Pete Longhurst

@elonmusk @elonmusk this is not your circus, they are not your monkeys. Butt out of our affairs.

America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government

@elonmusk @elonmusk this is not your circus, they are not your monkeys. Butt out of our affairs.

The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn’t have what it takes.

Overturned lorry blocks M5 with 22 tonnes of potatoes – causing a 3-mile hasselback

Nice Christmas ad - (r/t: Andy Victor Smith)

I think that’s worth an extra £10.50 per year in #bbc #licensefee

The new sphere in Las Vegas is the coolest building I’ve ever seen. It features 580K square feet of fully-programmable LED lighting to produce life-like images visible from miles away. And the story behind it is wilder than the videos it creates: A THREAD 1/16

"Ladies and gentlemen... if you are opening a bottle of champagne, don't do it as the players are about to serve" 🍾 The most #Wimbledon warning ever from umpire John Blom 🤣

25 years ago, In 1998, Reed and I flew to Seattle to talk about selling Netflix to Amazon. The meeting went well, and Jeff Bezos floated a price of $15 million. That wouldn’t have been a bad payday for less than 12 months work, but we thought we were on to something. We had finally gotten the engine to turn over so we weren’t quite ready to put it in park and hand someone else the keys. Looking back, I know now that this trip was about much more than just selling the company. It turns out that there’s nothing like having the option to get out that reinforces your desire to stay in. For Reed and I, this wasn’t a sales trip. This was a commitment ceremony.

ChatGPT is so last month 😴 🔥 Stanford/Google researchers just dropped some mindblowing new research on generative agents, and it's like they brought Westworld to life. 🤖 Here's what you should know⤵️⤵️⤵️ Using a simulation video game they created, researchers made 25 characters that could: Communicate with others and their environment 💬 Memorize and recall what they did and observed 🧠 Reflect on those observations 🤔 Form plans for each day 📅 Then, they gave them some memories: An identity (name, occupation, priorities) 📝 Information about/relationships with other characters 💑 Some intention about how to spend their day 💭 Then, they pressed play. ▶️ With just this information alone, the characters acted much like humans do: They shared information with each other 🗣️ Example: Isabella starts the day with a plan to host a Valentine's Day party. She spreads the word, and by the end of the simulation, 12 characters know about the party 🥳 Much like humans, 7 of them flaked - 3 of them had "other plans" and the other 4 just didn't show. 😒 They form new relationships and remember them 💞 Example: Sam and Latoya don't know each other at the start. They meet at a park, and Latoya says she's working on a photography project... 📸 When Sam and Latoya meet again later, Sam says: "Hi, Latoya. How is your project going?" 📷 They coordinate with each other 🤝 Example: Researchers gave Isabella (the v-day party host) and Maria two pieces of info: Isabella: You will throw a party 🎉 Maria: You have a crush on Klaus 💘 Without any further instruction, Isabella invites people to the party, decorates the venue, and asks Maria for help. Meanwhile, Maria jumps at the opportunity to get closer to Klaus by inviting him along as well. 😍 This is fascinating new research 📚 We've officially moved past 'AI models can write blog posts for me' and into "How much can AI models act like humans?" territory. 🤖➡️👫 We're moving fast 💨. Paper - arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442 Credit - @nonmayorpete

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services : Stop CAMHS Denying Support For Autistic Kids! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/pypVzYpJ via @UKChange

You probably heard about Yandex, it’s the 4th biggest search engine by market share worldwide. Yesterday proprietary source code of Yandex was leaked. The most interesting part for SEO community is: the list of all 1922 ranking factors used in the search algorithm [🧵THREAD]

@john_a_isaacson When Google Ads goes down and you have a deadline.

This country isn’t real.

Totally stole idea of charging for insults & arguments from Monty Python tbh m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5g…

@mp_poser It’s still on my list and will inevitably succumb soon enough. Fun fact, I did the SEO for them (for a number of HBO titles) via their creative agency, and they had forbidden me to disclose to the client I hadn’t watched it. Bless them.

@petelonghurst I was in the same boat. But figured it was a good winter/hibernation binge watch. I’m 8 episodes in and still have no idea who anyone is or what’s going on but totally hooked.

I caved. Just started Game of Thrones. See you in 8 years.

🚨“If you've got one shred of compassion for all those families who sacrificed so much, who lost so much, you’ll go”🚨

Good people of Twitter, in 2 weeks I'll be running my first 1/2 marathon which will be hard. But nothing compared to families affected by cancer, esp when it's their child. I'm raising £500 for @CLIC_Sargent who are supporting our friends. Can you help? justgiving.com/fundraising/pe…

'The Beast' has arrived. Apparently his official limousine has too #DonaldTrump #London #TrumpUKVisit

Happy to reveal I am now live streaming pigeons on our balcony for 365 days (and nights)! Pigeon Fest 2.0 is HERE! Tune in: youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJ…