Month: April 2023
April 30, 2023
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The Internet Thinks We Don’t Know Its Secret. But I Do.
“ou Lou Ann Dagen died in April 2020 in a Grand Rapids, Michigan, hospital, without her family. She had lived in a nursing home for 10 years, and communicated…”
April 29, 2023
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Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options
“Copyright from the the-decentralized-world dept Fri, Apr 28th 2023 11:59am – Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of…”
April 25, 2023
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Nobody knows how many jobs will “be automated”
“Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash Good news: Substack links are working on Twitter again, so you can share this post to your heart’s content! One…”
April 23, 2023
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Thoughts on AI safety in this era of increasingly powerful open-source LLMs
“This morning, VentureBeat published a story by Sharon Goldman: With a wave of new LLMs, open source AI is having a moment — and a red-hot debate . It covers the…”
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AI@IA – Extracting Words Sung on 100 year-old 78rpm records – Internet Archive Blogs
“A post in the series about how the Internet Archive is using AI to help build the library. Freely available Artificial Intelligence tools are now able to…”
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“This interview was first published in April 13th’s edition of Command Line , my weekly newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation. You can…”
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Can ActivityPub save the internet?
“The hottest new thing in social isn’t vertical video, and it’s not AI-driven algorithmic feeds. Instead, it’s a little-known, years-old protocol called…”
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Bluesky Plans Decentralized Composable Moderation
“Content Moderation from the power-to-the-people dept Thu, Apr 20th 2023 03:30pm – We just wrote about Substack’s issue with content moderation and the Nazi bar…”
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“They’re all here waiting. Anxiously swaying on the Sabbath. Impatiently jostling for better sight lines. Blinking with the neuroses that begin to take root when…”
April 16, 2023
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“Rams Palette. – Present & Correct We are open at 23 Arlington Way, London EC1R 1UY Colours taken from Dieter Rams legendary product collection for Braun. Made…”
April 12, 2023
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How Many New Songs Are Released Each Day?
“Can you have too many songs? That seems like a nice problem to have, until you start looking at the implications. They’re scary—both for musicians and fans.…”
April 10, 2023
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Our big problem is not misinformation; it’s knowingness | Psyche Ideas
“For the better part of a decade, scholars and writers across the globe have lamented the growing prevalence of misinformation, conspiracism , ideology, mistrust…”
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Ozempic Is About to Be Old News
“All of a sudden, Ozempic is everywhere. The weight-loss drug that it contains, semaglutide, is a potent treatment for obesity, and Hollywood and TikTok…”
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A Scandal Is Taking Place in American Music This Week
“A scandal is taking place in American music this week. And it’s all about a book written 50 years ago—and finally published on Tuesday. The release of this work…”
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The Decline and Fall of the Hit Instrumental Song
“Today I’m featuring a guest contributor at The Honest Broker . Chris Dalla Riva combines a deep grasp of music history with probing data analytics. You may have…”
April 8, 2023
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“Sponsored By: Mindsera This article is brought to you by Mindsera , an AI-powered journal that gives you personalized mentorship and feedback for improving your…”
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Resisting Deterministic Thinking
“AI is here and it will change everything! OMG the sky is falling! Programmers are now obsolete. No, they are needed more than ever before. Large language models…”
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‘Within a minute, everyone was dancing’ – Stardust on making Music Sounds Better With You
“Alan Braxe, co-writer, guitar, production I have three distinct memories of hearing this song. Right after we finished the track, we listened to it in the…”
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ongoing by Tim Bray · Fediverse Cheesemaking
“Starting sometime April 7th you can call me a CoSocialist, because my new social-media handle is becoming @[email protected] . CoSocial is yet another…”
April 7, 2023
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It’s Happening! – Cosocial.ca Canadian Mastodon Co-operative
“Hello, world! It’s been a while since we told you what’s going on with CoSocial.ca. Here are some important milestones! We’ve incorporated ! We’ve edited and…”
April 5, 2023
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MR Tries The Safe Uncertainty Fallacy
“The Safe Uncertainty Fallacy goes: The situation is completely uncertain. We can’t predict anything about it. We have literally no idea how it could go.…”
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ChatGPT Made Me Cry and Other Adventures in AI Land
“[Yesterday I spent all day answering reader questions for the inaugural Kottke.org Ask Me Anything . One of them asked my opinion of the current crop of AI…”
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“Ten years ago ( from last Saturday ) I launched Stratechery with an image of sailboats: A simple image. Two boats, and a big ocean. Perhaps it’s a race, and one…”
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Science Museums Take Stock of 1.1 Billion Objects From Around the World
“Matter Natural history museums have joined forces to produce a global digital inventory of their prized collections, from pinned butterflies to dinosaur skulls.…”
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“How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression. Imagine a time traveler journeyed to various times and places throughout human history and showed…”
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Here’s What It Would Take To Slow or Stop AI
“The story so far: I haven’t seen this many people this confused about the basics of a technology this important since the rise of the internet in the late 90s.…”
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The age of average — Alex Murrell
“Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their…”
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“Somewhere between hyper-capitalist motivation videos, pseudo-spiritual tweets, and Instagram therapy infographics, a predominant mental-health narrative has…”
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The complex math of counterfactuals could help Spotify pick your next favorite song
“A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at the music-streaming firm Spotify captures for the first time the complex math behind…”
April 3, 2023
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Scientists Warn of A “Friendship Recession” — I’m Part of It
“Scientists Warn of A “Friendship Recession” — I’m Part of It And the 11–3–6 rule that might help Photo by Surface on Unsplash A few weeks ago, I joined a local…”