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☆ I use AI for blogging and I made $115,000 last year from my website. Here are the exact chatbots I use and how I get them to write in my voice.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She shared the prompts she used to train AI tools to help produce her blogs. Before I started using AI , I would always write my own blog posts. Once I had that, I'd write the different sections of the piece with information I'd researched. I didn't like AI-generated content at firstI've always been a bad manual typist and started using AI for voice typing. I don't think content entirely generated by AI is as valuable to the reader as AI content edited by a person.

Persons: Samantha North, I'd, Jasper, I've, hasn't, Claude, ChatGPT Organizations: Émigré, EU, ChatGPT, Google, PAS Locations: Portugal

☆ Insider Today: Y Combinator's Demo Day decline
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Y Combinator's Demo Day, which will wrap up today, was long considered the event for early-stage startups. AdvertisementAdvertisementInvestors front-running Demo Day was previously considered a major faux pas. You might ask yourself: Who cares if startups line up investments before Demo Day? And companies that get investments before Demo Day might regret it in the long run. The new rating system for performance reviews determines pay — and managers were instructed to not share it with employees.

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Malaysia's opposition bloc includes Islamist party PAS, which promotes a strict interpretation of sharia law and opposes LGBTQ rights. Another PAS leader urged the government to cancel a concert by Coldplay because the band supports queer rights. DISCRIMINATION, THREATSAnwar vowed this year that Malaysia would never recognise LGBTQ rights. His government has banned books for "promoting the LGBT lifestyle", detained demonstrators expressing support for queer rights and confiscated Pride-themed watches made by Swiss watchmaker Swatch. Asked about the government's position on LGBTQ rights, government spokesperson and communications minister Fahmi Fadzil told Reuters: "Whatever the prime minister has said is the position."

Persons: Carmen Rose, Hasnoor Hussain, Rose, Anwar Ibrahim's, Anwar, Anwar doesn't, James Chin, Rezki Rohaizad, Malaysia's, Fahmi Fadzil, Thilaga Sulathireh, Sulathireh, I'm, Rozanna Latiff, Miral Organizations: REUTERS, PAS, Coldplay, University of Tasmania, Swatch, Reuters, Sisters, Thomson Locations: Malaysian, Singapore, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, KUALA LUMPUR, Australia, Swiss

☆ A Languid, Atmospheric Thriller Steeped in Postwar Melancholy
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Leah Greenblatt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Fate convenes our two friendless protagonists one morning in the walled gardens there, where Henri has been sent to collect a £5,000 packet of cash for delivery. While he looks on unseen from a balcony, Louise simply scoops up the money and walks away. Henri can’t quite conjure a reason; his cousins aren’t the forgiving kind, and there is no question there will be consequences. There are endless glasses of cognac and solitary meals in cafes; even a scattering of faceless lovers who melt away in the morning, unmissed. The result is a collection of lovely, haunted images that never fully coalesces into compelling narrative.

Persons: Henri, Louise, Henri can’t, Mangan, Agatha, “, Christie, She’ll Locations: Granada, Paris, Belgrade, Oran, French

☆ Avoid a Wine Faux-Pas: The Bottles Hosts Actually Want Their Guests to Bring
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Lettie Teague | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ New leader of Moldovan region thanks exiled patron, backs ties with Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Alexander Tanas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

CHISINAU, July 19 (Reuters) - The new leader of Moldova's region of Gagauzia expressed gratitude at her inauguration on Wednesday to a wealthy magnate jailed in absentia for fraud and stood by her calls for closer ties with Russia. The region's 140,000 residents have had an uneasy relationship with Moldovan authorities in three decades of independence from Soviet rule. Gutul pledged to uphold good ties with Turkey and Russia, as well as with Moldova's neighbours, Ukraine and Romania. In the election campaign, contested by a slate of pro-Russian candidates, she pledged to build closer ties with Russia and open a diplomatic mission in Moscow. Reporting by Alexander Tanas in Chisinau; Editing by Ron Popeski and Grant McCoolOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Gagauzia, Maia Sandu, Yevgeniya, Ilan Shor, Shor, Ilan, Gutul, Shor's, Sandu's, Alexander Tanas, Ron Popeski, Grant McCool Organizations: European Union, Moldovan, Moldova's Constitutional, Sandu's PAS, Thomson Locations: CHISINAU, Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Israel, Gagauzia, Chisinau, Turkey, Romania, Moscow, Transdniestria, Russian

