Eric, Sad and Confused

@EN0CX Shakira is married to Dembele? What am I missing?

Imagine your dad being one of the biggest football players ever and still missing your games, while your mom is SHAKIRA and goes to every single one.

@Axilx4 @Freyy_is Yes, he's not only breaking ground -- not only tearing apart the ground with his bare hands, he's quietly inventing new ground that no one's ever seen before.

@Freyy_is Your claim is bold and honestly that’s okay. You’re not just making claims, you’re breaking ground.

the em dash is no longer the clearest sign of ai-generated writing. honestly? it’s this.

Like electricity, if you have a supply of your own you don’t need the power company’s. That means they’d have incentive to keep you from having your own. That means for “intelligence” to be metered out, you need less intelligent things to give it to. The issue isn’t AI, it’s the clearly corrupt and nefarious people running it. Where’s Batman when you need him.

@Vivek4real_ Oh God, he looks really young. 😭 That means we're lumbered with him and his "thinking" for decades yet.

SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”

@openchatter @ChrisMasonBBC @UKLabour Me waiting for @ChrisMasonBBC to report on anything that shows Reform, Restore or the Tories in a poor light 🙄

@openchatter @ChrisMasonBBC @UKLabour Yes, I have been thinking about this. Also it's their 3rd chairman since GE. NOT A SINGLE WORD from the press. Endless reports of Zack's narrow boat tax, and and as you say if it had it been Labour! Maybe @bbclaurak will ask honest Bob Jenrick tomorrow. 🙄

I wonder when @ChrisMasonBBC will report the resignation/ sacking of ReformUK Chairman Broadcaster David Bull ? If this happened to @UKLabour he and Laura would be all over it.

@Heccles94 Jenrick is in charge now. I wouldn't be surprised if a) Jenrick has engineered this. Or b) Farage has engineered his departure

Farage’s career won’t survive this. I always thought it would. But it’s clear now he is done. The only question is will he take the whole of Reform down with him?

Bees are responsible for pollinating about one in three bites of the food we eat. They are far more important to humans than any AI tool or data center.

@JStanton28514 @dave43law @WistfulCass Yes!! If it was any other job, he'd have been out years ago! After about a week! For never turning up!

@dave43law @WistfulCass If he was a school teacher he would have lost his job

As the Farage financial woes intensify I see some now using another of his arguments about him not claiming a penny in expenses. The thing is that there are simple reasons for this - with a 32.5% attendance record in Parliament he can only justify a small portion of the month - he 'doesn't do email' - so that there is no trail - exactly the same as expenses - they leave a paper trail - they leave an electronic payment trail Why do you think he mainly travels by private jet or donor's aircraft - no trail Why did he reject Met security? - they would be aware of who he was seeing, what he was doing Farage hate and avoids scrutiny so reduces the receipts he leaves around to almost zero

@james_e_b_ I don't know about "afford", I don't think we had MacDondalds. Fish and Chips was about £1 for a giant portion, but it wasn't the done thing. Mum cooked meals. We didn't go out to eat.

Why are there all these Gen Xers announcing that when we were kids we could only afford McDonald's once a year? It's bollocks

Football should bring people together, not shut them out. For the first time since the competition began, fans won’t be able to watch the Champions League final for free. That’s not right. This is bigger than wanting to watch Arsenal in this historic final. It’s bigger than one club. Hardworking people shouldn’t have to fork out for a subscription to watch this match. I urge TNT Sports to reconsider and make the final next Saturday free to watch.

You can order my 2027 calendars here; carlbovis.com/2027-birds-cal… 😀🙏🐦❤️

@elbiemit Yes someone did that for me once. It's a lovely surprise if it happens.

Someone just asked if they can scan my clubcard as they don't have one. I get their points, they get money off their shopping. Is this communism?

@JeremyCordite @BBCPolitics Sick. Why is he obsessed with trains so much?

@BBCPolitics Will Labour investigate Wes Streeting's old tweets?

Reform says it won't investigate by-election candidate over social media allegations bbc.in/4v2GAwr

@thinkingshivers Crazy thread! Lol. Thank you. When you write dialogue, read it out loud to yourself 🙂

I submitted a draft of my short story to Claude for copy editing. Sometimes he’ll suggest a re-write of a particular sentence. My version: “She was just a rich girl, with a carelessness about her that could only come from being born into privilege.” Claude’s suggestion: “She was just a rich girl, careless in the way only privilege allows.” It's a matter of taste, but I personally think Claude's version is better. It's saying the same thing but more deftly. But when I swap his sentence in then plug the paragraph into Pangram, it goes from being high confidence that it's human to low confidence that it's human. If I keep doing this, will it start to read like AI slop? If I keep doing this, is it even my writing anymore? So I'm keeping my version, the one I think is worse, and I'm disquieted by the fact that there could be a better version of this story that I now need to specifically avoid.

@SashSoulsmith @thinkingshivers "the" is correct because it's the kind of carelessness born from privilege. It means it's expected because of whom she is. "a" is not correct because it's too vague. "a carelessness" is not "that" one that comes from being rich. But I'm in the UK, maybe different in US English?

@NotForYouWealth @thinkingshivers Well, that assumes there's only one kind of carelessness born of privilege

@N84773Novak @NXT4EU Wow! Sorry for cerebral insufficiency, old Tintin!

@NXT4EU @NotForYouWealth That’s because the right, unlike the left, understand that migration isn’t monolithic. Starmer can roll these numbers out to people like you, and you will lap it up. But that’s because you are stupid.

Reform not celebrating this 80% drop in Migration showcases that the Far-Right doesn't even care about migration, they care about division. Dividing Europe, Dividing People, and selling off our countries to their masters in the US and Russia. They are traitors to their country

@BaronessBruck @thinkingshivers I thought you meant surservient 😂😂 which is a very accurate description!!

@thinkingshivers (*) subservient

@SashSoulsmith @thinkingshivers With " the" carelessness

Fwiw I like the first version better. It's got more flourish - not everything is about being efficient. The second is much drier. On the other hand, you could try something like "She was just a rich girl, with a carelessness born of privilege." Still short but not as dry imho. Also keeps most of your original wording which I enjoy.