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It’s one of the great weaknesses of English that we don’t have a pair of verbs distinguishing knowing-about from knowing-how; French connaître and savoir embody the distinction.

@romanhelmetguy who plays Romulus and Remus?

I'm targeting the early Roman/Etruscan period, so get in shape and get your armor ready.

When I make the next blockbuster Roman movie (when, not if), every single man possessing period-accurate armor and in reasonable shape will be flown onto set as an extra and provided with unlimited unmixed wine.

@alexeyguzey Don’t miss The Demidoff Table, 1845 Lorenzo Bartolini. Cupid and friends drunk on love and milk…

@_plusfive Hurricane Ridge?

I love Washington

@Scobleizer @LottoLabs panic over recursive self improvement

The fear is that whoever gets AGI first is going to have a massive advantage over the other, so we're trying to slow them down. That's one point of view. Another point of view is we're trying to protect jobs. Even Anthropic knows that when AGI arrives, it takes away 50% of everybody's jobs, and they believe it's about two years away. So we're trying to slow them down to get there first before they destroy everything we've got. And then we're worried about robots. So many worries, so little leadership.

Why didn’t they just let China have nvidia chips?

@jamesmacd10 @YeahNooe10 and how do you feel about the other 2%?

@YeahNooe10 I love gay people and I love to be gay! Gay guys love speedos and I’m happy for them. Personally I find them very unflattering to 98% of people

I appear to be the only gay guy in existence who finds speedos to be horrendously unattractive and unflattering

@WillManidis @nabeelqu Amen! Lattimore or Fagles please sir!

@nabeelqu nabeel why are you reading the Wilson translation what in the world are we doing here buddy

Homer is so good for these highly vivid, specific visceral images. Here he compares all the dead suitors in Odysseus’s house to fish hauled in a net:

@VanDiemen_ Ralph Lauren’s fence!

God loves us so much that he gave us Colorado.

@jsnnsa @iamdavidhill does tate stay the night?

@iamdavidhill does tate know?

i dick tate everything now, not just ai related tasks

@ahistoryinart is this image cropped?

Charles-François Daubigny and Eugène Boudin both made Villerville, a fishing village located between Honfleur and Trouville, familiar to art collectors. This work by Félix Vallotton belongs to a series of four paintings, all dedicated to the same subiect in 1902.

@firstadopter GOOG shares also dropped after the woke AI image scandal

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@kendrictonn @AStratelates amen! Total economy of words. Can you unpack “entirely explicable”? How do you explain it? Insecurity? Vapidity?

Re: the inner tweet. There's a weird, or perhaps entirely explicable, tic for schlock art to rely upon some quirk of medium, and a quirk of medium that has little bearing on the final result, to justify itself. Once you notice it it's everywhere.

@stevensarmi @deanmlittle banger

@deanmlittle You're probably great on first dates.

is it cooked that i knew just by looking at this that it was base64-encoded json because it starts with "ew"? 😅

@athenaeumbc @Selkis_2028 thank you for selecting Fagels instead of Lattimer!

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@levelsio Four Seasons Surf Club

Any hotel recommendations for Miami? Last time we stayed at South Beach that was nice, now maybe North Miami / Bal Harbour is that nice?

@bitcloud @ylecun @elonmusk lol

@ylecun @elonmusk Welcome back Yann!

Fauci committed so many evil crimes

@pegobry_en captures the disagreements between the founding fathers and the specter of France

Recommend books on Colonial Era America and the Founding / the Founding Fathers. Please include a sentence or two on *why* you recommend a book, not just the book. Thanks!

@pegobry_en vivid, primary source look I to daily life