Important: This new calling feature is ENABLED by default and will reveal your IP address to your callers!

To opt out, go to settings->privacy and safety->direct messages->disable calls

IP address will potentially identify you so especially important for pseudonymous accounts.

Instead of getting caught up in which AI tool to learn (as it will inevitably change), creative teams should focus on the following key areas:

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reading about Computer People for Peace, an activist org that grew from the 1960s anti-war movement: CPP was against “the use of computer information systems as a means of social control”, “corporate racism” and “the role of automation on rising unemployment”

timely then and now

Nice, clear overview from Matt Marshall on the tradeoffs between open-source and closed LLMs. Plus this article gets concrete about actual use cases from enterprise companies like Walmart, Intuit, and Shopify.

What is there left to say? They displaced 1.4 million people to Rafah, now they are attacking it by air and land. What else do I need to do to convince you that Palestinians are human beings? That no one deserves this? If you don't see it by now, you never will.

Slack shows Hunger Games style tribute to the fallen on days where employees are laid off

Here's to subverting the myth of zero-sum leadership scientificamerican.com/article/is-the…

📢 Are you fed up with the binary discussions between AI existential risks and AI social/ethical risks?
Then read my new manuscript
👇🏻. Feedback very welcome.

arxiv.org/pdf/2401.07836…

this job title😆

Everything is horrible. And I have to meet deadlines. How to function in this individuated world with so much collective suffering?

From Ethics, Tech + Public Policy for Practitioners, I'm still struck by Rob Reich's encouragement to strive for 'moral ambition'. Especially on social media, rife with ambition of all sorts, in a world where we can be ambitious for anything — why not strive for moral ambition?

I didn't realize there's a growing startup industry in selling Trust and Safety as a service. I'm glad this work is gaining more attention and traction, but also wonder what prevents companies from TnS-washing? wired.com/story/trust-an…

I wrote about the genocide in Palestine, and how tech has been silent and complicit.

blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

Y'all, Michael's pairings of poetry and art are nourishing for the soul. A breath, a pause in your day ✨ open.substack.com/pub/mrmichaelw…

Here is my resignation letter in it’s entirety. My words:

Resolutions are about doing, whereas intentions are about being.

It's so easy to focus on doing, relentlessly doing, because it soothes our egos. It's much harder to embrace the inherent messiness of being.

As I learned from Lama Rod Owens — 'Do the work so that you don't become work for others'

I absolutely recommend “The Snowman” (1982) if you want to introduce Christmas to your child as a haunting spectacle of the melancholy that stalks all joy, which is knowledge of death