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And over at X, the platform formerly

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3:51

call it that. Maybe just off spite.

3:54

Anyway, there was another change in how

3:56

the platform works and it appears to

3:58

have prompted yet another Exodus

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4:15

quote or repost any of your

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4:19

see any of those tweets in

4:21

the first place. So to

4:23

the blocked person, you would seem to have disappeared

4:25

off the platform. But earlier

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this week, for reasons I don't

4:29

fully understand X revealed that it

4:31

was going to change the block

4:33

feature and the block feature will

4:35

still block someone from commenting on

4:37

or retweeting your posts, but

4:40

they will be able to read

4:42

everything that you have tweeted.

4:45

So now if I were still on

4:48

X slash Twitter and you were irritating me

4:50

and I blocked you, you would still be

4:52

able to see everything I posted. You just

4:55

couldn't comment or retweet it. Now,

4:57

a lot of people have balked

4:59

at this since it has been

5:01

revealed and they pointed out that

5:03

this can create really dangerous situations

5:05

for some users. Let's say that

5:08

someone's getting stalked and blocking

5:10

accounts was one way to limit

5:12

their visibility to the stalker. Well,

5:14

now the stalker could continue to

5:16

read updates and potentially escalate matters,

5:18

make things worse because the other

5:20

person's now not aware of what's

5:22

going on, they're just posting, but

5:24

they don't realize that the person

5:26

that they thought was blocked from

5:28

seeing them can actually read everything.

5:30

As Matt Binder of Mashable noted,

5:32

it appears that some folks on

5:34

X have felt the need to

5:36

stretch their metaphorical legs and seek

5:39

greener pastures or perhaps bluer

5:41

skies because X competitor blue sky

5:44

announced that in the 24 hours

5:47

following X's announced changes to the

5:49

block feature, blue sky saw half

5:51

a million users

5:54

join the service. Now blue

5:56

sky is behind both X

5:58

and metas threads. platforms and

6:00

users and all of those platforms are similar. They're

6:02

kind of like that micro blogging sort of thing.

6:05

There's also Mastodon out there. I

6:07

wouldn't be surprised if Mastodon also

6:10

saw a surge of new folks

6:12

signing on these days. I'm only

6:14

kinda sorta on threads. Even

6:16

that is a bit much for me. There are

6:18

issues with threads I have that are the same

6:20

as my issues with like Facebook and really meta

6:22

in general. So I don't

6:24

feel great about posting there, but I have done

6:27

it a couple of times. It does help scratch

6:29

the itch that Twitter used to satisfy for me

6:31

back in the day, but it's

6:33

not great. Maybe I

6:35

should switch just to blue sky or

6:37

Mastodon or just accept the fact that

6:39

that part of my life is over.

6:41

Anyway, I don't understand why X made

6:43

this choice to change the block feature,

6:45

but I should also mention that metas

6:48

threads announced a change to its service

6:50

that's being rolled out gradually, which is

6:52

that users will be able to turn

6:54

on a feature called activity status. So

6:56

if it's turned on, it may be that

6:58

the status is turned on by default and

7:01

you have to go in to opt out

7:03

of it, but activity status tells you which

7:05

users are currently online. So

7:07

if this is on, if it's active

7:09

for you and it's on, it's not

7:11

active for me yet. I checked before

7:13

I recorded today, but if it's on,

7:15

then for other people that it's on,

7:18

you'll see a little green dot on

7:20

their profile icon that indicates that they're

7:22

online at that moment. The green dots

7:24

not there. It either means that they

7:26

aren't online or they have turned off

7:28

the activity status feature. To me, it

7:30

sounds like this is a

7:32

bad idea too. Like, I don't know anyone who

7:34

was begging for this. Maybe it's

7:36

just that I use threads in a,

7:38

in a different way. I always viewed

7:41

threads just as that. I viewed Twitter

7:43

as kind of an asynchronous communications tool

7:45

where you post, but you're not expecting

7:47

an immediate response, right? They'll

7:50

respond when they get a chance to respond. That's

7:52

it. And then you respond

7:54

when you have a chance. It's not happening

7:57

in real time, but meta appears to

7:59

be kind of trying. to move

8:01

threads into, into that space a little bit.

