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The Loop announces Birmingham drug-checking service

The harm reduction charity will offer free substance checking monthly at two locations in Birmingham beginning this weekend

DJ Mag · EN

Fact-Checking at Scale: Building a More Accurate and Efficient Synopsis Factuality System

By Shreya S Ramanujam , Yongce Li , Afshine Amidi , Sina Ghiassian , Benjamin Klein . Introduction Picture this — you’re home after a long day at work and can’t wait to catch up on Bridgerton. You log on to Netflix, search for “Bridgerton” and land on this screen: If this sounds familiar, you already know what a synopsis is — it’s a short glimpse into what a viewer can expect to see in a show. We see two types of synopses here: a series-level synopsis describing the overarching plot, and multiple episode-level synopses describing each episode. A synopsis plays a very important role for us — it

Netflix Tech Blog · EN

Staying Grounded Without Checking Out

By Leo Babauta A lot of people right now are feeling exhaustion from the news, the economy, politics, wars, the AI frenzy … it’s a lot to deal with. People tend to have two responses to feeling like the world is too much: Being over-engaged : Feeling anxious about the world, you can get hooked on following the latest news, doomscrolling through social media and other feeds, and spinning in your head about it all; or Disengaging : It feels like too much, and so you check out. You don’t follow any of the news, you don’t check social media (or only the entertaining parts), you don’t get involved.

Zen Habits · EN