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Thomas Baekdal

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Author, Professional Writer, Magazine Publisher, and Media Analyst.

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Thomas Baekdal
10 months
Just a quick note: I am permanently off Twitter. I'm not coming back. Instead, you can connect with me here. Linkedin (professional): Mastodon (mixed): .Instagram (personal):
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Thomas Baekdal
10 months
Also, I'm not going to delete my account because I don't want criminals to be able to take over the username and use it for nefarious means. But this is it. You will never see me here again!.
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Join millions who have switched to Grok.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
I have had it with Twitter. going to take a break from it. See you on the other channels.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
What the.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
RT @Techmeme: The US FTC adopts its final "click-to-cancel" rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing u….
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Emma Roth / The Verge: The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
RT @adamjohnsonCHI: I’m sorry Kroger is doing what now.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
This has nothing to do with hitting Hezbollah (there are no Hezbollah soldiers there). This is a controlled demolition, aka a deliberate destruction of entire civilian areas.
@BeirutCalling
Michael Young
11 months
Israeli forces in South Lebanon dynamiting an entire village (Mhaibib). Like the attack against the Nabatiyyeh municipality building today, killing several members of the municipal council, it shows Israel is in the process of depopulating parts of the south, with U.S. approval.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
The data above is from the latest poll. which proclaimed that it's 50/50 . it's not.
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2024 National: Trump vs. Harris | RealClearPolling
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
This is not true. The problem with many polls is that they ask people to choose between only two candidates, and then they report the percentage of that. But if you include third parties, it's a different story. But even that is misleading because it still forces a choice.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
RT @DJSnM: A bunch of people seem to think fossil fuels are immune to tornados: this oil refinery was hit a few months ago and the owner ha….
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
What's it's really like to drive an electric truck (lorry):
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
My day today has been spent looking at my screen without managing to get any writing done.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
One thing I noticed almost immediately is how 'Americanized' this sounds. I don't mean the voice, but how it flows and this over the top excitement. It's impressive, but I felt exhausted after just 2 minutes of it.
@newsrewired
newsrewired
11 months
Did anyone say AI can generate a podcast about the upcoming Newsrewired? #newsrw.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
Heh. well. duh! ;).
@mediaguardian
Media Guardian
11 months
James Bond film maker reports profit fall in year without blockbuster release
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
How low must this go before news publishers finally make the decision to change the way we produce news? The way news is being produced today is clearly not the right way.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
The other alternative is that we clearly define what fair use means. which publishers here in Denmark tried to do with these rules (but they constantly ignore it):
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
So if we are to require AI companies to pay for using our articles, we as publishers also need to adopt a principle of paying for using content from others. We can't just create a system where some has to pay and others don't.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
AI is like baking a cake. It's taking ingredients from publisher's sites, and putting it together into a new form. The problem, however, is that we publishers do the same thing. Every single day, publishers use information from other places, turning that into a news report.
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Thomas Baekdal
11 months
One thing AI companies claim is that they are not reproducing copyrighted works, so it's fair use. This is false. If you bake a cake, you are also not reproducing the ingredients, but you still have to pay for them.
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