TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn was tired of the gray and dreary design aesthetic edtech companies used to emulate universities. Tyler Murphy, having graduated from his intern position at Duolingo launching the company’s iOS app, noticed that the gaming world was rapidly innovating around him in the mid-2010s.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2021

Three main platforms now stand out: Universe, Weverse, and LYSN. Areum Jeong, assistant professor of humanities at Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute, says the apps offer fans a real chance to strengthen their relationship with their current favorite idols. The relationship between BTS and ARMY never feels one-sided.

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TechNode

JANUARY 14, 2025

Given that TikTok is the international counterpart to Chinas Douyin, why are these “TikTok refugees” choosing Xiaohongshu instead of Douyin? While international users can register for Douyin using a global phone number, they cant simply download it from the US App Storetheyd need to switch to the Chinese App Store.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Perhaps you recall last month, when GameStop stock shot up by as much as 500 percent, hitting a peak of $483 on January 28th, thanks largely to memes and a shitposting finance subreddit. Or would it instead figure out how to let mass retail events occur without its own internal system capsizing? There is a paper already.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Nancy White tagged me to participate in an interesting meme. Here are five resources I would recommend to someone who wanted to become a Manager Volunteers for a nonprofit: Cypbervpm list serv An international discussion group for volunteer managers. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They initially came together over a university-funded project around predicting social compatibility among a group of strangers. 222’s small print also indicates that data from the app is being analyzed as a part of a university social science project — a continuation of the one Kazemian, Hashemi and Roshannai led a year ago.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2021

Harvard University!), It was grand delusion internally.”. Maureen Farrell: It was grand delusion internally. There’s this meme in Silicon Valley, and entrepreneurship today, that if you have an ice cream company, it’s not gonna be a good ice cream company unless you raise VC money. T Rowe Price!

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 17, 2023

Our nascent industry built stacks hacked together internally or purchased ad hoc to solve specific problems. Image courtesy of author from internal data platform. Reach out to Barr on LinkedIn to air your frustrations, send data memes, or share your experiences navigating this crisis. You want to improve data trust?

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For instance, some (though not most) dictators are almost universally hated and retain power for many years even though nearly everyone would prefer to replace them. The AI developer publicly commits to distribute the benefits of AI to early internal AI agents (as if they are human employees who receive equity). A single meme (e.g.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So first I have on the left, this just a funny meme. So you can break the ice with these types of memes. You showed kind of the country breakdown, but is there a demographic differences in using WhatsApp or is it pretty universal? Consumers always super important. So sometimes it’s more informal. Have you seen that?

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

AC: A lot of your product innovation has been around university students. A lot of the physical world stuff we tend to talk about — take a festival, we’ve had this conversation internally — it’s really expensive. AC: Is your trust and safety team just Tinder’s internal trust and safety team? Then you made a spring break mode.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

But right-wing supporters have a wildly different view of events: figures like Tucker Carlson have portrayed the convoy as a working-class rebellion, and Trudeau’s response has been treated as enacting martial law, leading Elon Musk to tweet (and then delete) a meme comparing Trudeau to Adolf Hitler.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

They work like memes, the speed people react and join in. Where does the pressure come from on an international exposure. We already have universal access provisions for things like telephones. Is there evidence that these tools are making the fight easier? It’s about scale. Kevin Anderson: Yes. Technology infuses my life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

forces at work that are pushing women out of taking jobs in the sciences or that woman have internalized. These myths are ones that women have internalized and are imposing upon themselves, in addition to society constantly imposing these myths upon women. Are women less interested in technology/science? Female nerds need to organize.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

For example, I extracted many insights about the international development field reading books like Easterly’s Tyranny of Experts or Maren’s Road to Hell. People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Whereas when I observe another human and do self-supervised learning, my brain is internally computing predictions of upcoming sounds and images etc. 4] Everyday example: I sometimes feel an urge to pull out my phone and check if anyone liked my dank memes on social media. That just doesnt make sense in a human. Optimist: No way!

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

There was once a time when memes and internet-born jokes were a novelty enjoyed by relatively few people – the kind who would describe themselves as Extremely Online. Carolina Are, social media researcher at Northumbria University’s Centre for Digital Citizens.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Posts on pages flagged by Avaaz between May 28 and June 18 included explicit calls for armed violence as well as more borderline content such as anti-government memes employing euphemisms for violence. Twitter permanently suspended the pro- Trump meme-maker “CarpeDonktum” for copyright violations. Nancy Scola / Politico ).

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Big tech companies including Google , Amazon and Qualcomm are bankrolling The Global Antitrust Institute at George Mason University, which teaches a hands-off approach to antitrust law. More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others.

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