaches. https://www.wired.com/story/how-wired-will-use-generative-ai-tools/
How WIRED Will Use Generative AI Tools

Some publications are already using text and image generators. Here’s how WIRED will—and won’t—use the technology.

WIRED
Published in 2016, this brilliant comic by artist Joe Dator somehow feels even more timely in 2023. #art
@anildash - I dig up an old blurry 6A foobar photo

Been so nice to reconnect with old faces on Masto that I took a fun Deja vu trip down web memory lane - from 1.0 to 2.0 to now. Hope it brings up fun memories for others.

https://open.substack.com/pub/newpublic/p/deja-vu-all-over-again

[part two in the works and now I gotta integrate all my Masto instances 🤗]

👯 Déjà vu, all over again.

What today's young technologists can learn from Web 1.0 + 2.0 stans

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mozilla.org's 25th anniversary.

Big Tech layoffs are in the news, you say? On January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my "department", such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ended up monetarily...
https://jwz.org/b/yj88

Hello old friends!

Thx to @irwin and @Slavin and @clive