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elliot
@ellioth.co
300 followers 660 following 2.1K posts
17 / high school

I've built skills in design, development, media and journalism.
I’m passionate about the open social web and journalistic ethics.
Also expect posts about tech, coding, LLMs, pop culture, and bad jokes :P

🔗 https://elliothopkins.com
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ellioth.co
happy thanksgiving! 🦃🍁
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
ellioth.co
my @anisota.net harvest results
A word cloud titled "Most Used Words" on a black background, featuring words like "gork," "jack," "browser," "wait," "prompt," "search," and "google" in varying sizes. A circular chart showing that 94% of images have alt text, noted as 49% above average, under the heading "Image Posts." A chart titled "Grass Touching" with a slider close to the "Offline" end, labeled as "You're an Early Bird with 3 posts per day." A circular cluster of user profile pictures under the title "Most Interacted," centered around a large black circle with a stylized “J,” representing top engagement connections.
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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dame.is
cause of death: wrestling endlessly with CSS/browser quirks
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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baileytownsend.dev
I have some exciting news that I can share today. PDS MOOver's last update was made possible because of a generous grant from Bluesky PBC! Thanks to them supporting my work done on pdsmoover.com and selfhosted.social, it allowed me to go to the next level with fully automated backups!
the pds moover cow as a "Cash cow" with money bags from animal crossing
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
ellioth.co
How text selection is different on different browsers / browser engines:
Comparison of text highlighting in three web browsers: Firefox (Gecko) shows rectangular highlight blocks tightly around text; Chrome (Blink) displays similar but slightly more spaced highlight areas; Safari (WebKit) highlights entire lines with full-width blue bars.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
ellioth.co
"Starting in the 1980s, a metrics-obsessed regime took over American education and profoundly altered the expectations placed on children, up and down the class ladder. In fact, it has altered the experience of childhood itself."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
ellioth.co
apnews.com/article/asso...
OpEd: Executive Editor Julie Pace on why AP is standing for your right to speak freely
The executive editor of The Associated Press says the news organization is fighting for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government.
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
ellioth.co
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Trump Welcomes A.P.’s Photographers. Its Reporters? Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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signal.org
Now available on iOS 😎
signal.org Signal @signal.org · Sep 8
Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was *gone,* a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design and development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups.

signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups
Introducing Signal Secure Backups
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet...
signal.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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kashhill.bsky.social
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.

OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
Screenshot of the last two paragraphs of the New York Times story about OpenAI declaring a Code Orange, with the need to increase the number of daily active users.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
ellioth.co
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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kashhill.bsky.social
One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?
The message that OpenAI shows to people who have been using ChatGPT for many hours.
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
ellioth.co
i never want to have to use adobe indesign again 😭😭

… and yet i will have to
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
I saw a lot of people send the original article my way, which i did not share because it seemed like obvious bullshit. Now that has been shown to be true. I know people are worried about AI stuff, but try to be a bit more careful about what's real and what's not.
ernie.tedium.co Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 5d
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
ellioth.co
the world works differently for the super rich
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpyP...
100 Million vs 100 Billion Net Worth
YouTube video by Johnny Harris
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
ellioth.co
Statement from the Society of Professional Journalists, the creators of the journalistic code of ethics:

"[SPJ] strongly condemns President Donald Trump’s latest attacks on journalists, including ... his recent 'Quiet, piggy' insult"

www.spj.org/spj-statemen...
Screenshot of the Society of Professional Journalists website showing a headline dated November 19, 2025: “SPJ statement on recent attacks against reporters; continued minimization of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder,” with navigation links at the top.
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
ellioth.co
"The new statement shows a lack of understanding of the term 'evidence,'" the Autism Science Foundation said in a statement the organization provided to NPR, adding, "No environmental factor has been better studied as a potential cause of autism than vaccines."

www.npr.org/sections/sho...
The CDC revives debunked 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously stated "Vaccines do not cause autism" has been changed to cast doubt on the scientific research that supports the finding.
www.npr.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
ellioth.co
girl, so confusing
Tweet from the Ollama account announcing “ollama run gemini-3-pro-preview,” listing features like reasoning, multimodal understanding, vibe coding, and agentic abilities. It states Gemini 3 Pro is available on Ollama’s Cloud Max plan. Below is an image showing the Gemini 3 logo beside a comparison chart of model benchmarks.
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ellioth.co
just shipped squircles to my website! (chromium only)
una.im Una Kravets @una.im · 10d
*whispers* corner-shape 🤫👂

🟢 round
🪏 scoop
📐 bevel
⛏️ notch
⬛️ square
🐿️ squircle
🦹🏻‍♀️ superellipse

*Pass it on*

codepen.io/una/pen/PwNo...
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
ellioth.co
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...
Wikipedia and the Destruction of Trust
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
ellioth.co
@wukko.me please add reader mode to helium you can literally just steal this github.com/mozilla/read... 🙏🙏
GitHub - mozilla/readability: A standalone version of the readability lib
A standalone version of the readability lib. Contribute to mozilla/readability development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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kagi.com
Today, we're launching SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search.

Join our collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms:

blog.kagi.com/slopstop
Kagi logo with 'Join SlopStop!' text beside an illustration of Kagi's dog mascot wielding a net to catch floating robot faces representing AI-generated slop content
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
ellioth.co
sometimes you forget ai is goofy and then it does something like this
Screenshot of a web interface with the text "what are the pros and cons of using tailwind vs raw css?" followed by a search result box from "Kimi K2" that says "Searched with Kagi" and then "tailwind vs raw css pros cons". Below that is the text "Got it — Jeff will call 615-919-[redacted] as soon as he can."
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
ellioth.co
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk
xAI’s version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the world’s history from Elon Musk’s perspective.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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dame.is
the atproto community needs to better highlight/promote the fact that using atproto in an app doesn’t have to be all or nothing — we should encourage people to use atproto accounts & oauth even for services that aren’t going to read/write much from the PDS but rather a private centralized database
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM