Twitter Logs Week 6 2025
February 3 –> February 9
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In the same city, why haven’t we seen each other in a long time?
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There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It’s possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like “decrease the padding on the sidebar by half” because I’m too lazy to find it. I “Accept All” always, I don’t read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I’d have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can’t fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It’s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
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you saw all men being brothers
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comfort doesn’t die, it reinvents itself (image of pacifier and cigarette)
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Around 1900, Argentina was something like the third richest country in the world. Anyone who visits Buenos Aires can see this– there are majestic, still standing buildings from Argentina’s golden era. Buildings that used to host some of the world’s great corporations.
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‘Study of Thistles’ by Sophia L. Crownfield, c. 1890.
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everything can be a conspiracy theory if you don’t actually know anything
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one thing ive noticed is that people who are trying to flex, tend to be constrained by their past. they’re always playing to an (often imaginary) audience of their past peers. people tend to flex down rather than sideways or upwards. Ppl 2 layers up have completely diff concerns
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I actually think this is a great critique on deeply patriarchal societies. This is why across cultures, southern american women, umno wanita women, arab mums, etc> semuanya bingit. The less socioeconomic status and power u hv, the louder u hv to speak to get ur point across.
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just like “driving” is maybe the single most common and arbitrarily applicable blue collar task, “doing research” is probably that for white collar labor
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sighswoon, cutting up karparthy’s image
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Every little thing is an opportunity for unlimited artistic expression
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People being disgusted by Bianca’s dress means that privacy is not only about protecting you but everyone who might be burdened by the onslaught of your oversharing. Bianca’s dress personified what’s been normalized online for a while now: trauma dumping, being “authentic”, unfiltered, posting everything or it didn’t happen, it’s no wonder the saying “living rent free in my head” is so popular. We’re not meant to see or know everything about everyone, not even our closest friends. Paradise is lost when we eat from the tree of knowledge
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Guy who’s experiencing the outside of the cave for the first time: getting a lot of shadows on the wall vibe from this
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There is $10,000 stuck inside of your laptop right now, you just need to figure out how to get it out
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Geographical horseshoe theory is real.Once you go “urban” enough, you’re walking to the pub. No car, carrying groceries in a rucksack, strolling over to friends’ houses . Once you go “rural” enough, it’s the same. Villager life. The in-between is all fundamentally suburban. It’s either directly based on automobiling (e.g. the suburbs of Atlanta or Seattle), or was initially based on horse-based transit that was later supplanted by automobiling and a “suburbanite who just drives 3-10x more” model. Prior to the introduction of horse-wagons, all of human life was essentially either “rural village” or “urban village”. The “neo-rural // suburbanite” model is a technological model of relatively recent marque, at least on the scale of human history.
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being rich beyond measure is literally just savoring your morning coffee. quality time with loved ones. sourcing ingredients locally. preparing meals with love. finding pockets of quiet throughout your day. getting sun on your skin. moving your body. and laughing often.
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Love and Grief are the same thing Love is for what is here Grief is for what was here, and what we wish was here You cannot Love without Grieving
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real time is just mirrors kept alive by wants
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silence, slave of the passions, a slave of god is talking
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you MUST give up on 95% of people is not a black pill so much inevitable consequence
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This is true. The city pop craze of the late 2010s was entirely driven by uploads by those archivists. The image people associate most with Marika Takeuchi’s Plastic Love was from a different album but used on a YouTube upload
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If you see me post this without context just know the crash out is gonna be unimaginable. Montoya crashout
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The dangers and concerns of matrimony with an exotic dancer
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thread on organic shapes and textures in interior design
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France as the anti-frontier: Recently read “French Ways and their Meaning” by Edith Wharton. Much interesting material, including the idea of France as a sort of “anti-frontier.” A land so long and fully settled that there was no new land, no market inefficiencies, no boom towns. Everything was “tight” in a sense, there often were no second chances and security could only be maintained by the most careful and prudent lifestyles by the bourgeois. Not the place to take a risk.
- https://x.com/AHVanBuskirk/status/1888051029595324859
- Wharton also explained the famous French propensity/tolerance of extra-martial affairs as arising from materialistic arranged marriages, which were considered to be indivisible for life. As a sort of compensation for this, once legitimate children had been produced, it was essentially accepted that love affairs might be conducted among adults.Again, this applied to the better classes, where the women were almost in purdah during girlhood, and had no opportunity to date or have romance during their teen years at all.
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Yearning is spiritual gooning if you didn’t know
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Watched his girl get her ass played like bongos, ripped his shirt off like Hulk Hogan and ran like 2012 Adrian Peterson. I’ve never been this invested in a storyline in my life.
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I’ve seen the way women play the sims i know the darkness in their soul
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apropos of nothing, charisma encompasses two important qualities: being at ease with who you are, and putting people at ease about who they are
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my cats at 3am [image]
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i actually have noticed it’s super common for women to be in charge of the finances even if they don’t work.
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Twitter really got along for a day over Montoya’s pain on Temptation Island Spain. The host making him watch and saying por favor. Running on the beach like Poseidon sent him. Camera crew chasing him. Lighting in the sky. His girlfriend crying and holding on to him. Peak cinema
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Watching “Lawrence of Arabia”. The scenes where he allows matches to burn down to his fingers while talking about his idea of fun in an effeminate voice really sets the tone for the film.
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autistic people will see you write a joke and be like: “oh, so we’re lying now? for fun?”
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I’m at East Coast Park. Interesting fact about this structure: This is Amber Beacon Tower. In 1990 a couple, Kelly & James, who were making out up here, were stabbed by unknown assailants. Kelly’s killers have never been found.
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a guy making 40k a year tending a bar in Philadelphia sees more beauty on a daily basis than some nerdneck software engineer making 300K at Google living in mountain view has seen in an entire month I FUCKING HATE CALIFORNIA
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Blown away by the interior of this listening bar in Lisbon, Portugal [image]
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Been going out to eat by myself a lot lately and the maître de’s eyes light up when you say “just one” They are about to stick you in a place you didn’t even know was a part of the restaurant.
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i think a lot of people’s idea of intelligence is really informed by a fictitious model of some sherlock holmes type character who never makes mistakes. they particularly seem to fail to separate positive-variance maxxing with negative-variance-minimizing
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respect dignifies the respector
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Africa Addio is one of the most insane documentaries ever made.Three journalists went all over Africa during the de-colonisation period in the 60’s and filmed all the crazy things they saw. They literally nearly got executed at one point.
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one of the oldest stories we have on record is from 1850BC Egypt called “The Eloquent Peasant”. It’s fairly short yet interestingly complex. i’ll try and retell it as quickly and entertainingly as i can
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People rediscovering that lower def video game graphics often had better and more memorable aesthetics is just another instance of people realizing what the essence of cartooning is. What boiling a visual down to its pure essence through process (and in the case of limited graphical capability, necessity) of elimination was. Creative and ingenious solutions to visual communications problems are bolstered through limitation, and those solutions are often timeless, brilliant and truthful.
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Well, you’re lucky you were born in America. You can turn it around. It’s never too late. Lot of opportunities out there. Because if you were from somewhere else it would be game over
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beautiful little essay on why picking smaller less ambitious things to work on can counter-intuitively be much harder to get right than just working on the big goal eg “lets study how to extend context length” «« “lets work on post transformers architectures”
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Nothing is more dangerous than a bald man, for he has already lost everything
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years of work of people trying to explain how the marriage contract and the sex industry are two sides of the same coin under the relations of heterosexual exchange and he just tweets it out