Thomas Baekdal
@baekdal
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Author, Professional Writer, Magazine Publisher, and Media Analyst.
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Joined April 2008
Just a quick note: I am permanently off Twitter. I'm not coming back. Instead, you can connect with me here. Linkedin (professional): https://t.co/Vo9wOLGbrz Mastodon (mixed): https://t.co/1hWqIFTpOE Instagram (personal): https://t.co/0R7OFsNvq1
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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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I have had it with Twitter... going to take a break from it. See you on the other channels...
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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 (@emroth08 / The Verge) https://t.co/xQzG6y2o3L đź“« Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM
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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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I’m sorry Kroger is doing what now
Families are struggling to put food on the table. I sent a letter to @Kroger about their decision to roll out surge pricing using facial recognition technology. Facial recognition technology is often discriminatory and shouldn't be used in grocery stores to price gouge residents.
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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.
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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The data above is from the latest poll... which proclaimed that it's 50/50 ... it's not. https://t.co/B7X9siW0Os
realclearpolling.com
2024 National: Trump vs. Harris | RealClearPolling
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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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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 has since shut it down permanently, rather than trying to repair it. Tornados don’t care whether your energy infrastructure is green.
kjrh.com
The largest employer in Barnsdall, the NuCera refinery plant, is just one of the innumerable buildings that took a beating from May 6's violent tornado.
This is what one of Duke Energy's solar farms looks like after getting hit by an EF-2 tornado during Hurricane #Milton. At peak production, the Lake Placid Solar Power Plant makes enough electricity to power more than 12,000 homes.
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My day today has been spent looking at my screen without managing to get any writing done.
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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.
Did anyone say AI can generate a podcast about the upcoming Newsrewired? https://t.co/TAEIiRtq6d
#newsrw
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Did anyone say AI can generate a podcast about the upcoming Newsrewired? https://t.co/TAEIiRtq6d
#newsrw
newsrewired.com
At Journalism.co.uk, we like to experiment with the latest tools to see whether they are of any use to journalists. To test the strengths and weaknesses of the new Google product NotebookLM, we...
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Heh... well.. duh! ;)
James Bond film maker reports profit fall in year without blockbuster release
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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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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): https://t.co/2rslARcNNq
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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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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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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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