Lynn Hughes

Stock prices for tech companies over the last hour and a half of pre market overnight trading.

Chat: is red GOOD or BAD?

brand new diner serves coke the normal way

If this is all democracy can be then it's already failed.

I'm not sure if they have consistent morals or reasoning at this point. It feels like it's all sunk cost. Nothing can be better because democracy is at stake.

But if I can't choose to vote for someone that won't kill innocents then what's the choice? I don't want to rubber-stamp a genocidaire.

this is at least three reasons why, possibly more.

Snippet from: https://qz.com/1427621/companies-are-on-the-hook-if-their-hiring-algorithms-are-biased

It's genuinely nuts that this hasn't been outlawed. AI in the HR space is just being used to reinforce existing biases against women and minorities.

I'm eternally reminded of the AI that decided that the best candidate for every job is a guy named Jared that played Lacrosse in high school.

Shadow Men: Inside Wagner, Russia's Secret War Company - The Peabody Awards This 40-minute documentary film goes behind the scenes of the Wagner Group, a nefarious organization led by Yevgeny Prigozhin—a mercenary, oligarch, and onetime associate of Russian President Vladimir...

The Wall Street Journal received their first ever Peabody nomination for Shadow Men. Very glad I got to work with their team while it was in production, and I am elated at how well it's been received.

peabodyawards.com/award-profil...

we turned beautiful blank sheets into "documents" - to be read only once. now? even once is too much, only machine eyes "read" the pages.

genuinely wonder if adobe is dumb enough to try training models off of PDF's that users use AI to analyze, some incredible potential to leak user data there.

This training dataset includes videos which use work I've written. Annoying? Not sure how to feel about it. Like yeah I gave license for what I wrote to be used with attribution, but I haven't ever seen an AI project give what I'd call satisfactory attribution.

It’s so over

what goes on here?

www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/i...

Investigations by The Examination, The New York Times and El Universo traced how hundreds of children were poisoned by cinnamon that went from Sri Lanka to Ecuador to the United States – spotlighting food safety lapses.

How exactly does children's applesauce get contaminated with lead? We helped The Examination find out!

www.theexamination.org/articles/how...

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might be this? the lyrics in the post are kinda adjacent.

It's Ello Ello by RAC

You have to do

intext:"thing you actually want to search for"

I have no clue why they decided this was a good design pattern - but for now it works.

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Wonder how many hours journalists have spent near the butter cow watching various presidential candidates act Normal around it.

I got into an argument with a self provided "Narrative Designer" - he told me that AI written stories are the future. I just told him that if he didn't want to spend the time writing it I didn't want to spend the time reading it.

thank you for your service.

After nearly a year of testing medications purchased in pharmacies in Mexico, we at @latimes.com tallied up the results and found:

About 62% of the 114 painkillers & ADHD meds we tested were counterfeit.

Wartime sanctions on Russia have sparked new smuggling opportunities for hot-ticket items like luxur... Despite Western countries' efforts to cut off Russia from the world, market constraints have created new opportunities for Russian gangs to make money.

"Our research shows that despite the war, sanctions, and corporate boycotts, for those with the means to afford $1,700 bottles of cognac life in Russia continues uninterrupted," Lynn Hughes, an analyst for Import Genius.

www.businessinsider.com/sanctions-ru...

Ever wonder where all those disposable vapes came from? Me too! Take a look at this article me and the team at ImportGenius helped out with!
apnews.com/article/vapi...

USA Import Data from Import Genius Data - Searching "High Seas" in Foreign Port. "Garbage, breakfast sausage, concentrated tea, artworks"

"high seas" shipments are wild, it's a catch all for everything from oil rigs, ship to ship transfers, salvage, and the aforementioned cruise ship related stuff.

i want a bite of the high seas breakfast sausage.

Yep

As for "General Note 3 (I) (E)" - it contains an exemption that makes sure people don't have to pay duties on coffins, dead bodies, and the like. So the $1.00 value of the body isn't being tariffed at least.

Data on cruise ship deaths during the pandemic.

One of the more fascinating things I learned with access to maritime Import data is that once someone dies on a ship, they become cargo and thus must be declared by the cruise ships.

It's an odd bit of trade bureaucracy and necropolitics.