Kyle Conroy

Gameplay Programmer at ArenaNet.

My views are my own and don't represent any employer or company, etc.
He/Him

Left for bluer skies

[Kyle Conroy @kyconroy]

Noticed at some point that Twitter auto opted me in to some more Grok nonsense. Purged this account and won't be posting anything more here, holding the profile though.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Microsoft AI CEO says the social contract of content on the open web "is fair use", "anyone can copy it", it's "freeware".

This is categorically false. Content released online is still protected by copyright. You can't copy it for any purpose you like simply because it's on the open web.

Creators who have been told for years to publish online, often for free, for exposure, may object to being retroactively told they were entering a social contract that let anyone copy their work.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Just an FYI for people referencing the Civil Rights Movement as the ideal and legal means of protesting, students sitting in at lunch counters, in movie theaters, in bus terminals and marching in public parks were violating laws and ordinances and agents of the state were also called out to violently suppress these protests.

[† lucia scarlet 🩸 @luciascarlet]

@thebookisclosed I really think we're just gonna see The Microsoft Cycle™ again (as described by TechAltar): identify a trend, zero in and go all-in on it, mess it up and/or realise no one cares, slowly undo all of that work and end up back at square one

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

just so were all clear, Musk is firing half of Twitter's staff, including huge swaths of their content moderation capability, four days before opening up identity-confirmation-free verification to the whole website which will happen...the day before a national election.