Tag: media platforms

• Donald Trump’s trading cards won’t save NFTs from the digital graveyard

  October 13, 2024

  Last month, ex-US president Donald Trump announced he was selling a new collection of his digital trading cards. https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/10/13/donald-trumps-trading-cards-wont-save-nfts-from-the-digital-graveyard more ›

• The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker

  September 29, 2024

  Several years ago, people warned that artificial intelligence would be an existential threat to online poker; today, bots are everywhere. https://longreads.com/2024/09/20/the-russian-bot-army-that-conquered-online-poker/ more ›

• Mark Zuckerberg: publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI

  September 25, 2024

  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn’t valuable enough for… more ›

• The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case

  September 5, 2024

  The Internet Archive has lost a major legal battle—in a decision that could have a significant impact on the future of internet history. Today, the US Court of Appeals for… more ›

• The Internet’s Creative Constraints: Reclaiming Our Digital Legacy

  September 3, 2024

  Today marks my 15th year on Twitter—now X. I find myself reflecting on the future of publishing in the digital age. https://zakelfassi.com/blog/2024/2024-09-02-the-internets-creative-constraints-reclaiming-our-digital-legacy more ›

• Dual-use regulation: Managing hate and terrorism online before and after Section 230 reform

  September 3, 2024

  Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is foundational to governing expression on digital platforms. As Congress considers making adjustments to it, Brian Fishman sheds light on the potential harms.… more ›

• Sunk cost

  September 3, 2024

  ) } const containers = document.querySelectorAll(“.w-full figure.w-full”); containers.forEach(container => {const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(container); root. https://www.theverge.com/24161573/opensea-crypto-nfts-workplace-rise-fall more ›

• Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

  August 28, 2024

  ten years ago, WIRED published a news story about how two little-known, slightly ramshackle encryption apps called RedPhone and TextSecure were merging to form something called Signal. https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/ more ›

• A New Language for Photography

  August 25, 2024

  M. H. Rubin Critiquing and discussing photography, particularly for novices, can be difficult. Most critique is exceptionally subjective — various nice ways to say you don’t like something, and some… more ›

• No one’s ready for this

  August 23, 2024

  An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 seconds… more ›