Pinning this here just in case Chief Twit comes for my sweet sweet blue lopsided V.
I was one of the beticked few, once
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I’m thrilled to say is starting the EU telecoms beat today as part of ’s tech team. (Right on time to gear up for #MWC23 in Barcelona.) Reach out to snatch him for a coffee!
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for years, whenever someone asked what type of music I liked, I shrugged and said "dunno."
but by analysing my fav playlists I have concluded that I *do* like two genres in particular.
I love jazz and indie.
it's not that I don't like music: I just have obnoxious tastes.
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Scoop: The Biden administration has decided to postpone Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s upcoming trip to Beijing after detecting a Chinese surveillance balloon that was lingering at high altitude over sensitive nuclear sites in Montana, according two officials.
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Calling all misinfo researchers: My DMs are open if you want to chat. Unclear if this affect researcher access, too. — can you clarify (given your press team is non-existent)?
In short: Twitter cutting down (free) data access just when it's needed most. Fun.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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Met with about the Data Privacy Framework, AI Liability, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive & other legislation to find ways to meet our overarching objectives in a way that is feasible, meaningful & avoids creating new trade barriers.
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After nearly 40 exiting years I have left and look forward to new challenges as a #Consultant and #lecturer! #AI #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #dataprotection #Cybercrime #prisons #internet #digital
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sharp tweet
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Stéphanie Riso is the new Director-General for the @EU_Commission’s Budget department.
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end of an era. bye bye silicon roundabout
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After a decade transforming UK tech, Tech Nation announces it will cease operations and seek to transfer its assets, following termination of its core government grant funding hubs.ly/Q01zKxSn0 #WeAreTechNation #UKTech #scaleups
Loving Google's new "journeys" feature. Really helps go back into past OSINT rabbit-holes
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Very excited to announce there’s a wind of change for me and the . I’ll be joining in a unique hybrid position that will straddle the best of independent and “mainstream” media.
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**PRESS RELEASE**
POLITICO hires Izabella Kaminska — @izakaminska — as Senior Finance Editor in Europe.
Full press release below 
bit.ly/40jFHRI
bit.ly/40jFHRI26
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accurate. would kill for that silver fox look
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Some professional news: This week is my last one lead writing POLITICO's daily European tech newsletter as I'll soon start focusing more on privacy and will co-helm Cyber Insights with . 1/
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I have been shown this ad and I still resent the algorithm
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⚠️My February #AIAct update: 3 Technical Meetings & 2 Shadows scheduled by until #midFebruary. In total, 11 compromise batches have been discussed. Batch #1 fully approved, rest is pending. Still parked among others: most Recitals, Art 3 (incl AI def), 43, ANNEX 1-3
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your content filters made chatgpt much worse
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Not to mention that in its latest version chatgpt has become a prudish, annoying, moralising bore
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ChatGPT lies, all the time, about everything, because there is nothing inherent about a statistical model that predicts what human sentences and paragraphs sound like that entails the ability to distinguish fact from fiction.
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LLMs have no physical intuition as they are trained exclusively on text.
They may correctly answer physical intuition questions *if* they can retrieve answers to similar questions from their vast associative memory.
But they may get the answer *completely* wrong
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hear hear
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Guys, I have it. The ultimate Belgian customer service story. It has a telecom provider, two distinct fuckups, casual threats of legal action, *and* BPost!
It's also a lesson in how you need privilege to avoid paying incorrect fees. This is not good, obviously.
Strap in.
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from rumble conspiracy shitposting to underground harassing
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Small update on my December story. For tips on who might have added Ms Kaili's ELONTech to the EU transparency register without her knowledge — my DMs are open
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#ClimateAction: #COP28 climate team queried over ties to national oil company. The UN is inquiring if the climate team is independent of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, by , & | Politico
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A part of me likes to think it was all a ploy to show that AI isn't able to replace tech reporters
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CNET added this gigantic correction to one of its AI-generated articles after we reached out with some questions about its accuracy 
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Accurate Pose Estimation Via WiFi Signals
"our model can estimate the dense pose of multiple subjects, with comparable performance to image-based approaches, by utilizing WiFi signals as the only input"
arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250
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🚨 Dispatch from Berlin 🚨
I will be having my first go at POLITICO Europe's Morning Tech newsletter this week.
Feel free to reach out to me with hints, lines, scoops (preferably) and anything else. See you in your inbox!
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Not sure what triggered this but wtf
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Forwarding this on behalf of Nick Bostrom since he’s not active on Twitter. He wants to explain his views and publicly apologize for an old email that somebody might put out to damage him. nickbostrom.com/oldemail.pdf
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The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 web3 it's making me uncomfortable. Narratives based on zero data are accepted as self-evident. Everyone is expecting as a sure thing "civilization-altering" impact (& 100x returns on investment) in the next 2-3 years
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The worst piece I’ve ever had to write, an unexpected and much-too-soon obituary for my friend and colleague :
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Constructive exchange today in Madrid with 1st VP & Minister for Economic Affairs and Digital 🇪🇸
✔️ Measures to support EU manufacturing competitiveness & 🇪🇺 jobs in #CleanTech
✔️ Preparation of Spanish EU Presidency in H2 2023 including important #digital files
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me, before the weekend: AGI is just an engineering problem
some anon, during the weekend:
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The IDW discourse is out of control this morning (this all started when AI researcher/podcaster Fridman posted a kinda-basic reading list)
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