This is the Official X account for prolific x'er, Leon Jacobs. #writer #creativedirector and as a bonus, #GenX
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Watching Ex Machina in bed, in the hotel where the movie was filmed, in the room that Caleb enters at the start of the film. Pretty cool!
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HR tomorrow: mr director sir, everyone is here but they stink and they are very relaxed
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Today was a huge day for South Africa’s women’s sports. Both our Football and Netball teams showed their stuff and held their own against the very best. Incredible 🇿🇦
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"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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1967 was a big year in thinking abt creativity:
1. Edward de Bono published "The Use of Lateral Thinking",
2. Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore published "The Medium is the Massage", &
3. Guilford & partner published the Alternative Uses Test (aka the brick test)
Congrats, 1967 – at Guayaquil, Ecuador
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Apple's Vision Pro is a technological Tour de Force - very impressive HW.
But with the "consumer" apps & marketing for $3500 w/ 2 hour battery life, Apple has truly "Jumped The Shark"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpin…
youtube.com/watch?v=aF8KfM0T…
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The problem with raging against the machine is that the machine has learned to feed off rage
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Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
The most interesting thing I've read recently about LLMs - a purportedly leaked document from a researcher at Google talking about the huge strategic impact open source models are having
simonwillison.net/2023/May/4…
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This, from Nick Cave, is a magnificent and superfluous justification for curiosity and nuance and holding competing thoughts.
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When you delegate the creation of an advertising visual to an artificial intelligence, you shouldn't be surprised to have a beautiful copy-paste as a result joelapompe.net/2023/04/18/a-… #CannesLions #DejaVu #OldIdea #ArtificialIntelligence #CopyPaste #Recycled #RoadSafety ♻️
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We are somehow way more worried about a balloon than a Chinese app putting kids in a morose trance for hours every day
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"Children are perceptive. Pretending everything is normal and insisting there is only one Blippi when your child can tell there are now two will only serve to confuse and frustrate them."
mcsweeneys.net/articles/how-…
