Every performer should greet their audience in the local language but many don't. Then there's Taylor Swift, a linguist's dream:

'Hola Madrid' - nice of Taylor
'Sois maravillosos' - 🎯 🇪🇸
'Ayuda por favor 👇🏻* - next level
(fan was in distress)
#MadridTStheErasTour

De verdad, lo de paramore es una puta pasada #MadridTStheErasTour

There is nothing like Spanish infrastructure #vivaespaña #bernabéu #MadridTStheErasTour #TaylorSwift13

First time I have seen an LLM mea culpa on hallucinating

We’ve reached peak LLM irony when we get that models do not show systematic understanding, struggling with nuance and context because they lack human experience . . .

but then celebrate how GPT-4o has conquered language translation, which is context-bound and all about that same

OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model shows us that the future of UI is less UI: less vertical scrolling from the dark ages, or fishing through 100 apps on your phone. Voice is a frictionless interaction ... when it works.

It works great on my Android phone, and it's trash on my Google

ChatGPT translation: interesting that demo today showed that OpenAI chose to do language translation in third person ('she said that ...')

This is a pretty awkward way to interpret and is not consistent with standard industry practice
#t8n #xl8 #1nt

This has always been the case. Roger Ailes used an algorithm. King James used an algorithm. Sears used an algorithm. The application of algorithms in real-time to digital content is perhaps the most transparent form that rules-based curation has taken in human history.

Madrid surveillance will catch you even if you made a clean break with no IRL footprints.

Tldr: Estranged wife in FL moves to Madrid to start a new life. Husband rents a Peugeot in his native Serbia 1600 miles away and 4 days before wife disappears:

- store security video shows

Someday, language will cease to be a barrier to access. We're making great progress towards seamless language translation.
ElevenLabs #voiceUI

Making my daughter watch Sheryl Sandberg on The All-In Podcast to offset a week of TikToks. Diversify.

'I don't pick up on other cultures extremely well' - Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway's domestic focus is an astute awareness of the complexities of global business

Pro tip MAD airport T4S
because the lines are long
- after security take *elevator* (4 floors down)
- board train in furthest left car
- on board, stand at opposite side doors
- disembark, RUN for the up escalator
(with a pack of locals IYKYK)
- you're first up for

TikTok PR bots are up and running.
Look at these copy-paste talking points from low profile accounts on EU halting TikTok Lite app.

Today I learned that plants have passports

Madrid Sunday 10am is a ghost town

The American mind cannot comprehend a 3 meter high closet that lives as a basement

Madrid 🥰