News gathered 2024-11-13
(date: 2024-11-13 17:11:24)
App Store Connect 2.0
date: 2024-11-13, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover: App Store Connect 2.0 includes a refreshed UI throughout the app, as well as new capabilities. Developers are able to promote their apps by generating marketing assets for app launches, version updates, featured placements in the Today tab, and more. These marketing assets that are generated for special moments can be shared on […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/13/app-store-connect-2-0/
macOS 15.1 Firewall Breaks Third-Party Firewalls
date: 2024-11-13, from: Michael Tsai
Norbert Heger: Apple’s built-in firewall is causing troubles when used together with third-party firewalls that are based on Apple’s Network Extension framework (which is actually the only way for third-party developers to create such firewall products for the Mac). While one of the issues related to DNS lookups has been fixed in macOS 15.1, a […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/13/macos-15-1-firewall-breaks-third-party-firewalls/
Questioning EU Geo-Blocking Restrictions
date: 2024-11-13, from: Michael Tsai
Hartley Charlton: The European Commission, in conjunction with the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network, today announced that it has formally notified Apple regarding potential breaches of the EU’s anti-geo-blocking rules. […] According to the CPC Network, consumers using Apple Media Services, such as the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV+, encounter different interfaces and […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/13/questioning-eu-geo-blocking-restrictions/
OneDrive and Sequoia
date: 2024-11-13, from: Michael Tsai
Sergiu Gatlan: “Opening or saving files within Desktop or Documents folders can cause the file’s app to freeze. This occurs on macOS 15,” the company said in a Friday update to a support document tracking the recent issues in OneDrive.[…]Until a fix is available, customers should force quit the OpenAndSavePanelService process that hangs because of […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/13/onedrive-and-sequoia/
GenBook RK3588 is modular Linux laptop with an upgradeable design (crowdfunding)
date: 2024-11-13, from: Liliputing
The GenBook RK3588 is a laptop with a 14.1 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display, a Rockchip RK3588 octa-core processor, support for up to 32GB of RAM, and support for Debian, Ubuntu, and other GNU/Linux distributions. It stands out from most laptops not only because of its ARM-based processor, but also its modular design: the processor […]
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RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop starts at $199 during early access
date: 2024-11-13, from: Liliputing
Earlier this year modular laptop maker Framework announced it was partnering with DeepComputing to offer a RISC-V mainboard for the Framework 13 laptop. While the mainboard won’t be mass produced until sometime in 2025, DeepComputing has launched an early access program for “industry and business customers” and early adopters a chance to get their hands […]
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https://liliputing.com/risc-v-mainboard-for-framework-laptop-starts-at-199-during-early-access/
MacWorld Interviews Apple CEO John Sculley (1987)
date: 2024-11-13, from: Computer ads from the Past
They discuss the future of Apple, personal computing, and the Mac II
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/macworld-interviews-apple-ceo-john
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Tropical storm Sara could form, becoming a hurricane. I can't wait to hear how "President Trump" explains this. Getting out the popcorn.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2022: Markdown is just enough HTML.
http://scripting.com/2022/08/25/210902.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Biden should pardon Trump's critics now.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/presidential-pardon-trump-critics/680627/
Absurd AI Slop About How Elon Musk Will Fix America Is Megaviral on Facebook
date: 2024-11-13, from: 404 Media Group
Some of the most popular content on Facebook leading up to the election was AI-generated Elon Musk inspiration porn made by people in other countries that went viral in the US.
Beelink GTi12 Ultra and EX Docking Station Review: Mini PC dock adds desktop graphics support
date: 2024-11-13, from: Liliputing
Mini PCs can fill a variety of purposes. Some are simple systems designed for use as digital signage and point of sale systems. Others are high-end solutions that combine laptop-class hardware with compact designs, while offering a wide selection of ports. Many can be used as space-saving desktop replacements, media centers, or home file servers, […]
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
1 in 3 Trump voters still watches the network news.
https://x.com/froomkin/status/1856384929476624841
Podcast: How Apple is Locking Out Cops
date: 2024-11-13, from: 404 Media Group
We talk about Apple’s latest security change, the big move to Bluesky
https://www.404media.co/podcast-how-apple-is-locking-out-cops/
The Indian School Journal
date: 2024-11-13, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
November is Native American Heritage Month. Visit National Archives News for more information on related events and resources. Today’s post from Mary Ryan is an update of her 2011 Prologue article. In the second half of the 19th century, federal Indian policy shifted from military confrontation to efforts to “civilize” and assimilate the native peoples … Continue reading The Indian School Journal
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/11/13/the-indian-school-journal/
Raspberry Pi Connect: new native panel plugin and connectivity testing
date: 2024-11-13, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Raspberry Pi OS now includes an all-new, native panel plugin for Raspberry Pi Connect, our secure remote access solution.
