David Burn
@davidburn
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Fired up to write it down.
Bastrop, Texas
Joined March 2007
'Billy Strings & Bryan Sutton -- Live at the Legion' | Short review by @WNCW | "The reverence these two guitarists show for the legends that came before them shows on this album." Legends: Doc Watson, Tony Rice, and Clarence White
wncw.org
As you might expect, this is some exquisite pickin’ from two of the best in the business! Recorded live on April 7, 2024, at Nashville’s American Legion Post 82, this new album features the acclaimed...
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"It's Time for the Ad Industry to Grow Up" by Nicole Marquis | Communication Arts https://t.co/MF2JObUaFU
@CommArts
commarts.com
Nicole Marquis says the ingrained ageism at ad agencies isn’t just wrong, it’s bad business.
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Texas AI data centers could drive a new wave of air pollution | The Environmental Integrity Project found 130 gas power plant projects planned across the Lone Star State. (reporting from @emmaeruby)
dallasobserver.com
A new report found 130 proposed gas power plant projects across Texas, including one in Southwest Dallas.
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With Apple’s help, you can appear to be better at work than you are. This is not “fake it ’til you make it,” this is fake it forever. #AI
https://t.co/aVxsH5qhXf
adpulp.com
Navigating the demands of office work in The Age of AI presents new challenges for today’s thought workers. If you are not careful to constantly upgrade skills, colleagues who have, may lap you in...
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To “measure up” as an essayist and work within the limits of this narrative math, I must employ an economy of language and make my most cogent points readily available.
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"Trump’s bottomless need for positive affirmation is such that no one can aspire to permanently satisfy it; he simply does not stay sucked-up-to." -Susan B. Glasser https://t.co/Fe9oRra5nr
newyorker.com
The NATO secretary-general goes all in on strategic self-abasement while meeting with his American “Daddy.”
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"A writer can, in theory, always refuse an AI-generated suggestion. But the tools seem to exert a hypnotic effect, causing the constant flow of suggestions to override the writer’s own voice." -Kyle Chayka
newyorker.com
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
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During this year’s legislative session, Musk’s lobbyists and representatives publicly advocated for almost a dozen bills that would benefit his companies.
propublica.org
While Elon Musk took Washington, D.C., by storm, his company representatives and lobbyists were also notching up big political wins in the heart of his vast business empire: Texas.
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Elon Musk Vows to Campaign Against Republicans Who Back Debt-Raising Megabill - TIME
apple.news
The tech billionaire warned that members of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending but vote for Trump’s bill “will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this...
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Researchers think that our minds are blank somewhere between 5 and 20 percent of the time.
popsci.com
Humans experience an empty mind up to 20 percent of the time.
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No Humans Needed: Machines Will Make and Distribute the Ads
adpulp.com
Meta is an advertising-fueled juggernaut. Its fourth quarter income was $48.39 billion, up 21% from the prior year. The company is minting money, and recently, Mark Zuckerberg said his company plans...
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With American and Mexican flags and signs declaring “Abolish ICE,” hundreds of protesters have gathered in south Omaha to protest the ICE raid on a meatpacking plant on Tuesday. 🔗 https://t.co/10uxFNBVuC
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Between 75 and 80 workers at an Omaha meatpacking plant were detained in an ICE raid on Tuesday, officials said. The raid sparked confusion, anger and fear throughout Nebraska. 🔗 https://t.co/10uxFNBVuC
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FFS you lowlife racist traitors Jackie Robinson, Minnie Miñoso murals desecrated with hate speech in Miami
nytimes.com
The paintings are at Dorsey Park, a historic Negro League park in a neighborhood known as the 'Harlem of the South' during segregation.
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The latest reports show that 4.4% of all the energy in the US now goes toward data centers.
technologyreview.com
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
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DFW gained 100 corporate headquarters from 2018 to 2024, according to a report by online publisher Visual Capitalist. Austin ranked second with 81 during that period.
bizjournals.com
Dallas-Fort Worth leads the nation for corporate headquarters growth, adding 100 new headquarters from 2018 to 2024. Austin and Nashville follow in the rankings. And the California exodus continues.
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