We can't wait to welcome @karaswisher to #SASInnovate April 16-19 in Las Vegas ! Blazing journalism trails in tech since the 1990s, Kara Swisher is revered by many. She's host of On with Kara Swisher + Pivot podcasts & a pioneer of our time. Event info http://
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Kara Swisher to Keynote SAS Innovate Conference Las Vegas
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The Profound Impact of AI’s Arrival on Our World
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It’s actually quite incredible to be alive at this moment. It’s hard to fully absorb the enormity of this transition. Despite the incredible impact of AI recently, the world is still struggling to appreciate how big a deal its arrival really is. We are in the process of seeing a
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African Innovation: Reimagining Old Tech for New Solutions
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Old tech, new use cases. Innovation in Africa is almost always in use of tech in new and interesting ways, not in new tech being developed here.
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New York Times Launches AI Initiatives Team for Reporting and Presentation
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The New York Times is forming an "AI initiatives" team to prototype generative AI uses for reporting and presentation. Of note: They emphasize that its journalism will still be human-written. Still, interesting to see amidst the OpenAI lawsuit.
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American Needs and Social Wellbeing: Meeting Basic Requirements
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Most Americans want to have good relationships, a good home, good food, good health, safe streets, good neighbors and a good future for their children, but most feel that they don't have these needs covered. I found that most Americans are kind and wish strangers well.
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Tech Platforms Losing Cultural War Over American Values
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Both Silicon Valley and East Coast Media are going to lose the culture war, because neither represents a way of being and living that could work for a majority of Americans, but no other group has platforms that pay for participation in public discourse.
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University Ideological Shift and Scientific Discourse Standards
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Between 1968 and 2010, universities were dominated by liberals, covering a spectrum with different opinions (eg. Chomsky, Pinker and Hayek) but a commitment to rational truth and rational discourse. They would not have accepted that scientists must commit to political beliefs,
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Enlightenment Liberalism’s Survival Against Progressivism: A Contemporary Aesthetic
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If our Popper/Russel style enlightenment liberalism wants to survive against progressivism, it needs to develop a contemporary aesthetic, it has to divest from the scientific institutions while staying scientific, and it needs the ability to proliferate itself outside of books.
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Bezos vs Musk: Customer Service Philosophy Differences
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the difference between bezos and musk shows in how they treated their first hundred thousand customers
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Twitter Spaces and Threads Drive Growth Over YouTube
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Surprisingly, my following here didn’t really grow from YouTube. There’s definitely a percentage but posting threads, videos, and doing twitter spaces seemed to be the biggest factor. I think more people found my YouTube from Twitter than the other way around.