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• Social media companies should be converted into nonprofits

  09-07-2022 17:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  This article was originally published on Built In by David Ryan Polgar. “Maybe Twitter should be a nonprofit,” said the high-level Trust and Safety employee. We were standing in Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters discussing the company’s current calamities, namely high levels of hate and harassment and low levels of actual profitability. Rumors were swirling about its possible impending sale. My companion clearly believed that the company was important to the future of
  
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• Starting out in software engineering? Don’t bother learning React JS

  09-07-2022 12:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  This article was originally published on Built In by Alex Zito-Wolf. React JS is a JavaScript framework with 10 years of maturity and a huge community supporting its growth and development. But you shouldn’t learn it in 2022. Here’s why. First, a brief primer: React is currently the most popular front-end framework in the industry. It provides concrete APIs, software design patterns and tooling to help you build web applications faster and in a more maintainable way. A huge communit
  
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• 3 ways next-gen academics can avoid an unnecessary AI winter

  09-07-2022 00:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  There are two realities when it comes to artificial intelligence. In one, the future’s so bright you need to put on welding goggles just to glance at it. AI is a backbone technology that’s just as necessary for global human operations as electricity and the internet. But in the other reality, winter is coming. An “AI winter,” is a period in which nothing can grow. That means nobody’s hiring, nobody’s acquiring, and nobody’s funding. But this impend
  
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