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David Gerard

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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

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Nostr also has the excellent cost-control mechanism of first requiring users to set up a cryptographic key pair - you can smell the freedom from here! - and second of being full of coiner spam. This keeps server usage to a minimum in practice,

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nobody in the community is actually interested in the Basilisk

except the ones still getting upset over it, but if we deny their existence as hard as possible they won’t be there

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This was actually posted in June, but it became hot news yesterday for some reason

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I try for clickbait that delivers

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remembering the NFT grifter who loudly asserted that if you weren’t into NFTs then you must be a transphobe

(it was Fucking Thorne)

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Timnit Gebru on Twitter:

We received feedback from a grant application that included “While your impact metrics & thoughtful approach to addressing systemic issues in AI are impressive, some reviewers noted the inherent risks of navigating this space without alignment with larger corporate players,”

https://xcancel.com/timnitGebru/status/1836492467287507243

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The videos are a complete worked example of the difference between an impressive demo - and they are impressive! - and a production tool.

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who is the investor who pushed Mozilla this hard? where the fuck is this coming from?

all their hiring is AI too

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