RT @vtchakarova: Gazprom’s announcement that it cannot guarantee gas supplies due to “extraordinary” circumstances must be seen in the cont…

I’ve always compartmentalized social networks. Twitter & LinkedIn are for business. Instagram is for art.
The latter is being destroyed by ads and I don’t use it anymore. But as an art lover and collector, I miss that content & inspiration.

Thankfully, here we have @Merzmensch.

Here’s a business model that I’d like to see experimented with by consumer app developers: fans (maybe via Patreon) can fund individual features they want to see in the app.

I’d love to help developers in exchange of their commitment to develop feature X.

@Tatum_Hunter_ My Instagram feed is now littered with 1 irrelevant ad every 3 pictures. It’s like watching a movie and being interrupted every 60s. I lost every desire to use the app.
Then, 2 days ago, FB started promoting personalized ads…showing me an ad I couldn’t care less about. https://t.co/IIjh90e9ll

“The London-based food-delivery company said that gross transaction value was projected to rise 4% to 12% this year, after previously forecasting growth of 15% to 25%”

https://t.co/vaa7R8Ffoj

Amazon Fresh launched in the UK in 2016. In Feb 2022, the company was designated as a grocery retailer (= £1B+ in annual sales). It had 15 Fresh stores & 7 Whole Foods stores across the country. And a minority stake in $ROO.
Today, it has 19 Fresh stores.

https://t.co/4KFoadT0NV

Somebody, on LinkedIn, citing a research on politics, suggested that #4 (or #3, if the current #3 is unlikely) could be:

4. because you make them hopeful and/or enthusiastic

What do you think? Do you want to listen to someone that makes you feel that way?

“We tend to put more trust in people who trust themselves than we do in those who show their doubts. The confidence heuristic points to the fact that in a group, confident people have more weight than others, even if they have no reason to be confident.”

From “Noise” (Kahneman)

RT @ttunguz: Deliberately Undersizing as Sales Strategy

https://t.co/CyAtx0DbYo https://t.co/OfL1ccQCAO

“Hugging Face organized workshops with African #AI researchers to try to find data sets such as records from local authorities or universities that could be used to train the model on African languages”

https://t.co/USShgMoAyl