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Marian Farah (ماريان فرح)
@marianfarah.bsky.social
I am a farm girl from Syria 🇸🇾. I use Science & AI to help create a more sustainable future 🌍 🌏 🌎
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PRIVACY PARTY is now available for firefox 🦊 it’s never been easier to clean up your social media privacy - just a couple minutes and the extension does everything for you. why wouldn’t you? (ok maybe if your posts from a decade ago are as pure as travis kelce’s…)

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...
November 16, 2023 at 3:15 PM
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PSA: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data.

You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly.

More on this feature here:

https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/
Blur tools for Signal
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...
signal.org
October 28, 2023 at 6:07 PM
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." --James Baldwin
October 13, 2023 at 5:37 PM
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"despite the endless hype around large language models and the automated platforms they power, tech companies are struggling to turn a profit when it comes to AI."
https://gizmodo.com/github-copilot-ai-microsoft-openai-chatgpt-1850915549
So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off
While the stock market may love the term "AI," companies haven't figured out how to optimally monetize the services that go along with it.
gizmodo.com
October 11, 2023 at 9:38 PM
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too many people conflate "influence" with "influence for good"
September 12, 2023 at 10:51 AM
Meet the new arbiter of nuclear war: "Musk was worried that the planned attack on the Kremlin’s Black Sea fleet.. could escalate tensions and potentially lead to nuclear conflict". www.nbcnews.com/news/world/m...
Ukraine blasts Elon Musk for thwarting an attack on Russia's fleet
The tech billionaire said Thursday that he had told his engineers not to turn on the Starlink satellite network over Crimea to prevent a planned attack on the Black Sea fleet last year.
www.nbcnews.com
September 8, 2023 at 4:31 PM
Give yourself love and compassion.

Enjoy yourself.

It's later than you think.
September 6, 2023 at 4:19 AM
It's happening tonight! The man will finally burn 2 days behind schedule. There is an art car blocking the view of the 2nd leg of the man.
September 5, 2023 at 3:50 AM
Enjoy a picture of Laila, my sweet puppy 😍
September 4, 2023 at 7:26 PM
I am playing around on runpod.io gpu cloud. So far so good. It seems like a great alternative to aws for personal projects.
September 4, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Waaa! No way!

"talent exodus... the CEO's apparent propensity for embellishment has been in the news.."
The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be Crumbling Into Chaos
From fundraising more than $100 million to hemorrhaging top talent the firm that makes Stable Diffusion has had a heck of a year.
futurism.com
August 10, 2023 at 5:33 PM
If 1024 fair coins are each tossed 10 times, chances are good (> 63%) that at least one will come up heads 10 times in a row; and that coin will be proud to explain how its skill, faith, guts & determination made its achievement possible, and how that combo can work for you too.

#success #startups
August 9, 2023 at 5:51 PM
You can be ambitious AND practice self-compassion.

3 parts of self-compassion:

1- Having a sense of mindfulness
2- Recognizing your common humanity
3- Practicing self-kindness

Learn more in this 6 minutes video by Yale cognitive scientist Laurie Santos.

https://youtu.be/rJAMyrF7bPc
August 9, 2023 at 5:10 PM