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Pot oβ gold in The Industrial City
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Trump NFT cards were supposed to bring in $100 million in sales β to date, sales have hit just $17.3 million, generating about $5.6 million in revenue, reports β¦β©
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This promoted tweet showing up in my feed 7 weeks after the World Cup final
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Mental health experts and technologists told me that an A.I. Sigmund Freud is not happening and it's a bad idea.
But we've been trying for decades to make a perfect computer therapist bot.
Why? And where can AI actually help improve mental health care?
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Tens of thousands of micropayments = a mess
Not to mention incentivizing tweets that are most likely to draw marketers' interest
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AI is HERE -- tech execs cannot stop talking about it, writes who found as much as a six-fold increase in use of the word on recent earnings calls
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Remember when this was going to revolutionize how we eat?
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"We're on an important journey to re-engineer our cost structure in a durable way" really is a much more grand and self-important way of firing people than pointing to redundancies or right-sizing
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Okay, just hear me out -- a paid tier and I'm adding a "plus" to the name
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"Pay up or the boss will break your thumbs"
Me: "Sorry, I'm constrained due to forex headwinds and a consumer pullback in the face of a challenging macroeconomic environment"
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Investors turn on Google-parent Alphabet after-market after it misses on sales and net income amid sliding ad revenue
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Donβt like every single word of our new, extremely lengthy and impenetrable agreement? Go shove it!
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Fred Savage in "The Wizard"?
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The most iconic gamer ever joins us for an epic mobile gaming experience. 
Any ideas which one? #SamsungUnpacked #SharetheEpic
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Any chance this update will make it function more like software that human beings want to use?
The man got caught with his pants on fire and knows he won't get re-elected & will have trouble getting a job in the private sector -- he's gonna ride this thing out
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Wall Street LOVES job cuts
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PAYPAL SHARES JUMP, LAST UP 2.3% AFTER MARKETWATCH REPORTS PAYPAL WILL LAY OFF 7% OF EMPLOYEES AS PART OF COST CUTTING
$PYPL
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Any corporate blog headline that includes the word "transformation" means only a couple things, none of them good
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I didn't know I wanted to read an article about the San Francisco Symphony conductor until I happened across an article on him in the Chron. But a personalized news algorithm would never show it to me.
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One of the things lost in personalized news (and, frankly, online news) is serendipity -- stumbling across an article you didn't know you were interested in until you saw the headline
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But the $7-a-gallon gas was purely a function of supply & demand
Now thatβs real power π€£
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βBrian Callahan
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Whereas Kansas City can win if they score and prevent Cincinnati from scoring
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The Bengals have an opportunity to win here if they score again and prevent KC from scoring
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Long since overdue for Washington State Lotto hats and four-finger word rings to make a comeback β¦β©
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Nothing quite as crushing as the discovery, after months of construction, that a favorite old place is becomingβ¦a bank
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Donald Trump has not curtailed his fiery rhetoric on social media as Facebook is set to restore his account, writes
nytimes.com/2023/01/28/us/
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Imagine how much pressure drivers are under that they believe this is necessary to maintain their ratings
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Officials just stopped the Loyola Chicago-Duquesne game because an Uber Eats driver was delivering McDonaldβs on the court:
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"As a general rule, we donβt want to get in the way of open, public and democratic debate on Metaβs platforms β especially in the context of elections in democratic societies like the United States" -- Nick Clegg, Meta
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Trump's Facebook/Instagram accounts to be reinstated. Recall that Facebook will not, as a policy, moderate political candidates
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Have definitely felt this progression to being nickel-and-dimed by the healthcare industry
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