8:03

And I don't know, maybe that is something

8:05

that a lot of people have been asking

8:07

for, but if you're like me and you

8:10

aren't keen on everybody being aware of when

8:12

you're on the service, you'll probably want to

8:14

turn the activity status to off. If you

8:16

are in fact using threads once it is

8:19

rolled out, that is. So I'll be curious

8:21

to see how this rollout happens. Like I

8:23

said, I don't have it yet. So I

8:25

don't know if this is opt out or

8:28

opt in. I would much prefer it to

8:30

be opt in and have it off by

8:32

default. But I suspect that will not be

8:34

how it turns out. We'll have to see.

8:37

Sarah Perez of tech crunch has an

8:40

article this week titled Elon Musk's X

8:42

is changing its privacy policy to allow

8:44

third parties to train AI on your

8:46

posts. So maybe some of those folks

8:48

headed to blue sky are more concerned

8:51

about their posts being used to fuel

8:53

our future robotic overlords and less concerned

8:55

about the block feature. I don't know.

8:57

Perez notes that X changed its privacy

8:59

policy and it now includes the option

9:02

for third party collaborators to slurp up

9:04

all that tasted tasty data that you

9:06

have generated over the years so that

9:08

the next generation of troll bot or

9:11

whatever can lean on the collective wisdom

9:13

of X. And I do use all

9:15

of that, those terms sarcastically. Users

9:18

will apparently be able to opt

9:20

out of this feature. The new

9:22

section of the policy States quote,

9:24

depending on your settings, or if

9:26

you decide to share your data,

9:28

we may share or disclose your

9:30

information with third parties. If you

9:32

do not opt out in some

9:34

instances, the recipients of the information

9:36

may use it for their own

9:38

independent purposes. In addition to those

9:40

stated in X's privacy policy, including

9:42

for example, to train their artificial

9:44

intelligence models, whether generative or otherwise.

9:46

End quote. Perez notes that

9:48

as of the writing of this article, there

9:50

was no clear setting that would relate to

9:52

this policy. So if you went into your

9:55

settings, you wouldn't see something that was clearly

9:57

marked as allowing you to opt out of

9:59

this third party collection. collaborator stuff, but the

10:01

policy itself won't go into effect until November

10:04

15th, so it is

10:06

possible that that setting will

10:08

arrive before or when that

10:10

happens. Getting back to

10:12

meta, the company has apparently been making some

10:14

staff cuts, and they sound like they're not

10:16

quite as sweeping as earlier rounds of layoffs

10:19

within the company where like more than 10,000

10:21

people were let go at a

10:24

time. Alex Heath and Jay Peters

10:26

of The Verge report that the

10:28

layoffs have affected multiple divisions within

10:31

meta, including Instagram, WhatsApp, and the

10:33

company's all things metaverse department reality

10:35

labs. As Maxwell Zef of TechCrunch

10:37

has put it, the layoffs are

10:40

meant to, quote, reallocate

10:42

resources within the company, end quote.

10:45

So that's your standard reorganization

10:47

slash restructuring language you hear

10:49

from corporate entities. Sometimes

10:52

these moves reflect an organization realizing

10:54

that it has overstaffed certain events,

10:57

and so operations have become inefficient and

10:59

wasteful. So the layoffs are

11:01

an effort to realign that. In other

11:03

cases, it's more like company leaders have

11:05

decided they want to try and accomplish

11:07

more with less and say, like, let's

11:09

try and do the same thing we're

11:11

doing now, but with fewer people. So

11:13

we're not spending as much money. It's

11:16

hard to say what this particular instance

11:18

really qualifies as. Zef at TechCrunch also

11:20

mentioned that the company declined to answer

11:22

questions regarding how many employees in total

11:24

were let go. But the layoffs definitely

11:26

included some prominent folks who have taken

11:28

to social media to make it known

11:30

that they are currently in the job

11:32

market. So I'm sure the cuts are

11:34

deeply felt within the departments where they

11:36

happened. It's just unclear as to how

11:39

extensive those cuts actually have been. Instagram

11:41

has instituted some features to help

11:43

protect users, particularly teens from sextortion

11:46

attempts, as reported by Aisha Malik

11:48

of TechCrunch. Now, previously, it was

11:50

possible for someone to use screen

11:52

capture tools to copy images that

11:54

were sent through direct messages while

11:56

the sender would receive a notification

11:58

that the image they had sent

12:00

had been saved. They couldn't really

12:02

do anything about it. And if

12:04

the recipient of the message chose

12:06

to blackmail the sender, you know,

12:08

threatening to share the images that

12:10

were sent to them, unless the

12:12

sender followed, you know, instructions, well,

12:14

that's where the sextortion stuff comes

12:16

in, which is pretty dang horrifying.

12:18

You know, manipulating someone in order

12:20

to get them to send compromising

12:22

images and then threatening them by

12:24

saying, you're going to share those

12:26

parts, potentially like friends and family

12:28

or whatever, unless they do whatever

12:30

it is you tell them to

12:32

do, it's disgusting. Anyway, now Instagram

12:34

prevents screen captures of those kinds

12:36

of images that are sent as,

12:38

you know, a view once or

12:40

allow replay messages. If it's sent

12:42

through DMS like that, you can

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no longer take screen captures.

12:47

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12:49

mobile version of the app. You

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12:53

version of Instagram. They will not

12:55

display the images at all in

12:57

an effort to prevent abuse. This

12:59

new process compliments Instagram's recent rollout

13:01

of teen accounts, which includes a

13:03

suite of features meant to give

13:05

younger users more protection while they're

13:08

on the program. Meta has a

13:10

lot of ground to make up in

13:12

this area because the company has long

13:15

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13:17

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13:19

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there, but I don't want to even

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repeat it because it's gross. Anyway, META

20:13

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populations and that therefore it probably should

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have been taken down. And the

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board suggested that META reverse its decision

20:34

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20:36

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it can make content moderation, uh, guidelines

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20:50

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20:52

comment about these issues potentially in

20:54

order to pressure META to make

20:56

these changes, because it's one thing

20:58

for META to kind of ignore

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its oversight board. It's another thing.

21:02

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pressuring META to take more action

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that that's bad for optics. And

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I think META is far more

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sensitive to that than it is

21:12

to the guidelines of its own

21:14

oversight board, but that's my own

21:17

personal opinion. And

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we're not done yet with META. So

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21:23

have created a project in which some

21:25

filmmakers, including Casey Affleck, the Sperlach sisters,

21:28

and Anish Chaganti, uh, Anish's

21:30

piece is already up. I watched

21:33

it and Anish showed how he

21:35

used the

21:37

tool to change the background

21:39

or, uh, elements of

21:42

videos he shot when he was a child. And

21:44

it was kind of interesting. Like there was

21:47

one where it shows someone walking down

21:49

their street in California. It was supposed to

21:51

be set in Manhattan. So he had the

21:53

AI tool change the background to look like

21:55

Manhattan. It did not look like Manhattan. It

21:57

did look like a big city, but it

21:59

looked a little weird. I mean, it's

22:01

like AI generative stuff, but his whole

22:03

point was that this was a way

22:06

to augment the filmmaking experience and that

22:08

he stresses in it. I still needed

22:10

to make the movie. I still needed

22:12

to write everything that this wasn't a

22:14

tool that replaced all that. It was

22:16

a tool that augmented it. I

22:18

remain somewhat unconvinced, not

22:21

that it could be a

22:23

tool used to augment. I think it could

22:25

be, I think generative AI could be used

22:27

in ways to augment work that

22:30

is not necessarily harmful

22:32

to creatives. The problem I see

22:34

is that a lot of the

22:37

companies, the production companies that are

22:39

ultimately in charge of paying for

22:41

creatives, that they would just go and

22:44

use generative AI as

22:47

a shortcut and skip the

22:49

whole artistic process because we've

22:51

seen that we have, frankly,

22:53

we have seen companies fire

22:55

creative departments and rely on

22:57

generative AI to varying degrees

22:59

of failure. Really? It's not

23:01

really success. They're pretty awful at

23:04

this stage, but anyway, that's what's

23:06

going on. It's the movie gen tool

23:08

or project. It'll be curious. I'll be

23:11

curious to see what Casey Affleck and

23:13

the Sperlak sisters create. I haven't seen

23:15

their output yet. I've only seen a

23:17

niche Chagantes, but it

23:19

is interesting and I'm sure it will

23:21

propel the conversation forward. I

23:24

remain somewhat skeptical largely because I mean,

23:26

any project that is heavily supported by

23:28

meta, there's obviously a narrative that's trying

23:30

to be promoted there. Cade Metz, Mike

23:33

Isaac and Aaron Griffith have a piece

23:35

in the New York times with the

23:37

headline, Microsoft and open AI's close partnership

23:39

shows signs of fraying. It's well worth

23:41

reading. If you can get hold of

23:44

it, the article explains that there are

23:46

some interesting clauses in the agreement between

23:48

the two companies that suggest the

23:50

relationship isn't as cozy as was previously

23:53

thought, considering Microsoft has dedicated more

23:55

than 10 billion with a B

23:57

dollars of investment into open AI.

24:00

So far, I mean, that's a huge

24:02

amount of money. So the article details

24:04

how open AI has grown kind of

24:06

frustrated over stuff like access to money

24:09

and access to compute power. Because as

24:11

I've mentioned before, AI is incredibly expensive,

24:13

both from a purely financial standpoint and

24:15

energy requirements in order to power all

24:17

that compute that you need. And

24:20

you have companies like open AI, they're

24:22

trying to scale up and ramp

24:24

up ever more ambitious project that's

24:26

going to require even more computational

24:28

power. And yeah, it's incredibly

24:30

expensive. Though one of the things that

24:33

blew my mind in this article is

24:35

that there are estimates that by 2029,

24:37

the annual computational bill for open AI

24:39

is going to be somewhere like 37

24:42

and a half billion dollars per

24:45

year. Like think how much

24:47

money you have to make if your expenses

24:49

are 37.5 billion dollars. Open

24:52

AI isn't making enough money to cover its

24:55

expenses now. They're look they were looking at

24:57

spending around more than five billion dollars for

24:59

compute power this year. So no

25:01

wonder there are a lot of analysts out there

25:03

predicting that open AI was going to go bankrupt before

25:06

the end of the year, except that

25:08

they then got a big influx of

25:10

cash from another investment round. Yeah,

25:12

it's pretty crazy. Also, open AI

25:14

apparently has a clause that says

25:16

if Microsoft gets to artificial general

25:19

intelligence or AGI, then it severs

25:21

the partnership between the two. And

25:24

meanwhile, Microsoft is apparently worried that

25:26

it's depending too heavily upon open

25:28

AI. And so once to

25:30

diversify its approach to artificial intelligence beyond

25:33

open AI, it's a really complicated thing.

25:35

So I recommend reading that article. It's

25:37

very informative. OK, a couple of

25:39

space stories. NASA's Artemis project to return

25:41

to the moon continues to hit some

25:43

snags. A lot of outlets, including Ars

25:46

Technica, have plenty of articles listing numerous

25:48

reasons why we're not likely to see

25:50

the Artemis 2 mission happen next year

25:52

as it was scheduled to happen. But

25:54

work continues to prepare for our return

25:57

to the lunar surface. And one such

25:59

element is the development of the moon.

26:01

development of new spacesuits. And this week

26:03

Axiom Space and Prada, as in the

26:06

luxury fashion company, unveiled a new spacesuit

26:08

design. Now it's not exactly chic, but

26:10

then aesthetics aren't really as important as,

26:12

you know, not dying. And as I've

26:15

mentioned many times on this and other

26:17

shows, space is trying to kill you.

26:19

So the suits have thermal

26:21

protection built in that the companies say

26:24

will keep astronauts safe from the dangers

26:26

of extreme cold temperatures, even at the

26:28

South lunar pole in shadowed regions

26:30

for up to two hours at a time.

26:33

Now I'm not sure when this design is

26:35

going to get fitted to an actual astronaut

26:37

for use in space, but it's pretty cool

26:39

to see the next evolution of spacesuits. Finally,

26:42

if you are aware of

26:44

this news, I'm not surprised. It

26:47

was spectacular. SpaceX accomplished an incredible

26:49

achievement when a super heavy Falcon

26:51

booster returned to its launch site

26:53

after propelling a payload high into

26:55

the atmosphere. And as it did

26:57

so, an enormous mechanical claw on

26:59

the tower caught the booster as

27:02

it returned under precise control. As

27:04

Elon Musk wrote on X, the

27:06

tower caught the rocket. And yeah,

27:08

seeing the video of this is

27:10

spectacular. It's hard for me to

27:12

fathom how complicated this was from

27:14

an engineering standpoint, having such precise

27:17

control of a descent and the

27:19

perfect timing for the tower to

27:21

grasp the booster with its claws,

27:23

which are called chopsticks. That is

27:25

just amazing stuff. Really worth watching.

27:28

And before I leave one more

27:30

reading recommendation for all of y'all,

27:32

Lila McClellan has a piece on

27:34

fortune.com that's titled 23 and me's

27:37

entire board resigned on the same

27:39

day. Founder and Vojcicki

27:42

still thinks the startup is savable and

27:44

it's a really thoughtful and I think

27:46

balanced analysis of the troubled companies challenges

27:48

in recent years and a complicated portrait

27:50

of an assertive and controversial founder. So

27:52

well worth a read. It covers a

27:55

lot of territory. That's it for this

27:57

week. I hope all of you out

27:59

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28:01

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