@briankrebs story with factual meat to it, but the outsized uproar over this little blog post just comes off as more "woke mind-virus" panic.
News flash -- all major news outlets have a top-down perspective that they maintain. Plenty on both the left and the right.
@briankrebs The Mueller report did not reach the high threshold set for collusion, especially to Bill Barr's interpretation, but there was meat to the story, given the findings of Russian interference in the election.
And I haven't bothered reviewing all the information about the origins of COVID-19.
So while I do see that NPR has perspective that guides which stories it's interested in pursuing, this is hardly a scandal.
I'd like to see the journalists have more freedom to pursue any...
@briankrebs ... NPR, as an organization, has a perspective on the world and a set of values that it wants its journalists to adhere to.
This blog post by Berliner would be much more compelling if it actually exposed some sort of depth of truth. Instead, it's more of a lament that his perspective isn't valued inside of the current regime at NPR.
The big "truth bombs" outlined in the blog post really have no meat to them. The Hunter Biden laptop had nothing but personal pornography on it.
@briankrebs I think journalism is best when it illuminates the truth. I really appreciate very objective reporting that plainly states the facts without opinion or editorialism. I think taking a "slant" or "agenda" *can* be in service of illuminating the truth if it's highlighting a perspective or giving a frame of reference.
Journalism is not doing its job if it's cherry-picking facts to push consumers to a prescribed outcome (aka propaganda).
I'm really not concerned with the idea that ...
@doctormo @georgetakei fairly bad, but it works just fine. Plus it can be compressed back down in storage.
As far as I'm aware, the real reason your mail client or recipient server will reject files over a certain size really has to do with preventing users from completely overflowing messaging servers with shared files either from well-intentioned or malicious users.
If you have your own mail server with tons of storage, you can configure it to save and relay attachments of any size.
@caseynewton The key is to find a fit between yourself and the model. GPT sometimes hallucinates, so don’t focus on getting journalistic accuracy. Focus on getting ideas. Directions. Possibilities.
Every time I run into a wall in what I can do (or what I can bear to do), I start thinking about how to prompt GPT.
When I think about my LLM having query access to my data — yeah. Sure. Helpful. But the superpower here is *not* advanced search. The superpower is the creativity.
Scott Santens