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Enlarge / One of the Perl programming language’s best-loved nicknames is “the Swiss Army chainsaw.” The nickname also seems unfortunately applicable to Perl’s recent community discourse. reader comments 195 with 123 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Perl community is in a shambles due to disputes concerning its (nonexistent) Code of Conduct, ..

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Getty Images reader comments 134 with 85 posters participating Share this story In July 2020, OpenAI launched GPT-3, an artificial intelligence language model that quickly stoked excitement about computers writing poetry, news articles, and programming code. Just as quickly, it was shown to sometimes be foulmouthed and toxic. OpenAI said it was working on fixes, ..

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MrLonelyWalker | Getty Images reader comments 125 with 63 posters participating Share this story In today’s attention economy, platforms are megaphones and audiences are income. Shut off the megaphone and the income goes away. Bad guy go bye-bye. Throughout the last year, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and beyond have reckoned with their social responsibility not to ..

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Enlarge / Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum addresses an audience on March 20, 2019 in Miami Gardens, Florida. Gillum’s campaign was targeted by racist robocalls in 2018. Getty Images | Saul Martinez reader comments 69 with 45 posters participating Share this story A neo-Nazi, white-supremacist robocaller who spread “xenophobic fearmongering” and “racist attacks on ..

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