Mastodawn

Stuart Robinson Oct 31

Scalzi Oct 30

Over on Whatever, I offer some thoughts on the new "Grokipedia," through the lens of the article it has up about... me.

(Spoiler, it's not great, for the reasons you probably suspect)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/

A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject

What? You didn’t know that Grokipedia exists? Well, it does, and it’s Elon Musk’s attempt to run Wikipedia out of town on a rail: An “AI”-generated compendium of infor…

Whatever

Stuart Robinson Oct 28

404 Media Oct 28

Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
https://www.404media.co/grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human

Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.

404 Media

Stuart Robinson Oct 24

Anil Dash Oct 22

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash

Stuart Robinson Oct 21

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics

Pluralistic: The mad king’s digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Stuart Robinson Jun 5, 2025

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Matt Blaze Jun 5, 2025

@ridetheory @pluralistic it’s almost the opposite of Shopsins.

Stuart Robinson Jan 11, 2025

The NY Times games Connections continues to stump AI models: https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-o1-nyt-connections

OpenAI’s Most Advanced AI Release Stumped by New York Times Word Game

OpenAI's o1 reasoning model was caught massively struggling to solve the New York Times' Connections word game.

Futurism

Stuart Robinson Jan 3, 2025

Molly White Jan 2, 2025

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.

Citation Needed

Stuart Robinson Nov 19, 2024

VWestlife Nov 16, 2024

If you ever wondered why old product ads often had unnecessary quotation marks around their name or slogan, you're not alone: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/161676/have-unnecessary-quotation-marks-evolved

Have unnecessary quotation marks evolved?

Salutations, EL&U folks. I came across a curiosity this morning and I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on the issue. The introduction is long, but here is a summary: Can or should

English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

Stuart Robinson Jul 3, 2024

Buckle up, we're in for a bumpy ride...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72ver6172do

A Bugatti, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans

A former US police officer runs an AI-powered network of misleading news sites turning its sights towards November.

Stuart Robinson Jun 12, 2024

Finally some pushback on the disinformation about the California fast food minimum wage hike...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fast-food-industry-claims-california-181056511.html

The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake

Fast food lobbyists say the higher California minimum wage law led to a loss of nearly 10,000 jobs. The claim is baseless.

Yahoo Finance