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Facebook updates its mobile video player with a TikTok-like vertical look and new controls for Reels, Live, and longform videos, starting with the US and Canada (Amrita Khalid/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119721/…

Facebook’s new full-screen video player looks a lot like TikTok
The platform’s update will feature vertical videos by default, bringing the full-screen, vertically oriented look to Reels, Facebook Live, and longform videos.

Facebook updates its mobile video player with a TikTok-like vertical look and new controls for Reels, Live, and longform videos, starting with the US and Canada (Amrita Khalid/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119721/…

Facebook’s new full-screen video player looks a lot like TikTok
The platform’s update will feature vertical videos by default, bringing the full-screen, vertically oriented look to Reels, Facebook Live, and longform videos.

The Social Media Sameness Singularity (Smith, 2016) continues.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119721/facebook-updated-full-screen-video-player-vertical-view

Facebook’s new full-screen video player looks a lot like TikTok
The platform’s update will feature vertical videos by default, bringing the full-screen, vertically oriented look to Reels, Facebook Live, and longform videos.

‘They scream in hunger’ – How Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza | Israel War on #Gaza News | Al Jazeera
#IsraeliMadeFamine

‘They scream in hunger’ – How Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza
For three days, Al Jazeera followed three families in Gaza to document how they are coping with hardly any food.

Listening to #LongformPodcast discussing #PatriciaEvangelista's new book "Some People Need Killing."
About how dehumanizing a group of people (drug dealers in this case) can make murder commonplace, and what's it's like to live in that society.
Trump has already floated the idea of killing anyone who is a "drug dealer" in the US. The GOP is trying to make being LGBTQ illegal. There are horrors coming our way if we allow them.
https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-566-patricia-evangelista

A look at the rise of celebrity-hosted interview podcasts, whose long running times mean guests delve into deep and personal topics, resembling therapy sessions (Sam Wolfson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08460 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

LongForm: Effective Instruction Tuning with Reverse Instructions
Instruction tuning enables language models to more effectively generalize and better follow user intent. However, obtaining instruction data is costly and challenging. Prior work employs methods such as expensive human annotation, crowd-sourced datasets with alignment issues, and generating noisy examples via LLMs. We introduce the LongForm-C dataset, which is created by reverse instructions. We generate instructions via LLMs for human-written corpus examples using reverse instructions. First w…

We are nowhere near wrapping our arms around this, but eventually, we'll get a longform by about the lives damaged by #sports #gambling, the root causes, and the people that enabled it.
That'll include onshore-and-offshore companies and professional sports leagues. That'll include media …

After NBA Bans Jontay Porter for Gambling, Some See Glimpse of Sports’ Future
The N.B.A. banned a player for life for betting on games, a practice some worry could become more prevalent with the rise of wagering on sports.

#Extractivism #Lithium #EnergyTransition
Surviving the white gold rush – life in South America’s ‘lithium triangle’ | Environment | Al Jazeera

Surviving the white gold rush – life in South America’s ‘lithium triangle’
‘We won’t have electric cars,’ say local communities in South America ravaged by lithium mining for car batteries.

We are nowhere near wrapping our arms around this, but eventually, we'll get a longform by about the lives damaged by #sports #gambling, the root causes, and the people that enabled it.
That'll include onshore-and-offshore companies and professional sports leagues. That'll include media …

After NBA Bans Jontay Porter for Gambling, Some See Glimpse of Sports’ Future
The N.B.A. banned a player for life for betting on games, a practice some worry could become more prevalent with the rise of wagering on sports.

Listening to the #Longform podcast discussing how highways were known to not reduce inner city traffic even before highways were built.
Listen to it here:
#MeganKimble's book here:
#highways #interstate #PublicTransit #ClimateChange

Sometime, soon, we'll get a 30-for-30 or whatever passes for longform by then, about the lives shook up and damaged by #sports #gambling the root causes, and the people that enabled it.
That'll include onshore-and-offshore companies and professional sports leagues. That'll include media …