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🇺🇦 Ben Kunz

@benkunz

CSO at Mediassociates. Erstwhile savant. In 2024 Benjamin-Buttoning myself. Dig tech, hiking, Iceland, dogs, not in that order.

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Joined April 2007
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Well I just spent a few months meditating that helped
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Honestly kakistocracy is a bit boring it's all so predictable
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It does grow wearisome listening to Americans yell at each other
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The half-the-ads $4.20 offer is comical. But. Hmmmn. Wait.
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Gotta say the new X interest recos are sooo on point ... I've been itching to dig into astrology
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I polished the armor, put it back on. Does it help in tarpits? We will see.
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Peace out.
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This violent behavior by @elonmusk head of X is not OK. Good luck getting to Mars, Elon. Please go soon. You've taught us all that intellect sans empathy is just stupidity.
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I have so many former words missing. Thoughts missing. Actions missing. Words --> thoughts --> actions. This is somewhat sad. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
The Internet's Dark Ages

The Internet's Dark Ages

If a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.

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Did the first brain implant go to Elon? Asking for a friend.
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This week's lesson, children, is if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
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Bunnies will remain cute no matter who wins in politics
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This is a Mensa screening test, good luck everyone
The Recount (@therecount) profile pictureThe Recount
@therecount17 Jan 2024
“Every booster you take, you’re more likely to get COVID as a result of it.” — Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) makes a baseless claim at a town hall in New Hampshire

DeSantis Falsely Claims Boosters Make You More Likely to Get COVID

Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The statement is misleading. The vaccine study that has people worried is being misinterpreted. mcgill.ca/oss/article/co… The Cleveland Clinic paper does not say the bivalent booster increases the risk of catching COVID, but rather, that it reduced infections by 30%. medrxiv.org/content/10.110… nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… montrealgazette.com/opinion/column… academic.oup.com/aje/article/17…
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The wisdom of clowns.
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I speak nerd.
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@RGA11 Jan 2024
Re the three-minute-long ad for Australian lamb: People like weird stuff. People will watch longer stuff (if they find it interesting, or interestingly weird). We make ourselves invisible/irrelevant when we sand all the edges from things.
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@HuinGuillaume9 Jan 2024
i've seen crazy ads in my life but NOTHING compares to this.
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Such an interesting philosophical question. You deserve credit for your own thoughts. But future meta-intelligence could benefit by scraping everyone's thoughts. So, should we defend each ant to block the growth of the entire colony?
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@TheAtlantic10 Jan 2024
Harvard’s president resigned amidst accusations of plagiarism. Similar standards should apply to generative-AI models, @matteo_wong writes: theatlantic.com/technology/a…
What If We Held ChatGPT to the Same Standard as Claudine Gay?

What If We Held ChatGPT to the Same Standard as Claudine Gay?

The problem with generative AI is plagiarism, not copyright.

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Fascinating. Tonight Nikki Haley leapt past Gavin Newsom in the wisdom-of-crowds prediction markets on who might win the presidency. Christie dropping out has given her a boost. 13% odds may not seem like much, but I'd take that for a Powerball ticket.
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Ahh "ruat cælum." "What if justice happens even if the sky should fall?" This explains life. This also may be the most beautiful passage in all of Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_j…

Fiat justitia ruat caelum - Wikipedia

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