Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?
https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-tokens-as-image-tokens/
#HackerNews #LLMs #Image #Processing #Text #Content #AI #Research #Machine #Learning
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2025-10-17 1500 - @evoterra - OG #Podcaster from way back in 2004. Co-authored #Podcasting For Dummies way back in 2005. Ran Podiobooks.com from 2005–2015. Hall of Fame class of ‘22. #Professor of podcasting at ASU since 2025.
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One month into my blog launch and I am seeing on G4 traffic from “flipboard/activitypub”
What does this mean?
It’s visits coming from my federated Flipboard magazine not just from inside the @Flipboard app itself.
👉 It means my content is reaching beyond Flipboard into the broader audience (Fediverse). Readers are clicking through from there.
Maybe it’s time to look at the Fediverse more closely #fediverse #flipboard #blogging #publishing #content
One month into my blog launch and I am seeing on G4 traffic from “flipboard/activitypub”
What does this mean?
It’s visits coming from my federated Flipboard magazine not just from inside the @Flipboard app itself.
👉 It means my content is reaching beyond Flipboard into the broader audience (Fediverse). Readers are clicking through from there.
Maybe it’s time to look at the Fediverse more closely #fediverse #flipboard #blogging #publishing #content
Spent some quality time in the lathe and the drill press making this replacement splash filter for the Puckpuck (after I yeeted the original into the trash).
Here's some #content for you
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#PublicMedia supporters say the commercial forces that made television a “vast wasteland” still exist in an era of #socialmedia algorithms that reward #content that attracts the most likes & shares. That’s rarely the hyperlocal issues or deep policy discussions that are the bread & butter of local public television & radio stations, which have their own locally produced programs that run alongside the national shows of #PBS & #NPR.
#PublicMedia supporters say the commercial forces that made television a “vast wasteland” still exist in an era of #socialmedia algorithms that reward #content that attracts the most likes & shares. That’s rarely the hyperlocal issues or deep policy discussions that are the bread & butter of local public television & radio stations, which have their own locally produced programs that run alongside the national shows of #PBS & #NPR.
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Before the year was out, I finished the book Filterworld by Kyle Chayka, which is about the flattening of culture at the hands of (the people who develop) algorithms.
And now that I've read the book, I can't unsee this process -- the dull sameness with which much of what we (are expected to) consume falls into -- and that wasn't always the case. Of course, some of that is due to (Western) cultural colonialism, but Chayka would probably agree that algorithms are a type of cultural colonialism, too.
Chayka isn't the only one who's noticed. A couple of weeks ago, I read an article that lamented Baryshnikov as one of the last adherents to "high art."
Chayka cites an essay by Scorsese, talking about his own influences [I have no opinion on Scorsese here, just being illustrative]: "The paranoia that I hear in Scorsese’s essay is that the art of the twenty-first century no longer holds up to such scrutiny. Instead, it’s cheap and ephemeral, wafting through your life without leaving any discernible mark. (The passion of his writing shows just how much Scorsese was marked by Fellini, an impact that he was still processing six decades later.) That may be because to fit into digital feeds, in order to attract those pernicious likes and further promote itself as much as possible, culture has to be content first and art second—if at all. "
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