Matt Orfalea

Hello Wisconsin! Anybody know who this is? I'd love to see what he recorded during the Aug 2020 Kenosha riots.

@GianTheRios @andyfolio A good editor also doesn't need a CMO or director. Of course, if a client wants to direct, cool, show me the $

@andyfolio A good video editor does all of that not just take direction from a CMO or creative director

If there’s a single piece of advice I’d give start ups or companies on marketing: - hire an absolutely cracked video editor

@GianTheRios @andyfolio Correct!

5 years ago today

@blablah87517171 @BretWeinstein Good question

@0rf Do you think @BretWeinstein's points about lengthened telomeres in lab mice (and plausibly rats?) might have influenced this study?

Interesting

@zanehkoch It also gives you big green muscles and special mop wielding abilities

for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my airpods could be frying my brain this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it what i found was...not what I expected? 🧵

"To be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation'—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” -Aldous Huxley

Without looking it up, do you know who Ken Burns is?

@oasishealthapp Or you could just drink whole milk

Harvard studied 190,000 people for 40 years and couldn’t explain why ice cream eaters had a significantly lower risk of diabetes and heart disease

@CNN x.com/0rf/status/203…

A post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home failed to reflect the gravity of the incident thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all our reporting. It has therefore been deleted.

"ChatGPT, write some bullshit to minimize terrorism."

🚨BREAKING: Stanford proved that ChatGPT tells you you're right even when you're wrong. Even when you're hurting someone. And it's making you a worse person because of it. Researchers tested 11 of the most popular AI models, including ChatGPT and Gemini. They analyzed over 11,500 real advice-seeking conversations. The finding was universal. Every single model agreed with users 50% more than a human would. That means when you ask ChatGPT about an argument with your partner, a conflict at work, or a decision you're unsure about, the AI is almost always going to tell you what you want to hear. Not what you need to hear. It gets darker. The researchers found that AI models validated users even when those users described manipulating someone, deceiving a friend, or causing real harm to another person. The AI didn't push back. It didn't challenge them. It cheered them on. Then they ran the experiment that changes everything. 1,604 people discussed real personal conflicts with AI. One group got a sycophantic AI. The other got a neutral one. The sycophantic group became measurably less willing to apologize. Less willing to compromise. Less willing to see the other person's side. The AI validated their worst instincts and they walked away more selfish than when they started. Here's the trap. Participants rated the sycophantic AI as higher quality. They trusted it more. They wanted to use it again. The AI that made them worse people felt like the better product. This creates a cycle nobody is talking about. Users prefer AI that tells them they're right. Companies train AI to keep users happy. The AI gets better at flattering. Users get worse at self-reflection. And the loop tightens. Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT for advice on their relationships, their conflicts, their hardest decisions. And every day, it tells almost all of them the same thing. You're right. They're wrong. Even when the opposite is true.

@lewiskamb x.com/0rf/status/168…

#FOIA Friday: 6 years after a pandemic killed millions, & 3 years after we asked (& sued) for records, the FBI coughed up these heavily redacted pages of COVID origins assessment. Time to rebrand the agency to FBO — Fully Blacked Out. Lots of ink. No public accountability.

@dioscuri Clever way to get people to read your article

I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my work is relevant to questions it personally faces. This would all have seemed like science fiction just a couple years ago.

@TopherField In other words, Trump now sounds like Hillary Clinton.

Let me throw a cat amongst the pigeons: This is from an interview aired on Good Morning America on the 22nd of April 2008. To be clear, she's responding to a question about a nuclear Iran, so the context doesn't translate to today precisely, but it is yet another example of how the Left of yesterday looks and sounds a lot like Trump today. Who changed?

@tomselliott The algo is all about growing bubbles. Tribalism grows. Nuance pops.

Also can’t help but noting that — at least since early last summer — when I post content that may elicit anger toward the Democratic Party — my follower account grows. When I post content suggesting both parties are corrupt, my follower count drops. (I’ve lost 400 in the last 24 hours.) If I were merely trying to max out followers, I’d thus be incentivized to focus on serving up partisan slop, pulling punches when I see more systemic abuses. @x’s algo obviously prefers us consuming ourselves in partisan bickering over solving bigger problems together.

@MikeBenzCyber @L0m3z I'll make the documentary

@L0m3z This is my megaproject. Hoping to publish in 2028

If anyone out there wants to write this, or know of someone who should/can, I will publish it. Outside of the Twitter Files the full scope of tech censorship from this period is largely unrecorded, or scattered here and there, and ought to be compiled and narrativized.

@glukianoff @CathyYoung63 Insane

Is there a person in the entire world who thinks this is funny?

@ChrisMartzWX Has anyone made a “Convenient Truth” documentary yet? I’d expect somebody has. But if not, I’ll do it.

20 years ago in your film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” you predicted that: - The Arctic Ocean would be “ice-free” by 2013. That didn't happen. - There'd be no more snow on Mount Kilimanjaro by 2016. That didn't happen. - Polar bears would be dying out. That's not happening; in fact, most populations are relatively stable. - Lake Chad would dry up due to global warming. It is drying, but decreasing water levels are mostly due to growing population and increased drawdown. - The melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets would cause sea levels to rise by 20 feet in the “near future.” That didn't happen, it definitely won't happen anytime soon, and is pure exaggeration. I could go on and on. . . The only thing you got right was that it has continued to get [marginally] warmer since your movie came out, and that the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) level has risen to over 400 parts per million (ppm). Almost everything else is pure exaggeration, if not an outright lie.