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Oura is winning young women and losing gym rats, and it's fine with that | TechCrunch Oura's chief commercial officer doesn't seem particularly worried about capturing every demographic. Instead, she's focused on keeping Oura’s core users happy while organically attracting new segments. And young women are becoming part of that core market.

Oura's chief commercial officer doesn't seem particularly worried about capturing every demographic. Instead, she's focused on keeping Oura’s core users happy while organically attracting new segments. And young women are becoming part of that core market.

@ryansutton.bsky.social interesting for you…

The Democrats' Path Forward: Become the Anti-Corruption Party But to reform the system they first need to reform the Democratic Party.

Compelling piece from @adambonica.bsky.social. It's bad that voters think both Dems and GOP are corrupt. I think there's something to a "clean house" brand refresh for the Dems. But I suspect outsiders are going to have to do the refreshing.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

Confirmation Bias in LLM Responses and Potential Educational Mitigations A couple notes on an interesting problem and some possible educational approaches to it

Wrote a little exploration of confirmation bias in LLM responses and on whether educational mitigations could help. It's a tiny constructed example, but keeping it small allows for some experimentation showing some fascinating behavior I haven't seen detailed before.

The 2024 calendar was an undemocratic aberration.

Btw I can confirm part of this 1sthand - I spoke at length with Rep. Clyburn last summer. His take: no interest in SC going first and in fact sees SC’s more traditional spot, after N.H., pre-Super Tuesday, as the ‘kingmaker spot (he’s right). As it was in 2020, 2016, etc #nhpolitics #fitn.

The DNC Will Have No Choice But to Restore New Hampshire’s First-In-the-Nation Role Democrats Want Party Unity. The Answer May Lie in New Hampshire.

There is a lot that is pretty spot-on here — including both the likelihood that NH leads off 2028 and the kicker telling N.H. to approach the calendar with humility.

(especially amidst all the ongoing threats to free and fair elections)

#nhpolitics #fitn

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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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