Tootfinder

X adds blue checks to some large accounts as part of its plan to give free Premium memberships to those with at least 2,500 "verified subscriber followers" (Amrita Khalid/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24120602/x-free-premi…

X’s ‘complimentary’ Premium push gives people blue checks they didn’t ask for
Tagging X Premium subscriptions to accounts with enough paying followers is re-applying the “verified” checkmark logo on some accounts that don’t pay for it.

Sources: Apollo Global Management told Paramount over last weekend that it was interested in acquiring the full company for $26B ; Paramount chose not to engage (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/business/dealbook/apoll…

Apollo Valued Paramount at $26 Billion in Overture That Was Ignored
Paramount’s board of directors, which was already deep into talks with the media company Skydance, didn’t engage with the offer.

People who choose their #pronoun: Do you also choose a suffix?
#pronouns #gender

Missing Link: Buchrezension Chris Dixons "Read Write Own"
Der prominente Krypto-Risikokapitalgeber Chris Dixon liefert mit "Read Write Own" eine wenig überzeugende Bibel für Prediger von Blockchain-Lösungen.

My latest blog post rounds up a selection of positive environmental articles I have shared since the start of the year.
#PositiveEcoNews #Environment

Positive Environmental Stories – Spring 2024
As someone who shares and reads daily climate news, it is understandable how the constant changes or lack of them can grind us down. A study by the Lancet, featured in Harvard Health Publishing, fo…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03134 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Robust Pronoun Fidelity with English LLMs: Are they Reasoning, Repeating, or Just Biased?
Robust, faithful and harm-free pronoun use for individuals is an important goal for language models as their use increases, but prior work tends to study only one or two of these characteristics at a time. To measure progress towards the combined goal, we introduce the task of pronoun fidelity: given a context introducing a co-referring entity and pronoun, the task is to reuse the correct pronoun later. We present RUFF, a carefully-designed dataset of over 5 million instances to measure robust …

X adds blue checks to some accounts, including journalists, as part of its plan to give free Premium status to those with 2,500 "verified subscriber followers" (Amrita Khalid/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24120602/x-free-…

X’s ‘complimentary’ Premium push gives people blue checks they didn’t ask for
Tagging X Premium subscriptions to accounts with enough paying followers is re-applying the “verified” checkmark logo on some accounts that don’t pay for it.

49ers vs. Chiefs: Super Bowl 2024 TV, live stream, how to watch on CBS, Paramount , Nickelodeon

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-v

49ers vs. Chiefs: Super Bowl 2024 TV, live stream, how to watch on CBS, Paramount+, Nickelodeon
Make sure you know where and when to tune in

X launches Stories on X, with news curated and summarized by Grok AI, available for Premium subscribers in the Explore tab on iOS and the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/03/x-launches-stories-on-x-deliver…

X launches Stories, delivering news summarized by Grok AI | TechCrunch
X's Premium subscribers will be able to read a summary of posts on X associated with each trending story featured on the For You tab in Explore.

Q&A with Paramount Streaming CEO and Pluto TV co-founder Tom Ryan on Pluto's first decade, Viacom acquisition, Paramount being profitable by 2025's end, more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/

Paramount Streaming CEO Tom Ryan on Pluto TV, Paramount+ and More
Tom Ryan, CEO of Paramount Streaming, spoke about what's next for Pluto TV — which he co-founded 10 years ago — and Paramount+.