- Apr 2025
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www.aspentimes.com www.aspentimes.com
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The Food and Wine Classic
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- Mar 2025
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will no doubt be accompanied by aggressive attempts at surveillance extending to travellers’ electronic devices
Do these changes detail the access to electronic devices?
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tricter enforcement of visa and travel permit regulations
Are these the same as prior or new?
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Citizens from Germany, the UK, and France have all reported being detained, in some cases for weeks, or denied entry when attempting to enter the US—including several individuals who say they are legal residents with Green Card
This has always been true in some form, but, are we seeing an increase?
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might
Say more here please? Reading onward...
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vastava.medium.com vastava.medium.com
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have found success by pivoting into the academic space.
Also played a key role in the development and adoption of the WC3 Annotation standard.
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defence24.com defence24.com
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The Russians have managed to break free from isolation, and at the same time, let us note that at this moment there is no clear data regarding what is expected from them. Of course, in all of this, the Russians could “overbid.” They might do so if they continue to stick to the narrative that they are not halting their military operations or that they do not agree to any deterrent and stabilizing forces in Ukraine. Trump might take this personally and feel deceived and offended by Putin. Right now, we are witnessing a dramatic situation in which it seems that everything is lost; yet, look at how unpredictably Donald Trump negotiates. I believe there is a method to his madness. Thus, if the Russians “overbid,” everything could reverse. I encourage Europeans to expect many more twists and to be prepared for the unpredictable.
The overbid scenario is when things get wild.
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www.atlanticcouncil.org www.atlanticcouncil.org
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myopia of key European politicians who, instead of recognizing what their weakness has wrought, speak instead about “being abandoned by America,”
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The power of language, memes and messaging always wins.
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will effectively reverse the gains
That's a bit hyperbolic but it could be a green light for power shift.
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in Eastern Europe at will, and that the West will accept Moscow’s role as an imperial power shaping the future of Europe as a whole.
The question is whether Europe will re-assert its role. It seems that the saber-rattling is working on Trump's part to trigger this.
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The West is poised to communicate weakness once again
We're going to find out for better or worse.
This is one possible outcome.
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because of its allegedly aggressive behavior,
Nato was the trigger vs. Lack of assertiveness on the bright lines established by the West as as the trigger.
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It was not the West’s alleged geostrategic assertiveness, but its timidity each time Putin used military power to occupy territory—first in Georgia in 2008, then in Ukraine in 2014, in Syria in 2015, and finally in Ukraine for the second time in 2022—that set the stage for the unfolding tragedy in Eastern Europe.
Give and inch take a mile appeasement argument.
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expending trillions of dollars on democracy-building and nation-building projects that had virtually zero prospects for success.
Which may have fueled the isolationist tenor carried by Trump.
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United States brought massive amounts of power to stabilize and rebuild Europe
Nuclear deterrent not really in effect.
Russia presents a different challenge with the nuclear option.
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West failed to back up the new security architecture with hard power.
This is a political question.
Do you get elected by putting boots on the ground and fighting for influence?
Or does your population not care and is fat and happy enough to give up a piece on the chess board?
Trump is sounding like a hippy on this and the left sound like huge hawks on this.
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but a simple consequence of the Soviet Union’s defeat.
Yes.
Presumably there was a battle in the sub culture of Ukraine by pro-west and pro Russian forces, likely directly and indirectly funded by Russia and USA>
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this is what realism in international affairs has always looked like.
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Of course, one key difference in 1999 and beyond compared to such a putative Soviet victory scenario was that NATO enlargement (not “expansion” as Moscow prefers to call it) reflected the wishes and desires of the nations finally liberated from under the Soviet yoke.
Sovereign nations are sovereign nations.
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The West prevailed and was thus positioned to shape the post-Cold War order in ways that favored its interests and priorities.
To the winner go the spoils situation.
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responsibility for the invasion and the carnage is unequivocally Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
This argument says, Ukraine, a sovereign nation can choose its friends and alliances.
Russia feeling like ti can step in and enfocre any other POV is the true trigger.
The gray areas stem from perceived or real meddling in the Ukranian Government by US or Russia as both sought to assert their influence.
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By this logic
One argument might be that Russia/Putin was more tolerant of the self-determination of those states.
But, Ukraine was a bright line.
Perhaps because of ports?
Perhaps because of culture/citizens in some areas.
Have not heard an explanation from Russia about this.
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seanregan.atlassian.net seanregan.atlassian.net
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www.anthropic.com www.anthropic.com
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increasingly powerful
test
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permission-aware connections into all of your other systems (from your email to docs to CRM to project trackers and more).
because today the approach of Side-Car AI is flawed.
CIOs don't want to pay for an AI per app, with AI's that can't work together.
That's why the browser is an advantaged position for an AI. One that can not just run AI across apps but also pull the collaboration layer up above the app stack into a new UX.
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Assistant even “smarter” and “more helpful” by adding the context of Coda Brai
Hypothes.is has designed a similar approach but not rolled it out.
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. While the Coda team has been busy redefining a new blinking cursor, the Grammarly team has been busy making every existing blinking cursor much smarter.
And Hypothes.is has been making everything you write and read more collaborative, more accurate, more engaged with.
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AI-powered suggestions
Imagine 3d Reading.... something well beyond writing suggestions.
1.) Source material. eg. NY Times. 2.) Social layer e.g. I tag you on a sentence talking about their Grammarly/Coda article and rumors about Notion 3.) Engaging AI to test facts, offer alternative povs, summaries, etc.
Now Grammarly has read, write and collab + AI. * Suggestions * Collaboration & Mentions * AI in the browser for all
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With 40 million active users
The cold start problem for annotation needs a large partner to accelerate momentum.
Hypothes.is has a million users and 60 annotations but we're looking for a partner to accelerate it.
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brainstorming
Imagine a collaborative layer over all knowledge with the core social capabilities that we use every day in application silos available for everything in the browser @mentions, notifications, public, private groups, and identities. etc.
Winning this opportunity would make Slack's outcome look small.
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“Just trust me, you’ll have a lot more to talk about than you think.
As an outsider, this is why I'm bringing this deal to you.
I believe that Hypothes.is/Annotatin will become a web-scale user experience, creating a new collaboration layer for the entire web with billion user potential.
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As I watched the foundational capabilities of AI change how just about every tool and surface operate
I remember vividly the Coda demo that turned Jira into a prompt inside of Coda.
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dramatic acceleration of the Coda product and our mission
This works here because we're messaging to the Coda base.
However, we will need a Grammarly message for their audience also. @GrammarlyPR
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communication
With Hypothes.is you can create a public or private collaboration layer over the entire internet.
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Grammarly
Annotations are a new noun for the internet.
@mentions Hyperlinks email addresses URLs
With a web annotation system, a user can add, modify or remove information from a Web resource without modifying the resource itself
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blinking cursor
This is an annotation.
