A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for “DEI” tries to explain what “DEI” is
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The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet
On Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on…
Grammarly Is Pulling Down Its Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission
Now, Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly’s owner Superhuman, has announced that the company is “disabling” the offending feature “while we reimagine the feature to make it more useful for users,…
Grammarly’s AI is recruiting writers, alive and dead, whether they like it or not
The latest unnecessary feature from an app that's supposed to just check for typos offers "Expert Reviews" from victims of identity theft.
Grammarly is using our identities without permission
When asked if Superhuman considered notifying the people named in its AI feature, or requesting their permission, Gay said, “The experts in Expert Review appear because their published works are…
Grammarly’s New AI Tools Use Experts’ Identities Without Their Permission
The SF-based writing app Grammarly, recently rebranded as Superhuman, launched a set of AI-enabled tools, including expert reviews run by bots that scrape the published works of academics and assume…
Linux After Dark – Episode 115
With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice?
Discord’s age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Last week, Discord invited the contempt of its users by announcing it will be rolling out global age verification restrictions in March, which will restrict viewable content and communities for…
99% Invisible: The Em Dash
The strange history of a punctuation mark that makes writing feel human, and why people now think it proves the opposite.
Cautionary Tales – Powered By Orgasm: The Rise and Fall of a Sex Cult – with Ellen Huet
Run by the charismatic Nicole Deadone, OneTaste billed itself as a sexual wellness startup celebrating the power of female orgasm. But behind the celebrity endorsements and promises of healing, lay a darker reality. When Bloomberg…