Writes intro to article.
[Thinking: eh, this needs a bit more explanation before I jump in here]
Writes a new intro.
Realizes, I'm 1000 words in before I even get to the old intro.
This is now going to be two articles.
I remember when that first high profile case happened, and people were like "well, now at least lawyers will know better than to rely on LLMs to generate their briefs."
RE:
Remember how Elon insisted that end-to-end encrypted DMs was the most important thing he wanted to do at Twitter and a priority on day 1? And then... 6 months later they released fake, not really encrypted DMs, and promised they'd get the real thing set up before long? And then... nothing happened.
One more thing on this. Given my connection to Bluesky, every week multiple people ping me with some variation of "I can't believe Bluesky doesn't have *this* feature that it *absolutely needs* and you guys are *so* stupid that you haven't built it yet."
RE:
Earlier this year I wrote about the problem of "learned helplessness" online, where people think the only thing they can do if they don't like how something works is to yell at companies/gov't to "fix things." Some of the responses I'm getting to the post below...
[www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/e...](
