It'd be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things, but for nowhere near the cost. (The place looks super neat, but I'm not paying that much, don't live near there, and need to report to my employer's office twice a week.)
I wonder if there'll be an aggregator of the blog posts written as post of this cohort (and others, if there's more cohorts).
> It'd be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things, but for nowhere near the cost.
Yep, Bay Area rent and cost of living is a big pain. $1,500 for housing for a month is still below real estate costs on our side, and $2,000 in program fees is barely enough to pay for the staff costs and program supplies. We might barely break even, but my guess is we'll lose a bunch of money on the program (which is fine, we are doing this because it's good for the world, not to make money).
I feel like for a program like this it might make sense for someone to run it outside of one of the highest cost of living places in the world, but it's where we are located, so that's what we have to make work (I do think being in the Bay Area does also attract people and makes it more likely for people to participate, so it's not an obvious call even from first principles).
> I wonder if there'll be an aggregator of the blog posts written as post of this cohort (and others, if there's more cohorts).
We're definitely planning to do something like that! Not sure yet about the exact format, but we'll definitely make it easy to find what everyone is publishing as part of the residency somehow.
> It'd be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things, but for nowhere near the cost.
I am not familiar with blogging or this sphere at all, but it's so funny to me that I was assuming the website said that the program would PAY the bloggers to be there for a month (including housing) and not the other way around.
I assumed this was one of those "We'll let you write a book while riding Amtrak for free" sort of thing. Not sure why I thought that, but it made me laugh after reading your comment.
I don't think "retreat" is the right choice for a 4 week program, I think "retreat" implies a shorter duration. We played around with "fellowship" but that seemed worse.
Which charges $2,500. Both are called "residencies". Seems like it's not that weird for a program called "residency" to charge fees, though I still kind of buy there is some association here. If anyone has better suggestions, I would be pretty interested.
> I don't think "retreat" is the right choice for a 4 week program, I think "retreat" implies a shorter duration.
If a name is going to imply the wrong thing, would you rather someone get the wrong signal and think "wait, I thought you were going to pay me but I have to pay you?!" or "oh, I guess it's an even longer vacation"?
> It'd be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things
What’s stopping you besides the unsettling truth that it’s more fun to think that it’d be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things than it is to actually do the same things from afar?
The most active faults are not conducive to placing of video cameras. They could have been watching the San Andreas for years, but nothing much happens like this.
Also, was this a known fault? Seems like a bad location to build anything if it was known.
Essentially all of myanmar is an active fault zone because it's sandwiched between 4 plates. The narrow cracks we see on the surface are just where the soil happened to separate this one time, not the only place movement can happen.
I'm not the market for it, but I think it's pretty funny. Maybe post it to some relevant subreddits? Regarding the name and logo emoji, I was expecting it to be trying to find similarly looking butts.
You could likely make some money by linking to properties associated with each star. I was surprised that the listings that I saw didn't have links or photos.
Somewhat similarly, I've started recording myself talking about various things and then using a speech to text program to transcribe it for me. It just helps me get my thoughts out a bit more fluidly than if I waited for when I can write them down (which then carries with it a temptation to edit as I record).
I'll later on clean up the thoughts, though, not just serve them unedited in some way unless it was a really clean take on a topic - trying to be respectful of the audience's time.
I do think you're onto something, though, with the idea about using screen recordings as a means of capturing your reactions and thoughts regarding some matter that can be shown visually. I think I'll be doing that soon, but with some editing to the video.
One thing I was considering in relation to this thought is that many people have written books using stenographers or secretaries. Many other books are edited compilations of lectures or speeches.
That is the kind of thing I would normally consider for a CEO or President because the idea of having a secretary whose entire job is to write out your notes is a luxury most can't afford.
We are literally at a point in time where we could dictate to a LLM and then get it to turn it into a book for us (if we so desired). It may not be perfect today, but it won't take long at the pace we are improving.
This video goes through a bunch of examples of the streamer and YouTuber Hasan Piker doing a bunch of propaganda for terrorist groups.
Around the last third of the video, it also goes into examples of Twitch seemingly favoring him and other propaganda spreaders on the Twitch platform while denying access to Israelis for some reason.
