Nilay Patel

This story is basically Kansas restaurant owner Kari Newell swatting a local newspaper and having all of its computers and phones seized because a reporter looked up her public DUI record on a state website. It is unconscionable that Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar signed this warrant and that the cops executed it. Hey, let’s see if anyone has the integrity to stand by these decisions:

“What can computers do with books?” has been raging as a debate essentially since computers have existed, and the current AI-powered version of the argument contains exactly the same issues as ever. For example, when Amazon released the Kindle 2 in 2009, the Author’s Guild threatened to sue the company over the text-to-speech function, claiming it would steal audiobook revenues. Here’s the interview I did back then with Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, and his primary objection to the product:

Congrats to Katie, who has had many notable gigs but none more important than being The Verge’s first-ever science editor, during which time she published this Phil Collins playlist. No, I do not remember why. Go get ‘em, Katie.

It is bonkers that this video and others like it have been available for over a year and they aren’t mentioned in every single UFO conversation! Cameras! We know how they work! The simplest explanation is best!

No one knows!

No surprise, but Adam Mosseri tells Casey Newton web Threads is indeed en route.

Complaining about social platforms moderating content according to their whims is just how politicians distract you from how fast they’ve all gotten sick of the First Amendment. This story is outrageous — no one will even say what this professor allegedly said that was so offensive!

Yes, singular. You know why.

John Gruber notes that Microsoft announced Aptos, a new default font, without actually showing all the characters at standard sizes. And like a true font nerd, he could not let that stand.