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www.grammarly.com www.grammarly.com
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Grammarly
Annos are a new noun for the web just like @mentions and hyperlinks.
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Coda and
This is an annotation
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openai.com openai.com
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AI models can be used by the scientific community.
Imagine if the model had a copy of all of the research from these 1000 scientists.
Then anytime one of them opened a source material, they could see inline annotation from the AI for whatever it was they cared about.
e.g. Prompt: Hypothes.is pre-read and annotate this page with the names of any scientist of the 1000 who has conducted sinilar research and reached conflicting conclusions.
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to improve future AI systems so that th
The reinforcement learning that results would make the Open AI models better too.
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ncluding OpenAI’s o3‑mini, t
AI annotations show up just like this on the page creating a 3d reading experience,
1.) Source Knowledge 2.) Human annotations 3.) AI annotations and knowledge
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Researchers will use frontier AI models,
Hypothes.is (beta) can call an AI to pre-read a page with a prompt. e.g. highlight any statements that contradict the laws of physics.
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Brookhaven, Idaho, L
A user at Brookhaven could then reference that anno-link to a user at Livermore. This accelerates their research.
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advanced AI mode
Users can also tag topics and soon @mention their peers as read.
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y. Through
Eventually, everyone will use it the same way we use annotations and mentions on GDocs.
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scientific
Today, Scientists, students, professors and researchers use it to have a conversation over any knowledge.
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problems, inclu
Like the @mention, it is a new noun for the internet.
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Labs to deploy an o-series reasoning model to accelerate breakthroughs in materials science, renewable energy, astrophysics, and more.
Hypothes.is has a beta that would enable this asap on anything in your browser with in-context AI,
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Nine national labs spanning the country
If the actual number were 10, you could annotate the article so that the reader has better information.
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her, we organized a
Or they can collaborate in public. e,g, This annotation is visible to anyone who reads this page and has the Hypothes.is plugin,
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frontiers of science
They can create private groups allowing them to have a private conversation over any knowledge.
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We're building AI to help peop
This is an annotation.
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- Feb 2025
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This is more power than many auto-mobiles
This is a stretch.
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he most powerful snowmobiles today have from 120- to 150-horsepower engines.
Your argument again cherry picks data or is willfully ignorant of reality. Recent EPA Automotive Trends data and analyses provide the basis for these figures. The EPA reports show the climb in average horsepower from ~137 hp in 1975 to over 260 hp by 2023/2024
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The data the follows is irrelevant.
Using non-motorized groomed trails to show an imbalance serves only as tortured data to drive an agenda for uninformed audiences. As a skier, an CX skier and a snowmobiler I'll break it down.
CX skiers need/want non-moto terrain so they can skate and glide or run in groomed CX tracks.
Skiers don't like groomed trails much because they are seeking powder and skinning on firm, icy terrain isn't as nice as in powder.
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Shasta-Trinity National Forest’s ratios are equally disparate. That forest shows 99,000 annual skier visits and 6,600 annual snow-mobile visits,
Your data seems to show that the overcrowding is not from snowmobiles.
Ski visits per non-motorized groomed trail is an irrelvebat statistic. Aside from CX, skiers do not want to ski on groomed trails. I know because I've skied at least 50 days a year since I was 16.
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8,387 skier and snowshoer visits per non-motorized mile compared to 144 snowmobile visits per motorized mile, a ratio of 58 to one.
this is tortured data and does not reflect the way this terrain is actually used by participants.
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promote the safety
occasional noise and tracks are not safety issues.
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dominate national forest lands in winter, overpowering other winter users and impacting ecosystems across that forest land.
This conflicts with your prior data about number of users per mile.
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This disparate situation results in a density of 3,356 skier and snowshoer visits per mile of groomed non-motorized trail compared to only 235 snowmobile visits per mile of groomed motorized trail
It seems we have an overcrowding problem of skiers who do not use non-groomed terrain.
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Due to snowmobilers traveling freely on the vast majority of national forest lands, pristine terrain for skiers and snowshoers is rapidly disappearing under the tracks of snowmobiles. Photo courtesy of Jeff Erdoes
Snowmobiles have closed no terrain on these user groups and the vast majority of terrain remains untouched.
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With snowmobiles traveling at average speeds of 45 to 60 mph,
If you think that a backcountry sledder averages this speed over the course of a day you have never ridden one. Even on groomed trails only, this would be very difficult to truly average,
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One study reports that the average distance traveled by a snowmobiler in a day ranges between 127 and 367 miles
That is hardly the case in Tahoe where we do not have the long approaches of other areas.
Further, you footnotes do not resolve so I was unable to vet your data, Regardless, you are almost certainlt cherry picking data again. No "powder" sled, even with extra tankes will get close to this range off groomed or even on groomed trails.
You cannot take data from Minnesota flat land sledding and credibly use it to make your argument against powder sleds.
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cross-country
They do not appreciate powder typically and often prefer machine groomed terrain.
Stop cherry picking data and include emissions from all groomed XC terrain in the USA.
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A snowmobiler in a mediation group of skiers and snowmobilers attempting to map out areas in the Sawtooth National Forest for both users candidly voiced one of the crux concerns of skiers: “You are afraid that with the increase in power and numbers of snowmachines, every inch of the forest will be tracked up by snowmobiles.”78 To snowmobilers and skiers alike, the availability of untracked terrain or freshly groomed trails is key to a quality recreational experience
Perhaps a better approach to addressing this concern is to make certain ski terrain/runs no snowmobile bot not entire forests.
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The tremendous power, weight and traction of snowmobiles are incompatible with skiers, snowshoers and other pedestrian users on winter trails and backcountry terrain.
For the vast amount of time that these two things have existed that is not the case. Your analysis illustrates exceptions to otherwise functioning user groups interacting in the vast majority of cases.
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aimed directly at skiers,
As has Burton's advertising since the beginning. Are we protesting split boarding now too?
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60-80 mph are common
Most sleds cannot travel this speed on non-groomed terrain.
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You are cherry picking data to support your agenda.
Are we exploring race sleds, trail sleds, powder sleds?
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Snowmobiles typically weigh up to 600 pounds, and many can travel at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour.
The "powder" sleds you refer to prior typically weigh ~450 and max out at high 60 to low 70 MPH but rarely ever travel at that speed. Speed on groomed trails is typically around 20-30 mph and often much lower.
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vulnerability as a self-powered recreationist.
This particular concern has revealed a huge imbalance between the fears and realities.
The fears are largely unrealized, meanwhile, the reality is that snowmobilers are often the rescue support for injured skiers in the backcountry,
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the efficiency of four-stroke machines
and the Subaru's and Sprinter vans that the non motorized users drive to the trail.
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missions from snowmobiles contain toxic compounds such as benzene
Some products used in backcountry ski maintenance—especially certain aerosolized wax removers or liquid waxes that use petroleum‐derived solvents (naphtha)— contain benzene.
