My Eid-ul-Adha feed had zero gore this year, which is either my own bubble closing in or cheap image classification finally being affordable enough to filter every photo at upload.
This year was odd. My feed was completely devoid of any gore on Eid - and I am not sure whether it was my own bubble or whether people just stopped posting. But probably, it was the advent of cheaper algorithms that can now run on every image at a low cost - thus making automated filters more feasible. Ten years ago, it was a dream that one day everything online would be filtered down. Now they are scary.
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Week 27, 2023
A short, very smug weekly check-in. Asking everyone who got loud about their NFT portfolios how the floor price is treating them now.
Week 52, 2024
I keep getting fleeting urges to teach in some mentorship program. The catch is I never feel I know any one thing well enough to actually teach it.