Bohdan

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One way to look at the possible effects of deepfakes in politics is to look at "shallow fakes" that have been possible for a long time. For example, this screenshot purporting to be a "you're free to say whatever nasty stuff you want" whitelist for twitter. I actually have no idea if this is real or fake, but there definitely are some people who are treating it as real, imo without sufficient evidence. And yet, the effects of things like this are pretty bounded. This feels like a plausible outcome for deepfakes in politics. The smart people know not to trust a politician's statements without confirmation on official channels, and less smart people get tricked, as they do today with shallow fakes. If something fake goes viral, Community Notes can help on the margin in making it clear that it's fake. Most normies don't actually look at this stuff in real time, and so the effect ends up not too bad. This is the strongest case for not being too worried. The place where I am *more* worried about deepfakes is...

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Hey @dwr.eth thanks for cross posting this. bad on me for not doing. I'm going to start a new deeper dive on this piece and will post everything here.

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Spotify continues to take share from Apple and Amazon in the US and after a successful price increase last year, they plan to do so again this year. More stats here: bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-06-02/spotify-has-one-big-advantage-on-every-other-streaming-service

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Farcaster should have (near-)unlimited length messages like twitter. Having used it for a while, I feel like twitter's long message feature improves its user experience and its usefulness for high quality discussion.

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2nd pic didn’t attach whoops

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why do pastries make up like 90% of the food sold by coffee shops SMH

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Gm everyone☕️☀️

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Today's ZK Podcast episode features @a16zcrypto Research Partner Justin Thaler discussing Jolt, the sum-check protocol, and how SNARKs will evolve -- worth a listen! https://zeroknowledge.fm/322-2/

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Gm pooorple app usooors

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Played around and designed something for my powerbadge cabals /powerbadgecabal @generalism.eth

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