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Zach
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Dad. Husband. Math teacher. Runner. Amateur writer. Fisherman. Mediocre guitar player and volleyball player. We need a new cultural enlightenment. I want to be a part of it.
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z_cress 1 year ago
Hopefully TikTok will be banned as scheduled. “And even if parental controls worked and parents chose to shield their kids from bad stuff, they can’t because TikTok’s content moderation is poor. An internal study found that the “leakage rate” (of bad stuff getting past moderators) is as follows: 35.71% of “Normalization of Pedophilia” content; 33.33% of “Minor Sexual Solicitation” content; 39.13% of “Minor Physical Abuse” content; 30.36% of “leading minors off platform”; 50% of “Glorification of Minor Sexual Assault”; and 100% of “Fetishizing Minors.” For those who think that social media is relatively harmless, we urge you to read the quotations and internal studies described below, in which employees of TikTok discuss the vast and varied harms that they are causing to literally millions of American children each year.”
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z_cress 1 year ago
It dawned on me today as I was taking notes on a video about weekly reviews that I could probably upload a picture of my notes to Claude and ask it to transcribe them into text. And, even with my poor handwriting, it did a great job. I also asked it to format it as a bulleted list with sub bullets, which it did. If my handwriting was slightly better it would’ve done an even better job. I love to take hand written notes but I hate that those notes get stuck in a physical notebook and are difficult to reference or build on later (unless you carry that notebook everywhere). They’re also difficult to search. This is especially the case if you’re looking for notes from months and years ago. It seems this problem is solved. image
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z_cress 1 year ago
I suspect Altman and OpenAI's sole motivation is money. Nothing wrong with that, I just wish they wouldn't lie about it.
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z_cress 1 year ago
The “connected car” is the worst for me because I don’t see any way around it. I think you can still buy a dumb tv. You can lessen the amount that Google knows about you. But we bought a new car last year and I don’t think we can turn off the connectedness. View quoted note →
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z_cress 1 year ago
Why do dragons hoard gold? Because the things you most need is always to be found where you least want to look. - Jordan Peterson #quotes #grownostr
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z_cress 1 year ago
I will say that over the last 18 months several of the non-bitcoin focused people I found only stuck around for a couple months and then left. Maybe I would’ve too, I guess, but I really want this thing to work. And hate Twitter so I’m not posting my thoughts there. But it can seem like you’re talking into the void. View quoted note →
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z_cress 1 year ago
My friend turned me onto the show Archer and I love it. If you want some mindless and funny tv then I highly recommend it.
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z_cress 1 year ago
Found a new favorite for instrumental background music for working and writing. #blues #tunestr
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z_cress 1 year ago
Also, in Damus, you can follow hashtags which I have found to be a great way to find new people in your regular feed without searching a bunch of hashtags repeatedly. View quoted note →
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z_cress 1 year ago
“Everything turns on your assumptions about it, and that’s on you. You can pluck out the hasty judgment at will, and like steering a ship around the point, you will find calm seas, fair weather and a safe port.” —MARCUS AURELIUS #stoicism
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z_cress 1 year ago
Is it possible to add relays in Highlighter? Maybe I’m missing something? I also used to be able to paste an article link and highlight from within highlighter.com but now I can’t find where to do that. I guess I should use it more to keep up with the updates… #asknostr @PABLOF7z image
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z_cress 1 year ago
The first of my thoughts on “Bad Therapy: why the kids aren’t growing up” by Abigail Shrier. #grownostr #education View quoted note →