Five Links #65
1. Are your links not malicious looking enough?
TinyURL, but not. This makes long, dodgy-looking URLs and you can even choose the phishy flavour.
2. WCAG in plain language
Over the last 12 months, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at accessibility success criterion, and the definitions can be incredibly difficult to interpret. I’ve not dug into this too deeply, but it’s nice to see efforts to make these criterion easier to understand.
3. “Why would anybody start a website?”
You want to eschew the algorithmic popularity game? A website (with RSS). You want to take part in the rewilding your attention movement? A website (with RSS). You want to own your own content? A website. You want to be an anti-capitalist? A website (with RSS). If you want to be a capitalist too, I guess? A website (with a paywall). You want to be anonymous? A website. You want to “share what you know”? A website.
4. It’s rude to show AI output to people
For the longest time, writing was more expensive than reading. If you encountered a body of written text, you could be sure that at the very least, a human spent some time writing it down. The text used to have an innate proof-of-thought, a basic token of humanity.
Now, AI has made text very, very, very cheap. Not only text, in fact. Code, images, video. All kinds of media. We can't rely on proof-of-thought anymore. Any text can be AI slop. If you read it, you're injured in this war. You engaged and replied – you're as good as dead. The dead internet is not just dead it's poisoned. So what do we do?
5. The world's first anti-deepfake wearable
Our founders are passionate feminists from backgrounds as diverse as Tesla, Palantir, and Uber.
What am I up to?
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