Alex Hunt 🏹
@Alex__H13
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Here to talk about art, ideas, and places. Rich in typos.
London, UK
Joined May 2011
John Bew speaking my language on the latest New Statesman podcast.
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The Elizabeth Line is either Crufts or a conflict zone. My brother's train last week:
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Unexpected delight: a woman on my train making her little golden doodle hurdle her legs again and again for treats.
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This is why I love Twitter. There's no way this book makes it into my to-read folder otherwise.
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RIP Chiang you would have loved British twitter
flipped through Chiang Kai Shek's diaries for like ten mins the other day and discovered that he opens nearly every entry with a "daily shame" report wherein he records some particular insult or humiliation the Chinese nation suffered recently and/or historically. what a freak
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One of the few long tweets actually worth reading.
The fight between Anthropic and the DoW is a warning shot. Right now, LLMs are probably not being used in mission critical ways. But within 20 years, 99% of the workforce in the military, the government, and the private sector will be AIs. This includes the soldiers (by which I
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I'm reading Cormac McCarthy again and I remain awed and vexed by his disregard for punctuation.
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I'd genuinely love to know why we can't keep the current figures (they've only been on the current notes for a decade, and they're great) and prevent forgery through other means.
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Per reporting, this seems to be what the BoE has in mind, design wise. Main consideration claimed seems to be about reducing forgery.
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If you see your right-wing British crush shaking their head about the Bank of England today, you know what to hit them with.
The only acceptable animals for British bank notes are the lion and the unicorn. Send tweet. https://t.co/ncCdvOjqYK
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The only acceptable animals for British bank notes are the lion and the unicorn. Send tweet. https://t.co/ncCdvOjqYK
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The public will help choose which animals and birds will appear on the Bank of England's new notes.
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Sure, British-bank-note discourse, I'll dance with you. Just let me finish up with "bomb the Barbican" and "death to ballet/Chalamet!" discourse first.
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@TheRewatchables Mutiny On The Bounty (1984), or any Mel Gibson episode, when?
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It's a pity Gibson was (is?) such a toxic figure in his personal life. Very talented and easily one of the best looking actors in his day.
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The film itself is like Master And Commander crossed with Lord Of The Flies. Stars Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson, Liam Neeson, Daniel Day Lewis, Bernard Hill in their prime.
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The main theme is like a mix of Blade Runner's score (also by Vangelis), the main theme to Commando, and the training montage theme from Rocky IV. Impeccable vibes.
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I watched Mutiny On The Bounty (1984) last weekend and I'm obsessed by the soundtrack.
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Vangelis · Synthesizer Greatest 5 · Song · 2013
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‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.
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