Anne Hjortshøj

@annesaurus.bsky.social

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Rhymes with Borzoi. Bostonian, native Mainer, fractional design exec & advisor. Mostly: takes on design and tech. Formerly @annesaurus on Twitter.

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This article is jaw-dropping. Obviously it’s early days, and the treatment is expensive, but it should get cheaper and better over time. Amazing. nymag.com/intelligence...

Good News About Brain Cancernymag.com Immunotherapy is making tumors melt away.

Periodic reminder that you are never required to have a take.

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Danyel Smith got a story to tell. Damn. And thank-you, @danyelsmith.bsky.social for your bravery and honesty. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/m...

I Knew Diddy for Years. What I Now Remember Haunts Me.www.nytimes.com Looking back on my life as a woman in the music industry, I’m unsettled by the inescapable sexism perpetrated by Sean Combs and others.

My humps, my humps, my lovely pavement bumps, etc. (Do it!) www.wbur.org/news/2024/07...

Slow down: Boston is installing more than 2,000 speed humps on city streetswww.wbur.org Drivers in Boston are encountering a new kind of traffic enforcement on neighborhood streets: speed humps. The city is installing more than 2,000 of them, as part of a program to slow cars down and ma...

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RESULT: Francois Hollande, the former president from 2012 to 2017 (a center-left figure who alienated his left & named Macron to his Cabinet, but just ran with the Left coalition) has WON. This was a 3-way runoff: Hollande got 43%, with 31% for the RN & 26% for LR.

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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

I’m not commenting on That Thing From Last Night, but I will say that IMO The West Wing did a lot of damage, as far as people’s expectations of how things are/should be.

Literally nothing makes me happier than a Boston sports championship contact high. No. Thing. bsky.app/profile/dart...

I was here & sweaty…

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THE ONION IS HIRING FOR ITS SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM. DO WHAT YOU WILL WITH THIS INFORMATION! jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

Social Media Lead at The Onion jobs.gusto.com

Hi. Are you seeing people post “I do not approve Meta’s use of my data yadda yadda for AI?” Doing so has as much legal effect as reciting an update to your lease in your apartment kitchen. This? This actually works, the deadline is June 26. You know what to do. open.substack.com/pub/deborahc...

11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AIopen.substack.com You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

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If anyone from the media or a licensing company asks for permission to use your pic/vid, ask them about 1: compensation 2: exclusive or non-exclusive 3: the length of the license’s period 4: for which platforms. The ppl who do the initial outreach aren’t allowed to offer $ unless you ask /2

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

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RIP IXDA. I remember signing up for the mailing list back in 2008 and through that made a lot of internet friends who I still know today ixda.org/an-announcem...

An Announcement from the Board Regarding the Future of IxDAixda.org For those of you who have been waiting for an update since our Interaction 24 post, thank you for your patience. And for those of you who have been following along either actively or passively, tha…

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bonnie erickson created miss piggy and the phillie phanatic shoutout to bonnie erickson www.thecut.com/article/bonn...

Miss Piggy Has a Motherwww.thecut.com Everyone’s heard of Jim Henson. It’s time to give Bonnie Erickson — creator of beloved Muppets and mascots including the Phillie Phanatic — her due.

I have a terrible feeling that Eng might resign, soon. bsky.app/profile/stre...

Declining Infrastructure Funding From Healey Admin. Puts T’s ‘State of Good Repair’ Further Out of Reach

Declining Infrastructure Funding From Healey Admin. Puts T’s ‘State of Good Repair’ Further Out of Reachdlvr.it In spite of inflation and growing maintenance backlogs, the T is facing a bleak future of dwindling infrastructure funding from the Healey administration. The post Declining Infrastructure Funding From Healey Admin. Puts T’s ‘State of Good Repair’…

I wrote a quick thing about how Jim Henson permanently rewired my brain (and yours, if you happen to be Gen X) substack.com/home/post/p-...

Raised on Muppetssubstack.com Gen X owes Jim Henson everything

This is not a thing (other than being seeded clickbait, it very much is THAT thing).

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"In this paper, we formalize the problem and show that it is impossible to eliminate hallucination in LLMs." Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models arxiv.org/pdf/2401.11817

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I also just filed a complaint! Posting doesn't solve the problem but following up and annoying the govn't can help! reportfraud.ftc.gov

This took me less than 5 min to do and here's Adobe's address because the FTC does ask for it: Adobe 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110-2704 Tel: 408-536-6000 Fax: 408-537-6000

I hadn't realized until now that Bezos installed a Murdoch person as CEO of the Washington Post. Not great, Bob. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/b...

Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editorwww.nytimes.com Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.

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Note well, "Luca" and "Turning Red" were the Pixar movies (along with "Soul") that were released directly to Disney+ during the pandemic. Luca was the #1 streamed movie of 2021; Turning Red was the #2 streamed movie of 2022. That seems pretty universal. (Soul also streamed well + 2 Oscars.)

Just fold the studio into Disney and kill it already. Make Toy Story sequels till the sun fucking burns out. Love how this shift conveniently happened when more woman/POC were really pushing to direct their own stories. Defining their experiences as not "universal" is saying the quiet part aloud.

What is this crap AI illustration, Boston Globe? Beyond it being the usual overworked, lurid mess, did anyone bother to count the irises?

There's this really cool resource called Logo Archive, that I've become familiar with via its Substack. Today I saw, in passing, a Rei Yoshimura logo for Japan Tobacco Inc., circa 1975. And it looked familiar! Why? Because it was used for a different platform, more recently (but flipped).

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Strangely, people who complain that Black pro ball players didn’t play against the best players in the world before integration never seem to get that the white players didn’t play against the very best either

It's positively beautiful that all-time racist Ty Cobb is now second to Josh Gibson in career batting average in pro baseball apnews.com/article/negr...

Josh Gibson becomes MLB career and season batting leader as Negro Leagues statistics incorporatedapnews.com With a .372 batting average, Josh Gibson surpassed Ty Cobb’s .367 when records of the Negro Leagues for more than 2,300 players were incorporated after a three-year research project.

The long-awaited sequel to 30-50 feral hogs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

‘They’re out of control’: flock of 100 feral chickens torments villagewww.theguardian.com Residents of Snettisham, Norfolk, say birds are destroying their gardens, while food left out for them is attracting rats

Remember, "hallucination" is just a fancy term for "garbage in, garbage out." AI can only recombine existing pieces of information, and if that information is bad, so is the answer that AI coughs up. futurism.com/the-byte/ceo...

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Informationfuturism.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.

Robert Kraft's son has apparently decided that he wants to unseat Mayor Wu. He doesn't have any political experience. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/22/m...

Is Josh Kraft mulling a run for mayor? Many Boston political insiders seem to think so. - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com Rumors are swirling that the younger son of billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is contemplating challenging Mayor Michelle Wu in 2025.

It’s already bad that OpenAI's female-coded AI assistant reflects strategies that women use to not make men angry. That OpenAI didn’t take Johansson seriously when she said “no” is just the cherry on the 💩 sundae. bsky.app/profile/phil...

NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn obtained this statement from Scarlett Johansson regarding OpenAI's ChatGPT voice that sounds like her role from the 2013 movie "Her"