Dad, road-tripper, data wrangler. Building Transparent SF. Founder, Legibility Project. Friend to founders. Charts over takes.
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Introducing Voyage, the first platform to fulfill the promise of AI games.
Voyage lets you one-shot an entire world with characters that feel alive, memory that lasts forever, and the structure and challenge needed to make an actually fun game.
From the creators of AI Dungeon, the next generation of AI games is here.
🤖 Made with AI
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Last year, we launched CollectiveMetrics, a nonprofit built on the idea that independently measuring safety and privacy outcomes on the internet can help improve them for everyone. For example; we are all guessing about how many scam and deceptive ads are reaching us every day, but we can do better.
I’m excited to share our first piece of software: AdButter, a free Chrome extension that starts to close that gap. The link is in the comments…
The name is playful. The mission isn’t. AdButter quietly catalogs the ads you see on platforms you choose to monitor, so we can build the first independent, large-scale measurement of ad quality, and give the public real numbers to point to.
You pick which platforms it runs on, and can toggle any off at any time.
It does not track your browsing history or targeting data. You can review every ad it’s captured and delete anything, anytime.
It takes under a minute to install. You’ll be helping increase the community’s understanding (and safety). Link in the comments (& coming soon, it will tell you how many suspicious ads the community has found!)
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33 speed cameras go will be activated tomorrow in San Francisco at these locations.
Fines range from $50-$500.
SF will become the first city in California to implement them. Oakland and San Jose will also add them.
@KTVU Live at 10 pm with the story
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Police departments run marketing campaigns blaming pedestrians for not being visible enough. But they know visibility doesn't slow down drivers.
Here's an SFPD speed trap 👇
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Starting today, 33 speed cameras across San Francisco will begin issuing fines. These cameras have already shown results during the warning period, with fewer notices issued over time—a sign that drivers are slowing down.
Speed cameras are a proven tool to make our streets safer. As kids head back to school, we’re focused on protecting everyone. Whether you walk, bike, take Muni, or drive, you deserve to get where you’re going safely.
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1/ Earlier today, our teams identified and removed a deepfake video claiming to show President Zelensky issuing a statement he never did. It appeared on a reportedly compromised website and then started showing across the internet.
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We’re thrilled to introduce Kayrros Carbon Watch, a new #carbonemissions monitoring solution powered by satellite data and artificial intelligence.
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Knowledge creators (yes that’s you!) are the entrepreneurs of the future. Organizations are building the learning institutions of the future. At @discolearn, we’re excited to leverage this investment to accelerate our path to building a world-class platform to power your growth.
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We're rolling out labels that link to official info about the 2020 US elections on posts about voting from federal candidates and elected officials, while we work to build our Voting Information Center and add labels to all posts about voting. More here: axios.com/facebook-label-pos…
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As a result of material development and modern education, people commonly seek happiness in external things, but neglect their minds. True, lasting happiness depends on our taming our unruly minds. This is not so much about intellectual development as cultivating a warm heart.
This is a masterful #DataViz on SF Home Prices (w/R code no less). The violin chart is particularly great. It clearly shows the entire distribution stretching up btw 2009-15. So curious what has happened since! @KenSteif @SimonKassel
Great tutorial: "Mapping San Francisco home prices using R" by @KenSteif & @SimonKassel buff.ly/2okgKDs #rstats #dataviz #maps
Progress!
What did we learn from new data about U.S. electricity use in 2019? For one, carbon-free power sources rose, while fossil-fuel sources decreased. This, and more, in the latest Inside Clean Energy by @DanGearino.
bit.ly/3cA8qIQ
Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a goal, it ceases to become a measure: "But some smaller companies ...have resorted to turning on all their electric equipment, even air conditioners, to meet the quotas, according to two factory bosses." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets
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Extreme poverty has declined from afflicting 85% of the world's population in 1800 to less than 10% today. If that trend continues, extreme poverty will be gone by 2030. humanprogress.org/article.ph…
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When the #USA offered little information about the plane crash in #Afghanistan on Jan 27, #Iran, #Russia, and the Taliban swooped in to fill the void, sharing unverified information to push their own narratives.
Read more from @KaranKanishk: medium.com/dfrlab/iran-russi…
At long last! Access to privacy-safe FB data for social scientists and the academic research community. #scienceFTW @SocSciOne
Today, we released a privacy-protective Facebook dataset with 10 Trillion cell values socialscience.one/blog/unpre… Tomorrow, I'll give a webcast for TIER on differential privacy, a version of which we used with these data. Here're my slides & how to register: gking.harvard.edu/presentati…