Ex-Twitter now shows ads that don't identify themselves as ads, and don't say who is doing the advertising.

Musk seems determined to adopt for Ex-Twitter every nasty thing that users have criticized web sites for.

*US student held in Dubai for weeks for tapping security officer’s arm.*

*[A study by the Refugee Council charity] suggests asylum claims by three out of four crossing Channel [are valid and] would be granted.* If this is correct, Tory claims that most are "economic migrants" are false.

Right-wing politicians often do this: they try to put the disadvantaged in the wrong, and don't hesitate to do so falsely.

Comparing the marketing of gambling with the marketing of tobacco. Both can get people hooked on habits that can can prove dangerous.

I am opposed to prohibition of tobacco, and opposed to prohibition of gambling, but that doesn't mean we should allow them to be the object of planned advertising and marketing.

The Hollywood writers-studios contract has interesting rules to permit some uses of large language models but not allow them to replace writers.

I hope that they give good results — but we still should not call those models "AI", because whatever their output says you had better not believe it is true.

Chatgpt is an injustice because it is software that is not released for users, not even as an executable. So it is even more restrictive than a nonfree program. We call that "Service as a Software Substitute".