@TACJ

The details of my life are quite inconsequential.

 Sat on a throne of alabaster.
Joined June 2007
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I mean, it's all doable. We just have to build lots of solar, wind, and nuclear capacity; and stop using fossil fuels.
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Neil Renic@NC_Renic
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WWI is so visually fascinating. From red trousers and bugle charges to aerial bombers, tanks, and poison gas in four years. Modernity born screaming.
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Lunens
@Lunens__
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If you want to experience what lack of structured education and mentorship creates, consider the tech industry constantly rediscovering things that were thoroughly researched in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. We are wasting so much time.
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@__soragoto__
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1990s：我们用上了 B+ 树和倒排索引，世界上已经没有什么几秒钟查不出来的东西了。 2010s：我们推广了分布式全文搜索引擎，几十亿条日志毫秒级命中。 2025：我们把所有文档切成稀碎的 chunk，烧掉了不知道多少算力把它们向量化后扔进向量数据库，最后把搜出来的垃圾拼成几万字 prompt 塞进大模型，然后开始祈祷它别出现幻觉。 2026：大模型告诉我们，这个 find，还有这个 grep 工具真好用。
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🇯🇵 Wim Wenders' did an amazing job of showing what Tokyo looked like in the middle of the 1980s. Sometimes, it almost looks like a dream or like AI but it's actually completely real.
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Hiroshi Suzuki
@AmbJapanUK
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Irish Stew x Belfast Black!!🍺 Steak & Guinness Pie 👍👍👍
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Tom Forth@thomasforth
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Fantastic to see plans by @MichaelDnes1 et al. at Future Works for a new motorway and fast railway between Manchester and Sheffield progress. Especially great to have such big local political backing for it. Would be such a boost to the Northern economy. transpennineconnect.com/

Trans-Pennine Connect

A tunnel under the Peak District will unleash billions of pounds in growth, remove traffic from one of the UK's most beautiful places, and save commuters years in travel time.

transpennineconnect.com
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Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing “Revolution?” President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Stan's Account@tristandross
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[finally, after plaintively staring into the middle distance for quite some time]: they've madri man'd the landlord
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Karl Pfleger
@KarlPfleger
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Crazy, unexpected science news today: the brain is actually 2 colocated but independent organs that develop from 2 totally separate progenitor cells in early development. Big implications for some research areas (eg ALS) & for creating ethical brainless clones for transplant.
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khalid@phantom_khalid
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this is the kind of terminal merchant brain thinking about economic development that results in the ~1% annual gdp growth that characterised much of the victorian era, and not the ~5% gdp growth that characterised the postwar era (and that china enjoys today), when we banished it
Henry Hill@HCH_Hill
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Sadly, if you pretend that teachers and nurses 'create wealth' then you end up with little wealth and fewer of either.
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Justin Skycak
@justinskycak
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Retrieval practice is always vastly more effective than re-consuming information (re-reading, re-watching, transcribing, etc.). The way you make it easier to pull information out of your head is, well, by practicing pulling it out of your head.
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This might be the general “British policy disease” aka Thatcherite socialism.
Edward Gibbon@EdwardEGibbon
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You see this all the time in debate over English Higher Education: people talk about it as a market, but they in fact want it to be centrally planned. This is the major tension in university policy.
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Edward Gibbon@EdwardEGibbon
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You see this all the time in debate over English Higher Education: people talk about it as a market, but they in fact want it to be centrally planned. This is the major tension in university policy.
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Gena Gorlin
@Gena_I_Gorlin
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A simple tool to make this easier (which my founder clients find shockingly effective): train your brain to “worry on schedule” If you can intentionally dedicate ~30 min/day to processing all your open loops, it’s easier to “shut off” at other times builders.genagorlin.com/p/wo…
Noah Ryan
@NoahRyanCo
Sep 18
Your daily goal should be “how relaxed can I be while doing everything that needs to be done?” Quality of life will improve 10x
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If you raw dogged a CS degree pre-LLM you can never be a true vibe coder. You’ve seen too much.
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Strace
@straceX
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"we'll use a NoSQL database so we don't have to worry about schema migrations." - someone who is about to spend the next two years reinventing relational joins in application-level javascript.
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My very long essay on the past, present, and future of social democracy. jacobin.com/2026/09/social-d…

Social Democracy Won the Century and Lost the Future

Social democracy transformed the 20th century, giving working people a share of wealth and power their grandparents could scarcely imagine. But the movement that set out to overcome capitalism...

jacobin.com
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Sonia@yet_so_far
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I don’t really have a take on what mathematicians are and what mathematicians do, artists or scientists, problem solvers or theory builders, because whenever I did maths I only did it out of curiosity and compulsion. I just like messing around with things that interest me.
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@a_musingcat
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funniest outcome would be AI plateauing at a level of intelligence just smart enough to completely destabilize human society and make us all useless idiots, but not smart enough to really bring about anything resembling post scarcity
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Labour MPs will push Burnham to back voting reform in first 100 days theguardian.com/politics/202…

Labour MPs will push Burnham to back voting reform in first 100 days

Exclusive: Nearly 100 Labour MPs support commission on changing the system used for Westminster election

theguardian.com
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