My Gen Z son says these are Alphas and he doesn’t want to be associated with them.

I suppose that depends on your point of view.

This is clearly by design.

I know how everyone just wants to pipe up and say, “well it didn’t crush me hur hur”, but I actually watched the video. It’s a good record of what went down. I wish it would’ve mentioned Reddit alternatives, but it’s still solid work.

And to anyone who still maintains that the protest has fatally wounded Reddit, look, I’m on your side but Reddit is still the 800 lb gorilla of link aggregation, and most folks still don’t get why they should care about API pricing.

Of course, he may not realize that this dries up one of the largest sources of the Unity developers the clients he does care about uses.

I’m conflicted. These direct sales prohibitions are naked efforts to protect a market segment nobody likes. But, on the other hand, Elon.

And yet, somehow, I feel like the lawyers who took this unwinnable case are going to come out okay.

FWIW, this is kinda happening right now, albeit in a sort of “innocent” garage project sort of way. There are mods for Skyrim that take the voice work created by skilled actors, and use it to generate convincing additional dialog that they never consented to nor got paid for. Laura Baily is already seeing herself being AI’d by her own fans.

And this is with homemade software. Wait until the good stuff comes out.

Twitter requires one to log-in to read posts

I’m actually kinda liking this. Maybe it’ll encourage people to stop reposting “Tweets”. Folks need to think about Twitter the way most of us think about Digg: Rarely.