I think we can agree that granting someone full access to the open internet without education or tools to protect themselves would be dangerous, no?
OK, but what is a general-purpose LLM but a collection of everything that the model
Mike McBride
Mike McBride has been blogging since 2001, starting with what was, in essence, a blog about technology and being a One-Man IT Department. Over the years, his career has taken some twists and turns, as well as my interests, so now you will find blog posts covering everything from Social Networking, Law firms and Litigation Support, Travel, Training and yes, he's still writing about technology! He's even branched out into Photography and Sports Talk.
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Worth Reading – Fake news and trust
By Mike McBride
This is the instruction manual. Make everything seem dangerous and chaotic, then offer simplistic fixes and explanations that aren’t true at all, but fit a narrative you wish to manipulate people with. As Seth describes, the easy thing to do…
Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 18, 2026
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Worth Reading – How Malinformation Tricks Your Brain
By Mike McBride
The article above, however, makes it clear that our brains take shortcuts to make quick decisions. In doing so, the number of times we see something that isn’t true can impact whether we treat it as false or true. They…
Worth Reading – We Asked 9 Burnout Experts Their Secrets to Protecting Mental Health at Work—and They All Said the Same Thing
By Mike McBride
This article gathers input from multiple experts and continues for 28 paragraphs without once mentioning the employers’ expectation that we do all the things they tell us not to do.
It’s all well and good to point out that setting…
Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 11, 2026
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Gmail Users Losing POP and Getting AI Whether We Like It or Not
By Mike McBride
Personally, I’ve moved away from using the POP feature in Gmail to import mail from other email accounts into Gmail to take advantage of the spam protection. Since I host my own sites and my own M365 tenant, much of…
Worth Reading – Is 2026 The Year We All Decide to Quit the Internet?
By Mike McBride
I’ve always written under the assumption that people were reading what I put out here and, hopefully, learning something. In the age of AI-slop, I want more of that, and only that. I’m seeking it out and connecting with it.…
Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 4, 2026
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Worth Reading – X Users Have the Power to Edit Any Image Without Permission
By Mike McBride
Should we start a pool on the first Grok-produced image harassment case to hit the courts? Will it be simple harassment, or will it involve CSAM, revenge porn, etc.? There’s no way this doesn’t get misused, and Elon knows it.…