Michael

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My general rule is every time you think 'should I sell this?', sell 10%; every time you think 'should I buy more?', buy 10%

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Would love to see the flip side of this. Where are they going?

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great release tbh

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If you look at the pixels you can clearly see this photo is edited

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https://superwhisper.com/ + paste has been working well for me but I'm generally pacing around my office so just use the desktop version

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This, using one of the whisper apps It's also great for giving feedback on longer docs. Just turn on the recorder and read, calling out changes when you find them. Paste your transcript back into the model. Repeat until the doc is where you want it.

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If you want serious artists in web3, make web3 more like serious art Yes, financialization is important (artists have to eat too) but nothing will drive creatives away faster than a seeing their art reduced to a ticker symbol

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When your wifi goes down for the week

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is it just me or are we one good holiday party away from them picking out a rescue together

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Sure, but the same thing could happen any time we're in a public place. I'm not going to let someone else's sick mind stop me from taking him to the park

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And to think, the people in those buildings probably thought it was ruining their view

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++ to this. Grinding out 80 hour weeks at Goldman is a much better path to wealth than grinding out 80 hour weeks on a startup (or at any big company for that matter) If you aren't in this game because you love it then you should switch games

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I think it's a fair assumption that anything we upload will get used for model training but I believe in their tos they assign all ownership rights of both input and output to users

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Yeah I wouldn't do it as a business but for individuals it's such a cool threading of the needle between publc/private so why not

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I think algos could make some reasonable assumptions and pull from other data sources like my pfp or my wife's (much more followed) tiktok account and get close. For my son though there's a lot less data to pull from so it will be largely guesswork. We're also not that far out on the privacy spectrum so I don't mind even if it is possible

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With all this in mind, say hello to the family

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We're seeing new technology enabling a new model of social sharing that splits the difference. It's not a full reveal, and it's not a full withdrawal. It's a secret third thing that's allowing people to build the deeper, emotional connections that have been so lacking in social media without putting each other at risk to do so. Yes, they're anonymized photos. But people aren't using them to hide. They're using them to show more of themselves than ever. And I think that's worth thinking about.

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Locked accounts and private, family-focused social networks work well for sharing with the grandparents but they don't solve everything. In a world where internet communities increasingly house some of our strongest and most meaningful relationships, how can we share with them too? Normally, you can't do both. It's an impossible situation. And it's exactly why these Ghibli-ified photos are so interesting to me. Passing your photo through a model doesn't diminish the love, joy, pride, and vulnerability on display but it does blunt the identifying features that could put us and the ones we care about at risk. What you're left with is a photo that, despite being less rich, paradoxically allows for *more* intimacy building and *more* connection, not less. Your haircut might not come through, but the love you have does.

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Pre-GPT we had a binary choice: share our most meaningful moments online or preserve our privacy. Social media offered little middle ground between total exposure and complete withdrawal. This has been extra true for parents. Some of my friends with kids share photos freely, but many of them are downright militant about keeping their children off of the internet. The desire to share moments like your kid's first smile, their first steps, and their first dance recital is normal and human. But it's also in direct conflict with troubling questions like: Who else will see these? Where might they end up? What digital footprint am I making for someone who can't even consent yet? This feels like an impossible situation. How can we reconcile wanting to share these moments that are so meaningful to *us* without forcing that decision on the people *around* us?

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At first I thought these Ghibli family portraits, face reveals, new baby photos, etc. were a passing fad but now I'm not so sure. The more I think about it, the more I think that we're seeing a real-time renegotiation of our social media social contract. It's subtle, but I think we're going to be feeling the ripple effects for decades to come. What Ghiblificiation is telling us:

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