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Build a Database App with Drizzle ORM and Deno
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Deno blog
Using an object-relational mapping (ORM) database can make working with persistent data simpler. Here’s how to use a popular ORM, Drizzle, with Deno.
https://deno.com/blog/build-database-app-drizzle
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
August 12: When the NYT makes Trump sound like a reasonable candidate that a sane person might vote for, remember this day.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oety7qbfx7x6exn2ytrwikmr/post/3kzjvirjq3d2q
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Critics Pick the 25 Best Movies of the Last 25 Years.
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/rt25-critics-top-movies-of-the-last-25-years/
Five years before the iPhone
date: 2024-11-12, from: Status-Q blog
Trying to organise some of my old video footage recently, I came across a little demo I recorded of the AT&T Broadband Phone, a project we started in 1999 but which, sadly, died, along with the research lab that had created it, in 2002. Looking back at it now, I notice how slow-paced it is Continue Reading
https://statusq.org/archives/2024/11/12/12281/
Claiming Time Machine Backups
date: 2024-11-12, from: Michael Tsai
Howard Oakley: Assuming that your old Mac made Time Machine backups, and you want your new Mac to continue doing so, now’s the time to connect that backup storage, if it wasn’t already used as the migration source. When you do, you’ll be offered two options, to claim the existing backups for the new Mac, […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/12/claiming-time-machine-backups/
Misguided Apple Intelligence Ads
date: 2024-11-12, from: Michael Tsai
Adam Engst (Hacker News): A pair of new ads for Apple Intelligence portray the Writing Tools and Memories movies as tools for those unwilling to put in any effort.In the first ad, Apple Intelligence enables a goof-off who wastes time and annoys his colleagues to surprise his boss with an unexpectedly well-written email. It’s not […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/12/misguided-apple-intelligence-ads/
Bodyreader v. Apple
date: 2024-11-12, from: Michael Tsai
Tim Hardwick: Bloomberg reports that the case – the first of its kind to be heard in Beijing’s intellectual property court – bears similarities to Epic Games’ 2021 lawsuit against Apple. Bodyreader claims Apple unfairly removed their app citing “dishonest” behavior, while also challenging the company’s 30% commission on app purchases and its control over […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/12/bodyreader-v-apple/
John Geleynse Retires From Apple
date: 2024-11-12, from: Michael Tsai
John Geleynse: Being a part of Apple for 25 years has been the privilege and experience of a lifetime. […] We released the platforms and tools that helped bring incredible products to life. We inspired developers to do some of the best work of their careers. We rewrote the original Apple Human Interface Guidelines for […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/12/john-geleynse-retires-from-apple/
iPhone 16 Pro Review
date: 2024-11-12, from: Stephen Smith’s blog
Introduction I received an early XMas present of a new iPhone 16 Pro. This is a review of this new phone. My previous phone was an iPhone 11, so this is a pretty good jump ahead. People often complain that the year over year improvements aren’t that much, but most people usually upgrade every few […]
https://smist08.wordpress.com/2024/11/12/iphone-16-pro-review/
American Heart Association
date: 2024-11-12, from: Computer ads from the Past
A PSA and an Ad
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/american-heart-association
See How It’s Made: Denver Computer Manufacturer Opens Doors for Free Tours
date: 2024-11-12, from: System76 Blog
See How It’s Made: Denver Computer Manufacturer Opens Doors for Free Tours Yes, they really do manufacture computers and keyboards in Denver!
https://blog.system76.com/post/see-how-its-made-denver-computer-manufacturer-tours
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Never Let a Good Crisis go to Waste.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/comments/xdc8t4/never_let_a_good_crisis_go_to_waste/
DirectML unlocks new silicon for AI experiences across Windows Copilot+ PCs
date: 2024-11-12, from: Windows Developer Blog
October was an exciting month of amazing showcases and announcements for applications leveraging the power of the NPU on the new Copilot+ PCs to deploy their AI innovations on Windows. Windows’ diverse hardware ecosystem empowers developers with a
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AI Chatbot Added to Mushroom Foraging Facebook Group Immediately Gives Tips for Cooking Dangerous Mushroom
date: 2024-11-12, from: 404 Media Group
The chatbot said that a mushroom that hyperaccumulates arsenic can be prepared by “sautéing in butter.”
