You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
Using semble for link blogging
I’m an advisor to the [[Cosmik Network]] team who are building [[Semble]], a social bookmarking app built on [[ATProtocol]].Currently you add a link, add it ...

* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits

Once-in-a-generation moment to protect U.S. Privacy - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

ICCL report on the scale of Real-Time Bidding data broadcasts in the U.S. and Europe - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for

Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

Hollywood Names Surface in Peter Thiel-Backed, Invite-Only Society

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice
Hey! I got an exclusive invitation to this off-the-record conference . . . but I think I’ll take 3515 Jamaican beef patties instead.

How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find

How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?

Meet the Serbian Businessman/DJ Who Runs the Zombie AI Southwest Journal - Racket

Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
Copy of Digital Masquerade

Deep-Research Agents Can Be Poisoned via User-Generated Content

It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned

How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann)
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

Depression doesn't shrink the brain like we thought it did | New Scientist

Shopify CEO endorses idea to give more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News
Why Between The Hashmarks Left Substack Behind

Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms that offer larger shares of subscription revenue

Destacked: Why I Avoid Substack As Much as Possible - Jacky Alciné
Substack Doesn't Want You to Leave - Aaron Ross Powell

The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing

Has Substack’s subscription model really “maxed out?”

New Federal Indictment on Minnesota 15 Peddles DOJ 'Antifa' Conspiracy Angle After Raids - UNICORN RIOT

The Next Step in Criminalizing ICE Protests Is Here

Male-like ornamentation in female hummingbirds results from social harassment rather than sexual selection

Public Body Vulnerabilities

The European Social Stack · An open declaration

Pravda in numbers - Content and Network analysis

Perception of Global Leaders - Nira Data

Government Ratings - Nira Data
Global Pulse
Ratioed — dame.is
OUTLIER · Daily Global Word Game Scored on Rarity
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MOSCOT Eyewear - NYC Since 1915
RoadSketch — draw a line, find the road

The Verge guide to privacy and security