☆ Malaysia charges opposition leader with sedition over remarks on royalty
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 (Reuters) - Malaysia on Tuesday charged opposition leader Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor with sedition for allegedly insulting the country's revered sultans, state media Bernama reported. Negative remarks about its royalty can be prosecuted under a colonial-era Sedition Act, which has been used against people who criticise the sultans on social media. However, sedition charges against Malaysian politicians have been rare in recent years. Muhammad Sanusi's remarks, according to other media reports, questioned decisions taken by the royalty regarding the formation of government in the federal and state level. If found guilty, he faces up to three years in prison and a maximum penalty of 5,000 ringgit ($1,102.54).

Persons: Muhammad Sanusi Md, Muhammad Sanusi, Anwar Ibrahim's, Muhammad Sanusi's, Martin Petty Organizations: PAS, Malaysian, Thomson Locations: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Kedah, Thailand

☆ Seine-Nord Europe Canal: The $5.5B canal that will connect Paris to European waterways – and dig up the Western Front
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Tom Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

After multiple false starts and much political back and forth, work is underway on the Seine-Nord Europe Canal (SNEC), a €5.1 billion ($5.5 billion) project designed to break up one of the continent’s major transport bottlenecks. Environmental impactThe Oise River is currently being redirected for 4 kilometers as part of ongoing canal construction. A new extension will be constructed to accommodate further war dead, including those discovered during the construction of the canal. Inland ports are planned along the SNEC route, aiding exports, as well as providing recreational opportunities, say its designers. Despite the canal’s stop-start history, the Société du Canal Seine-Nord Europe is confident its construction timeline can be met and the canal will become operational in 2030.

Persons: ’, ”, Jérôme Dezobry, Philippe Bourdon, Dezobry, Montmacq, ” Dezobry, Bourdon, “, ” Claire Horton, Xavier Bertrand Organizations: CNN, European Union, EU, Commonwealth, Commission, CWGC, Loos British, Hauts Locations: France, Nord Europe, Dunkirk, Escaut, Paris, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Compiègne, Aubencheul, Nord, Seine, Oise, Allaines, Thourotte, ”, Somme, Péronne, Cambrai, Beaurains, Loos, Pas, Calais, Loos British, Antwerp, de

☆ Rupert Murdoch Can Do Whatever He Wants. It’s Becoming a Problem. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( William D. Cohan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Mr. Murdoch’s heir apparent, Lachlan, defended Fox and the Dominion settlement when speaking to investors on May 9. Contrast Mr. Murdoch with, say, Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank. Does anyone at Fox or News Corp hold Mr. Murdoch accountable in the same way? One way to rein in Mr. Murdoch may lie with Smartmatic. Smartmatic, or even the recently filed shareholder lawsuit against Fox, could end up pressuring Fox, and indirectly News Corp, to scrap their dual-class stock structures.

Persons: Murdoch’s, Lachlan, ”, “, ” Ms, Minow, Roberts, Shari Redstone, Murdoch, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, Joaquin Duato, Johnson, Dimon, he’s, Duato Organizations: Fox, Fox News, Fox Corporation, Comcast, Paramount Global, JPMorgan, Mr, News Corp Locations: America

☆ Version française: 4e nuit de violences avant les obsèques de Nahel
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Le ministère de l'Intérieur a annoncé que 1.311 personnes avaient été interpelées, un chiffre en forte hausse par rapport aux 875 de la nuit précédente, mais souligné sur Twitter que "les violences commises cette nuit ont été d'une plus faible intensité en comparaison à la nuit précédente". "Nous appartenons à la même communauté de foi", a ajouté une femme. Reuters a également pu constater que les accès au cimetière seraient bloqués pendant l'inhumation de Nahel. Jeudi, une marche blanche en la mémoire du jeune homme avait réuni plusieurs milliers de personnes. Reportage Gilles Guillaume, avec Noemie Olive et Tassilo Hummel à Nanterre et Marc Leras à MarseilleOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ I'm a 27-year-old surfer who moved to Costa Rica for a more adventurous lifestyle. Living abroad is an attainable goal, and I'm having the time of my life.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Living in Costa Rica is helping save money to eventually start his own health and wellness business. I took a solo trip to Costa Rica to surf and enjoy the beach. However, in Costa Rica everything is grown locally and there are no chemicals like glyphosate in our food. We settled in Mal Pais, Costa Rica. By living in Costa Rica I've gained a sense of opportunism that I lacked in the US.

