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Neville Hobson
@jangles
Test Pilot
West Berkshire, England
Optimistic traveller, early adopter, a believer.
45 Posts
Dust off your Twitter escape plan
The latest #Platformer article from Casey Newton emailed overnight Feb 9-10 describes a #Twitter organisation that looks like the proverbial imminent car crash you can see in your field of view that's unavoidable and about to happen. Writes Casey: An even more obvious reason for th Evolving Twitter
4,000-character tweets change the nature of #Twitter , moving it into #Tumblr -like (even #Post -like) territory. A lot simpler to use, though. #microblogging -> #macroblogging Parody with NFTs is a sweet response
Indie musician Ariel Pink used an artist's image on an album cover in 2006 without her consent. The album was re-released in 2013, still with the image. When the artist Jill Miller became aware of its use without her permission, she reckoned why sue when, as an artist, she could r "Get off the Internet" 'For you' maybe whether you like it or not
Re this 'For you' default #Twitter has set up in timelines, mine just now has promoted tweets aka ads every +/- 4 non-promoted tweets if I travel via the scroll bar in the web app. Yuk. I get no ads wh Heading towards #remaindered territory. Already at the half-price milestone #SparebyPrinceHarry The rise of the AI assistant
What would you build with a million #AI โinternsโ in the cloud, available on demand, 24/7, and at close to zero marginal cost? In 2023, we can expect thousands of entrepreneurs to show us. A very good Levelling up the eyewear for 2023
I've been wearing glasses for about 25 years, starting with for reading. As I got older, my eyesight did too, eventually requiring glasses full time. I'm a big fan of varifocal lenses (known as progres Taxing times for Trump
Says the BBC: Responding to Friday's release of thousands of pages of tax returns, Mr Trump's camp warned that the disclosure will lead to the US political divide becoming "far worse". "The Democrats sh Symbolisms
This scene really caught my attention on a visit to the Tate Britain gallery in London yesterday. It's a huge portrait of "The Whig Junto," painted in 1710 by artist John James Baker. The Tate describes It's 2003 again!
This article caught my attention because it's by Robin Sloan, who I recall immediately as the creator of #EPIC and its update #EPIC2015 back in 2005. He took us on a journey over a 10-year period to pr Christmas best wishes
Sending joy to the world this #Christmas. May your happiness be large and your bills be small! Merry Christmas everyone ๐๐ ๐ผ The image I've included was made with #Midjourney, the AI-generated image A very useful post Twitter pollution picks up again
New York Times reports on #Twitter 's reinstatement of previously-banned people who post #misinformation. Example: โI finally got this account back after being banned for being a #Republican thanks @elo AI-generated works ineligible for copyright protection in US
Using an #AI tool to create images? Be careful in the US: copyrighted works must be created by humans to gain official #copyright protection, says the US Copyright Office. Deciding where to go...
There are plenty of articles about moving from #Twitter to somewhere else. In this podcast episode, @shelholtz and I share some of our experiences on #Mastodon (and #Post), Is ChatGPT too good for its own good?
The conversational fluency of #ChatGPT masks its inability to distinguish between fact and fiction - one of the concerns in this good assessment from #Axios What is Twitter verification worth to you?
The new #TwitterBlue #verification redefines the meaning for individuals, moving from proof of #identity to just paying a monthly fee. How will businesses take to the changes? Among all the other turmo Twitter won't allow promotion of other platforms any longer
#Twitter is not going to allow any user to promote other social networks on Twitter. Anyone doing that will have their accounts removed from Twitter. I get their reasoning in this climate of turmoil. S Add this to the long list of potential #Twitter alternatives / cc @sethabramson