“Every platform company is about to be at war with itself as the algorithmic recommendation AI team tries to fight off the content made by the generative AI team.”
And ICYMI - Musk is taking over Twitter accounts that he wants
over the weekend X / Twitter took the @America handle from the original user who registered it the handle now belongs to Elon Musk and his Super PAC set up to support Donald Trump here's everything we know: www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musk-...
The original @America user was a critic of both Musk and Trump.
The huge question for me is whether public institutions/very large accounts are ready for the inevitable moment when Musk *massively* over steps the mark during/after US elex Asked this of senior people from huge British university recently. All said categorically ‘no’ They need to get ready
So, this is pretty much my predicted best possible outcome from the Starmer-von der Leyen meeting. The reset is most definitively on. Though this does not mean negotiations would be easy. And glad to see those "diplomats" saying the UK needed to provide detail now were not correct.
Thread. Watch all the videos. I know Kevin a bit–we met in better days & I hope to reconnect on a visit to London soon. In happier times he's an ebullient, brilliant, funny guy who loves medicine & making medicine accessible–exciting!–to the public. This testimony is gut wrenching–and vital. 1/
Prof Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip. youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0
YouTube video by Christina Pagel
"There is more to know than just what you can count" Powerful testimony from the #CovidInquiryhttps://buff.ly/3Xzn5fC
Powerful testimony from the covid inquiry on the limits of what data can convey.
This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.
Oh man, this must be the 4th or 5th time I've listened to #AdeEdmundson#DesertIslandDiscs on BBC R4, and it still gets me 🥺💔
Nearly a third of Elon Musk's posts on X last week were false, misleading or missing vital context. Musk has shown a willingness to elevate unfounded claims since he bought the platform in 2022 - Says it all!
Nearly a third of Elon Musk's posts on X last week were false, misleading or missing vital context. Musk has shown a willingness to elevate unfounded claims since he bought the platform in 2022, according to a New York Times analysis.
Almost a third of 171 posts last week from the X owner were false, misleading or missing vital context.
I don’t care where people exit to but there’s really no case for remaining on X at this point. You are providing free content and ad revenue to a malevolent proprietor.
Nearly a third of Elon Musk's posts on X last week were false, misleading or missing vital context. Musk has shown a willingness to elevate unfounded claims since he bought the platform in 2022, according to a New York Times analysis.
Almost a third of 171 posts last week from the X owner were false, misleading or missing vital context.