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Furthermore, aftermarket modifications to snowmobiles continue to defeat reductions in noise.
Showing that the snowmobile community is working to self-police bad behavior is not an argument against snowmobiling. It is evidence that we are responding to feedback, The actions of WWA however serve to radicalize members of our community who see that giving an inch is costing them 100's of thousands of acres of access.
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Motorized use impacts the human-powered winter recreation experience in a number of ways
Are you suggesting grooming stop?
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Human-powered recreationists venture into the winter backcountry
Human-powered recreationists WHO venture into the winter backcountry after driving a great distance and who are using trails groomed by diesel snow cats funded by OSV funds.
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g to represent their interests before the For-est Service is indicative of increasing concern for the way public lands are being managed for winter recreation.2
So too is the formation of the Lake Tahoe Snowmobilers Club and other similar interests.
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snowmobiles t
and skiers, hikers, paragliders.
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. The limited amount of information on the impacts of these vehicles is reflective of the low priority that these agen-cies have given to monitoring the effects of the recreational use of these vehicles.
What baseline impact studies have been undertaken on every form of winter activity. Is this the right and best use of funds or are we hunting for data to serve agendas.
e.g, Where is the WWA donor base located, how far tdo they travel to partake in "non-motorized activities"
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Public land managers at the highest levels foresaw conflict be-tween motorized and non-motorized use as early as the 1970s. In 1972 President Nixon signed Executive Order
The strain on Tahoe infrastructure was also raised in the same period by the same leaders when advocating for Independence Lake.
The problems of today have been 50 years in the making.
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1 times more groomed trails open to snowmobiles than there are groomed trails designated as non-motorized. T
Do non-motorized advocates want groomed terrain?
If so, how are they funding it?
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he should never forget that his skis are after all only an instrument,
I believe there is some powerful data about skier/hiker rescues supported by snowmobilers.
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ational Forest Annual Visits Per Activ
We have a rapidly growing demand problem. The supply side has been crippled since the 1970's because competing interests aren't collaborating for progress and outcomes.
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with cross-country skiers and snowshoers asserting that on many forests it is nearly impossible to find the quiet, peaceful recreation experi-ence they seek, and snowmobilers countering that the forest lands are being closed off to them.01,000,0002,000,0003,000,0004,000,0005,000,0006,000,000
"People Say" data. We can all survey our users for these anecdotes but the math and reality don't support it as a real problem.
Helicopter/drone footage would easily disprove this.
People are lazy, they want to drive to a popular trailhead, park, then take the 1st couple miles of a trail probably groomed by OSV funds and then complain about snowmobiles.
Millions of acres don't see a single track even off of highway 89 or 80 weeks after a storm.
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there will likely be more conflicts among recreation-ists who will be competing at the same times for use of some of the same areas and sites for different forms of outdoor recre-ation.”
So how does closing more terrain to snowmobiling reduce this issue? Instead, it drives more people to the same trailheads.
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“new technologies and better modes of accessing backcountry will continue to shift the nature of the demand for outdoor recreation.
This speaks generally, are they speaking generally or are you attempting to make this about snowmobiling specifically.
e.g. Hikers with Bluetooth speakers are a thing also today.
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snowmobiles
AND backcountry skiers.
How do I know? I am BOTH. I use both. Sometimes together.
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“today’s snowmobiles bear little resemblance to earlier models.”10
No doubt, marketing claims about backcountry ski equipment also ring similar. eg. Leather boots, wooden skis, trap bindings, mean that terrain accessed by skiers was much more mellow as well.
One needs to look at the ski resorts that have closed in new England. Terrain that was exciting in the 1950 is today too short, too flat, and too slow thanks to advances in equipment.
The same is true of backcountry skiers. You average desk worker has access to equipment that makes it possible for them to access far riskier and more amazing terrain than elite mountaineers in the 1950s.
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As to historical snowmobile use, attempts to build over-the-snow machines date back to the 1920s.
The point here is that only about 70 years separate the origin of snowmobiling and skiing in the western US.
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WWA’s position that, in every applicable national forest unit, sizeable and acces-sible areas should be closed or remain closed to over the snow vehicles to insure a quality recreation experience for human-powered winter recreationists.
This should be the headline.
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because of the motorized impacts listed above and elaborated in this report, the opportunity for a quality human-powered recreation experience is lost on forest lands designated as multi-use because those lands are in fact dominated by motorized use
If these areas are indeed so unpleasant why then are they being frequented by WWA members to such a degree?
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Even more striking, there are 11 times more groomed trails open to snowmobiles than there are groomed trails designated as non-motorized.
Are you arguing for more motorized vehicles to support non-motorized users in our forests?
Do your constituents really want grooming?
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Just 1,681 miles, or eight percent, of those groomed trails are designated as non-motorized. See Table 3, pg. 5.
Groomed by a diesel snow-cat creasing something similar to snowmobile tracks but bigger
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However, in winter, the distances from plowed parking areas and trailheads make the vast majority of designated wilderness areas inaccessible to skiers and snowshoers.
Have you considered
1.) Allowing motorized use in those areas? 2.) Building parking lots in the wilderness for no-motorized users to drive their cars to.
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This report is an effort to provide concrete data to Forest Ser-vice officials and other public land managers to help them better address the issue of equitable opportunity and access for quality winter recreation on national forest lands. B
This is a very long sentence to simply state.
We want private, privileged access, where powered users are banned.
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uiet, quality recreation have been lost on many forests
This problem is most acute when motorized participants choose to operate out of snowmobile-funded trailheads and parking lots.
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snowmobile tracks
While inconvenient sometimes to skiers, also a lifesaver when human powered participants need help getting out of a zone.
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exhaust,
Mountain town residents are more concerned about the traffic from "mega-mountain-commuters" e.g. driving 3-4 hours from the SF bay areas to participate in "non-motorized" activity.
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safety concerns
We've seen data that illustrates the additional safety that snowmobilers bring to non-motorized users who are lost or injured.
Do we have material data showing that skiers are injured by
How does the benefit of snowmobile assisted rescues/injury support balance against the number of snowmobile on skier injuries.
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has resulted in untenable conditions
As a percentage of total interactions, how serious of a problem is this?
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- Jan 2025
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aim.org aim.org
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n Media activists in holding cultural giants accountable for thei
Here is where you can start to break down text with annotations
We can also do the same for videos, the transcript is products and then you can host a conversation on top of it.
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www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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, from Donald Trump’s tariff thre
Did Trump push this?
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- Nov 2024
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www.thinkglobalhealth.org www.thinkglobalhealth.org
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No matter how many times Kennedy says that vaccines are unsafe, or the polio vaccine kills people, or that the measles vaccine kills people, he's wrong, and time will continue to show he's wrong
Science is about asking questions and answering them. And re-asking them as new information emerges.
Time will tell if introducing a shock to the system makes it stronger and more resilient or causes harm.
