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EthanBaron

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Coca Cola’s annual Christmas commercial has been created with AI this time.



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King Tides! Be very careful along the cliffs!


The story behind the ubiquitous after-event San Francisco hot dog


'Our findings show significant short-term job replacement after these tools were introduced, and that jobs prone to automation, like writing and coding, were the most affected by ChatGPT.' hbr.org/2024/11/resear…


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"California has used a quarter less natural gas to generate electricity this year than last because its solar panels and batteries have finally achieved critical mass."

"The good news" by @billmckibben "How many people could tell you that, over the course of America’s campaign cycle, we passed the line where humans are installing a gigawatt’s worth—a nuclear power plant’s worth—of solar panels each day?" cjr.org/analysis/bill-… @CJR



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High surf advisory Tuesday-Wednesday 🌊 breakers into the 14-15 ft range with larger sets possible. #CAwx 11/11/2024

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Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says bbc.in/4fH3RfP


'Environmentalists across the Bay Area were depressed Wednesday by the victory of Donald Trump — a man who appointed a coal lobbyist to run the EPA, withdrew from the Paris climate agreement and relaxed dozens of pollution rules .. But closer to home, they had a lot to celebrate'

Environment, parks and open space measures pass across the Bay Area and California mercurynews.com/2024/11/06/env… #Election2024



I actually prefer sandwiches not to be dirty at all

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Last night in Chicago

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Happy Hellaween

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1. As of this week, @USDOT’s automatic refunds rule is in full effect. If an airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you don’t rebook, you’re entitled to an automatic refund. If you buy in-flight wifi and it doesn’t work, you’re entitled to an automatic refund.

Passengers deserve to get their money back when an airline owes them—without headaches or haggling. Today, our automatic refund rule goes into full effect. Airlines are required to provide prompt cash refunds without passengers having to ask.

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'The brazen proliferation of paramilitary activity on the social media platform days before the election highlights Meta’s lackadaisical approach to enforcing its own bans against groups it has labeled dangerous extremists.'

Here is the full report but I’d be curious how the initial tweet travels if you don’t mind sharing it. wired.com/story/facebook…



California Gov. Gavin Newsom brokered a deal with Google that killed a bill intended to deliver similar payments to California news outlets for Google's use of their content to make piles of digital-ads money

CRTC approves Google's application and paves way for annual $100 million contribution to Canadian news organizations newswire.ca/news-releases/…



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Lyft has agreed to pay $2.1M to settle FTC claims that it made deceptive earnings claims in its ads. The FTC claimed that Lyft's figures inflated the actual earnings by as much as 30%.

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