SEO @bizjournals. I don't post here anymore.
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time for ~some (belated) personal news~
started today as the SEO Editor for @bizjournals. Bit of a pivot for me and I'm looking forward to a chance to dive in with a great team. I already have so many questions and so much to dig into and it's only day 1
Mike Denison retweeted
reminder to journalists: the submarine's game controller is standard use for submarines, tanks, drones, etc. for the military. i know it sounds funny to you but it's actually one of the least remarkable things about the submarine vice.com/en/article/bvjjqq/w…
I've had the privilege of reading this story (a lot) as I produced the email episodes. It's a remarkable story and somehow manages to be both a breath of fresh air and honest, in-depth science, brilliantly told. Go sign up.
Explore in-depth science, stories of hope and what it means to be human. Sign up to start reading Electricity Saved My Brain. sciencenews.org/newsletters/…
BREAKING: Titanic sailed, then sank in major Trans-Atlantic voyage
BREAKING: SpaceX's Starship soars, then crashes in major test flight trib.al/lGv3Vr5
At first I could not deal with Yet Another Twitter Alternative but... am I crazy to think this might actually work, at least for a subset of folks?
hey just checking if anyone's still using Artifact, the 'TikTok for news' that got some buzz in tech publications earlier
I am skeptical but open to being proven wrong!
Mike Denison retweeted
“What if we imagined ‘wealth’ consisting not of the money we stuff into banks or the fossil fuel-derived goods we pile up, but of joy, beauty, friendship, community, closeness to flourishing nature, to good food produced without abuse of labor?” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Every day I am reminded that "JOKE/QUIP: [rest of headline]" is a cursed headline/tweet format that needed to die 25 years ago
Err Jordan: An 82-year-old Colorado man has been charged with selling and trading fake Michael Jordan basketball cards. Prosecutors in New York say Mayo Gilbert McNeil made more than $800,000 off the scheme over four years. apne.ws/EqH17Uz
OK all I'm at a total loss. Why are my link tweets not loading the full twitter card despite card validator saying everything is working correctly?
This looks really bad for our brand account, but everything on our end (that I know to look at, at least) looks right, and yet:
So we found a productive use of our collective obsession with baby Yoda. Also make sure to count the number of Grogus in each shot.
tiktok.com/@sciencenewsoffic…
In light of all the creepy Bing chat stuff:
1. train your very powerful chatbot on stories about rogue AI
2. people inevitably ask chatbot questions about sentience
3. answers, based on people's real fears as communicated in stories, get shared widely on social media
4. free PR!
Mike Denison retweeted
#Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, asked about proving his critics wrong: “I had a purpose before anybody had an opinion.”
... “I know y’all liked that one.” 😂😂
Mike Denison retweeted
*in a spooky whisper from the shadows of a dark woods* that AI can replicate the basic format of a high school level essay is an indictment of how writing is taught, not a sign that AI has become sentient
So Silicon Valley types took a good hard look at Twitter and decided that what everyone really wants to replace this hellsite is a news aggregator with comments huh
platformer.news/p/instagrams…
People don't want yet another platform to sign up and performatively comment on. (Well, I'm sure some people do, but not most.)
They want useful and interesting stuff, in the broadest senses of those words. ('Enraging' counts as 'interesting', here.)