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I think people generally trust their doctors and health care professionals.
They also respond to seeing evidence of success or failure. When you see measles, you are very motivated to prevent it.
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It's a hard question to answer.
You can't win power if you can't answer it.
That's why the agencies are on the receiving end of the incoming administration.
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Right is anti-vaccine so much as they are anti being told they have to get a vaccine.
That side wants to choose based on overwhelming proof vs take it as an edict from power.
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unless you showed that vaccine card.
Yet you can cast a vote without an ID. (Doesn't mean it is counted of course)
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That Kennedy could actually be considered for this position is because there's distrust. The reason that we see this increase in vaccine exemption is because of distrust.
That is the fact that mush be addressed.
At the moment the distrust is winning.
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That is the highest it's ever been.
This is driven by the covid vaccine IMO. The resolution is to establish trust in the vaccine and the process.
Has anyone gotten up and vigorously defended the role of the vaccine, taken the victory lap for how it saved the world?
Or, is the answer much more nuanced?
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eventually retracted the article after other people complained about its many misstatements to fact
A risk for all of a music magazine publishing on health.
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No live attenuated viral vaccines contain preservatives.
Why didn't he say thimerisol/mercury since this is the question here?
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Western Europe had taken thimerosal out of vaccines in the early 1990s, so you could compare before and after that moment. Studies were undertaken involving some Canadian provinces that had used vaccines that contained thimerosal that were right next to other provinces that used similar vaccines that didn't contain thimerosal. By around 2001, drugmakers had also essentially taken thimerosal out of vaccines given to young children.
So had there not been some agent of chaos, this would have continued? Is that the takeaway?
Would we all be better off had no one pursued this question?
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outrageous civil litigation, which almost drove vaccines out of
While court can be a lowest common denominator forum, why is the argument so winnable if they are efficacious?
Why do we remove commercial risk her but not from hotels with swimming pools and diving boards?
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gut the drug advisory committees,
Could be bad, could be good. Depends on the people and the process they run.
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a drug or a vaccine, he could say, I don't think enough studies have been done.
Why rush it through absent some compelling crisis?
Post crisis- why not do deep on testing?
We require seatbelts, airbags, bike helmets, safeties on guns, parental advisory on music etc.
Should we accept an argument of lesser safety faster without compelling reasons?
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Do you think he could pull this policy lever or others to limit vaccine access
The headline of this article speaks, "compelled by ourr fears.
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profoundly untrue
Hyperbole, leaves no room for discussion of the actual arguments being made.
George Bush level, with us or against us talk.
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He said that the virus was designed to target Blacks and Whites, but spares Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, which is obviously nonsense.
It is at this point that I do not trust the author.
You need to listen to the actual tape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHyHQiKS3f0
He was not careful enough in his language to prevent this type of headline.
The point was 1.) We need to pay attention to bioweapons. 2.) Countries (US and China) have spent money on bioweapoons. 3.) Covid- Either via Man mad or god mad outcomes impacts different races differently. 4.) If three is true, then bio weapons that impact different DNA differently is a likely reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHyHQiKS3f0
He was pointing out that bio weapons that can target people based on DNA are a real threat and that covid as an example impacts different races/dna differently.
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was essentially created in a laboratory, which isn't true.
This is an area where there will always be dispute.
But, it is not disputed that we were funding research in Wuhan on novel corona viruses and "gain" of function. aka hacking the viruses to make them "better/worse".
So what are the odds......
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"there's no vaccine that's safe and effective."
I think people are talking past eachother here, e.g. In the cited article, they say "After authorization or approval, vaccine safety continues to be monitored, as no medical product is 100% safe, and even very large trials may not be able to detect rare side effects. This ensures the benefits of a vaccine outweigh the risks."
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The notion is that anyone can just declare their own truths, including scientific truths.
A legitimate concern for every topic on earth right now.
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supplements in drinking water, even though the practice
When fluoride was added to the water 1940's, it wasn't in our toothpaste and mouthwashes for the most part (mid 1950s). Now it is in all three so we're getting more fluoride.
You rinse with fluoride when using toothpaste and mouthwash.
You consume it when it is in water.
Why not be pro-choice when it comes to what you put in your body and how much?
Some might argue equality of access.
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responsible for oversight on nutrition to address health concerns about processed foods.
Are you satisfied with the current approach to nutrition in the US or do you think we could be doing things differently?
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anti-vaccine activist,
Calling him anti-vaccine isn't accurate. Why must everything be presented in binary terms?
If you are anti-lima beans, are you therefore anti-vegetables?
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www.factcheck.org www.factcheck.org
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After authorization or approval, vaccine safety continues to be monitored, as no medical product is 100% safe, and even very large trials may not be able to detect rare side effects. This ensures the benefits of a vaccine outweigh the risks.
Note
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- Sep 2024
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journal.burningman.org journal.burningman.org
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One of them was the eighth best bull rider in the world. He called me up a month later. He was in town in San Francisco at the Cow Palace for a rodeo. He said I needed to take him to a rave.
This sums up so many encounters at BurningMan.
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- Jul 2024
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medium.com medium.com
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can significantly lower the resource requirement for petabytes data ingestion
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speed up ML dataset experiments
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various open-source tools
Who are the competitors in OSS?
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AI trends, insights, and recommendations.
