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Experts say you should spend no more than 10 minutes on the john.

— Read on www.12onyourside.com/2024/11/12/heres-how-long-doctors-say-is-too-long-sit-toilet/

The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably Infowars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones’ primary online platform.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-auction-rcna179936

But this whole process effectively works on the honor system, and for something like the fake Standards album, this is where the problems begin. A distributor takes you at your word that you are who you say you are, Spotify takes the distributor at their word, and boom, there’s a fake album on a real artist’s page. Most of the time when this happens, it’s an honest mistake. In the recent spate of fakes, though, it seems like artists are directly targeted.

— Read on www.theverge.com/2024/11/14/24294995/spotify-ai-fake-albums-scam-distributors-metadata

After plenty of discussions and tons of exploration, I think we can simplify the world of AI use cases into three simple, distinct buckets:

1. Gods: Super-intelligent, artificial entities that do things autonomously.
2. Interns: Supervised copilots that collaborate with experts, focusing on grunt work.
3. Cogs: Functions optimized to perform a single task extremely well, usually as part of a pipeline or interface.
   Let’s break these down, one by one.

— Read on www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/18/the-3-ai-use-cases-gods-interns-and-cogs.html

I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news.

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We began dating in the summer of 2015 and broke up in the spring of 2016. Sentiment analysis is the process of computationally identifying and categorizing the emotions expressed in a piece of text as positive, negative, or neutral. NLTK’s VADER tools were run on every message that contained text.

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Scott Belsky, Adobe’s chief product officer, said something in a 2020 conversation that has stuck with me since. You can extend this to almost all social media, which has become quite unsocial these days. I have been well aware of the rise of conflict culture for over half a decade.

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A few weeks ago I was at our company meetup in Montreal, on stage in a big room in front of everyone, sharing progress on two brand new products in development. We went one at a time. First Product 1 for a half hour, then Product 2.

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I have a recurring dream about Kenyon. In it, I’m walking to the post office on the way to my first class at the start of the school year. Suddenly it occurs to me that I don’t have my schedule memorized, and I’m not sure which classes I’m taking, or where exactly I’m supposed to be going.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of Hamilton, and playwright Eisa Davis, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, have created a new Broadway musical — which is not actually on Broadway. Instead, it’s a concept album, meant to be listened to in one sitting.

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