John Jones

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Digital media and rhetoric professor at Ohio State.

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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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Black Gesture on Copper Ground, by Robert Motherwell, 1981, 📸 by @JaneGPhoto

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Some absolutely wild strings of sentences assembled in this piece.

For Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, machines are closer to humans than we thinkwww.theglobeandmail.com University of Toronto professor says chatbots experience emotions even though they don’t show them in the same way humans do

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my local bookstore called to confirm my preorder of Ganz’s book and at the end of the call i said “don’t i pay you now?” and they said “usually yes but you’re so excited we’re not worried about it.” 😂 please preorder and while you wait, catch up on Unclear and Present Danger Podcast. 🖖🏻

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The law and order party wapo.st/3yPUMRE

Several Pa. House Republicans boo officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6wapo.st Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell were invited to Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives — but several GOP lawmakers booed and some walked out, Democratic lawmakers said.

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this decision by the MLB that gambling is bad is brought to you by MLB partners FanDuel and Draft Kings sign up now for $300 in free bets with promotional code “TUCUPITA”

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I hope no one forgets that Trump did, in fact, try to prosecute Hillary Clinton www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/o...

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IF YOU ARE IN LINE TO MAKE A LOCK HIM UP JOKE, STAY IN LINE.

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And the foreman came up to me, tears in his eyes, and he said to me "sir, you are so guilty, I have never seen someone so guilty in my life"

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Democracy Dies in a Seven-Fingered Plagiarism Machine That Tells You to Eat Glue futurism.com/washington-p...

The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AIfuturism.com The Washington Post's new-ish CEO has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn sales around.

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It sure would be comical if Samuel Alito had recently published an opinion in which he expressed strong feelings about flags and wrote that passersby viewing a flag flying over a building would naturally assume the flag conveys some message on the owner's behalf www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21p...

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From this morning: I love what this building does for the landscape. IYKYK (but if not it’s in the alt text)

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When we say “tech guys need the humanities too” we’re not talking about diluting the pool of Linus Torvalds with underwater basket weavers, we’re talking about arming them with enough literacy to comprehend Sci-Fi in a way that doesn’t get them sued by Scarlett Johansson

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"I don't know how to really live with this," she said. "And it makes me feel like I don't feel safe. I don't feel safe being here." – Whitney Mitchell, the fiancée of the murder victim whose killer Texas pardoned She's right, you know. To feel unsafe after all this is spot-the-f***-on.

Exclusive: Austin police officials drafted letter advocating for Daniel Perry's pardonwww.statesman.com Days before Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned Daniel Perry, the Austin Police Department drafted a letter to state officials advocating that Perry be freed.

I don’t know, y’all, maybe when OpenAI’s board fired Sam Altman they were on to something?

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"

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I laughed at this harder than was perhaps necessary

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Whenever we find out another SCOTUS Justice is an Election Denier the Oompa Loompas should come out and sing a little judgmental song

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Excited about this new article with @zoltanmajdik.bsky.social @barbourjosh.bsky.social et al. We offer evidence-based guidelines for fine-tuning training data sample sizes for NER tasks. Spoiler alert: it's more about the data than the parameters. ai.jmir.org/2024/1/e52095

Sample Size Considerations for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Named Entity Recognition Tasks: Methodological Studyai.jmir.org Background: Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to support promising new applications in health informatics. However, practical data on sample size considerations for fine-tuning LLMs to p...

A bunch of squares are upset that the CEO of a major defense contractor likes to expand his mind

"Elon Musk’s use of illicit drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine, and LSD threatens Tesla Inc.'s business, including by apparently influencing his sometimes erratic behavior online, according to a newly unsealed court filing."

Musk Faces Lawsuit for Drug Use, X Posts Under the Influencenews.bloomberglaw.com Elon Musk’s use of illicit drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine, and LSD threatens Tesla Inc.'s business, including by apparently influencing his sometimes erratic behavior online, according to a ...

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This year, I am going to have a SAD GIRL SUMMER, so please recommend your favorite SAD GIRL SUMMER music. Agnostic about genre or gender! I just want music that says, “I am MELANCHOLY, and it is 90 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, and I am a GIRL.”

The Beatles have some snoozers

Tell me your CEO gets blocked a lot without telling me your CEO gets blocked a lot.

If you’re still using Twitter blocking is about to become useless

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the year is 2035. the two remaining jobs are doordash and whistleblower assassin

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New favorite photo of 2024 just dropped

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Pulitzer Prize Board acknowledges the "extraordinary real-time reporting" of student journalists covering campus protests. www.pulitzer.org/news/stateme...

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Ah well, nevertheless www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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I'm seeing a lot of journos talk about buying media properties, so I thought I'd remind you that The Santa Fe Reporter is for sale. It's not got the reach of an Onion or whatever but it's a great paper in a state rife with corruption, diversity, and a Mexican border. www.yahoo.com/news/owners-...

Owners put the 'Santa Fe Reporter' up for salewww.yahoo.com Mar. 13—Richard Meeker said the coronavirus pandemic taught him and his business partner, Mark Zusman, a lot about the support that exists for local journalism. Meeker and Zusman, owners of the Pulitz...