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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · Jul 14

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 2h

No, you may not have quotation marks

Here's a second helping of Spanish for asking

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 2h

Related: novels that just threw in another language like everyone would be familiar. Older novels did this with French

Cormac did it more recently with Spanish. Reading it with my phone camera perched above and google lens auto translating the way he intended it to be read

norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 2h

remember how novels used to just have random song lyrics inserted in them as regular text

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 2h

Anthropic? The AI company?

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 5h

In Afrikaans, the word for "potato" is "aardappel" lit. "earth apple". And of course, French "pomme de terre", "apple of the earth"

So. Jot that down.

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 8h

1 like = 1 acknowledgement

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 9h

We're only one thousand years away from being able to read Beowulf again

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Grace @gracekind.net · 22h

Really? I’m glad I probably won’t be around for that

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 9h

Dreaming of closed loop language evolution

instead of continuous branching out it gradually returns to a previous version, so modern english trending back to Old English and the cycle repeating

Old works in vogue again, neologisms rediscovered, a continuous corpus

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 11h

I watched it in cinema at sixteen

It was an experience ...

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 19h

No gods or kings. Only jokes

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 21h

I can't believe three bangers were just lying there waiting to be picked up

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 22h

Do you think they have bear economists who say that if there were Salmon jumping in the stream they'd already be in another bat's mouth?

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 22h

But I learned that adjusted for wages we're poorer than Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol

So despite my motor vehicle, silky soft sheets, clean water, plentiful food I am jealous of the Dickens character who earns higher than today's minimum wage

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

I knew that shrimp looked familiar

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

ah, that's disappointing

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

cc: @croissanthology.com

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

It seems very counterproductive to have the worst version of your AI front and centre for everyone. If you have great premium AI, but the only experience majority of people have with you is a mediocre "AI summary" on search results...

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

I can't believe that knowledge just cut me off!

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

[2019, 2025)

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI

2019-2025

This book's knowledge cutoff is November 2024

2019-2025. Cutoff 2024. 2025... 2024...

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

The breakdown has the correct calculations, the summary has the wrong one

So... Getting better? But still not great for the average user relying on search 😕

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

Only on the longer threads for some reason

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 28d

I've noticed bsky sometimes stops notifications to OP for deep threads but don't know if that's just me

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

For me I get the feeling that Norm told the jokes to amuse himself. The twinkle in his eye as he reeled you in

His goal wasn't so much to make *you* laugh, it was to amuse himself and trick you a little

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

Bill Hicks? As a ranter

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

I would think James Acaster would appeal to you.

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