Mastodawn

Peter Bihr Feb 23, 2023

Law Mastodon, why do lawyers sometimes use just a), b), c) etc. to structure documents, and sometimes double letters like aa), bb), cc)? Is that some writerly convention, personal preference, something else entirely?

Peter Bihr Feb 9, 2023

I see this and all I can think is: what will be the context in which we first see someone using a six-finger glove to pretend something they did was not in fact photographed but just AI generated?

Peter Bihr Feb 9, 2023

Lee Madgwick Feb 9, 2023

Once AI works out how to do hands then this deepfake crap is going to be one of the biggest problems the world has faced. It has the potential to be extremely damaging and we are sleepwalking into a nightmare with this. I hate everything about it.

Peter Bihr Feb 9, 2023

Half for cultural awareness and half for fun I occasionally dip into TikTok. It’s delightful (in an admittedly dystopian way) to see the blatant hustling there. A crypto dude giving „advice“ on how to get ChatGPT to „develop a crypto investment strategy“ for you.

I don’t even

Peter Bihr Feb 9, 2023

Bird site is falling into disrepair, apparently. The way it would, given that many of the people charged with maintaining it were fired 🙄

Peter Bihr Jan 13, 2023

So between Santos in the US and a bunch of pulled PhDs in German gov circles - has there ever been a systematic check across the Bundestag to verify basic CV claims of MdBs ever? Is that a thing we think might be useful? 🤔

Peter Bihr Jan 11, 2023

A few things that caught my attention over the last week, including the world's largest asset manager assuming that the era of stability is over; a tool to find military radar systems; and much more: https://thewavingcat.com/2023/01/things-that-caught-my-attention/ Enjoy!

Things that caught my attention

The Waving Cat

Peter Bihr Jan 11, 2023

Has someone ever used your name to introduce themselves and misrepresented your relationship to their advantage? How have you dealt with that? So awkward.

Peter Bihr Jan 10, 2023

Damn, the VALL-E voice generation based on super short voice samples sounds impressive https://valle-demo.github.io/

VALL-E

Peter Bihr Jan 10, 2023

If you read a lot of longer-form texts, do you annotate? If so, how? For me, ever since university times, I use a super simple shorthand of little "icons":

⚡️area of tension
🖱️check out this URL / look this up
ℹ️ information / take note
📄 check out this book/paper
❓ what's this? look into this / further info needed

Curious to learn what works for you!

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