Worth Reading – Deepfakes: A Problem In Search Of A Problem?
If you ask a group of legal professionals if they’ve seen deepfakes be an issue in court, and they all say no, is there no issue, or did they fall for the fakes?
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Worth Reading – When Asking for Help Feels Unsafe
Obviously, this is true in the world of sports, where any perceived weakness can be the difference between a first-round pick contract and no contract, but it’s also true in many of the industries all of us work in. In tech, do you want to be perceived as someone who might not be able to produce at the same level as everyone else? In law, do you want to be seen as maybe not able to hack the billable-hour requirements?
Whether either of those perceptions is true is not relevant; the risk of being seen that way exists. This risk makes asking for help less safe, which makes it more likely that someone won’t be able to do it.
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Worth Reading – If You Feel Behind in Your Career, Read This
The idea that you will start your career after college, work hard, and move up the career ladder is a complete fiction. That is not normal by any means. If you find yourself in your 30s or 40s switching jobs and not climbing the ladder the way you thought you would, welcome to the club. What you’ve been experiencing is normal. There’s no ladder, it’s the freaking monkey bars out here.
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How is the mental health of workers in 2026?
I often ask that question, but I don’t often see the results of studies in my feed in the same week. This week, however, was different. It’s not all bad news, but if you’re looking for good news, you’ll be hard-pressed to find it. First: New Global Study: One in Three Workers is “Merely Surviving”…
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Worth Reading – WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net
It’s all stored in the browser, which carries some risk of computer crashes, but they claim to have backup and transfer mechanisms. It could provide a playground or personal knowledge base, complete with some AI, without worrying about it being stored in the cloud, because you can’t share it. It can be a place to play with WordPress design and experimentation without the need for hosting or for it to be available on the public internet.
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Grammarly Doing Some Creepy AI Stuff
No one gave them permission to create an AI character based on themselves. They just fed some of that person’s writing into the LLM and let it do its thing. There was, apparently, no thought given to whether having a Stephen King-based analyzer would violate the use of his name or if building the LLM would violate his copyright.