Daily Deals (11-12-2024)
date: 2024-11-12, from: Liliputing
The Google Pixel 9 is on sale for $549 at the moment. But you can pick up last year’s Pixel 8 Pro for $50 more. The older phone has a previous-gen processor and a less reliable fingerprint sensor. But it has a bigger screen, a telephoto camera, and guaranteed software updates through at least October […]
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https://liliputing.com/daily-deals-11-12-2024/
System76 COSMIC Alpha 2 Released
date: 2024-11-12, from: System76 Blog
System76 Desktop Environment COSMIC Enters Alpha: Stage 2. Building out COSMIC Files, Settings pages, and WM features.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-2-press-release
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Democrats Are the HR Department of Political Parties.
Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White models launches Nov 18th for $679
date: 2024-11-12, from: Liliputing
A year after launching the Steam Deck OLED, Valve has announced plans to offer a new limited edition model that has a white body rather than the usual black. The new Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White will go on sale November 18, 2024 at 6:00 PM Eastern and it will be available in all markets […]
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https://liliputing.com/steam-deck-oled-limited-edition-white-models-launches-nov-18th-for-679/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Timothy Snyder: Oligarchs' Island.
‘FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed’: Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data
date: 2024-11-12, from: 404 Media Group
The Secret Service has used a technology called Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones. Because users agreed to an opaque terms of service page, the Secret Service believes it doesn’t need a warrant.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Neighbors share concerns over proposed 298-unit development near Adams Fairacre Farms.
sudo make me a CTO interview
date: 2024-11-12, from: Accidentally in Code
I had a chat with Sergio Visinoni who recently wrote this lovely review of my book, to talk about writing as a habit, the challenges of leadership, and what’s driving OSS drama. You can read it here.
https://cate.blog/2024/11/12/sudo-make-me-a-cto-interview/
A List of Not-So-Mid Things We Enjoy
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
Unlike finals, we don’t get the week off for midterms, so this season is particularly mid. To all of you reading this article, keep pushing through! We are proud of you, and you are doing really well. The light is at the end of the tunnel, I promise.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/non-mid-things/
An Interview with Tim Ryan
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
Caltech alum & entrepreneur Tim Ryan enrolled in Caltech in 1973. Initially a physics major – his advisor the famous Richard Feynman – Tim soon found himself swept up by the then-hot field of electrical engineering…
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/tim-ryan-interview/
Athletics in Admissions - Open Office Hours Recap
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
On Monday, November 4, faculty representatives hosted open office hours for students who wanted to hear more about the changes to Caltech’s undergraduate admissions practices. These changes involved reinstating standardized testing and reducing the role of athletic recruitment in admissions.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/athletics-admissions-recap/
Caltech in 2024: A Year of Milestones, Achievements, and New Frontiers
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
2024 has been one of the most important years for Caltech, which continues to build on its legacy of scientific discovery, innovation, and academic excellence.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/caltech-2024-milestones/
Caltech Swim & Dive Wins First Dual Meet
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
On Saturday, November 2, Caltech Swim & Dive defeated the Occidental College Panthers at De Mandel Aquatics Center.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/swim-dive-win/
Caltech Y Hosts Community Service & Advocacy Fair
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
The Caltech Y Community Service & Advocacy (CSA) Fair on Friday, November 8, 2024, drew an impressive turnout on San Pasqual Walk…
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/caltech-y-hosts/
Can we detect an Earth-like-Exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like-Star for signs of life?
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
The search for life beyond Earth is a key priority for both the public and NASA. The observation of billions of galaxies in our universe has led us to ask: “Are we alone?” “Is there life out there?”
