https://calnewport.com/why-hasnt-ai-made-work-easier/
“This is a worst-case scenario: you work faster and harder, but mainly on shallow, mentally taxing tasks (because of all the context shifting they require) that only indirectly help the bottom line compared to harder efforts.

It’s not quite clear why AI tools are having this impact.”
#calnewport

http://scripting.com/2026/03/25.html#a131930

“we sometimes say “please” and “thank you” to AI assistants. It’s just good manners. If we’re overly harsh to bots, will that accidentally rub off on our online interactions with fellow humans, in the same way that someone who mistreats dogs can’t be trusted with human relationships?” @davew

https://www.manton.org/2026/03/25/slop-and-robot-followup.html

“we sometimes say “please” and “thank you” to AI assistants. It’s just good manners. If we’re overly harsh to bots, will that accidentally rub off on our online interactions with fellow humans, in the same way that someone who mistreats dogs can’t be trusted with human relationships?”
@manton

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/fact-intensive/

“*This* is a problem we can solve with policy! We can mandate that platforms support interoperability, so that when you leave a legacy platform like Twitter or Facebook for a modern platform like Mastodon or Bluesky, the messages addressed to you on the legacy platform are forwarded” @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/fact-intensive/

“Leaving Facebook or Twitter means leaving behind the people who comfort and support you when you are subject to abuse. The more abuse and discrimination you face, the more that support matters, and the harder it is to leave that community behind. You love your community more than you hate Zuck or Musk, so you stay” @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/fact-intensive/

“This is the sort of thing you end up believing in if you incur the kind of neurological injury that arises from pursuing an economics degree, which causes you to be incapable of reasoning about (or even perceiving) power” @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/fact-intensive/

“conclusively determining whether you have the right to forward an email could take a lawyer a whole day. Sure, most email forwarding is "fair use" (that is, it fits into one of copyright's "limitations and exceptions"), but any decent IP law prof could come up with ten email forwarding hypotheticals” @pluralistic

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/03/canada-antisemitism/686507/

“Documenting and denouncing shootings and arson attacks are easy. But it’s harder to account for stories like Rosenberg’s, where Jews exit public life without any glass or bones being broken.”