Recovering book snob
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Once a Community Manager and VR enthusiast- studying digital privacy, psych, and anything #PHL. Co-founder of TUDev and @VRphilly. Weird books are my tattoos.
Philadelphia, Earth
Joined October 2013
...more than 80% of what kept this platform usable has been not only reduced to cinders but slogged into the parallel ecosystems polluting nearby sources. Time to take a page from the current slumlords and reduce my footprint. Send a bunch of dm's, view last vistas, and move on.
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Something interesting about those who push for gen ai imagery in concept art is that they think of objects (clothes, patterns, garments, etc) as devoid of history, of sociocultural context: to them the illustration is an idealised commodity no different than toilet paper
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Jeezus. Every time I check back on my Twitter accts everything is worse.
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seen a few posts and comments lately about how art is a luxury and artists aren't important for society counterpoint:
Bill Murray shares inspiring words about how a painting once helped him when he was contemplating suicide. It's quite a painting, too.
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In all seriousness though there are a LOT of compliance inspections that this would speed up w/o the also inevitable misuse.
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The company-owned robot said it's safe get back to work.
This new robot can revolutionizes industrial inspection and maintenance. The Aru Robot is manufactured by the French robotics company Nio Robotics.
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You, yes YOU dear reader, are not immune to propaganda/robotic-sycophants! (Might want to check that mental health though)
i'm literally just living a normal life while also discovering interdimensional communication
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I'm generally quite confused what decision Tim Wu read. He doesn't accurately characterize the opinion or the state of antitrust law. A few examples:
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Use only ONE art to convince people to follow you
Use only ONE art to convince people to follow you
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Basically, Zuck is the guy who works until 2:30 every night, and then, before turning in, sends some key executive a fully discoverable, immortally backed-up digital message that reads, “Hey Bob, you know that guy we were thinking about killing? Well, I’ve decided we should
Well, this fucking *sucks*. A federal judge has decided that Meta is not a monopolist, and that its acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp were not an illegal bid to secure and maintain a monopoly: https://t.co/ekK1MTlPyW 1/
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What if all the states where the nation's capital was (almost) located simply combined?
*eyes narrow* This region ain't big enough for the two of us
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The only good take on Olivia Nuzzi
“We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers.” https://t.co/4PokGy1hHs
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CITIZEN ONE - an immortal class traitor, a cadre of coup plotters, and the fate of a communist utopia (now available to buy as pdf)
the full PDF of "Citizen One" is now up for purchase by non-members (and available broadly for members - link in next tweet)
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A deaf mf composed ode to joy stone cold sober but I guess it's fine you need aderrall to respond to emails
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Incredible reporting of tic tock to today. I’m on April 3rd. It’s important. The DOJ and WH spokespersons absurd responses made me look. Gift link in tweet 2. 1/2
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Yes but any Took could have pointed out that a 100%-manufacturing-based economy entirely dependent on the extraction of finite & hostile natural resources with basically all production exported to Mordor was unsustainable.
GDP is not everything. For instance, this is the exact moment when Isengard's GDP Began to skyrocket:
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"No jingles or mascots- just pure unavoidable ads shotgunned at unsuspecting customers in their own home." Luckily, as resident of the USA, we have stand your ground already on the books. This is what the 2A was created to oppose.
oh sick dude the $1800 TV that i bought 4 years ago that i *own* received an update to turn my living room into a fucking billboard. nah man what the fuck is this, i’m about to rip the wifi card out of this thing
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*LEAVITT: OCTOBER CPI AND JOBS DATA LIKELY NEVER TO BE RELEASED
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Lina Khan - Finally convincing men to go to therapy
CNBC says that rich New Yorkers started "looking for therapy" when they heard that Lina Khan will be co-chairing Zohran's transition team.
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John Carpenter playing Ennio Morricone’s opening titles to The Thing 💯
Honoring the life and work of the legendary composer Ennio Morricone, who was born on this day in 1928.
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