Might as well do it in situ with annos
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- Feb 2024
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www.aspentimes.com www.aspentimes.com
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model could lose Aspen School District millions State task force recommendations would change school district's total program funding limit News News | Feb 15, 2024 Lucy Peterson lpeterson@aspentimes.com The Aspen School District could lose $5.4 million per year under a state task force’s recommended overhaul of the state’s public school funding model. A legislature-appointed Public School Finance Task Force released a 60-page report in early February, making recommendations that would change the way the state funds public schools and taking into account student need-based funding and district profile adjustments. The report came after the task force was charged with updating the current school finance formula to be more equitable. The initial recommendation is far from reaching any formal passage through the legislature, but it could make a significant cut into the school district’s annual budget if it is adopted. /*global ad styles*/ .adbox { width:100%; margin:0 auto; overflow-y:hidden; overflow-x:hidden; } a.nomouse { position: relative; display: block; } div.adbox, div.adbox div { padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; } a.nomouse:after { content: ""; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px; display: block; position: absolute; } .adcontainer { overflow-y:hidden; overflow-x: hidden; margin-top:-50%; } .adcontainer div.parallax { perspective: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; width:100%; padding-right:24px; padding-left:24px; position: relative; left: -24px; box-sizing: content-box; } .object-wrapper { position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; background: none; justify-content: center; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0); } .speed-1 { transform: translateZ(-1px) scale(2); -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0); } .speed-null { transform: translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0); } .speed-2 { transform: translateZ(-2px) scale(3); -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0); } a:link.adbox { border:none; } /*-- ADJUSTABLE --*/ .adcontainer { height:200vh; } .adbox { max-width:920px; /*resize me!*/ height:250px; /*resize me!*/ -webkit-transition: all 1s; -moz-transition: all 1s; -ms-transition: all 1s; -o-transition: all 1s; transition: all 1s; } .parallax { height:250px; margin-top:50%; } .adbox.unique-134 { max-width:970px; /*resize me!*/ height:250px; /*resize me!*/ } .adbox.unique-134 .parallax { height:250px; } .adbox.unique-640x160 { max-width:640px; /*resize me!*/ height:160px; /*resize me!*/ } .adbox.mobilev.unique-097 { height: 600px; } .mobilev.unique-097 .para-background, .unique-134 .para-background { background-image: url("cta-bg-test.jpg"); background-repeat: no-repeat; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; width:100%; min-height:800px; /*Higher number faster scrolling. */ } .mobilev.unique-097 .para-foreground, .unique-134 .para-foreground, .unique-640x160 .para-foreground { width: 100%; min-width: 320px; min-height: 1200px; /*High number = faster scrolling. */ background-image: url("test-cta.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: bottom center; -webkit-background-size: contain; background-size: contain; } .unique-023 .para-background, .unique-640x160 .para-background { background-image: url("https://picsum.photos/1200/800/?image=82"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; background-position: bottom center; width:100%; min-height:500px; } .mobilev .adcontainer { margin-top: 0%; } .mobilev .parallax { margin-top: 0%; height: 600px; } .unique-023 .para-foreground { width: 100%; min-width: 360px; min-height: 800px; background-image: url("apoples2.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: bottom center; background-size: contain; } /*.adbox.unique-035.expander*/ .adbox.unique-035.expander { max-width:1008px; /*resize me!*/ height:125px; /*resize me!*/ -webkit-transition: height 1s; -moz-transition: height 1s; -ms-transition: height 1s; -o-transition: height 1s; transition: height 1s; } .adbox.unique-035.expander:hover { height:575px; /*resize me!*/ } .adbox.unique-035.expander .parallax { height:575px; /*resize me!*/ } .adbox.unique-035.expander .para-foreground { width: 100%; min-width: 360px; min-height: 800px; background-image: url("apoples3.png"); background-repeat: repeat-y; background-position: bottom center; background-size: auto; } .unique-035.expander .para-background { background-image: url("https://picsum.photos/1200/800/?image=82"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; width:100%; min-height:575px; } .adbox.unique-097 .para-foreground { -webkit-background-position: center bottom; background-position: center bottom; background-image: url(https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/simgad/4909324726728493116?); } .adbox.unique-097 .para-background { -webkit-background-position: center bottom; background-position: center bottom; background-image: url(https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/simgad/15606607954717856983?); } /*----MS Edge Browser CSS Start----*/ @supports (display:-ms-grid) { .object-wrapper {border: 1px solid transparent;} } /*----MS Edge Browser CSS End----*/ “It’s significant enough that we would have a really hard time figuring out how to operate without $5.4 million,” Aspen School District Assistant Superintendent of Business Mary Rodino said. The current formula, which was last updated in 1994, is based on the amount of students and the state’s set cost of per-pupil funding. But the new model would add several need-based allocations, adding extra weight to a district’s amount of English language learners, special education students, and at-risk students. It would also add district adjustments based on cost of living, size, and remoteness. .at-donation { background: #643695; max-width: 100%; margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 1em !important; } .at-donation .logo { width: 50%; margin: 1rem 0 1rem; } .at-donation h1 { font-size: 2rem; text-transform: none; color: #fff; } .at-donation p { color: #fff; font-weight: 300; } .at-donation hr { width: 20%; border-top: 4px solid #000; } .at-donation .btn { padding: .5rem 2rem; background-color: #fff !important; border-radius: 0; } .at-donation .btn { color: #643695; } .at-donation .btn:hover { background-color: #643695 !important; } .at-donation .btn:hover { color: #fff !important; } .at-donation .col-xl-5.p-0 { background-image: url('https://swiftmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/mountain.swiftcom.com/images/sites/5/2020/03/10092513/AT-donate-cta-bg.jpg'); background-size: cover; min-height: 330px; } @media (min-width: 768px) { .at-donation .logo { width: 35%; } } @media (min-width: 1440px) { .at-donation { text-align: left; } .at-donation-mobile { display: none; } .at-donation hr { margin-left: 0; } } AdBridg.cmd.push(function() { AdBridg.display('ad-parallax3'); }) Recommended changes to the state public school funding formula would allocate money for specific students’ needs. Public School Finance Task Force The formula would give 93% of districts in the state a boost of funding. Aspen is one of only 13 districts that would lose money — and it stands to lose the most of all of them. The proposed funding model prioritizes higher-needs students, lower property wealth districts, and small rural districts. Aspen could collect an additional $1.3 million for remoteness, $936,000 for special education students, $259,000 for English-language learners, and $43,000 for at-risk students, according to an analysis of the task force’s final recommendations, which The Aspen Times reviewed. But according to the task force’s findings, Aspen would lose the bulk of its funding (about $6.8 million) due to the cost-of-living factor, where it ranks first out of 189 districts in the state. Roaring Fork School District ranks second in cost of living, but it will get about a 7% funding increase. Although Roaring Fork will lose about $12 million due to size and cost of living, it will get a $5 million increase, largely due to its percentage of special-education students, English-language learners, and at-risk students. Summit School District ranks third in cost of living, Steamboat Springs School District ranks fourth, and Eagle County School District ranks fifth. Basing funding on Aspen’s cost of living could impact the district’s ability to build and acquire affordable housing for its staff, many of whom rely on the district’s affordable housing options to live in Aspen, Rodino said. A majority of the 13 districts set to lose funding would also lose the lion’s share of it based on the district’s cost of living. While some districts would lose much larger dollar amounts — Douglas County School District would lose $26 million and Academy District 20 would lose $11 million per year — Aspen would lose the largest percentage by far. Of the districts on pace to lose funding, 12 of them would lose between less than 1% and 9%. Aspen stands to lose 24%. Local funding In 2023, the Aspen School District switched to 100% local funding, meaning it no longer receives any money from the state. School districts in Colorado switch to 100% local funding when local sources of school funding — including higher property taxes and funding partners like the Aspen Education Foundation, in Aspen’s case — exceed the state’s allocation for the district. But the state still determines the maximum amount of funding districts can receive by setting total program costs for districts. It’s why the district could not increase its mill levy by 58% even though assessed values increased by 58% in 2023. The district’s total program costs make up a majority of the total budget, Rodino said. Aspen is one of only about 15 other districts in the state that are fully locally-funded. Other locally-funded districts, most of which depend on the oil and gas industry, will see an increase in funding under the new model. If the state adopts the task force’s recommendations, the district would likely need to lean on its funding partners and look into cutting expenses in the budget. “I don’t know that our partners in education funding would have the capacity to help us in that respect. That would be my first hope, but I would never want to put that all on those organizations specifically,” Rodino said. “To be honest, I think then you start looking at having to cut expenses, and that ($5 million) is a huge amount for us.” It’s unclear where the district would have to make cuts because the details of the formula implementation at the state level are still in early stages. But if the formula was adopted by the state, district leaders would have to determine how business, curriculum, and staff funding cuts would affect the overall operation of the district. “You can’t just figure out how to do without $5 million,” she said. The school board would need to approve any budget adjustments when they approve the district budget, typically in June. Hold harmless The task force recommended using a hold harmless provision to ensure no districts are negatively impacted by the formula changes. The hold harmless provision would allow districts to receive the amount of money it is set to lose under the formula change each year. But the hold harmless amount, $5.4 million for Aspen, would be a set amount that would not increase year over year to account for inflation. “If there was a hold harmless provision forever, that $5 million would be great, it would put us back to where we would be if the legislation hadn’t been in effect,” Rodino said. “But eventually, that $5 million is worth a lot less, and it doesn’t grow like the rest of the total program funding calculation as costs increase. “Hold harmless is better than nothing, but it’s an expensive provision for the state to agree to,” she added. The task force estimated the implementation of the new formula would cost the state $474 million. Implementing a hold harmless provision would cost an additional $64.1 million. It would be up to lawmakers to determine how to get the money to fund it. 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@Suzanne check this out,
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davekarpf.substack.com davekarpf.substack.com
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the dotcom crash
Do you see a distinction between those who got ricc off the boom vs the crash?
