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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I’m not too confident in the AI detection tools myself. They’re just as flawed as the rest of it. I used to have a boss who “wrote like an AI” years before Generative AI took off, we just didn’t know to describe it back then.

    It’s up to editors to discern whether an op-ed is good for publication. Often times, it’s based on the reputation and credentials of the author. A well credentialed author can use AI as a reference and still create a piece that has their voice, and gets their point across, even if some analysis bot somewhere thinks it finds a familiar pattern.




  • Go ahead and make your list by whatever metric you want. Use the Primary as your platform. But don’t be one of those people who disengages if someone who doesn’t meet your standards gets nominated.

    If those other folks are too pro-Israel for you in the Primary, that’s fine. But if it goes to the General, and it’s Newsom or Shapiro or Ossoff vs. Some MAGA loser, don’t use it as an excuse to sit out. Because if a bunch of people who found excuses to not vote for Harris has shown up instead in the right zip codes, and Harris was President right now, everyone would be much better off, including the folks in Gaza.

    Sometimes, there are just no good choices, but not choosing is worse.









  • Yes, when you are comparing times across time zones, you can use UTC time. (UTC is essentially a more modern GMT, there are differences but only the nerds care.)

    You will want to use all times in UTC. But be aware that when you do this, any times that are meant to be the same throughout the year will shift one hour due to Summer Time/DST. Not every region does summer time, and the ones that do start and stop at slightly different times. (And Southern Hemisphere countries do it in Northern Hemisphere’s winter.)

    If that’s too inconvenient for you, or most of your users are in your country, an alternative is to explicitly state the chat hours in your local time zone, with the understanding that it will shift a hour vs. UTC twice a year, and anyone outside your country’s summer time rules will just have to deal with it.