- Google calls in help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for AI Fight. It’s too bad they don’t treat filtering out low quality content farms with the same seriousness.
- Why we all need subtitles now goes deep into a topic I explored last week.
- Tapbots, maker of Tweetbots, has released Ivory for Mastodon. Paul and Mark are talented app builders and this is by far the most enjoyable way to use the growing Mastodon network. Coincidentally you can now follow Phil Schiller there.
- Cory Doctorow writes on the enshittification of TikTok. A long but insightful explainer why social networks and Google search have been getting worse over time.
- From the archives: John Mayer covers American Pie for David Letterman.
- The lights at a Massachusetts school have been on for over a year because nobody can turn them off.
- The FBI shut down a major ransomware gang. Impressive work by the feds here.