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"Please upload your resume as a PDF, then re-enter all of your resume details into this cumbersome form."
anyhoo, i build my cover letter and resume in Google Slides instead of InDesign (my usual program of choice) and really love how it turned out!
has anyone else used Google Slides for multi-page PDFs?? is this something ya'll would wanna learn how to do?? 👀
has anyone else used Google Slides for multi-page PDFs?? is this something ya'll would wanna learn how to do?? 👀
as you know i'm in the midst of the #writersstrike, meaning my tv work is on hold. so in planning ahead i applied for a part-time teaching gig. i'm excited!
so in the spirit of teaching let's walk through how i built this multi-page PDF in google slides!
so in the spirit of teaching let's walk through how i built this multi-page PDF in google slides!
Did you hear about #upfronts this week? 1/6
Jon Steinlauf, chief of @wbd US ad sales: “What you’re about to see is not exactly the show we expected to do today.” 2/6
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…
#Pluralistic
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Inside: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…
#Pluralistic
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Saturday (5/20), I'm at @GburgBookFest with *Red Team Blues*:
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5/22, I'm at @publicknowledge's Emerging Tech in #DC:
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5/23, it's #Toronto for #WEPFest, w/@hockeyesque @RonDeibert & @DrNancyOlivieri:
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gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…
5/22, I'm at @publicknowledge's Emerging Tech in #DC:
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…
5/23, it's #Toronto for #WEPFest, w/@hockeyesque @RonDeibert & @DrNancyOlivieri:
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…
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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.
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#Google's #AIHype Circle: We have to do #Bard because everyone else is doing #AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard.
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Google's plummeting search quality made the company desperate to please its "activist investors"
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#SecurityThroughObscurity #SearchQuality #Enshittification #Google
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#SecurityThroughObscurity #SearchQuality #Enshittification #Google
Google can improve search, or it can chase stock gains through #AIHype. It chose the latter
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What is a #guestpost ? How is it different than a regular blog post? A Guest Post is an #Article68 written and posted on someone else's blog. When you write something on your own blog, it's just a "post," but on someone else's blog, the #WritersStrike is a ‘guest’.
smithonline.smith.edu/mod/forum/disc… Guest posts are valuable tools for reputation marketing and reputation management for several reasons, like getting your brand mentioned or occupying branded search query results. But most people use them to embed backlinks for SEO reasons.
myheritage.heritage.edu/ICS/Academics/… Guest posts are often abused, though; we'll address abusive aspects later in this article.
If you have found someone else's blog to write on, then you are the 'guest author'. We'll assume you are doing it both to get the word out and hope
If you have found someone else's blog to write on, then you are the 'guest author'. We'll assume you are doing it both to get the word out and hope
@BrandonTSnider #Fans4WGA is already on this (most of us are fan veterans of 2007-8 WGA strike support) Let me share some pointers:
1) Our fan made strike graphic (by @midnightoilprod) you can use & share it freely anywhere & everywhere
1) Our fan made strike graphic (by @midnightoilprod) you can use & share it freely anywhere & everywhere
@BrandonTSnider @midnightoilprod If you want to do something basically free / no cost & get up to speed on what life on strike is like for WGA members, other entertainment business workers & yes even fans screen this free with ads on YouTube #documentary #PencilsDown by @BrianKalata
@BrandonTSnider @midnightoilprod @BrianKalata If you can do some financial support, the highest & best use of your funds is a donation to @alifeinthearts aka the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly known as The Actors Fund. They will be doing a kind of #MutualAid) for people put out of work by the strike
When films were first broadcast on TV, studios tried to use this as a loophole to keep from paying writers.
When pay TV and VCRs appeared? Studios tried again.
Every time there's been a new way to distribute media, it's taken a #WritersStrike to get fair pay.
When pay TV and VCRs appeared? Studios tried again.
Every time there's been a new way to distribute media, it's taken a #WritersStrike to get fair pay.
In fact the whole reason that union rules appear esoteric and byzantine from the outside is because at some point or another the studios tried to cut their labor force out of the profits and the unions had to pin them down with exhaustively precise contracts.
So when streaming appeared, the studios said "hey this isn't in the contract that means we can keep all the money" which is why we have yet another fucking strike.
They've been doing this shit since the 1950s and they never ever stop trying to screw their labor.
They've been doing this shit since the 1950s and they never ever stop trying to screw their labor.
THIS THREAD IS OF MY FAVE PICKET SIGNS. reply to the sign to help me tag and give credit if i don't have it! thank you! 🙏🏽
@WGAWest @WGAEast #WritersStrike ✊🏽
@WGAWest @WGAEast #WritersStrike ✊🏽
"SURE, I SUPPORT 'A.I.'...
*A*ll our terms being met
*I*n a fair & timely manner"
✊🏽 @jonnysun
#WritersStrike #WritersGuildofAmerica
*A*ll our terms being met
*I*n a fair & timely manner"
✊🏽 @jonnysun
#WritersStrike #WritersGuildofAmerica
AI is not artificial intelligence. It's an aggregator that uses statistical analysis and pattern recognition to identify elements of a photo, of writing, or whatever task it's being used for.
Think of how many people here on social media can't grasp that.
Neither can CEOs.
Think of how many people here on social media can't grasp that.
Neither can CEOs.
Everything produced by what they call "AI" is just a collage. Oh, it's a very complex and complicated collage, but a collage none the less.
There's nothing original. What's produced is just a series of rehashes and further the system doesn't UNDERSTAND what it spits out.
There's nothing original. What's produced is just a series of rehashes and further the system doesn't UNDERSTAND what it spits out.
And that's the crucial element: without comprehension, the product of AI is gibberish.
It's complex gibberish that doesn't present that way at first, but as you go longer into the work you realize it doesn't actually make any sense.
It's complex gibberish that doesn't present that way at first, but as you go longer into the work you realize it doesn't actually make any sense.
If you're an "A.I" desinger or engineer who genuinely believes your woek will be or is already "conscious" in a "human-like" way, then the first thing imma need you to do tomorrow is teach it not to cross the picket line 🤷🏾♂️
#writerstrike #NoAIScabs
#writerstrike #NoAIScabs
Look, either you a) truly believe in the potential consciousness of "A.I.," in which case it's your duty to do everything you can to get it to be moral & just; b) believe "a.i." is merely a tool, in which case you must ensure the values Embedded in those tools are moral & just;…
…c) are deeply unsure about the conscious status of "A.I." tools & systems but recognise we are woven w/in an embedded, entangled world anyway, in which case you are obligated to seek to do everything you can to ensure that WHATEVER we create, conscious or no, is moral & just;…
This applies to all the industry guilds. Even more so than in the past, in recent years, I have talked to many people who have lost their insurance, come close to losing insurance, or who have had to exit Hollywood entirely, because they could not make rent or pay bills.
A relevant point that may seem like inside baseball, but could have major implications for the #writersstrike: DGA usually goes first in negotiations with studios. This time they let the WGA go first, because I think the DGA also sees the existential threats to their membership+
I have covered a number of strikes/near strikes in Hollywood & I think other guilds — DGA & SAG — ending up on picket lines is quite possible this cycle. overwhelming yes votes on strike authorizations from WGA this year & IATSE last year, those were v revealing #writersstrike
