Michael Linares
@michaellinares.bsky.social
Product leader and writer. Head of Product at NYT Cooking.
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Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…
January 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…
B.T.H.D.
As the U.S. government seeks to enact stricter controls over online speech, TikTok users are adopting more coded 'algospeak' to criticize and resist the government
TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained
As the U.S. government seeks to enact stricter controls over speech online, TikTok users are adopting more coded 'algospeak' to criticize and resist the government
www.usermag.co
January 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
B.T.H.D.
So many great ideas. Among them: “What this means in the political realm is that social media is no longer just a tool for politicians to get out their message; politicians now have to shape themselves into optimized vessels for social media.”
Have Democrats lost their resolve, or are their voices being muted in a new tech landscape that’s swung toward the right? “The trolls won the medium and the country went with it,” Jay Caspian Kang writes.
The Big Tech Takeover of American Politics
Social media is no longer just a tool for politicians to get out their message; politicians now have to shape themselves into optimized vessels for social media.
www.newyorker.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
So many great ideas. Among them: “What this means in the political realm is that social media is no longer just a tool for politicians to get out their message; politicians now have to shape themselves into optimized vessels for social media.”
Another day glued to Watch Duty (@watchdutyapp.bsky.social). The live video feeds are at once horrifying, haunting, banal.
January 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Another day glued to Watch Duty (@watchdutyapp.bsky.social). The live video feeds are at once horrifying, haunting, banal.
Appreciate they’ve dropped the paywall here, hard as it is to follow along
Firefighters continue to battle blazes as L.A. braces for more days of fire weather.
Firefighters continue to battle blazes as L.A. braces for more days of fire weather
Five people have died, more than 2,000 structures have burned and at least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders because of the wildfires burning across Los Angeles County.
www.latimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Appreciate they’ve dropped the paywall here, hard as it is to follow along