May 14, 2024

Tuesday

Encampment Opinion Era

This is welcome news. We’re leaving for graduation on Monday…the main ceremony is next Thursday.

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Harvard’s refusal to negotiate with the protesters appears to have ended in negotiation.

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Thanks to Ukranian soldiers, he is, indeed, rockin’ in the free world.

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“The paradigm of search for the last 20 years has been that the search engine pulls a lot of information and gives you the links. Now the search engine does all the searches for you and summarizes the results and gives you a formative opinion.”

AI is about to take us from the search results era to the search opinion era.

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Israeli protesters blocked aid trucks destined for Gaza on Monday, throwing food packages onto the road and ripping bags of grain open in the occupied West Bank.

Sounds more like a hijacking than a protest.

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