Notices by zeldman (zeldman@front-end.social), page 2

As American as cabbage pie: Moscow ups its already formidable disinformation game with a fresh barrage of mock news sites.

Gift link, no paywall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/media/spate-of-mock-news-sites-with-russian-ties-pop-up-in-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a00.gAok.H0oLcCrtqcN1&smid=url-share

A New Chapter for A Book Apart https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/a-new-chapter-for-a-book-apart

Psst, @Aaron

https://mastodon.social/@john_fisherman/111982060537111072

Web standards by the people, for the people. Congratulations and thank you to @tantek.com, @Meyerweb , and @photomatt .

From: @matthiasott
https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott/111932274839792672

My dear old friends at Iconfactory — creators of Twitterrific and other great GUI gizmos — take on the challenge of keeping up with friends in a decentralized, post-Twitter world via their new app: Tapestry.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/30/twitterrifics-team-is-back-with-tapestry-an-app-for-tracking-social-media-news-rss-and-more/

“Smaug-72B outperforms GPT-3.5 and Mistral Medium, two of the most advanced proprietary large language models developed by OpenAI and Mistral, respectively, in several of the most popular benchmarks.”



https://venturebeat.com/ai/meet-smaug-72b-the-new-king-of-open-source-ai/

#openai #opensource #AI #opensourceai #gpt3_5

“LLMs are excellent at reworking stuff you’ve written—summarizing content, adjusting it to a particular reading level, helping you craft a suitable conclusion for an article or talk based on your existing content. They are not fact machines. Furthermore, they can’t replicate or replace your unique perspective on a subject and that’s the very humanness that makes your writings, talks, and other forms of communication worthy of our time.” – @Aaron

https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/dont-outsource-your-perspective-to-a-llm/

The Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack is among the most well-documented in history. But Oct. 7 denial is spreading.

Gift link, no paywall.

https://wapo.st/4914mhj

Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds.


Thinktank report says ‘resounding evidence’ shows companies continue to keep prices high even as their inflationary costs drop.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits

The tragedy of Q&A sites like Quora is the tragedy of the internet, writes Jacob Stern in The Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/quora-tragedy-answer-websites/677062/?

People who took an anti-malaria treatment that Donald Trump touted as a cure for Covid-19 in the early days of the pandemic and waning days of his presidency were 11% more likely to die from the virus, according to a new scientific study.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/12/hydroxychloroquine-covid-increase-chance-death-trump

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web by Mark Bernstein in A List Apart 2002

#OldGold #content

https://alistapart.com/article/writeliving/