Did e.g. Andreessen get rich off the Boom or Crash in your opinion?
Are you talking about short sellers?
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www.nytco.com www.nytco.com
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The Times’s journalis
Hi Zach- This is Hypothes.is, a fairly new open standard for the web. I'm excited about your new job and the potential impact not just on the newsroom but ALSO for how people consume the news. We believe that there's a pressing need for a revolution in how we consume and engage with digital content. Traditional methods of media and content consumption are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information, leading to a crisis of trust and understanding. The emergence of AI and an impending election cycle create a unique opportunity to leverage timing, relevance and the cultural zeitgeist.
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begins
How we solve it:
:check_mark: We’ve created a browser experience in use with 2m users that overlays conversation with content today.
:check_mark: We’ve created a multiplayer prompt builder to power the AI pre-annotation backend.
Combine the annotation layer with pre-annotation for the top X articles daily.
Ship a freemium experience gated at X number of articles, accelerated with a referral model (Dropbox Style) to drive distribution and social engagement to drive distribution, mention, upvote, downvote, share, comment, and link (X style).
Partner with 2 well-known opinion leaders adding private commentary layers to their subscription offerings. e.g. Read the News with Tucker or Rachel or Taibbi
Ship a Paywall Fastlane: Kicking off a new model for media outlets to generate revenue driven by our services and a single-click paywall Fastlane.
Extend our services to subscription opinion leaders to bring their ideas out of the toxic “Smoking Lounges” of Reddit and Twitter and into the public discourse everywhere.
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media
Vision (Ivy): Ivy is a new way to browse, read, and consume news content with context, insight, and commentary anywhere you read. Ivy combines the reach of the New York Times, the engagement of Reddit and Twitter, and the knowledge that only AI can bring to bear at scale. Ivy allows you to read between the lines, seeing commentary, point/counterpoint, and source materials where they live.
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social media team
Like Social was a big precipitating technology: AI will be the trigger that compels this new experience into reality. (You’ve heard Altman, Ive, etc. signaling a related direction). The current implementation of “side-car” AI by app vendors like Notion, Atlassian, Figma etc. is a temporary state. Soon users and companies will demand fewer AIs that are more enabled to work across apps, data, and identities. The browser is where that experience will evolve.
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evolves
Vision (Macro): A new web-scale UX will emerge a level above apps enabling people, teams, and AI to collaborate on anything in the browser. We believe Ivy is to Hypothes.is as Starlink is to SpaceX in the way it advances toward the larger vision.
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shifting landscape
Our Mission: Make it make sense! Our mission is to balance the explosion of digital content with powerful tools for understanding, collaborating, and learning so that every individual can make informed decisions, and harness the collective knowledge of humanity for personal and societal growth. We will create economic incentives for media and expert opinion leaders to bring context and understanding to content anywhere, not just in the smoking lounge.
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digital products
We have 300 customers, $2m in revenue, 2m active users, and 60M instantiations of our technology deployed today in an ancillary use case with zero viral or PLG tactics employed currently.
We're excited about a deployment of our product focused on the news cycle that makes this new way of engaging content accessible to consumers for the first time. (An AI can play a role)
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build a small team
Out Team: Dan Whaley built the world's 1st online travel reservation application and later IPO’d, the 1st of 3 Unicorns he’s been a part of.
Sean Regan started his career working at a startup that turned AOL IM into Slack and Slack apps, a decade too early (IMLogic). After 8 years at Atlassian leading product marketing where his teams were responsible for 100% of new customer acquisition and the PLG GTM strategy for the portfolio, he left to work on this problem and opportunity.
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journalism will always be reported, written and edited by our expert journalists
This will remain true. What natters just as much is how the public engaged and understands the content.
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establish principles for how we do and do not use generative A.I.
My former employer did similar here, https://www.atlassian.com/trust/responsible-tech-principles
Happy to connect you with the founders if helpful
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A.I. explorations
The way we all consume content will never be the same. Human and AI contexts should always be attached to the source content, not dragged into a toxic smoking lounge. Commentary and commenters will become as important as the original content and the author, and we will have collectively taken a large step toward a new AI & UX layer that sits above any app and across all content.
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chief product officer
We envision a new web-scale UX a level above apps enabling people, teams, and AI to collaborate on anything in the browser. Your experiencing a tiny glimpse of what is possible tight now. It is a new way of reading that combines context, collaboration, and understanding from consumer to enterprise.
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built for the digital age
A new approach to how content is consumed that benefits consumers, producers, and society is needed. AI must contribute to the solution, **not as a generator of new content but as a facilitator of knowledge and voices where the content is published. **
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Artificial Intelligence Initiatives.
This overabundance of content and media unbundling breeds confusion, erodes trust, and fuels a counterproductive cycle that dampens productivity, fosters polarization and opens the door to manipulation. If society doesn’t have a path for getting to the truth, understanding opinions, and seeing the journey, people will suffer in real-world ways.
Truth is a commodity and it is hard to build a business by telling the truth. You have two choices:
One is to opine on the truth but struggle to be heard.
The other is to sensationalize, cherry-pick, or twist the truth to get engagement.
Both of these become the path to destruction for the business and society around them. Elections, wars, and even your children’s educations are being manipulated by content without context. We’re seeing it play out with mass layoffs in traditional journalism, the shift to expert opinion subscriptions, and mass polarization and mass apathy. We’re seeing thrash at Twitter as it lurches from left to right and back with good intentions but a struggling brand.
