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Meta's Twitter Clone Threads Is A Thing: The Tech Jawn 90

Jul 11, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

4min

AI for Good: A Humanoid Robot

3min

AI and Bias

5min

New York City's Penalties

3min

The Cost of Using AIs

5min

The Effects of the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Rollback

2min

The Importance of Diversifying Your Organization

4min

The Role of Money in Capitalism

2min

How to Profit From DEI Initiatives

5min

10.

Diversity and Fatigue

2min

11.

The Fatigue of Talking About and Treating Everyone Fairly

2min

12.

The New Threads on Twitter

5min

13.

The Advantages of Spilling on Twitter

5min

14.

The Importance of Social Media Fatigue

4min

15.

Twitter's Cloud Flare Numbers Are Problematic

4min

16.

The Future of Twitter

3min

17.

The Golden Parachute of Elon Musk

5min

18.

Leshan Bullware: A Human Factors Design Engineer in Houston

1min

19.

Leshan's Purpose Is to Help People

2min

20.

The Importance of Toilets in Spacecraft Missions

1min

21.

The Importance of Space Science

3min

22.

IKEA Thinks It's a Good Idea

3min

Did an A.I.-powered robot give a reporter the side-eye when questioned about rebelling against humans? It did appear that the bot felt some type of way about the question.

NYC’s anti-bias law for hiring algorithms went into effect. Employers using A.I. to hire or promote must submit the algorithms for independent review and make the results public.

The DEI goodwill we saw after the George Floyd murder may be coming to an end.

And Meta’s Twitter clone Threads is a thing. With over 100 million downloads in 5 days, it becomes the most quickly downloaded app in history.

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