Like other chatbots, Claude lets people share their conversations with others by creating a publicly accessible link of the chat. People may do this to send the full text of a conversation to their friends or coworkers in a group chat, for example. But they may not realize Google is also surfacing these links in search results, making them available to essentially anyone.
Source: Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google
Untangling the sprawling web of Trump family crypto ventures, and the fortune they’re making by cashing in on the presidency.
Source: Mapping Trump’s Crypto Empire
In that video, he said he’s starting a “bail fund” in case he’s arrested and goes to jail. Collectively, these posts and videos have hundreds of thousands of likes and millions of views. But the cease-and-desist is not real; it is a wholesale fabrication created by the influencer for attention, likes, and clout. He is at zero risk of persecution or arrest for speaking out about Flock (though he may be at risk for forging a fake cease-and-desist letter.) In the meantime, Orion has gotten more than 30,000 new followers in the last month according to the Instagram tracking website NotJustAnalytics, a period in which he has posted essentially only about Flock and, primarily, about his stickers and his cease-and-desist letter.
Source: The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout
One of the most important things I learned at Mozilla was the idea of an explicit “priority of constituencies”; that is, if you have responsibilities to different groups for different reasons, being clear and honest up front about who is at the front of the line and why. As with The Tyranny Of Structurelessness, there’s always a hierarchy, and letting those hierarchies stay hidden means letting power escape scrutiny.
Source: mhoye: “One of the most important thin…” – ds106 Social
Here’s how it works: On the Meta AI app, a user can tag a public Instagram account and direct the chatbot to create new A.I. photos based on photos from that person’s account.
Source: How to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I. – The New York Times
Glitchlet is a lightweight, browser-based creative-coding environment (HTML/CSS/JS only). Think “Glitch-lite” for shared hosting: students edit multi-file projects in the browser with instant preview, save locally via IndexedDB, and later publish to a class projects folder.
Source: samplereality/glitchlet: A Glitch-lite/Glitch-like creative coding workbench
h/t Brian B.
A desktop app that helps you make best use of git and GitHub for AI-assisted software development.
Source: judell/bram
When an interface relies solely on conversation, it imposes a dual burden: a linguistic challenge for input and a cognitive challenge for output. We’ll examine both separately below.
Source: Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface — Smashing Magazine
America’s national parks are surging in popularity between America250 celebrations and the increasing demand for domestic travel. Our guide on 16 popular national parks from across the US is here to help you find ways around the crowds.
Source: Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Zion: When to Visit US National Parks
