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Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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I write about AI for the @WashingtonPost. Signal me at GerritD.27 email: [email protected].
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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    Mar 5, 2022
    Duolingo blog on Ukrainian language has more nuance and moral authority than most of what the Big Tech companies have put out this week
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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    Apr 6, 2022
    NEW: Elon Musk ignored legal disclosure requirements and kept buying Twitter stock well after he was supposed to tell the market. It made him $156 million. From @ReedAlbergotti
    Elon Musk delayed filing a form and made $156 million
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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    Nov 5, 2025
    My summary of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar's vision for the company she laid out today at WSJ tech conference
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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    Jul 1, 2022
    NEW - Google will delete location history for people who go to abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters and a few other sensitive places. blog.google/technology/saf…
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    Oct 28, 2022
    Deal is closed. Musk immediately fired the CEO, CFO and head of safety washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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    Mar 5, 2022
    Replying to @GerritD
    Language matters: What learners need to know about Ukrainian
    From blog.duolingo.com
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    Dec 6, 2024
    NEW - OpenAI employees pushed back internally against the company's deal with Anduril. One pointed out that Terminator's Skynet was also originally meant to be an aerial defense weapon
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    Feb 27, 2022
    NEW - Russian tech workers are circulating a petition opposing their government's invasion of Ukraine. More than 10,000 have signed so far
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    Thousands of Russian tech workers sign a petition opposing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
    A petition calling for an end to the fighting rocketed around Russia's technology community after the country invaded Ukraine on Thursday. More than 10,000 people have signed it.
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    Sep 29, 2021
    NEW - YouTube is taking down the accounts of some of the biggest anti-vaccine activists — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Mercola washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    Jul 27, 2021
    I am hearing that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella voiced the words "enterprise metaverse" on the call today. Pls make it stop
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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    May 5, 2021
    Replying to @briscoepark
    @phoebe_bridgers ??
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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    Jun 28, 2021
    YouTube says it's now re-instated the channel. They took it down by mistake, spokesman says
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    Justin Baragona
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    Jun 28, 2021
    NEW from me: Right Wing Watch's Kyle Mantyla told me that YouTube issued a final strike against RWW's channel and removed its account based on a video that had been up for 8 years. The ban removes a deep archive of thousands of clips exposing extremism. thedailybeast.com/youtube-perman…
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    Jul 20, 2021
    This is a MASSIVE story - a Catholic news substack got @Grindr location data and used it to out a very senior priest. He's now resigned. From @mboorstein and @marisa_iati
    Top U.S. Catholic Church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to...
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    Jul 11, 2022
    this has been in my parents house for like 15 years and my dad insists his name is Boba Fett. my mom says "bubba the hub"