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Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign leveraged CA’s harvested data to profile and microtarget users, part of a shockingly sophisticated digital strategy. Trump’s most fervent base was, of course, the American evangelical movement who saw Trump as a critically important actor to help bring about their millenarian end-times theory. When the Trump administration moved the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, it was an enormous validation for those who believe the Rapture is near. Trump was the evangelicals' agent; technology became their medium.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
Expectation for Google Gemini is now ridiculously high. In contrast, all <a href="https://twitter.com/Meta">@Meta</a> needs to do to impress us is simply open-sourcing Llama-3.
Gemini has to check off at least ONE of the following:
- 120% IQ of textual GPT-4; or
- 100% of GPT-4 but at half the cost or 2x speed of turbo; or
- 100% of visual GPT-4; or
- Natively support long videos.
AND ship the API in Q1 of 2024!
It's about time that DeepMind recovers the glory of AlphaGo in 2016. I'm looking forward to it.
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The flip side of the post–World War II cries of “Never again” was an unspoken “Never before.” The insistence on lifting the Holocaust out of history, the failure to recognize these patterns, and the refusal to see where the Nazis fit inside the arc of colonial genocides have all come at a high cost. The countries that defeated Hitler did not have to confront the uncomfortable fact that Hitler had taken pointers and inspiration on race-making and on human containment from them,
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