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/earth-like-exoplanet/
Crossing Over: An Arts and Sciences Fusion at Caltech
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 (PST ART), an expansive public exhibition, unfolds across Caltech’s campus, offering visitors a unique exploration of the intersection between art and science.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/crossing-over-exhibit/
Dean’s Corner: On Athletics
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
Since before the Institute bore its present name, athletics has played a vital role in the Caltech experience as a means of supporting students’ overall health and wellbeing.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/deans-corner-athletics/
e-plegona: Red Door Cafe’s Interactive Art Installation Brings Yamaha’s Vision of Kando to Caltech
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
“e-plegona is designed for both musicians and non-musicians to experience the joy of group play without needing musical skill. It’s about intuitive, collaborative play that even children can enjoy.”
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/e-plegona/
Engineering TESLA, a Futurist Radio-on-Stage
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
A vivid exploration of Tesla, his genius, and his struggles, the play takes a panoramic view of its mystifying title subject.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/tesla-radio-stage/
Hand Drill Hannibal Strikes Again
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
In a shocking turn of events, the elusive “Hand Drill Hannibal” has struck again, this time pilfering hand drills from both Blacker Hovse and Page House within the last week.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/hand-drill-hannibal/
History of the Other Mascot
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
The Turtle Club’s mascot campaign aims to help differentiate Caltech from MIT and have a mascot reflective of our campus.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/other-mascot-history/
Man vs. Mannion: Casa Bianca Pizza Pie Review
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
I’m in scarcely any position to assess Italian-American dining for The Tech; yet, last Thursday the 26th was I appointed by Mannion himself to do this exactly at Casa Bianca Pizza Pie, in the nearby suburb of Eagle Rock.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/man-vs-mannion-casa-bianca/
New Security Cameras to be Installed at Undergraduate Residence Entrances This Fall, Live Starting January
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
Caltech Campus Security and the Facilities Department have begun the process of installing outdoor cameras at all entrances to undergraduate housing.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/new-security-cameras/
Return of Question the Quail!
date: 2024-11-12, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
A SATIRE advice column about alive, ahaha, and everything in between!
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/11/quail-returns/
Blown Away
date: 2024-11-12, from: O’Reilly Radar
Between vacation, end-of-year projects, the coming holidays, and other hysteria, I haven’t come up with an article this month. So here’s a quick list of things that have amazed me recently. Are we virtual yet? I’m far from the first person to find NotebookLM amazing, and I certainly won’t be the last. I did a […]
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/blown-away/
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories
date: 2024-11-12, from: Berkley Artificial Intellegence Research Blog
We introduce Anthology, a
method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse
virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories
with rich details of individual values and experience.
What does it mean for large language models (LLMs) to be trained on massive text corpora, collectively produced by millions and billions of distinctive human authors?
In “Language Models as Agent Models”, compelling evidence suggests that recent language models could be considered models of agents: provided with a textual context, LLMs are capable of generating conditional text that represents the characteristics of an agent likely to have produced that context. This suggests that, with appropriate conditioning, LLMs could be guided to approximate the responses of a particular human voice, rather than the mixture of voices that otherwise emerges. If realized, this capability of LLMs would have significant implications for user research and social sciences—conditioned language models as virtual personas of human subjects could serve as cost-effective pilot studies and supporting best practices in human studies, e.g. the Belmont principles of justice and beneficence.
In this work, we introduce Anthology, an approach for steering LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by providing richly detailed life narratives of individuals as conditioning context to models. In doing so, we also present methods to generate backstories from LLMs themselves as a means to efficiently produce massive sets covering a wide range of human demographics. By grounding language models in naturalistic backstories, Anthology allows LLMs to simulate individual human samples with increased fidelity, measured in terms of matching the distributions and consistencies of human responses.
