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@rob_heighton

he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, et al.

UK / 📖 Airstrip One Katılım Ağustos 2018
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Dr Rob
Dr Rob@rob_heighton·
If your friends aren't talking about: • Tolkien (and other fantasy literature) • making a good cup of tea • quantum field theory • Greek mythology • birds they've seen and heard today • Doctor Who • etymology and glossopoeia then you should be friends with meee!
Miles Deutscher@milesdeutscher

If your friends aren't talking about: • Claude • Perplexity Computer • Openclaw • Fitness • Investing • Ownership • Automated workflows It's time to find new friends.

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Nigel J.Hetherington@Pastpreservers·
Morning from the Lake District!
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North Ages
North Ages@NorthAges·
The Cuerdale Hoard was discovered by workmen beside the River Ribble near Preston, Lancashire, #OTD in 1840. One of the largest Viking silver hoards ever found, it comprised around 8,600 items. 📸British Museum
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Gareth
Gareth@Garferty·
My workplace are dead keen on it, but also clear that you need to make sure you check it, haha! Because it gets things wrong, lol! You know what you could do to reduce those errors. You could stop asking the random bollocks generator what it thinks and just do it yourself.
thereisnobeth@thereisnobeth

the great thing about AI is that everyone seems to think "well it gets things wrong in my area of expertise but its so good for everything else"

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Dr Rob
Dr Rob@rob_heighton·
Should go without saying that with the latter point I'm not referring to the shrieking and illiterate bigots (who ideally could just shut up), but to those who offer reasoned critique and subjective judgement of the project's artistic merit
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Dr Rob
Dr Rob@rob_heighton·
The Nolan Odyssey discourse is one of those bizarre conversations where a lot of people need reminding that (a) artists are allowed to make their own artistic choices (this is good) (b) people are also allowed to discuss/like/dislike/critique said choices (this is also good)
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Dr Rob@rob_heighton·
@mnlightboy @eemuium Agree completely; as I scrolled, I actually thought I was seeing some of Tolkien's illustrations at first. Something about the distribution and lightness of colour, the pointiness of towers and peaks, the composition of rising summits, the shading of the mountainsides...
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savio@mnlightboy·
@eemuium Your art style reminds me of Tolkien's in The Hobbit and i love it
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Dr Rob@rob_heighton·
@Nnefariousjack Did you read both halves of my response and stop to consider what I was saying, or did you simply zero in on the part to which you could be reactionary?
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Nnefarious Jack
Nnefarious Jack@Nnefariousjack·
You realize you can track it right?
Dr Rob@rob_heighton

@philthegamer69 Worth noting that languages don't really have an 'age' or a clear beginning in that respect; Welsh and English are both branch-ends of a continuous evolutionary tree stemming from a shared ancestor language (Proto-Indo-European), so one isn't really older than the other, per se.

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Ian@rioghbhardain·
The back cover in the next reprint should include: ‘the absolute worst translation of πολύτροπος in the entire history of classical scholarship according to some complicated cunt on Twitter/now X’
No Context Brits@NoContextBrits

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Dr Rob
Dr Rob@rob_heighton·
'Againstness breeds againstness' is a hilarious argument for not being against something. Like yeah, it does, but how is that remotely applicable as a moral tool? "Are you against mass murder, or Nazis, or slavery?" "Eh, I always feel that againstness breeds againstness…"
Variety@Variety

#Cannes jury member Demi Moore says we need to "find ways" to work with AI: "Against-ness breeds against-ness. AI is here. So to fight it is to fight a battle that we will lose. So to find ways that we can work with it is a valuable path that we can take."

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Magnus Pharao@MagnusPharao·
By now I think polytropos is an English word in its own right that doesn't actually require further translation.
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Dr Rob@rob_heighton·
@philthegamer69 That said, it's certainly true that an intermediate ancestor of the Welsh language arrived on the isle of Britain a lot earlier than an intermediate ancestor of English, so I'm not disagreeing that Welsh was absolutely 'here first' in terms of Britain specifically.
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Dr Rob@rob_heighton·
@philthegamer69 Worth noting that languages don't really have an 'age' or a clear beginning in that respect; Welsh and English are both branch-ends of a continuous evolutionary tree stemming from a shared ancestor language (Proto-Indo-European), so one isn't really older than the other, per se.
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Phil 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@philthegamer69·
Wales and the Welsh language is older than England/English language. Modern day England was founded by settlers Anglo-Saxon-Jutes. The English language is of Germanic origin. (1/3)
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turbomander@turbomander·
no disrespect to the hotel staff but i sort of feel like letting your guests check out any time they like but not actually allowing them to leave is just bad policy
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Fake History Hunter
Fake History Hunter@fakehistoryhunt·
Some say one of these is a modern forgery but I disagree, these are clearly the same picture:
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