Persons: Luke McStravick, —, Mal Pais, Luke, Costa, It's, we've, I've, Costa Rica I've Organizations: Service, Facebook Locations: San Diego, Costa Rica, Mal Pas, United States, Mal, Philadelphia, Mal Pais, Santa Teresa, It's, San Jose, Sweden, Germany, Italy, South Africa

☆ I used AI to double my income in one year. It wasn't hard to do and didn't cost me anything.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Kristen Walters | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

She used AI to help create faceless YouTube videos, affiliate content, and digital products like ebooks. So I thought I'd share some of the ways that I'm currently using AI to make money in 2023. But combined, they add up to a substantial monthly income from both YouTube Adsense and affiliate products. Digital productsI've been creating simple digital products like ebooks, workbooks, audiobooks for over a decade now.Man, I'm getting old. Of course, you don't have to use ConvertKit.I've also sold digital products using Teachable, Etsy, Gumroad, and my own website(s).

Persons: Kristen Walters, I've, it's, Jasper, ConvertKit.I've, people's, snoop, It's Organizations: YouTube, Adsense, Jasper, Management, PAS, Amazon Associates, AIDA, Publishing, KDP Locations: Jasper, Park

☆ It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Marina Harss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The partnering grows increasingly steamy — an intimacy consultant was brought in to ensure that everyone felt comfortable. (On the Ballet Theater website, the production comes with a parental advisory, advising discretion for children under 13.) “People are sometimes afraid because they don’t know exactly what ballet is,” he said. “But maybe we can bring in new audiences because they think they’re going to get a theatrical and dynamic experience. Maybe they’ll be able to experience ballet through the art of storytelling, which is more accessible.”

Persons: “, Wheeldon, ”, Cassandra Trenary, Tita, they’ll Organizations: Ballet Theater

☆ 16 years ago, people spent days in lines around the block to buy iPhones. Apple is announcing a new gadget today and no one seems to care.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Today, Apple is launching itself into a whole new area of gadgets. No one seems to care, with Apple reportedly projecting low sales the first year. Just about 16 years ago — on June 29, 2007 — the Internet was introduced to a new micro-celebrity. The fact remains that behind him on that day 192 months ago, a line curled around the block. Did you even know, before you opened this post, that today, Apple is launching another massive new product?

Persons: Greg Packer, Dima Gavrysh, REMY, Steve Jobs's, Hasan Chowdhury, Dan Ives, Siri Organizations: Apple, Press, LA, Associated, Reuters, Developers, Bloomberg, Wedbush Securities Locations: New York, France, Cupertino

☆ International tipping: How to cut through the chaos and confusion
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

In the United States, “tipping is very customary. Leighton also said you won’t find a tipping culture on the island of Taiwan. Robinson said the tipping culture is less pervasive in Sicily than the United States and even more laid-back than in Rome. As for tipping culture in the US vs. the UK, Ryan Burditt said, it’s “really opposites to me. Robert Knopes/Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesVisitors to the United States could be in for some tipping culture shock.

☆ Her son said his stepdad was sexually abusive. A judge gave the stepdad custody anyway. Then she found the photographs.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Olivia Gentile | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +58 min

Robert confronted Winenger with the allegations that November, and within weeks Winenger denied the claims in family court. In a family court hearing in Vista, California, on October 28, 2021, Commissioner Patti Ratekin chastised Jill Montes for allegedly alienating her kids from her ex-husband. From a list provided by the Delaware Family Court, Kelly chose a psychologist, William Northey. Their father cited the report in asking a Delaware family court judge to order the boys to change schools. Family Court of the State of Delaware, New Castle CountyCiting the email and a subsequent report, Michael pressed Ostroski to order the transfer.

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☆ Former Google recruiter’s No. 1 job interview tip: ‘The best candidates that I meet’ do this
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Nolan Church has worked in talent acquisition for over a decade at major brands such as Google and DoorDash. As a longtime recruiter, he's seen all kinds of faux-pas play out in the job interview process. Among his red flags is when an interviewee puts on an act during the interview. When it comes to impressing Church, currently serving as the CEO of Continuum, a talent marketplace for executives, there's one tactic that always succeeds. "The best candidates that I meet, I'm always learning something from them," he says.

☆ ‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Roslyn Sulcas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Jerome Robbins wasn’t feeling well in winter 1995. He had created “West Side Story Suite” — a condensed adaptation of his 1957 hit Broadway musical — for New York City Ballet earlier that year and started work on a new pas de deux with two principal dancers, Lourdes Lopez and Nikolaj Hübbe. Nonetheless, he continued to work with City Ballet on a new dance over the next two years. The 40-minute dance offered a bucolic idyll — a playful, youthful group, sporting with charm and what looks like spontaneity. The reviews were enthusiastic — “Choreographically, he has outdone himself here,” Anna Kisselgoff wrote in The New York Times — as were audiences.

☆ Science has finally figured out how fast and loud you should talk on Zoom
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

The result is the largest-ever database of one-on-one Zoom conversations. It may shed new light on what we talk about when we talk about talking today — the conversation of the future. And while the average loudness of speakers didn't change across bad or good conversations, the "good" talkers varied their decibel levels more than the "bad" talkers did. The machine found that women rated as better Zoom conversationalists tended to be more intense. Good conversationalists are those who appear more engaged in what their partners are saying.

☆ Researchers just created the largest-ever database of how we interact on Zoom. Here are their tips for making everyone like you on video chats.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

The result is the largest-ever database of one-on-one Zoom conversations. And while the average loudness of speakers didn't change across bad or good conversations, the "good" talkers varied their decibel levels more than the "bad" talkers did. The machine found that women rated as better Zoom conversationalists tended to be more intense. Good conversationalists are those who appear more engaged in what their partners are saying. Studying Zoom calls may help us have better conversations on Zoom.

A CERTAIN style move terrifies countless men with a passing interest in fashion. Some would sooner streak through Times Square than be seen sporting this “faux pas.” The avoid-at-all-costs abomination? Wearing black and navy together. With a discipline that would impress a four-star general, guys both young and old abide by such staid rules on not mixing certain colors. Ask them to wear, say, green head-to-toe and you might witness a conniption.

[1/2] FILE PHOTO-French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his speech during the National Conference on Disability at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, April 26, 2023. "You talk a lot of nonsense everyday," the man told Macron, after the president, barely able to squeeze in an answer, said he should get his numbers right. Such direct confrontations, the president reckons, are essential to give people a cathartic release after weeks of anger directed at the government's pension bill and Macron himself. Before the pension reform protests, the government managed to pass legislation on issues such as nuclear energy and renewables with the help of both left-wing and right-wing lawmakers outside Macron's centrist alliance. That was apparent again this week, when his prime minister Elisabeth Borne was forced to give up on an immigration bill.

☆ Read the internal memo Alphabet sent in merging A.I.-focused groups DeepMind and Google Brain
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google LLC, speaks during a Google AI event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. The two divisions, DeepMind and Google Research, have also reportedly had tensions in the past, leading DeepMind to seek more independence. This group, called Google DeepMind, will bring together part of Google Research (the Brainteam) and DeepMind. Google DeepMind will operate as a nimble, fast-paced unit, with clear points of connection andcollaboration with Google Research and the PAs. Working closely with Jeff as ChiefScientist, Google Research will continue its focus on fundamental and applied research across abroad portfolio.

☆ 'Love Is Blind' is hell on earth: Contestants say producers deprived them of food and sleep, preyed on their anxieties, and refused to let them quit
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Katie Warren | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +29 min

After the 10 days, cast members must decide whether they want to get engaged to another contestant sight unseen — or go home. The season-two contestant Nick Thompson said "Love Is Blind" didn't adequately support its cast members — during or after filming. Many cast members believed "Love Is Blind" would be a cut above other reality shows. The first evening in Cancún, producers told Ruhl she couldn't attend a party for all the newly engaged couples because they thought she might have COVID-19. In a later episode he again became infuriated and threatened to leave when Reed came home late from clubbing with other cast members.

☆ The EV industry is gaining momentum. But public charging is a long way from being accessible to all
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Anmar Frangoul | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Equally important is making sure these EV chargers are accessible to all. Ensuring EV chargers are accessible to all is a big task, and organizations like Motability are pushing hard to create conditions for change. In collaboration with the U.K. government's Office for Zero Emission Vehicles, it commissioned the British Standards Institution to develop a "national accessible charging standard for EV chargepoints." Separately, it received funding from Motability to develop design guidance for those involved in the charging industry. In July 2022, the U.S. Access Board, an independent federal agency, issued design recommendations for accessible charging stations.

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