💌 Newsletter #009 - Social Media Alternatives (Good!), Bill C-22 (Not So Good!), and The End of Google Search as We Know It

✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: Slopified grad ceremonies, Stochastic slot machines, RIP Google search, and spookiness long before Halloween. 📰 Long-Form Content: Two pieces! Alternatives Pt. 2 - Social Networking; and On Bill C-22, which I Lovingly Refer to as Bill C-an We Not-22. 🌞 Good News!: A lot of resistance - against AI, random tech bros deciding the future of a country, and Bill C-22. 📯 The Post-Script: Take care of yourselves! Also, no-AI lofi. 📟 Short-Form ContentChatbots ("AI") This is probably one of the most disrespectful uses of LLM's I've seen this month, and that's saying something: Greendale Oh! Sorry. I meant Glendale Community College in Arizona legit used an LLM to read out names at the graduation ceremony. It missed students, gave students the wrong names, et cetera, et cetera. Hilarious, in a way, but mostly I feel bad for the students. Even the "apology" was odd: That mention of "critical thinking" felt really icky when the school had literally just…