international reporting depends on fixers, who are mostly local journalists, and guides, who bring knowledge of language, culture, and context that outsiders cannot. They open doors, navigate risks, and sometimes bear the brunt of backlash. Yet they are often underpaid, uncredited, and unprotected.
Messi has a 10/10 rating in every 12 performances, according to SofaScore.
The average is a 10 rating in every 3000 performances.
If you're not mindful of the sound you listen to, you won't have a sound mind.
Today, August 20: In 1858, Charles Darwin published his first theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. #TodayinHistory #LitHub
Character.AI is in talks for a potential sale or to raise new funding a year after its founders left the company to join Google. The company's reach has grown to 20 million monthly users, but it is facing rising costs to run its AI models.
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this is the equivalent of saying netflix is learning how to love you because you keep rating every show you watch and it's recommending better and better shows now
Sam Altman's kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste. If that’s any indication of how he runs the company, OpenAI, insolvency cannot be considered too unrealistic a threat.
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I am once again begging TV shows to turn the fucking lights on
Intellectualism. Hedonism. Materialism. The pursuit of them all is like chasing the wind.
Every good podcast listener has listened to a theme song by Breakmaster Cylinder at some point.
After decades of rising secularism, Christianity is holding its ground — and gaining among the young
25%, the proportion of Americans who say their faith was fortified during the pandemic.
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Had me in the first half.
Let's not mince words. If Paramount settles Trump's "60 Minutes" lawsuit, it will look like a payoff. Specifically, it will look like a big check to Trump (or his presidential library) in exchange for regulatory approval of Paramount's pending deal with Skydance Media. www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/m...
Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an authoritarian "President Donner."
www.axios.com/2025/02/01/o...
google had $26.3 billion in profit in its last quarter
media companies simply love to pay out millions to random podcast hosts while constantly laying off the writers, editors, and media workers of every other stripe who create all the actual value
Tweet from Rob Bluey: You might not agree with @karaswisher ’s politics, but you can’t argue with her success. Q: “What did Kara Swisher, Inc. bring in in 2024? A: “Millions of dollars. For me, millions of dollars, many, many millions of dollars.” This year she’s expecting a $20 million payout from Vox. Fascinating interview about how to make money in media with @semaforben and @maxwelltani
SO COOL that Vox Media had two rounds of layoffs in the past three months and keeps cutting our budgets and yet somehow there's $20 million for one person
Graze will soon allow feed creators to monetize their efforts with advertising, sponsored posts, and subscriptions.
In other words, Graze has stumbled upon a potentially viable business model for Bluesky
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“US exceptionalism now exceptionally expensive, exceptionally well-owned,” the strategist wrote. “‘Magnificent 7’ becomes ‘Lagnificent 7,’ supports broadening of US and global equity and credit markets.”
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
If the task that you're trying to do needs to be highly accurate and will be audience-facing, like an article that you've written or a video that you've produced, then you shouldn't be using Gen AI there, because it's not a highly accurate tool.
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"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"
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I know this has been written about to death but it is so frustrating that u get almost zero subscribers from doing actual reporting and breaking news. The incentives of the internet are so misaligned with journalism. If u care about independent media at all please consider a subscription to User Mag
I always feel strange doing this sort of thing but Defector.com has had an incredible January, just a ton of really good stories on a wide range of topics, and I suggest subscribing to it. I am biased, obviously, but I am really proud and grateful to get to do this the way we're doing it.
TODAY: In 1815, after burning down, the Library of Congress is reestablished when Thomas Jefferson sells the bulk of his book collection to the United States government for $23,950. #Lithub
The irony of getting angry that someone plagiarised your plagiarism engine is never getting old.
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.
I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.
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Tech / AI Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek Did AI just disrupt Sam Altman’s job? by Kylie Robison and Elizabeth Lopatto
We wrote about why everyone is freaking out about
DeepSeek — and how it's the future the AI leaders asked for (w/ the absolute best to do it - @lopatto.bsky.social) www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
