@rob_heighton

he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, et al.

 UK / 📖 Airstrip One
Joined August 2018
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If your friends aren't talking about: • Tolkien (and other fantasy literature) • making a good cup of tea • quantum field theory • Greek mythology • birds they've seen and heard today • Doctor Who • etymology and glossopoeia then you should be friends with meee!
Miles Deutscher
@milesdeutscherMar 13
If your friends aren't talking about: • Claude • Perplexity Computer • Openclaw • Fitness • Investing • Ownership • Automated workflows It's time to find new friends.
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jesse:)@essej_rehceeb15h
funniest thing she possibly could have said immediately after it exploded
ABC 7 Chicago
@ABC7ChicagoOct 26
A brand-new employee made a smashing start to her career at a Texas salon, as the glass sliding door she was closing exploded into hundreds of tiny pieces, leaving her client and other employees stunned.
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If you think this is possible, I have seven bridges to sell you
人间仙居@Buckjump202219h
一笔画完挑战，这看起来也太难了吧，有人能挑战成功吗？
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
这个图形有四个奇数顶点，根据欧拉定理无法一笔画成。 wincenter.com.tw/blog/teacher/e… kepuchina.cn/article/articl…
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Specter📼@SpecterM9114h
Shes right. Every ad is a robot selling an ugly fake piece of shit that doesn't exist, every conversation online reads like two Furbies left on the counter together, meemaw is mailing her SSI to an AI Jesus on the monthly, every restaurant is selling deep fried cyclopean horrors.
Udi Wertheimer
@udiWertheimerOct 25
she’s so tired of generative ai
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They'd rather sit back in the cuck chair and let LLMs live their lives for them than admit that maybe our chosen struggles have importance beyond the "intellectual contributions" made in the service of a broken, antihuman economy that would see us all living in absolute squalor
Michał Podlewski
@trajektoriePLOct 26
You might have 1–5 years to contribute intellectually to the world before AGI. What should you do with them? Excellent advice from @jaschasd (Anthropic) at Stanford. Skip Netflix tonight and watch this instead.
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Someone should invent a for you page that's full of outrageously happy and optimistic and inspiring posts
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Silicon Valley is filled with inhuman weirdos who want to remake the world in their sad, colorless image.
Keith Edwards
@keithedwardsOct 25
this is so bleak
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Not to be parasocial but im so so proud of the six for the success of ghosts
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- Lula winning - Vučić gone - Dems likely to win both House and Senate - Reform crashing in the polls, Labour nearing 10pt lead
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Paul Graham
@paulgOct 26
We're about to enter a period where not reading or writing becomes as ubiquitous as smoking once was. We can hope people will eventually realize this is bad for them, as they did with smoking. But this is far from certain; the cost may not be as obvious.
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There’s a reason the great dystopian novels envision a world without literacy. Those books warned about the very age we’re now living in. Those who abandon reading & writing are surrendering their powers of thinking. What’s shocking is that so many would surrender so readily.
Paul Graham
@paulgOct 26
We're about to enter a period where not reading or writing becomes as ubiquitous as smoking once was. We can hope people will eventually realize this is bad for them, as they did with smoking. But this is far from certain; the cost may not be as obvious.
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Rest now, brother. We have the watch, and I’ll see you in Valhalla.
Pop Base
@PopBaseOct 26
Last Ditch, also known as the "COVID-conscious Western Massachusetts lesbian bar," is closing effective immediately.
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Herbo@ManLikeGinolaOct 26
Serbia and Brazil election results
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AI 'artists' be like "the cosmos is my playground" The playground:
Deuce McGronathan@SpunkityBallOct 26
you accidentally click on the grok button one time and your timeline turns into this
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@tumiszn_Oct 25
genuinely fuck whoever came up w the dumbass idea to replace THE DICTIONARY BUILT INTO GOOGLE with the ai overview's definitions i hope everything in their life fucking sucks
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Pixie@LORElitaPixieOct 26
Can we also talk about how Wikipedia entries are no longer at the top of a search 😭
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@tumiszn_Oct 25
genuinely fuck whoever came up w the dumbass idea to replace THE DICTIONARY BUILT INTO GOOGLE with the ai overview's definitions i hope everything in their life fucking sucks
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Turcid@_turcidOct 26
I do not care how cringe people think this is, They are right. The internet used to be fun and it belonged to all of us. And it still can be if we fight for it.
Firefox
@firefoxOct 25
How is the internet less private than in 2006, when the whole family shared one computer? Back then, the internet was weird, personal, and all of ours. So, we got your favorite meme legends back together to say it louder: What happened to the internet? 1/3
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trash jones@jzuxOct 26
AI dares to ask. what if pandora's box was full of the stupidest shit imaginable
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If I pass away and someone makes some sort of tribute to me using AI, I'm going to rise from the fucking dead just to drag them back down with me.
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Rather chuffed that, in the last few weeks, my poetry has been longlisted for the Bournemouth Writing Prize and shortlisted in the Hastings Book Festival Poetry Competition
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Me to the electricity company when the lights suddenly came back on:
Dr Rob@rob_heightonOct 24
Eight powercuts this evening. A couple were under a minute, but the last went on for long enough that (a) we thought it was set in for the night and we'd wake up to electricity in the morning, and (b) when the lights did unexpectedly turn back on, my eyes were seared away
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