FreedomGPT, a chatbot from Austin VC firm Age of AI, is free of ChatGPT's safety filters and ethical guardrails, and praises Hitler, uses the N-word, and more
FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and the right. Its makers say that is the point. Tweets: @markyarm , @klonick , @pt , @dvsch , and @normative . Thanks:...
Some laid-off tech workers on H-1B visas from Meta, Shopify, Twitter, and other tech companies say their employers did not provide adequate immigration support
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A look at “DentureTok” on TikTok, made up of women with dentures, as they fight the stigma and campaign for better dental care access; #dentures has 1B+ views
Jessica Lucas / Input : Tweets: @markyarm and @jesslucaswrites Tweets: Mark Yarm / @markyarm : “I wanted to fight the stigma around [dentures],” says TikToker Alyssa Segrist (pict...
An interview with Bored Ape Yacht Club creators Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow on BuzzFeed “doxxing” them, Yuga Labs, the future of BAYC, Otherside, and more
The evening of February 4, business partners Greg Solano, 33, and Wylie Aronow, 35, were at their respective homes … Tweets: @nickchilds , @ethangach , @jiwilde , @taylorlorenz , @...
Seth Green gets his Bored Ape NFT back after losing it to a phishing scam; transaction records suggest Green may have paid 165 ETH, worth ~$297K, to “Mr Cheese”
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A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets
On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site's most bizarre pages. Tweets: @nytimes , @raju , @pomeranian99 , @macmccanntx , @joshuatopolsky , @...
Anti-war Russians are using Clubhouse to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine as the app doesn't seem to be on the radar of the country's social media censors
A look at CouchSurfing.com, which is now headed by Palantir alum Patrick Dugan, as it abandoned its always-free ethos at the start of the pandemic
Back in spring 2011 — the end of black truffle season, before the climbing roses bloomed — the Couchsurfers gathered at the Palazzo Massarucci … Tweets: @markyarm , @inputmag , @jo...