Even when you buy the product. In this case, Apple owners. Apple has been listening and sharing data with third parties (selling). Get in line, you can get up to $100 when they get things set up. From Ars Technica.
Kevin putting it out there
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Facebook or Fakebook?
Zuckerberg’s Meta is planning to populate Facebook and Instagram with AI-created “members”. Oh joy. From Rolling Stone. (4 clicks to get through the ads.)
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Teen Use of Social Media in the US
Bryan Alexander has been watching teens and universities and how they use technology. Here is his latest update on social media.
I’m guessing hte federated media (Mastadon and Bluesky mostly) are too small to figure here. Hopefully that will change.
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Word Quiz
NYTimes (gift article) checks your knowledge of current words that are popular. A good example of a quiz working as a learning tool. I got 6 out of 10, which I consider pretty good. I especially liked the new meanings of “preppy” and “Ohio”.
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Nolan is Doing The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan is teaming up with Homer on the best action story of the last 3,000 years. Read about it at Kottke. (Illustration mine).
Christopher Nolan is known for directing some of our most important films like Tenet, Inception, Interstellar, Oppenheimer and a bunch of Batmans. I couldn’t hink of a better match. Out mid-2026.