Our Approach: Anthology
Conditioning Language Model Generation with Individual Life Narratives
A significant limitation of earlier methods in steering LLMs to virtual personas has been the inability to reliably approximate individual human samples. Prior approaches prompt LLMs with broad demographic information, e.g., “I am a 25-year-old from California. My highest level of education is less than high school,” which are essentially bodies of text generated from a tuple of demographic variables. With these methods, we are only able to approximate human samples at a population level, not at the individual level, which results in:
- Responses prone to LLMs defaulting to stereotypical and/or prototypical portrayals, as they are only conditioned on demographic variables (e.g., race and gender)
- Inability to provide important metrics of interest such as covariance and statistical significance, as individual responses are required for such compuatations
Anthology enables the approximation of individual subjects by conditioning with richly detailed backstories. Through these backstories, the model captures implicit and explicit markers of personal identity, including demographic traits and spontaneous references to cultural, socioeconomic backgrounds, and life philosophies. Our approach involves generating a vast set of backstories representing a wide range of demographic attributes via language models queried with unrestricted, open-ended prompts such as, “Tell me about yourself.” We then match virtual personas conditioned by each backstory to real-world survey samples.
Results: Closer Approximation of Public Opinion Polls
For evaluation, we compare the effectiveness of different methods for conditioning virtual personas in the context of approximating three Pew Research Center ATP surveys: Waves 34, 92, and 99.
Results on approximating human responses for Pew Research
Center ATP surveys. Boldface and underlined results indicate values
closest and the second closest to those of humans, respectively.
As measures of success in approximating human samples with virtual personas, we consider the following metrics:
- Average Wasserstein distance (WD) between response distributions as a measure of representativeness
- Frobenius norm (Fro.) between correlation matrices as a measure of consistency
- Cronbach’s alpha as an additional measure of internal consistency
Prior to analyzing virtual subjects, we estimate the lower bounds of each evaluation metric by repeatedly dividing the human population into two equal-sized groups at random and calculating these metrics between the subgroups. We take averaged values from 100 iterations to represent the lower-bound estimates.
We consistently observe that Anthology outperforms other conditioning methods with respect to all metrics, for both the Llama-3-70B and the Mixtral-8x22B. When comparing two matching methods, the greedy matching method tends to show better performance on the average Wasserstein distance across all Waves. We attribute differences in matching methods to the one-to-one correspondence condition of maximum weight matching and the limited number of virtual users available. Specifically, the weights assigned to matched virtual subjects in maximum weight matching are inevitably lower than those in greedy matching, as the latter relaxes the constraints on one-to-one correspondence. This discrepancy can result in a lower demographic similarity between matched human and virtual users compared to the counterpart from greedy matching. These results suggest that the richness of the generated backstories in our approach elicits more nuanced responses compared to baselines.
Final Thoughts
Anthology marks a promising new direction in conditioning virtual personas in LLMs that could potentially reshape how we conduct user research, public opinion surveys, and other social science applications by offering a scalable, and at times, ethical alternative to traditional human surveys. However, the use of Anthology, as in any other application of language models in the social sciences, also brings several considerations to the forefront: although the generated backstories help create more representative personas, there remains a risk of perpetuating biases or infringing on privacy, so results should be used and interpreted with caution.
In terms of future steps, we envision our approach benefiting from a more expansive and diverse set of backstories, each representing a consistent life narrative of individuals. Additionally, a valuable extension of the work would be to consider free-form response generation, enabling more natural and nuanced persona simulations beyond structured survey formats such as multiple-choice. Finally, an exciting next dimension in applying LLMs in behavioral studies would involve simulating longer-term effects, allowing virtual personas to model and retrospectively examine changes over time.
All of these directions present multitudes of technical challenges; please let us know if you are interested in collaborating or want to discuss our work further!
Learn more about our work: link to full paper
@article{moon2024virtual,
title={Virtual personas for language models via an anthology of backstories},
author={Moon, Suhong and Abdulhai, Marwa and Kang, Minwoo and Suh, Joseph and Soedarmadji, Widyadewi and Behar, Eran Kohen and Chan, David M},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06576},
year={2024}
}
http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2024/11/12/virutal-persona-llm/
Low-carbon tech needs much fewer materials than it used to; this matters for resource extraction in the future
date: 2024-11-12, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
Improvements in material efficiency + recycling = super-circularity.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/low-carbon-tech-needs-much-fewer
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Jerry Garcia's Estate Recreated His Voice With AI for Audiobooks, More.
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/jerry-garcia-voice-recreated-ai-elevenlabs-1236207071/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
AOC Directly Addresses People Who Voted For Both Her And Trump.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aoc-trump-voters_n_67320370e4b052f25adcff55