NYC: Call your city councilperson and tell them to kill the “A.I.” bot that’s providing false information

This morning, The Markup published a report saying that an "A.I." powered chatbot provided by New York City is providing false answers to legal questions about "housing policy, worker rights,…

Greg March 29, 2024

Politics

Check out Asian Americans for Democracy – raising money to help get out the APA vote against Trump!

I'm thrilled to share the website for Asian Americans for Democracy, a group that's aiming to raise $2 million to help local Asian Pacific American groups in swing states get…

Greg March 23, 2024

Helping Hands Politics

Friends in NYC! Use these handy forms to tell the mayor not to cut library budgets!

Friends in New York City, the mayor is talking about cutting library budgets again. But our amazing public libraries aren't going down without a fight. They've put up forms through…

Greg March 12, 2024

Helping Hands

Today is the last day to get free COVID tests via the USPS

Apparently today, March 8, is the last day to get free COVID tests from the government via the United States Post Office. I'm not sure of the exact time they'll…

Greg March 8, 2024

Tech

The WordPress/Jetpack/Tumblr/Automattic “A.I.” feed and Firehose situation and how I’ve tried to opt out as best as I think I can at this point

3/4/2024: BIG UPDATE! I just heard back from Brandon Kraft, who describes himself on Mastodon as "Director of Engineering with Automattic working on the Jetpack plugin for #Wordpress." Kraft had…

Greg March 3, 2024