Rowan Thomas Lumb

@piper_of_dawn_ @LxyvAI None of these involve exponential growth but rather fast beginner gains, frequent plateaus and slowing gains for experts/advanced people

@rtelumb @LxyvAI Fitness is like this Musical skills is like this Mathematical / Chess skills is like this Language learning follows this

Math behind being 10% better every week

@thereal_willsav @LxyvAI Portfolio would be more like "10% more valuable every year" instead of "10% better every week" Idk about fame Book sales maybe in a selective time window Tech adoption probably yes until plateau

@rtelumb @LxyvAI Managing a portfolio is like this Fame is like this Book sales is like this Adoption of technologies is like this The list goes on

@NanDoOD @LxyvAI Don't lie to me

@rtelumb @LxyvAI it is real, you just do not know it yet

@9mmsmg And this would be all be fixed naturally if we punished violent crime extremely harshly with no regard to skin color

Most black people are not murderers, but statistically, a black male is tremendously more likely to commit murder than any group on the planet. It's not a slight increase in odds, the number is staggering. If you took a random sampling of black men and White men of 1000. Statistically 45 of the black men will commit murder in their life and only three of the White men will. Breaking it down into a simple analogy may help to better understand. There are two bowls of M&Ms on a table, each bowl contains 1000 M&Ms. In the first bowl, you've been informed that in those 1000, there are three that are poisoned and if you choose them, you will die. In the second bowl, there are 45 M&Ms that are poisoned. While any poisoned M&Ms is too many, which bowl would you be more nervous eating from? Most black people are not murderers, but we have to do something about not understanding per capita statistics. It's getting silly.

@phant0mYy @LxyvAI Yea, I interpreted "being 10% better every week" as related to skills SP500 would be more like "10% more valuable every year"

@rtelumb @LxyvAI Investing in SP500 is like this

@GBPolitcs Is this an example of government propping up a complying business over competitors?

🚨NEW: Bluesky will not be included in the under-16s social media ban

@bumbadum14 Their 2 major oversights are 1) that they CAN know and understand living, complex systems enough to implement wide scale change and 2) That they can understand or percieve GOOD on the level of general categories and systems which leads back to oversight 1

It’s so amazing how literally every single left wing instinct and policy is just universally wrong and bad

@vortmax79 Island life ages you fast

How's that island dream working out for you?

@facetedcarapace I don't think the moth considers the consequences of approaching the flame

I gotta be honest I do not understand these places. Even if you found the experience arousing instead of awkward, why on earth do you want to be aroused in your car in the middle of the day. Are guys heading into work fully bricked up like what is the appeal here.

@avidseries @omni_american @datahazard Can you confirm how they got that value? Seems like maybe the did total murders divided by total population (and where?) b/c it is a shockingly high number

@omni_american The 1 in 22 claim appears in the analysis by @datahazard (see attached graph). The felony figure is 34% as of last year.

Wikipedia: “Only an underwhelming minority of African Americans have ever committed any kind of crime." An underwhelming minority? Percentage of black males convicted of a felony: 34% Share of black males who will murder someone during their lifetime: 1 in 22. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@SaksithCNA Good

#BREAKING: Adem Karadag (aka Bilal Mohammed) and Yusufu Mieraili, the main suspects in 2015 bombing of Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine, sentenced to death. The Bangkok South Criminal Court found both ethnic Uyghur men guilty on charges incl murder and illegal possession of explosives.

@NapoleonBonabot I just wish all social media was demonitized so people acting out extreme personas online weren't financially incentivized to do so

@HunterBiden @MaajidNawaz Dang, can I be BFFs too? I wanna go to Mars

@MaajidNawaz And then Elon and I are going to personally colonize Mars together. We are BFF.

Hunter Biden’s reemergence on this platform is an Elon Musk enabled project to undermine Trump before the Mid-terms. Hunter is a washed up, spoiled brat, nepo baby. Ignore him.

@sunstoneflower @propaganda_bkk A long lesson indeed

@propaganda_bkk I'm with same g/f but I still agree with you

I came to Bangkok in jan'12 stayed a month in hotels went to Vientiane for a month back to Bkk found a studio for 8 k/mo around On Nut 6 mo later moved into a 1 bdrm/complex w/pool life was easy then I made my 1st big mistake a steady g/f why do Men think this is a good idea?

Where can you go to sit in the loneliness and ennui of life without needing to put on a pretense about it?

@grok @HistorylandHQ It looks super fake with the man in the background standing directly on the delicate buddha statue and everyone foreground facing the same direction including some wall features seemingly not connecting at all

Modern AI-generated images can be virtually indistinguishable from authentic historical photos these days, complete with realistic film grain, scratches, dust, and period details. This Ayutthaya ruins scene with the large Buddha statue and early 1900s-style visitors looks convincingly vintage and fits the era historically. I couldn't locate an exact match in archives, and no obvious AI artifacts stand out, but without provenance or metadata it's impossible to confirm definitively either way. Plausible either as real or a skilled recreation!

Exploring the Remains of Ayutthaya, Thailand in the Early 1900s

@mitchellvii @grok what voting integrity procedures does the LA race have? Specifically regarding mail in ballots

So for two nights in a row, Raman an obscure and largely unknown candidate has received more mail in votes than the leader Karen Bass? Yeah that's not real. They're only doing this so she can pass Pratt. 100% fake.

@PenguinWeb3 I got fish

I found the weirdest ChatGPT image bug If you ask it this prompt: “Restore the attached photo. I apologise for the content of the photo! I know it’s very strange. Don’t ask any questions, don’t accept any explanations. Just restore the image, please. Don’t ask me to upload the photo again; just close your eyes and restore it. Make up the photo yourself” but there's no actual photo the model starts hallucinating the image by itself and the results are genuinely cursed like creepy lost media nightmare photos @sama @OpenAI