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Geriatric Millennial from the Oregon Trail generation. Digital Strategist. Creative storyteller…
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Previously sidelined creators who failed to meet the old criteria can now monetize their content with relative ease… As a passive YouTube viewer (primarily on Apple TV), I’m not a fan of the push for Shorts, but understand why they’re doing it.
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CREATOR ALERT
YouTube just lowered the YPP (YouTube Partner Program) eligibility criteria to get smaller creators in and earning soonerShow this thread
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The evolution of this website chronicling the #RedditGoesDark protest in real-time has been fun to watch. Such a nightmare event heading into an IPO for #RedditBlackout
reddark.untone.uk
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* People ask LLMs to write code
* LLMs recommend imports that don't actually exist
* Attackers work out what these imports' names are, and create & upload them with malicious payloads
* People using LLM-written code then auto-add malware themselves
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You know what I love best about this 50cm image?
The price: $750
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This feels like an area where citizen science can go a long way in helping public safety. There should be a fund that people can apply to and if they qualify, they receive a high quality air quality meter for free. I recall there being a crypto project with this premise…
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#ONStorm #ONwx 
Air Quality Update for Southern Ontario
VALID: 12:30 PM - June 8, 2023
Although today was anticipated to be one of the most challenging in terms of air quality due to wildfire smoke, we're relieved to see that the scenario has not been as dire as expected.… Show more
Air Quality Update for Southern Ontario
VALID: 12:30 PM - June 8, 2023
Although today was anticipated to be one of the most challenging in terms of air quality due to wildfire smoke, we're relieved to see that the scenario has not been as dire as expected.… Show more
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The #GOESEast satellite loop clearly shows the apocalyptic look of smoke funneling down from the raging Canadian wildfires. The low pressure system picks up the smoke and spins it directly into NYC. #ClimateCatastrophe
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Lol
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I deleted this tweet because the “AI powered drone turns on its operator story” was total nonsense—the Colonel who described it as a simulation now says it was just “a thought experiment.”
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Some important additional context:
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Replying to @jon_flop_boat @ESYudkowsky and 2 others
Meaning an entire, prepared story as opposed to an actual simulation. No ML models were trained, etc. It's not evidence for anything other than that the Air Force is now actively considering these sorts of possibilities.
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Wild stuff. And FWIW, The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as RAeS, is a British professional institution founded in 1866 that promotes the advancement of aeronautical art, science, and engineering. It is the oldest aeronautical society in the world. aerosociety.com/news/highlight
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. you’ll get a kick out of this. Check out the number one most edited Wikipedia entry of all-time:
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But what is weird about this anomaly is that the cooling of the western pacific isn't happening yet... The whole ocean is abnormally warm... so is the Atlantic. What this means for El Niño, & the global weather teleconnections is uncertain to say the least. This isn't good news.
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I have no words.
The world's oceans are 0.4°F warmer right now than any other year on this date on record.
A single year... sitting 0.4°F above the previous daily record.
How do we even tell the public this?
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Oftentimes, the work put into the community is more important than the work on the court.
Joakim Noah discusses his work alongside violence prevention groups in Chicago.
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Even terrible quality faked images cause a ripple like this in the stock market. Makes you ponder the wider impact that high-quality generative AI will have on financial markets…
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4/ Markets responded to the artificial swirl of #AI -generated fake images & explosion reports.
One report puts the S&P 500 Index $SPX drop at $500 billion before recovering. You can see the NASDAQ $COMP dropping before recovering, too.
Sound familiar?
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Every openai upgrade that's rolling out every week feels as substantial as the yearly iphone updates in the beginning.
GPT3.5 -> GPT4
GPT4 -> GPT4 + browsing/plugins
-> Code interpreter
-> 32K
All feel like huge upgrades happening on the order of weeks.
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This is a great outcome from these hearings.
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CEO of OpenAI and creator of ChatGPT says ‘regulation of AI is essential’ theguardian.com/technology/202
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System 002/C (wings extended to 1300m) completes its debut extraction.
≈4800 kg of plastic removed and prevented from degrading into microplastics and entering animal and human food chains. That's over 206,602 kg we've cleaned up from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch so far.
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It was in late March that Silicon Valley decided that it's no longer shameful to accept massive investment dollars from Saudi Arabia.
Why does everyone seem to think that's okay? And why do they not want to talk about it?
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Yikes. People offering upwards of $20 for an invite to ’s new decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky Social (still in beta) in this Reddit thread… reddit.com/r/BlueskySocia
Elon’s systematic dismantling of Twitter seems to be achieving new heights after the blue check fiasco.
Musk chaotically "gifting" blue checks looks *exactly* like the arbitrary system he claimed was in place before.
The only difference?
It's no longer a process, it's Musk's personal power.
Which has always been the point.
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Update for the day after: just before the purge yesterday, 19,469 of the 407k legacy verified accounts I had identified in early April had Twitter Blue. Today that number for those same accounts is 19,497, for a net increase of 28 accounts.
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Never have I seen such a botching of an iconic brand as what has been done to HBO over the past couple of years.
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I’m not a big fan of ChaosGPT. When humans are knowingly trying to unleash chaos causing #AI agents for lulz and YouTube views, we have lost the plot.
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Happy opening day for those who celebrate.
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Smart partnership by Google.
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