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Those air freshener things Uber drivers load their cars up with make me feel nauseous.
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ChatGPT gets treated like technological magic, but that ignores the humans behind the curtain that make it function.
OpenAI paid Sama to hire Kenyan workers at $1.32 to $2 an hour to review “child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest” content. Their work made the tool less toxic, but left them mentally scarred. The company ended the contract when they found out TIME was digging into their practices.
@jasongorman This doesn't feel true to my experience. But I've definitely seen organizations get hooked on heroics over strategy, and the reward structure is a big part of it.
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Oh, wow. Just wow.
When I was 18, I was in the Canadian army. I'd joined in a fit of denialism, trying to prove how manly I was.
I was posted, back then, to West Germany, to a Canadian NATO base there (near Baden-Baden). While I was there, I met a young woman, a German, with whom I fell madly in love (as did she with me). When I got sent back to Canada after they found out I was queer (and kicked me out), we tried to stay in touch. I even tried to get a visa to go to Germany.
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@zens Incidentally, this is also how Rivers Cuomo describes the process of writing Weezer songs in an interview I listened to.
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There's a lot of debate as to the efficacy of "ban cars" as an advocacy slogan, but "The government might consider banning gas stoves" sure did generate a lot of coverage about the health and climate problems caused by gas stoves. It simply wasn't on most Americans' radars last week.
Food for thought!
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I'd fallen for, and helped spread, what I now realize was a myth about quote tweets: That there's almost no research on them. Big mistake! Now rectified.
Here's my new post, digging into more than 30 studies with data on quote tweets. They don't settle all the questions. But there are answers, or at least partial ones, to most. It's still complicated, though.
It's a * very * long read, but there are summary points ....1/2
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/01/12/quote-tweeting-over-30-studies-dispel-some-myths/
@trinsec I doubt I've gone over 2000 chars. At that point, it wouldn't be very painful to split.
@hasmis Could you say more on that? I've never thought of a serotonin connection.
@trinsec In my experience, it's very different from Facebook. I barely visit my Facebook anymore, despite having accumulated 1600 Facebook friends, through all my life adventures since 2004. It's mostly useful for Groups.
On LinkedIn, maybe it's just my generation, but it's almost totally professional content. I think they've also done a good job of integrating the unidirectional Follow model for getting content from people I don't personally know.
I'd say LinkedIn has arguably supplanted Twitter as the place where people talk craft stuff. Although it's a different style of discussion -- much less showboating and argument. But it can also be a bit bland and self-promotional.
@lucifargundam I think that's all right. I'm actually truly astounded by young successful people who do manage to navigate it successfully. LeBron James stands out to me as an example.
@schmudde I think that's probably true. There's something to the brevity for sure. I know it has helped me get to the point better.
@lucifargundam Also, I'm pretty familiar with burnout and gaslighting. In the context of this discussion, it reminds me of when Dave Chappelle famously checked out from fame and fortune. I believe he cited the burnout and the sense that he was stuck in kind of an illusion created by the fame (my paraphrasing).
@lucifargundam When I was younger, I often felt that achieving all my dreams could be quite depressing. Trevor Noah actually said as much in an interview. There's nowhere to hide from your existential angst when you can't pin it to something you lack.
@Rob_Bieber Put the vaxes in my arm, let's goooo. I will never fatigue of the vax.
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Peter Hotez on new omicron variant, vaccine fatigue, bivalent booster https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/renew-houston/health/article/Peter-Hotez-COVID-XBB15-variant-vaccine-booster-17707273.php
New blog post on how I've learned to learn rapidly in unfamiliar situations. Hope you enjoy!
https://acjay.com/2023/01/02/expand-your-mind-with-one-weird-trick/
The higher word limit here compared to Twitter is great. People still keep it short, but it's not nearly as cramped. And I can be longer where it feels right.
Of social networks, I find LinkedIn is the best if I have thoughts to share about professional life. (Probs no surprise there.)
The Twitter algorithm is all about generating engagement. Mastodon doesn't have an algorithm, and therefore, things that you post can just get lost in the wash.
LinkedIn kinda stands out for this because
- people are obviously primed to see work-oriented content
- most people don't post that often to it, therefore, there's less noise to cut through
- in my experience, my network there is more representative of my real life connections, increasing engagement with my content
I am now @acjay
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