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Andrew@AndrewJNell
Its so often overlooked how so much of the behavior #Facebook (or I guess now #Meta) & other #BigTech engages in is either common practice in every other industry
Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok
Emotions sell. “To monetise the insight, the Data Science Group created an AI machine-learning algorithm to predict which emotions articles would evoke and sells this insight to advertisers, who can choose from 18 emotions…”
Facebook?
No. The NYTimes. https://t.co/9uD2ZaMg2C
3:21 AM · Oct 29, 2021
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Also, considering the growing complexity of the NYTimes publishing platform, their engineering team must be quite large, at what time are they a tech company as well?
Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
This looks like something you'd see if you opened your fridge and found that Zuul was living there
8:26 AM · Oct 29, 2021
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It's actually some sort of 100 years of communism anniversary
Don Moynihan@donmoyn
New from me: Administrative burdens are bad for your health.
We spend a lot of time dealing with health care paperwork hassles. A new wave of research shows how that leads to more psychological costs and less health care.
Plz read and share.
donmoynihan.substack.com
Administrative Burdens Are Bad for Your Health
1:08 PM · Oct 29, 2021
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Among the many problems, equivalent of $22 Billion worth of time spent by Americans dealing with paperwork.
Aaron Green@AaronGuhreen
TOC is an incredibly successful program. Start applying it to R1 neighborhoods and LA’s housing shortage is solved. https://t.co/pJB6VdSRpQ
Urbanize LA @UrbanizeLA
Seven-story, 30-unit apartment building to replace century-old house in Koreatown https://t.co/SkscjAE2qy https://t.co/YXT65drqB3
5:05 PM · Oct 29, 2021
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30 units where there was a single family house! Huge improvement! More like this in the Bay Area, huge improvement over the current conversation.
Meg Tirrell@megtirrell
So when will there be a vaccine for kids under 5?
FDA's Dr Peter Marks: "We're probably a few more months off from the younger children. It has to do with when they were enrolled in the trials... (cont) /1
9:03 PM · Oct 29, 2021
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Gotta say, despite the fact that kids aren't particularly effected, regulations requiring vaccination still apply, meaning that it would make things much much simpler once it's available.
