Apple Turnaround
I spend a lot of time thinking about what Apple should be doing differently. I wrote Apple Turnover because so many of my notions kept running into a dead end: I could no longer bring myself to believe Apple would do these things without a change in leadership.
Apple urged to withdraw 'out of control' AI news alerts
Apple has pledged improvements to its news summarising tool, but critics say it is dangerous and needs to be withdrawn.
Quit Shopify
Quit Palantir
Except I’m not sure how we can “quit Palantir” as private citizens
AI* and the Dead Internet Theory/Zombie Internet
* 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
Quit Microsoft
If possible
Collection of collections: Quit x
And also quit X
Quit Rakuten 楽天
Or some of the reasons why I’m trying
Quit 1Password
Potentially, unless they change course—which I’m really, really hoping they will as a longtime user of well over a decade
Quit BeReal?
Or: Japanese grown-ups (who are around even remotely sensitive information) should quit BeReal, apparently, because who is even on BeReal any more anywhere else
Quit Google
AI-related: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…
Quit X
I mostly still call them Twitter but am open to calling them “X” in clearly pejorative contexts. See also everything related to Grok, DOGE (especially what they did to USAID and the consequences thereof), and Elon Musk. AI-related: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…
Quit Amazon
See also the demise of Washington Post and Jeff Bezos
Quit Substack
I’m also trying not to add Substack links on Semble
Travel safety guides
Quit ChatGPT
Including anything else by OpenAI, but mainly ChatGPT. See also semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections… and all the Persona-related stuff
Shopify CEO endorses idea to give more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News
Rakuten, German startup Helsing test military drones for Japan
German drone maker Helsing enlists Rakuten to broker Japan military deal
楽天が攻撃型ドローン、陸自配備と国産化を推進 独巨大新興と提携
Community Alert: Immigration Arrests at Airports
公衆Wi-Fiを安全に使うために。知っておきたい7つのポイント
7 Useful Tips for Anyone Connecting to Public Wi-Fi
Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated. | ACLU
Know Your Rights | Enforcement at the Airport | ACLU
Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?
「パランティア」は実際、何をしている企業なのか？
What Does Palantir Actually Do?
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans (Published 2025)
Alex Karp Goes to War
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys
The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
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
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
Quit 1Password (by あ) — Semble
Quit Rakuten 楽天 (by あ) — Semble
Quit Shopify (by あ) — Semble
Quit* W Social (by あ) — Semble
Quit BeReal? (by あ) — Semble
Quit Microsoft (by あ) — Semble
1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project
Ah well
Import from 1Password | Enpass Help
Import from 1Password | Bitwarden
1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions
Amazon reveals plans to spend $200bn in one year the day after Bezos guts Washington Post
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
Warehouses: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat
Amazon Gets Into The AI Podcast Slop Business
Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
【沖縄県知事選挙】SNS「X」の投稿の約9割は県外から 選挙戦への影響も | 沖縄のニュース｜RBC 琉球放送 (1ページ)
X Kills Nitter And Xcancel, The Last Ways To Read Tweets Without Elon Watching
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
Do our social media algorithms correctly reflect our values? Our new article published today in @pnas.org shows that the answer is often…
「とっさに撮影」岩見沢の病院委託職員が患者20人分の個人情報画面をSNS「BeReal.」に投稿 個人情報漏えい
BeReal finds success in 'engaged' Japanese market, says CEO
Japan is giving the “anti-Instagram” app a second chance at life
若者に人気の映えないSNS｢BeReal｣本当の怖さ 授業中やバイト中でもおかまいなしに撮影
なぜ「BeReal」から漏えいが相次ぐのか “2分以内”の焦りが生む不用意な投稿
職場・学校を映したSNS投稿、ユーザー自身の安全のため停止を。不適切な投稿による情報流出問題が続発 BeRealのほかInstagramなどでも、限定投稿を流出させる“模倣犯”出現の可能性【INTERNET Watch編集部コラム】
Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
Google further buries search results under AI mode
How Chrome tracks you and how to limit it | Proton
Google Docs' Grammar Suggestions Suck Ass
Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
Death to Substack? Yes, its time. No more excuses 🫵🏽 We've been working on migration tools for the last couple months. Promising a few of…
Substack Hostility (by 𝕮) — Semble
Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms that offer larger shares of subscription revenue
Why is Naomi Klein Funding Substack’s Hate Machine?
We're Leaving Substack for Beehiiv
Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers
ChatGPT's new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline - but should you let it?
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
GPT-5.6 is deleting user files when given full access, and OpenAI says it shouldn't but did
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets