🚀 Science - Journals and Research Access
Scientific journals today do two main things for society: (1) Take payment for work other people have done, and (2) Prevent a large share of people from accessing the research. This has significant implications for the dissemination of knowledge and the advancement of science.
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• Scientific journals charge for access to research, often taking payment for work done by others.
• Journals restrict access to research, limiting its availability to a large share of people.
• This has significant implications for the dissemination of knowledge and the advancement of science.
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🧠 Health - Alzheimer's Research
Researchers cut open the brains of Alzheimer’s patients and found a bacteria living inside 90% of them. It’s the exact same bacteria that lives in your mouth right now. For decades, medicine treated Alzheimer’s as an unavoidable genetic flaw or a random protein glitch.
Key Points:
• Researchers found a bacteria living in 90% of Alzheimer’s patients’ brains.
• The bacteria is the same one that lives in the mouth.
• Medicine previously treated Alzheimer’s as a genetic flaw or protein glitch.
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🤖 AI - ChatGPT Ads
Just setting up my ChatGPT ads account. It includes a GPT so you can chat with it and change things from regular ChatGPT without using the UI. It was also able to show me how a typical user would experience the advert. Based on that, I asked it to create some variations and it did.
Key Points:
• ChatGPT ads account includes a GPT for chatting and changing settings.
• The GPT can show how a typical user would experience the advert.
• The GPT can create variations based on user input.
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🎨 Creativity - Idea Generation
early stages of the creative process are usually precarious. easy to dismiss and critique but some of the best ideas start as mundane copies that become something else entirely give those ideas time to grow
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• Early creative stages are precarious and easily dismissed.
• Best ideas often start as mundane copies that grow into something new.
• Give ideas time to develop and grow.
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🚫 Politics - AI and US Progress
Some Silicon Valley CEOs have proven to be the classical Useful Idiots for an agenda that aims at slowing down the US's progress in AI, and rob the US workforce of a major renaissance period.
Key Points:
• Some Silicon Valley CEOs are slowing down US AI progress.
• They are robbing the US workforce of a major renaissance period.
• This is a major concern for the US.
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📊 AI - Fable Demand
Most in the thread below believe that lacklustre Fable demand is due to Anthropic’s ZDR policy My pet theory is that most economically useful work falls below a raw intelligence level + Fable is on the edge of this The equivalent graph for Astra will be v. consequential
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• Lacklustre Fable demand is due to Anthropic’s ZDR policy.
• Fable is on the edge of economically useful work.
• The equivalent graph for Astra will be very consequential.
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📊 Entertainment - Lanterns Rating
After significant backlash, we’ve adjusted our rating for Lanterns again, from 65% → 74%. This is mainly because one of the factors in our rating system, “Anti-woke backlash and complaints,” increased from 50% → 85%. IMDb rating dropped again from 7.9 -> 7.8 We’ll continue
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• Lanterns rating adjusted from 65% to 74% due to backlash.
• Anti-woke backlash and complaints increased from 50% to 85%.
• IMDb rating dropped from 7.9 to 7.8.
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🚨 Politics - Meta Settlement
Meta’s settlement of its California federal trial was abrupt but not all that shocking, given that it admitted no wrongdoing, its financial penalty is a fraction of its annual profit and the company was prepared to pay multiple times that sum. It’s telling that the settlement
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• Meta settled its California federal trial abruptly.
• The company admitted no wrongdoing.
• The financial penalty is a fraction of Meta’s annual profit.
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🚨 Politics - Trump and Syria
BREAKING: Trump is excited that Syria is pitching itself as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz… #1 I thought he said that we had total control over the Strait. Why would we need Syria? #2 I thought it was named The Strait of Trump. He can’t even get his lies correct
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• Trump is excited about Syria as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.
• Trump previously claimed to have control over the Strait.
• Trump’s lies are inconsistent and incorrect.
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🧠 Health - Ovaries and Menopause
A groundbreaking study shows that ovaries don’t shut down after menopause, but turn into organs with a new function. For decades, the medical community viewed postmenopausal ovaries as biologically inert, having completed their reproductive lifespan. However, a new study
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• Ovaries don’t shut down after menopause.
• Ovaries turn into organs with a new function.
• The medical community previously viewed postmenopausal ovaries as biologically inert.
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