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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
New York Times: X May Lose Up to $75 Million in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out. “Internal documents viewed by The New York Times this week show that the company is in a more difficult position than previously known and that concerns about Mr. Musk and the platform have spread far beyond companies including IBM, Apple and Disney, which paused their advertising campaigns on X last week. The documents list more than 200 ad units of companies from the likes of Airbnb, Amazon, Coca-Cola and Microsoft, many of which have halted or are considering pausing their ads on the social network.”
Business Insider: Former Google engineer and Trump pardonee Anthony Levandowski relaunches his AI church. “Anthony Levandowski, a pioneer of self-driving cars and controversial Silicon Valley figure, announced the return of his AI-dedicated church in an episode of Bloomberg’s AI IRL podcast. Levandowski started his ‘Way of the Future’ church in 2015 while he was working as an engineer on Google’s self-driving project Waymo.”
USEFUL STUFF
MakeUseOf: Creating an Interactive Timeline With CSS and JavaScript. “Timelines are powerful visual tools that help users navigate and understand chronological events. Explore how to create an interactive timeline using the dynamic duo of CSS and JavaScript.” A very easy walkthrough with basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Hongkiat: 50 Sites to Download Free 3D Models – Best Of. “3D printers have immensely revolutionized the art and manufacturing industry. With advancements in 3D printer technology, it is now not very difficult to own one, even in your home or office…. So, if you want to create 3D furniture, a mechanical component, or even human or animal figurines, here are 50 of the best websites to download 3D models for free. Take a look.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Guardian: ‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros. “Contemporary billionaires appear to understand civics and civilians as impediments to their progress, necessary victims of the externalities of their companies’ growth, sad artefacts of the civilisation they will leave behind in their inexorable colonisation of the next dimension. Unlike their forebears, they do not hope to build the biggest house in town, but the biggest underground lair in New Zealand, colony on the moon or Mars or virtual reality server in the cloud.”
WIRED: China Tried to Keep Kids Off Social Media. Now the Elderly Are Hooked. “Gao Xiangjin used to know all the names of players in the American baskeball leagues, but since relations between the US and China soured, once-daily NBA broadcasts are now far less frequent. So Gao started watching China’s men’s basketball instead, until reports about corruption turned him off earlier this year. He now watches China’s women’s basketball, not on television, but on Douyin, the original, Chinese version of TikTok. Gao is 69 years old, one of a growing cohort of elderly people who have moved away from television and gravitated to Douyin, China’s most popular short-form video app.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
RTE: Regulator concerned over spread of disinformation on social media. “Ireland’s media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, said it remains concerned about the spread of violent imagery, hate speech and disinformation on social media platforms following last night’s unrest in Dublin. There has been much focus on the role played by social media in the riots, with anti-immigrant rhetoric and misinformation being spread on some platforms.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Science Daily: AI trained to identify least green homes. “‘Hard-to-decarbonize’ (HtD) houses are responsible for over a quarter of all direct housing emissions — a major obstacle to achieving net zero — but are rarely identified or targeted for improvement. Now a new ‘deep learning’ model trained by researchers from Cambridge University’s Department of Architecture promises to make it far easier, faster and cheaper to identify these high priority problem properties and develop strategies to improve their green credentials.”
Hixie’s Natural Log: Reflecting on 18 years at Google . “Someone who wanted to lead Google into the next twenty years, maximising the good to humanity and disregarding the short-term fluctuations in stock price, could channel the skills and passion of Google into truly great achievements. I do think the clock is ticking, though. The deterioration of Google’s culture will eventually become irreversible, because the kinds of people whom you need to act as moral compass are the same kinds of people who don’t join an organisation without a moral compass.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Ars Technica: GameMaker throws shade at Unity, makes its 2D engine free or $100 for most. “If you’re making a game with GameMaker for release on consoles, you have to pay for an ongoing $80-per-month Enterprise package. If you’re trying to sell a game on other platforms (PC, mobile, browser), there’s a one-time $100 fee. If you’re just messing about or making something that’s not for sale, it’s free. And GameMaker’s asset bundles are free now, too. And some existing subscribers might now get a free commercial license. There is, notably, no mention of ‘run-time’ or per-install fees.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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November 26, 2023 at 01:08AM
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