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The Body Scout author Lincoln Michel has a thoughtful literary analysis of Sam Altman’s AI-written “metafictional literary short story” — which, like a lot of AI text, scans well without exactly adding up:

Verge emigrant Cameron Faulkner has a fitting paean to Half-Life: Alyx, on its fifth anniversary still one of VR’s best games:

Molly White’s newsletter cogently outlines problems with how both AI companies and open access creators are approaching copyright, plus some possible solutions:

Former Republican Federal Communications Commission chair and oversized mug enthusiast Ajit Pai is the new CEO and president of wireless industry trade association CTIA — a prominent player in lobbying against net neutrality, state low-income broadband rules, and other regulation. Pai is, of course, a former colleague of current FCC chair Brendan Carr, who’s aligned with the wireless and telecom industry on things like spiking anti-digital discrimination rules.

In Soviet Russia, domains will no longer register you — or at least they probably won’t, starting in 2030. So if you’ve been running a website on a .su top-level domain, you might need to find another address in the coming years... just maybe not something on .io.

Texas state representative Stan Gerdes bought into some years-old viral disinformation with the new Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying In Education or FURRIES Act, which — among numerous other bans on things that could give children “a belief that non-human behaviors are societally acceptable” — would penalize Texas kids for making animal noises or wearing cat ear headbands in school, notes Chron’s Gwen Howerton. And no, I don’t know what the ‘S’ stands for, either.

Associate editor and columnist Ruth Marcus has left the Post after it refused to publish a column “respectfully dissenting” from owner Jeff Bezos’ new limits on opinion coverage, reports The New York Times’ Ben Mullin and Semafor’s Max Tani. Marcus writes that the new policy “threatens to break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they believe, not what the owner has deemed acceptable.” It’s also reportedly lost the Post at least 75,000 subscribers.

CNN delves into the February 28th call to boycott Amazon, Walmart, and other companies — as an act of resistance in a time of political turmoil, but also an influencer-sparked, celebrity-supported viral phenomenon that’s taken on a life of its own: