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TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-now-lets-you-choo…

TikTok now lets you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see | TechCrunch
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.

TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-now-lets-you-choo…

TikTok now lets you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see | TechCrunch
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk:
"This guy is a modern day St Paul.
He was a missionary,
he's an evangelist,
he's a hero.
He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said
'the truth will set you free.'"
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

Dear USians,
How about you don’t call a Middle Eastern guy “white” and go on to tell him he’s “no better than any other oppressor we encounter” simply for trying to warn his Palestinian friends to not take any unnecessary risks and to be careful on Mastodon?
Also, apparently Divya has blocked me for this, which sucks because it has made it impossible for me to keep boosting her fundraiser, which you should, of course, still follow and support (link below).
I’m not going to …

Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen

Looky here, America
What you done done---
Let things drift
Until the riots come.
​
Now your policemen
Let your mobs run free.
I reckon you don't care
Nothing about me.
​
You tell me that Hitler
Is a mighty bad man.
I guess he took lessons
From the Ku Klux Klan.
​
You tell me Mussolini's
Got an evil heart.
Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont
That he had his start---
​
Cause everything that Hitler
And Mussolini do,
Negro…

In case you thought I was joking about the Sainthood story.
-- @lawprofblawg
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lz6v2yuj272v

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

Oh great, new issue spam attack on @…. People really have too much time on their hands. This time posting random images from 4chan, etc., as well as AI-generated bogus issues.
Sorry you guys have to deal with such crap.

Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft advertising the feature as able to "understand you", it delivers inconsistent and often incorrect responses (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/822443/mic

Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
Microsoft is advertising its Windows Copilot AI as “the computer you can talk to.” How does that hold up to testing, and how does it track with CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitions?

In case you thought I was joking about the Sainthood story.
-- l@awprofblawg
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lz6v2yuj272v

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"