Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-04-26Saturday was Newsletter day and I was busy on Sunday, so our daily Pook-Emu Bee links had the weekend off. But there are no such impediments this Monday, so I am back with my regularly scheduled links…social.emucafe.org·May 4·3 min readFollowaicensorshipcopyrightcrime
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-16-26Today marks the 1957th anniversary of the death-by-suicide of the short-reigning Roman Emperor, Otho. I note this because my longest NLJ article, clocking it at more than 18,000 words, is about Otho. …social.emucafe.org·Apr 16·4 min readFollow07th expansioncopyrightcrimefeeds
AI and the corporate capture of knowledge"A society cannot meaningfully debate policy, science or justice if information is locked away behind paywalls or controlled by proprietary algorithms. If we allow AI companies to profit from mass app…edafe knabe·Jan 31·1 min readFollowaaronswartzaiartificialintelligencecopyright
Wikipedia Inks AI Deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity on 25th BirthdayWikipedia plans to use AI to assist editors and improve search experiences, while addressing criticism of bias and competition from rivals like Grokipedia.Broadband Breakfast·Jan 29·6 min readartificial intelligencePerplexityMicrosoftMistral
The mad king’s digital killswitch"The very worst-case speculative scenario for Huawei-as-Chinese-Trojan-horse is infinitely better than the non-speculative, real ways in which the US has killswitched and bugged the world's devices." …edafe knabe·Oct 26·1 min readFollowamazonapplecopyrighten
