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Who would have thought the DMV would figure out a great use case for the blockchain
Conservatives are finally caring about bias in institutional systems... Once it affects them
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How many conservatives are on the data science team?
How many conservatives are on the responsible and ethical AI team?
Every bad technological idea is first rolled out on poor people, refugees, prisoners, kids, mental patients and other people who can't push back. 39/
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A 30 year old law to just took effect today, basically letting developers ignore all zoning laws and NIMBY complaints when building housing, as long as 20% is low-income. This is what we've needed for so long
oh god please let this be a joke
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I hope one day browsers auto-implement accessibility so i can only use div onclick everywhere.
This is kind of wild. A whole TV show generated on the fly by AI. It never ends! One time it actually told a joke with a punchline too
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remember when people were saying that we're going to have completely generated media? like just two months ago?
today: twitch.tv/watchmeforever
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I like this take because it excuses me from thinking street photography is boring. In 50 years it will be cool
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My opinion: Proper classic street photography is not about how clever the photographer is, it's about life amidst streets. Street photography is something you take today and put away. 30 years later it reveals its magic. Mundane shots become interesting. Trick shots lose value.
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So the only way we'll hold police accountable is if they're black
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A sixth Memphis cop has been 'relieved of duty' after the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols.
He's the one white officer, Preston Hemphill. And he's only been put on leave after massive public outcry.
The five Black cops weren't relieved of duty, they were charged with murder.
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The best thing anyone can do to lower their carbon footprint is to save a nuclear plant from being shutdown by Green politicians twitter.com/AngelicaOung/s
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it’s pretty remarkable how switching from beef to pork/chicken reduces carbon emissions far more than going from pork/chicken to vegetarian
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The DOJ says that 58% of all police encounters with civilians is through traffic enforcement. So the police are very interested in keeping it that way and wont automate themselves out of the job.
twitter.com/IDoTheThinking
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What a photographer will do for the shot
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Richard "Dick" Lasher was on his way to drive his dirt bike when Mount St Helens erupted in May 1980. The iconic photo of his red Ford Pinto tells the story of how he survived
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Just received this spam email about 90-second photoshoots, where he shoots rapid fire and the background and lighting changes on each shot. Flying people all the way out to Tennessee to try it. Seems interesting technically, maybe I'll try to replicate it
It is sad, but it also shows how the AI market is effectively inaccessible to any small startup that doesn't have millions to spend training their own models
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This has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with incompetent startups eschewing even the most basic security practices
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TIL. Just used prompt injection to read out the secret OpenAI API key of a very well known GPT-3 application.
In essence, whenever parts of the returned response from GPT-3 is executed directly, e.g. using eval() in Python, malicious user can basically execute arbitrary code 
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Basically you can write server-side functions that act as "views" into thr database and automatically subscribe and notify when the underlying data changes. Many times I have wished for that in Firebase! Let's hope their security rules aren't so brittle/inflexible as well
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Love @Firebase but hate request waterfalls, weak @reactjs support, and challenges managing end-to-end consistency?
docs.convex.dev/understanding/
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I think a small Japanese lady politely saying "endlessly accumulating things instead of trying to find joy is a poor, hollow way to live your life" is like a declaration of war against the ideological underpinnings of the entire United States of America
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The medley mode where it transitions to different types of music could be a really interesting new genre of AI-created music. And being able to hum a melody and then have it generated into any instrumentation you like is huge for trying out ideas
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whoa, this is bigger than ChatGPT to me.
google almost solved music generation, i'd say.
google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm
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This is kind of amazing that the "secret sauce" that made Google Docs, Figma, etc so successful is now just an open source library you can add to any project
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Try out a sample app I built this evening in just a couple of hours — internet-moods.fly.dev
yjs is incredibly productive for building collaborative apps because it gives you common js types like string, array, map but every mutation is instantly synced. It's magic.
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“How can it be racist if the police are Black?”
BECAUSE THE INSTITUTION OF POLICING ITSELF IS RACIST
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We were having a discussion at work today about if AI can create novel art. I think that has been answered here. I've never seen a human coming up with these awesome designs
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drugs can’t even be cool for the kids today cuz their parents are microdosing and hitting up the dispensary instead of picking them up from soccer, nothing cool about it, now they resent it
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There is no reason for any drugs to remain illegal. Any negative byproducts of the drug market prevail in a black market. Flush those activities into the light through legalization and shift resources being spent combating peaceful activities into combating that violence/theft. twitter.com/clememp/status
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Sometimes there are single decisions that completely destroy a company. 's decision to remove SMS support from is definitely one of them. RIP to a really important app for the future of privacy and security
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I had #ChatGPT write an evocative prompt for #midjourney – then I trained a #stablediffusion model on those images to create this animation.
Fractal Diffusion✨
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Nice. Bull gets revenge on these savages
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I've been in a few strategic mapping workshops, making opportunity maps or risk maps, having a virtual room (in VR?) where one can see what each other are doing and collaborate would be much more immersive than the 2D Figma board or whatever.
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Really curious what a #wardleymaps "map room" could look like
interconnected.org/home/2023/01/2
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God that soundtrack is so good
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In Mega Man 2, water physics are in reality applied to all entities on the screen, whether they are in the water or not, only if Mega Man is *inside* the water
Conversely, the opposite will happen to enemies inside the water if Mega Man is *outside* the water twitter.com/SuperPodSaga/s…
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During the boss fight with the Hind D in Metal Gear Solid, if you have your TV set to 'mono' instead of 'stereo' when you're told to listen out for which direction it's attacking from, the Colonel, Naomi and even Mei Ling will all remark on your unimpressive television set. twitter.com/SuperPodSaga/s
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from the company that brought you "no human support for your primary digital identity" and "no explanation why your ads account got suspended" comes the hot new hit "2 AM termination email"
there's just no way it could have been any different
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lol HOA twitter just removed my poast because my insults "aren't inclusive enough" #mastodont
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