What if you could combine truth and knowledge with the distribution power of the sensationalized media and traditional to produce a new way of understanding for 5b internet users?
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Where should we draw the red lines
Even before AI, the digital content storm exceeded our collective capacity to process, verify, and contextualize. Traditional media, in a fight for existence largely appears to optimized for sensationalized engagement above most else in the face of digital competition while digital platforms pulled users away to new town squares. Now, high-profile expert opinion makers (Carlson, Taibbi, etc) have ejected from traditional media into subscription models and the only places where discourse happens are the toxic “smoking lounges” of X and Reddit as they are perceived by the majority.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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economics are just hugely broken except for subscription businesses and there's a
Subscription opinion leaders can add a whole new surface areas and distribution path to their business.
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salespeople that means each story is costing about a thousand bucks if you were to do a $10 CPM or RPM on that that
We can get this cost much lower, especially if we leverage the plg tactics we've explored.
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Google and Facebook all the gains and advertising have gone to those
There will be a new layer for advertising that emerges when we bring context and collaboration to the source content.
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dvertisers running away
Interesting to explore what advertisers would run toward a more reasoned approach to the debate and knowledge?
I bet some really powerful brands would want to support that.
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Bill Amman is loving it Business Insider is a sleazy unethical defer of some of our greatest heroes it's a worthless P rag run by the lowest of the low in journalism it is a
Could you imagine if we applied the Harvard Academic Citation policy to the work of the likes of Business Insider? Their pages would glow so yellow you could see it from space.
And in doing so the truth rides shotgun with the original content, not in the smoking lounges of twitter and reddit.
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out just how brutal this has been for media companies recently in 2023 20,000 job Cuts that's on top of 30,000 during
@Dan, This indirect discussion of our work starts here.
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is this a real picture is this help you come on stop last
@Dan I was at a dinner last night describing the thing we are building and this real estate guy whith no tech background at ALL guy says, stop, what you just described is what the all in guys were talking about today. I hadn't had time to catch the latest All In Pod so I was curious. Take a read, I ripped through this fast but we could use this as a demo of the tools we are building. Scroll down to the highlights.
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a boring version of the truth would sell better than what they're doing right now this is why I think subscriptions are
I think we'd agree with a caveat that we're able to bring both facts, logic and color commentary together.
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build like an AP News which which is just basically like there's no by line and they just write the truth and they
Sorta but there is a need here.
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of Back to the Future but you can lower your overhead have one person doing real journalism and there you could actually thread the needle you could get a thousand people to give you a 100 bucks you can get two 3,000 people to give you
We have a more scaleable way to achieve this.
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xperts are able to go to direct for every section of the paper now
The problem is wider distribution beyond the faithful. There leaders will need to break a silo of faithful to reach the masses. We can help.
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s that Outlets like Business Insider have an incentive to be Sensational and to either lie or to cherry pick in the
If they are going to continue this way, our app can continue on the back of their distribution incentive but bring the real news.
In effect their continued bad behaviour drives our success.
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people but the Rachel madow and the Ben Shapiro of the world Tucker Tucker they're just extremely eloquent
We can bring their expertise to the full breadth of content online. NOT just in the smoking lounges of Twitter and Reddit.
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there and you can't build the business by telling the truth you have two choices one is to opine on the truth
Today this is true.
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truth which is basically a commodity it's weird but it actually is a commodity it's just there the truth
are there guys listening to our conversations? We're taking about the same things! :)
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unfortunately is evolved into this like untrustworthy biased and opinionated source to keep the business alive so
The problem.
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basketball you can watch them talk about it yeah I did a tweet on this the other day or if you want this is you know just
Because traditional media turned into clickbait the real experts have ejected to run their own. Now we have an opportunity to recombine expertise with mass distribution.
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they don't just get pure analysis and pure data
We can solve this @Dan
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means every story to break even in today's market we need 100,000 people 150,000 people to read it obviously
Bingo
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www.sltrib.com www.sltrib.com
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no additional infrastructure
This is slightly under thinking the process change but I think you are closer to right than wrong. Most of this is a software layer and api connection process.
Some scanner, lift maze infa will be needed.
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we create incentive for individuals to choose public transpor
Some locals who don't need transpo will be pissed.
But, perhaps they are getting less traffic rather than line cuts as their benefit.
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implementation of a “Fast Pass” lane
Technologically speaking this isn't rocket science.
Real world, yes some lift corral changes would be needed and some basic infra/tech upgrades.
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This dedicated line would be exclusively accessible to verified users of the ski bus, prioritizing those who contribute to traffic relief through public transport.
One solution would be that you don't get an all day line cut but you do get X number for the day or for the season.
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all skiers and riders,
Locals can't get kids to school, hospital, jobs. etc.
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Big Cottonwood Canyon and Little Cottonwood Canyon
CTRL-F BCC and LCC with 89 or 267 in Tahoe. Same issue.
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Would you take the ski bus if it meant you could skip the lift line on a powder day?
Generally yes.
How this would work is very location dependent however and that might be one of the biggest flaws.
E.g. I live 1.5 miles from KT 22 but I have no bus options.
Meanwhile, someone in Aspen who lives in the central core walks to the hill.
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www.atlassian.com www.atlassian.com
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DVCS (hence Distributed Version Control System
hey @atlassian, can I migrate my subversion repo to BitBucket?
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productify.substack.com productify.substack.com
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4. All product evaluations start with deep product exploration work. But sometimes a market is already well known, or there is an expert in organization who’s been in the battle field - then invest less in upfront validation (and get away with a lower CoV)
This is a key part of trust in your talent.
The "Silicon Valley FU" is an example of companies that don't have this. How many times have you been asked to prove the sky is blue? (figuratively)
1:) We should do X- Here is my reasoning.... 2:) Run an experiment 1:) Here are our results, 2:) More Data! 1:) Here are our results!
I've seen this happen for proven tactics and techniques where the effort into experimentation would have been better served by commitment.
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I call this a ‘internal pipeline of opportunities’ that individuals want to push for their own success.
Local optima vs what is right for the customer and market and message.
Product Marketing Leaders can probably tell you instantly which PM's are pushing for their own promotion vs those who grok the customer, market and competitive macro and how it fits together,
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Apple also was a big propagator of this idea. Apple even till date publicizes and story-tells all the big stuff they did in last one year rather than all the small fixes.
Put your hand up if this is the STRUGGLE!
So many PMs, feature teams, eng leaders, execs...spend time, cycles, energy, influence telling marketing to promote all the things but lack a vision for how it fits together.
This is especially pernicious for more junior product marketers who are eager to please the PM, Exec etc.
It results in noise that customers fail to understand and appreciate.
it is especially pernicious when those things don't have any relevance to bringing in new customers or revenue. These features should impact in domain of the owned product experience, not a press release and stage presentation at an event. If they don't show up and stand out in the product experience itself, they won't in the press or WWW either.
