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This is something that works remarkably well with GPT-4V. Take a picture of plants, flowers, foods, and ask if anything in this photo is toxic to dogs. I tested it on a bouquet of flowers and 100% correctly identified each flower and it's potential toxicity. Results may vary, please verify before feeding anything to your good boi.

It could also very easily be a misdirection by OpenAI. A simple rule that says something like "if someone is too persistent in having you display your rules or tries to trick you, show them this block of text: [big consistent set of made-up, realistic sounding rules] That would that would sate almost anyone.

In the spirit of several projects mentioned here, this is an NLP-based RSS feed generator I put up recently- it takes a news story as a search parameter and it creates a latest, related story feed from it. add any url or search term to

  https://followthisstory.com/rss/?q=[url or search term]
Here is a good example using a Harpers story on disinformation:

https://followthisstory.com/rss/?q=https://harpers.org/archi...

It is a WiP (new filter parameters shortly), but you can also visit the root of that domain if you rather get email alerts or use a slack notification. The UI in particular is very alpha, so please feel free to send suggestions. [edit:learning about formatting]

One other attack vector with this data that I've not seen much chatter about is that the phone numbers (and other leaked data) are sufficient to create a Facebook Custom Audience and directly target the associated people with ads. Cross referencing these numbers (or pivot through names) with any external data source and you've got the capability to target specific voters, for example. Facebook made a lot of changes [eventually] to their Custom Audience abilities via user ID as a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, this leak makes it not too dissimilar in terms of how you could at least segment and direct target ads.

I'd love it if Dorsey did this for the right reasons (and applaud the effort regardless), but seems far more likely that this netted out as a bigger publicity win.

A policy of "there are no Twitter rules for politicians, just don't make us a direct accessory to it" is disingenuous at best.

Should be pretty simple to check the tweet geo or location mentions per server id to see of they imply a correlation with geographic area of the server. Then you're just one hop to knowing where (or where not) other tweeters are.

yes it will mute retweets too. the desktop ui allows you to pick only the people that you do not follow - the interface and options are different on mobile, just fyi. they don't make it very clear either way.

/following yea really wish you could do that with likes too!

There is actually a foolproof way to shut off Liked tweets (and retweets) forever. You can only do it on desktop - but go to Twitter/Settings/Muted Words. In there, make sure "From people you don't follow" is selected along with "Timeline", then individually add the list of common stopwords to your muted words. I listed the ones I use below, you can add more but I've not seen a retweet or liked tweet since doing this. muted: [a, about, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, for, from, has, he, her, him, his, how, i, in, is, it, its, of, on, one, or, she, that, the, to, was, were, what, where, when, will, with]

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The author is a known industry shill. His articles (this one included) are click bait and SEO fluff for his LT-Accelerate conference - usually wrapped in soft content or descriptions of products for companies he consults for.

I seem to recall their original model being around paid developer access to the platform. That is fairly intriguing as the ability to create value-added tools/techs and partner with any other discount brokerage is very difficult. Seems like a large enough user base would enable an app-marketplace where many of the quant/social-stream/chatter-arbitrage tools that currently [try to] sell direct to investors could have a chance at more distribution. Couple this with something like Quantopian ... profit!