What are your best LLMs, prompts, tools, extensions for summarizing video content? #genai

sharing the starter pack for those of you local to other places:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Every year I give a little to help increase STEM and literacy — it's a tiny investment in growing critical thinking in our population. Will you help me complete this library in Texas via @donorschoose.bsky.social? www.donorschoose.org/project/a-un...

Ordered a Pela Case for an old phone. Didn’t like it and wanted to return. The undocumented handling fee is 60% of the cost of the case! How perfectly enshittified.

Curating the best @astro.build websites of 2024 for a special edition Astro Weekly dropping this Sunday.

Who do you think deserves a spot on the list? 🏆

Democrats think people make future voting decisions on whether they think the opposition is reasonable and measured, rather than whether they're pissed off at the party in power. That couldn't be more wrong.

On AOC's snub and how you run an opposition:

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/too-many-d...

“There is no such thing as a perfect place on the internet. But it’s possible to avoid the ones that aren’t even pretending to try to be better. The best time to leave Substack was a long time ago. The second best time is now.”

My latest:

that’s super interesting, because i didn’t have that experience at all. i wonder how much of the difference between our experiences comes down to the fact that my newsletters are somewhat more niche? (and thus, in my mind, not likely to benefit much from a broad recommendation algorithm)

I’d love to see a platform economy that allows us all to make a decent living while never compromising our values, but that’s not the internet that’s been allowed to be built over many decades — while these hypercommercialized platforms were cloaked in the bullshit libertarian narratives.

Network effects make things hard. At least don’t call your newsletter “a Substack”. www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...

Bluesky's use of domains to verify users has led to cybersquatting and impersonation, as domains don't offer enough social proof for the average person (Ernie Smith/Tedium)

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really cool to see city-wide adoption for bluesky, like @boston.gov has done

i'm especially interested in the Boston feed they created because this is a way for govts to share updates with their constituents directly through social media, without a company's blackbox algorithm interfering

Bluesky! Who are some
independent and freelance journalists who are doing fantastic work out there? Send me your recs!

Oh cool, you can use your domain name as your handle on BlueSky. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

I just wanted to add full text to my RSS feeds in my Hugo powered static site. Now I’ve read 30m of forum posts, RSS and Atom specs, and I’m still not sure if I’m doing this right.

What is a great book (or other long-form writing) you've found helpful learn more about quantum computing, as a software engineer?

(With Google's Willow announcement, this space is becoming interesting to pay attention to!)

There is so much innovation in the space of managing developer tools and keeping them neatly targeted to projects without conflicts! In just this thread learning about mise, asdf, pkgx.dev and devenv.sh. People have moved on from just nodenv and virtualenv. Whew.

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