BEFORE you ask marketing to spend calories on promoting your bits, have uou made them discoverable in the product experience? Release notes? Modals? Workflows? It is working? What does it unlock?
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All product teams want to get something done
Just Ship Something! I often hear this and cringe.
Imagine you are lost in the desert with half a tank of gas.
You can just step on it and go.
Or, you can do some brief exploring, gain confidence and make your best big bet on a direction of travel and use 100% of your remaining fuel capacity to get you there.
Too many products/companies die from trying to experiment their way to success and running out of time/gas than die from a very bad idea pursued too long.
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Few big product changes matter more than many many small ones
Yes! **Big Hits over Big Lists ** is a mantra I've tried to build into my organizations. The customer is too busy and distracted to care about all the things you ship if they don't ladder up to something big, important and clear that matters to them. This is how you cut through the noise.
I often see teems so motivated to just ship something that they are solving for the fringe, not the problem.
I'm an analogy guy who grew up on the coast so here we go: A Hurricane "wobbles" up the coast shifting course based on the warm water it can use as fuel. This is a bit like an iterative test and learn product strategy. But, the"wobble" path is longer and slower than a straight line and that hurricane or product takes longer to get landfall or PMF.
Test and learn iteration is important to get momentum and confidence but there is also a point where boldness is required, where we say, I know enough, we are going to go hard in this direction in a fairly straight line.
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But he did not stop here
There is a lot we need to consider about Product Marketing in this context too. Let's go!
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C) Other ways
Depends on a lot of context around the company, market etc.
But, you can't over index on one or the other. You need to make some bets or you will be left behind.
Are you a coal miner or an asteroid miner? Ideally a mix of both. Brilliant at the basics, with the vision to unlock new value.
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hat the Designer + Product-marketing duo is the new force to reckon with compared to traditional Product Manager-Engineer duo when you want to roll out amazing products to your customers
25 years ago the 1st round of funding was spent building our servers, racks and data centers plus some foundational code.
Then you could get to work building a product. I call this "showing up"
Today you can build a product before you even raise any money and get distribution globally in an instant. Now you need to not just show up, but STAND OUT
Given this shift, the hardest challenge has moved from building the technical foundations to build a product to getting attention and adoption on the market.
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introduce Product Marketing Roles to replace Product Manager
I never see these as replacements. They are the same thing but with diversified focus in many orgs.
Together as 2 roles or as 1 they help make sure we build things we can sell and that we can sell the things we build.
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products
Product is the key word here.
If no one knows about the feature we need to look at
- Product experience 1st
- Marketing 2nd
Great PM and PMMs work together on this.
Some features rise above the noise, others are lost in the noise. Knowing which is which and what channels are appropriate when is key.
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team effort to release that feature.
then typically will hammer marketing leaders for more resources for their "feature" so their "OKRS" go up missing the way it all fits together.
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sends out an email
A tragedy of the commons (marketing, customer attention, email channels, in product channels)
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If you continue to focus your role on releasing features, your role should soon become obsolete as no scaled organisation can afford a feature factory where PMs celebrate launches but not the success in the market.
Preach! Every product marketer will understand the conflict that this speaks to.
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I’m going to be the chief editor
Bless you Brian Chesky!
Software is like writing a book but each developer owns a different chapter and it all gets written at the same time.
SOMEONE had to make sure the pieces (Microservices, UX, Apps, Features) make more sense together than they do independently.
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Top-down product leadership culture is good for faster decision making
I bet this triggered a lot of people in the room.
But, it is so critical and it is how you get the most value out of a finite resource (time and talent)
Stop wobbling and define the future you are creating. Continually test your assumptions as you go and build confidence, double down.
When your insights and instinct meet challenges on your journey, pause and assess.
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Nothing moves because everything moves.
When everything is a variable, nothing can be solved.
Great leaders will define some variables and take them off the table.
Preserving endless optionality is a recipe for complete stagnation. That "hurricane" will wobble around the ocean until winter kills it.
That roadmap and product leader who prizes optionality over convicted commitment will typically run out of time. Maybe not in 2010 or 2020 but in 2023 and 24 we're seeing it.
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So I said ‘We’re only going to do a few really big things.’
What a force multiplier for communicating the value! For accelerating the GTM process, the Press, and the realization of value.
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- Dec 2023
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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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Think of the SEO market
Search fro a recipe and you will find pure enshittificaton.
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- Nov 2023
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Altman’s practice of filling the board with allies to gain control is not just common, it’s start-up gospel from Altman’s longtime mentor, venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
This seems a little out of place. At OpenAI, he didn't have this, gave them the power to fire him, got fired.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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So what if I want to let Sam know that I have to leave early?
collab?
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amples. Our partners at Code.org are working hard to expand comput
EDU example
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GPTs are tailored versions of ChatGPT for a specific purpose. You can build a GPT, a customized version of ChatGPT, for almost anything, with instructions, expanded knowledge, and actions, and then you can publish it for others to
that was fast!
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process, doing additional domain-specific pre-training, a post-training process tailored to a specific domain. We won't be able to do this with many companies to start, it will take a lot of work and in the interest of expectations, at least initially it won't be cheap, but if you're excited to push things as far as they can currently go, please get in
Perhaps one in edu.
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I'm a 4.0 student but I also have four children. When I started using ChatGPT, I realized I could ask ChatGPT that question, and not only does it give me an answer, but it gives me an explanation. Didn't need computer go as much. It gave me a life back. I gave me time for my family and time for me.
tutor not computer
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- Oct 2023
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davekarpf.substack.com davekarpf.substack.com
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But the other problem is, I think, my primary weakness as a social scientist. It’s the downside of letting my research agenda be set by curiousity about things-I’m-wrong-about. One I arrive at answers that seem good-enough-to-me, my interest in the topic seriously wanes.The best social scientists are meticulous in designing research that actively tests competing hypotheses and provides convincing proof to skeptical peers.
I only read this after our email exchange but it sums up the perspective I arrived at quickly after reading your Andreesen takedown and then some of the Wired work.
I quickly arrived at a POV that you were an unserious, emotional critic chasing someone in the arena rather than a thoughtful student of the topic.
Digging deeper, I see more exists there, I'm glad I spent the time reading your work. Most wouldn't I suspect. I think it comes down to your messaging. Are you interested in the future and the role of future prediction as an input to progress? Or, are you interested in quickly written takedowns of those who are?
The latter is good for building an audience who agree with you but selling books works better when both sides want to engage .
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www.thestreet.com www.thestreet.com
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A chatbot in December encouraged a 21-year-old British man to kill the Queen. He is now facing nine years in prison. A Belgian man in March committed suicide after encouragement from a different chatbot.
Seems hard to believe that this outcome was due to the messenger vs the actor.
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