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Joined December 2018
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aiPDF.ai@aipdfai14 Dec 2023
Cheers to YOU, our amazing users! 🎉✨ Thanks to your incredible support, we've brought 5,000+ documents to life with @aipdfai 🚀 #aiPDF
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Thinking of starting the new year with reducing your use of plastic? That's why we're here... Take a look at the useful hints and ideas in this article form @ethical_net! buff.ly/3tb3YgV
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Reading a book is hard. But no anymore, AI can help you read a book in minutes. Here’s how aipdf helps you read faster: [Bookmark for later 🔖]
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Hey friends, we're live on Product Hunt today: producthunt.com/posts/aipdf aiPDF is your ethical AI assistant, personal librarian, and tech guru all in one :) Thank you for your feedback and support!
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Hey friends, prepare for our first-ever product launch! Less than 24 hours to go! 🎉
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This is how wind turbines are used to generate electricity using nearby traffic. Well done Türkiye 🇹🇷!
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richroll
@richroll12 Sep 2022
“Social media acts like a drug and people should think of it as one.” Today NYT investigative reporter & ‘The Chaos Machine’ author @Max_Fisher joins the podcast for vital discourse on how social media is rewiring our brains and behavior. bit.ly/richroll703

The Chaos Machine: How Social Media Rewired Our Brains and Our World

Rich Roll & NYT writer & 'The Chaos Machine' author Max Fisher discuss how social media is eroding our minds, driving polarization, and radically changing the way we think.

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Daniel Moser@_dmoser24 Aug 2022
NEW STUDY ➡️ If everybody cycled🚲as much as the Dutch, global carbon emissions would drop by nearly 700 million tonnes per year. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia. 📸@modacitylife
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The One Soul One Tree campaign in Surabaya, Indonesia protected 5,000 #mangrove trees and encouraged residents to harvest their syrup as a new source of income. Learn more about creating greener, more inclusive cities ⬇️ ow.ly/OjWe50K1OHV

Green Space: An Underestimated Tool to Create More Equal Cities

The correlation between urban tree cover and income is well-documented in cities around the world, and is often a by-product of historic inequality. However, cities can proactively address inequali...

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Our planet's forests can't recover like they used to. 🫤 #trees #forest #forests #climatechange esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a…
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AI experts @timnitGebru & @mmitchell_ai on the dangers of anthropomorphizing AI: "Ascribing 'sentience' to a product implies that any wrongdoing is the work of an independent being, rather than the company ... that created it." Full piece here 👉 wapo.st/3nyJNmR

Opinion | We warned Google that people might believe AI was sentient. Now it’s happening.

The hype is distracting from the real pitfalls of bots that mimic humans, risks that many companies would rather ignore.

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Andorra 🇦🇩 has now got a new July heat record of 38.7°C (101.7°F). This national record has been equaled for reset for 3 days in a row now. Andorra is very elevated and this temperature reading from Borda Vidal is at an altitude of 873 m (2864 ft) above sea level.
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No lies detected. Source: @colvilleandersn – at Brooklyn, NY
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Lizzie Lomax@lizlomaxx16 Jul 2022
WATER PLEASE ! 💦 As per the @WildlifeTrusts advice this week; remember all the lil creatures in this heat. Whatever outside space you have, please leave a little dish with water in, as you never know who might need it ! 🦊🐸🐛🦋🐝🐥🦡🦔🪺 ⛲️
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"Europe heating up faster than other ‘hot spots,’ study finds." - research from the Potsdam Institute @PIK_Climate in the @nytimes 👇 @syn_efou @KKornhuber nytimes.com/2022/07/06/clima…

Europe is heating up faster than other ‘hot spots,’ a study finds. (Published 2022)

A new study confirmed that European heat events are increasing in frequency and cumulative intensity over the last four decades.

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alex thomson@alextomo4 Jul 2022
⁦@Channel4News⁩ tonight. Bird flu special report. We’re at the Bass Rock and Shetland assessing the effect on our seabird colonies and the potential for it to mutate and affect humans more widely than it already has.
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"Over the course of two decades, white-throated sparrows across western and central Canada have changed one of their songs, replacing a three-note call with a two-note one." nationalgeographic.com/anima…

Sparrows are singing a new song, in a rapid, unprecedented shift

White-throated sparrows across Canada are abandoning an old song in exchange for a trendy new tune. The reason remains a mystery.

nationalgeographic.com
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Enjoy this bonus episode of #theWayOutIsIn, a collaboration with our good friends @OutrageOptimism - a powerful immersive sound journey through the 4.6 billion year history of Gaia, as told by Dr. Stephan Harding. 🌍 Listen via @plumvillageapp and pvapp.to/deeptimewalk🙏
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ipbes
@IPBES1 Jun 2022
"Today, we overfish, we cut down forests, we destroy nature. And it counts as positive economic growth, when, in fact, it is profligate waste...that is undermining our society's viability." —@antonioguterres, @UN Secretary-General at the #BiodiversityPreCOP2021 #ForNature
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"A dawn recording made at the Prairie Flower Nursery, a combination native tall-grass prairie and restored prairie." 🌾 If a recording could be a painting, this would be it. By our contributor @AlexBraidwood buff.ly/388iZ8G
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