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Bluesky's CEO warns you shouldn't 'fully outsource your thinking' to AI Bluesky CEO Jay Graber emphasized the importance of critical thinking and developing a generalist skillset for the AI era.

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber emphasized the importance of critical thinking and developing a generalist skillset for the AI era.

We need to make it illegal for AI models to offer advertising. And, we need to really examine referral fees as well.

The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.

We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media

What are our out of cereal??

The Intercontinental is a bit out of the way (30 min+ walk to old town) but convenient to airport and really nice outdoor pool, patio, gym, sauna etc. Near the UN. Kinda corporate. Lots of diplomats.

My wife said CitizenM (downtown) is nice modern funky.

The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!

Life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness /
We fought for these ideals we shouldn't settle
for less.

It’s possible I watch #TheBear just for the music.

Trump is claiming his strikes on Iran made the American people safer. He is dangerously wrong.

I served two combat tours in Iraq and am now on the Armed Services Committee.

His actions were not only unconstitutional, they have made America less safe – not more.

Here’s why:

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Highly recommend this recipe. Chilled
Pie, not too sweet (except graham cracker crust). Make it every July when the berries come out. Not a traditional gloppy berry pie.

Wow! I'm told from State House that the Committee of Conference just voted this BACK INTO THE BUDGET! #nhpolitics

MIT Finds LLM Users Forget Their Own Essays in Minutes —Are We Headed Towards Post-Literate Thinking? Deep new research from MIT tells us, more or less, that people who use LLMs to write an essay don't remember what they wrote, even minutes later. This strikes me as Very True, and profound.

So, deep new research from MIT tells us, more or less, that people who use LLMs to write an essay don't remember what they wrote, even minutes later. This strikes me as Very True, and profound. I wrote up some thoughts about what this might mean (without using AI).

www.linkedin.com/pulse/mit-fi...

Example: ⬇️⬇️
Hi Rep,
I’m calling because I heard that the maternal health package was taken out of the budget. We can make a real difference in the lives of moms and babies if you put this piece back in the budget. There are also many parts of it that are zero-cost &are not insurance mandates.

From NH Women's Foundation:

‼️‼️URGENT ACTION ALERT‼️‼️
Late on Wednesday, June 18, the Committee of Conference working on New Hampshire’s state budget gutted Momnibus 2.0. TODAY is the last day they meet on the budget and they need to hear from YOU.

📞📞 Call these Reps THIS MORNING:

#nhpolitics

This strikes me as Very True. (Eg: I no longer know any phone numbers; I’ve outsourced that to my phone.)

But for the 99% of us who aren’t famous authors, the value of writing is usually the PROCESS as much as, or more than, the result. It makes our thinking better.

Not exactly phone numbers.

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🤣🤣🤣 truth also no one else in their right mind would describe themself as handsome like that except a MWM but I feel you.

2023 ➡️ 2024 ➡️ Today.

Great to see the Biofabrication coalition’s Regen Valley community day grow. Future site of 100k sq ft manufacturing facility for human cells and tissues.

We want the best and the brightest from around the world attending our universities.

To intentionally dismantle that as a form of political punishment is not only misguided – it will make America worse off and less competitive on the global stage.

Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.

Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...

Is the ‘modern’ really necessary? I’m wondering.

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We need a 2028 presidential candidate who "drips and oozes authenticity when they promise to shake up a broken economic and political system," @adamgreen321.bsky.social said to @thehill.com's @juliamanchester.bsky.social.

Now is not the time for Biden or Harris to be stepping out.

AI is a powerful tool. It’s not snake oil and it’s not sentient.

It’s really really important to use it well (ie, to expand your access to & ability to process human knowledge at scale). But not as a black box opinion machine. Thar be monsters….

I memorized the first verse of that poem in 6th grade, still remember it 35 years later.

The American origin story runs deep.

One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.

Literally watching with my 11 yr old right now. Gotta pass the fashion to the next gen

SIFT Toolbox for Claude and ChatGPT Released I don't know how to explain how much this changes everything, so I'm just going to ask you to try it

mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/sift-toolb...

This is some “WeWork-staffers-call-Lattes-Cappuccinos-because-crazy-CEO-is-confused-and-no-one-wants-to-contradict-him” level bullshit….except, who know, for the entire global economy.

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