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Damon Beres
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Damon Beres
@dlberes
Senior editor at @TheAtlantic, focused on tech. Former EIC, @ozm. 🫡 Not posting here anymore, follow me here: bsky.app/profile/damonb…
People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo
- Fascinating how Twitter used to be the best thing to use in a news moment like this, and now it is genuinely close to useless
- 2021: A teacher friend tells me they are practicing an “adjusted” active shooter scenario today so the kids don’t huddle too close together and spread covid. “Spread out instead of piling in a corner.”
- Doomscrolling doesn’t even seem like a strong enough word lol
- NEW: This summer, we reported on the contents of a controversial database used to train generative AI products from Meta, Bloomberg, and others. Many people requested an ability to search it. Today, @_alexreisner delivers.
- I have some news! Next week, I'm joining @TheAtlantic as a Senior Editor focused on tech coverage. I'm beyond excited—and somewhat in disbelief, still!—that I'll get to work at a publication I've admired so deeply, for so long, and with so many profoundly talented colleagues.
- This really puts the issues with indiscriminate scraping of the internet in immediate perspective; nice one by @samleecole and @404mediaco 404media.co/laion-datasets…
- "If you think the crisis of American democracy is over, the circus in the House should remind you that a significant portion of the Republican Party has no interest in governing, policy, or democracy itself." @RadioFreeTom
- “Trump is unlikely to sit for this kind of grilling before November, not least because he cannot hold a coherent thought for more than a few moments.” @RadioFreeTom
