Will Truman
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SAHD living in WV by way of HTX-ID-ATX-WA-MT. Editor-in-Chief @ordinarytimemag. Got something to say? My DMs are open.
Mudfort, WV
Joined June 2009
I am a populist when the people are right, an elitist when the elitists are right, and a curmudgeon when neither are right.
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Yuval Noah Harari Explains How to Protect Your Mind in the Age of AI
openculture.com
You could say that we live in the age of artificial intelligence, although it feels truer about no aspect of our lives than it does of advertising.
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RT @stanfordNYC: At some point in TurboTax 2023's development, somebody did a find-replace of "tick" for "checkmark." Which is great, since….
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The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD)
openculture.com
Image by Immanuel Giel, via Wikimedia Commons It’s an old TV and movie trope: the man of wealth and taste, often but not always a supervillain, offers his distinguished guest a bottle of wine, his...
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Sounds bad when you put it that way.
The FBI raid this morning on John Bolton’s house follows Kash Patel putting Bolton on his published list of deep state enemies and complaining at length about Bolton not wanting to hire him during the first Trump administration.
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I, too, forget to mention pertinent details.
@CalebHowe He was stabbed, that wasn't a hoax. He just left out one little detail.
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This is what you used to get when you told v3 of Midjourney to /imagine a hot dog. (I would absolutely eat it.).
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There's a $125 penalty for not paying attention and clicking the wrong one and this has become a whole business model that Walmart is facilitating.
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Hmmm. Does Pluto TV even have its First Mover advantage or has integration on Amazon's and Google's respective services passed it up?.
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You could arguably say the same about Puerto Rico's territory status, though I am not as down on territory status as most people.
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RT @four4thefire: How about @fox5dc giving #twittersupperclub some on-screen graphics love. watch the whole clip as @Lokay asks me questi….
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Jaybird: Open Mic for the Week of 8/18/25
ordinary-times.com
On this day in 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev was briefly ousted in a coup by Russian conservatives
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Interesting thread.
MYTHS ABOUT RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS. A viral tweet claims that most recent Russian immigrants are just "Amazon refugees" who left only because of sanctions and personal inconvenience. It’s been a while since I’ve done a thread debunking idiotic drivel, so here we go. 1/.
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The H1B visa system is exactly the sort of thing that everybody believes is bad but can't be changed because nobody can agree on what is bad about it and the people who think it is good are the ones who have learned to exploit its inefficiencies.
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I think in Texas they would be allowed to arm it.
If these things end up in my neighborhood there is no chance they don't get attacked and vandalized by local kids. and good.
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RT @julesjulesju: No one:. Absolutely no one:. Me: Hey wanna see some really zoomed-in indistinguishable pictures of birds I saw today.
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