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William™

@William_TM_

Ideology is a tool, to say nothing of the people who adhere to it.

เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2021
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William™@William_TM_·
@thehorizon2b2t They could launch, it would just take a Saturn V to launch Sputnik. Their real rockets would be insane.
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Ian Harber
Ian Harber@ianharber·
Christ proclaimed at the farthest point humans have ever traveled. Space travel is Christian.
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Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog·
The dorks who found reasons to be cynical and critical about this mission look dumber by the day. This whole thing has been so cool. The crew has been sharing the Gospel the entire time. And now this moment. If you can't be inspired by this, you're dead inside. An empty vessel.
Jenny Hautmann@JennyHPhoto

The Artemis II crew named a lunar crater after Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll. What a beautiful and touching moment. I'm not crying, you're crying 🤧

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William™@William_TM_·
Deeper Space Network ...or, if I'm being serious, they'll just extend the network.
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Psilynt the Psleenless
@William_TM_ They weren't very forward thinking. If they actually made a deep space network, they'd have to call it something else now.
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William™@William_TM_·
They're saying it's impossible to reach Orion while they're behind the moon. I mean, ok, but I set up a communications network in Kerbal so it can't be that hard. C'mon NASA. Get better. 😄
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William™@William_TM_·
Christ's name said during Artemis II mission. We love you too, Artemis crew.
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William™@William_TM_·
.@grok do you think anyone used Claude to "white label" Claude source code, so it could be "legally" shared? Can we just pretend that happened for the lolz?
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William™@William_TM_·
@TJ_Cooney This is a great dashboard, found on YouTube, shared with family
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Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson@BenWilsonTweets·
I don't think people understand how insane Renaissance Florence was. In a town of about ***50k people*** you had the following people all alive at the same time: * Leonardo Da Vinci * Michelangelo * Raphael * Amerigo Vespucci (explorer for whom America is named) * Niccolo Machiavelli * Sandro Botticelli * Lorenzo de Medici What happened to all that human capital? Did the intelligent men of Florence migrate elsewhere over the coming centuries?
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William™@William_TM_·
Demonstrating the relationship between system variance and errorless automation. For self driving cars it looks like: Buildings -> Railways -> Roadways For the assistant robots like Optimus, it looks like: Factories -> Hospitals -> Homes
Elon Musk@elonmusk

Elevators used to be manually operated and were especially risky if the operator was tired or inebriated. Now, you just get in, press a button and a modern elevator, if inspected regularly, is extremely safe.

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William™@William_TM_·
@the_culturist_ It's always struck me as odd that Tolkien thought this ... ...yet he protected his works with laws and family. Instead of protecting them in the way of the great legends... ...by open sourcing them.
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The Culturist
The Culturist@the_culturist_·
Tolkien once began work on a sequel but abandoned the idea. He said it was too "sinister and depressing" to write, and "not worth doing." LOTR ends with the perfect "eucatastrophic" twist: a glimpse of final victory over evil, by the guiding hand of divine providence. Tolkien found it too depressing to consider how men would once again tear things apart: "Since we are dealing with Men it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless – like Denethor or worse. I found that even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going round doing damage. I could have written a 'thriller' about the plot and its discovery and overthrow – but it would be just that. Not worth doing."
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm

A sequel movie to the ‘LORD OF THE RINGS’ trilogy is officially in the works. Plot synopsis — 14 years after the passing of Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began. Stephen Colbert is co-writing the script.

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Jeremy Wayne Tate
Jeremy Wayne Tate@JeremyTate41·
The rapidly shrinking Department of Education is abandoning its headquarters, widely regarded as the ugliest building in DC. What should the building be used for now?
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Adam Goldstein
Adam Goldstein@goldstein_aa·
@msetechnologist @codewithstefan @GoogleResearch Google has 117,979 patents. They're a for-profit company, right? If they knew a group of their researchers had stumbled upon the most significant invention in several decades, I doubt they would have just given it away like that.
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Google Research
Google Research@GoogleResearch·
Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4bsq2qI
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Autism Capital 🧩
Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital·
1999 might be the most GOATed year of all time: The Matrix? Fight Club? 1999 Napster? 1999 Baby one more time, Genie in a bottle, Livin la vida loca, Eminem? BLUE DA BA DEE? all 1999 BLINK 182 ENEMA OF THE STATE? 1999 The Sopranos? Family Guy? FUTURAMA? 1999 Pokemon peaking? 1999 The launch of EVERQUEST? 1999 The best aesthetic known to man? 1999. THE DREAMCAST LAUNCHED IN 1999, PEOPLE. The Y2K scare? 1999 1999 was the peak of human civilization.
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KiloVoltaire
KiloVoltaire@KiloVoltaire·
100% buIIshit. The way forward was not to institutionalize tyranny under the guise of pretty words. 1. If everyone is equal, no one is free. 2. Government can only dispense or violate rights. 3. I didn't consent and I don't consent. 4. Adversarial democracy and universal suffrage are self-destructive to society. 5. If you believe a better system can't exist, you have a closed mind. 6. The founding fathers had a great idea, but the system they crafted produces the opposite of liberty.
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Cody Libolt
Cody Libolt@CodyLibolt·
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. “If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. “Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.” -Calvin Coolidge
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William™@William_TM_·
@CodyLibolt "Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.” Yes.
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William™@William_TM_·
@SandyofCthulhu We all thank you very much This game felt like such a massive leap forward at the time. It was amazing.
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Sandy Petersen 🪔
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu·
By the time of the Crusades, there had already been a Muslim incursion so deep into France that the ensuing battle (Tours) was fought midway between Nantes and Paris. The Muslims owned Sicily. They owned Spain. They were deep into India. They weren't a peaceful retiring civilization happy to tend their gardens. In fact after the First Crusade, the Muslims continued to conquer, eventually taking down the Byzantines and all the Balkans. The First Crusade was an audacious and courageous strike against a force that the crusaders felt menaced all Christendom. Were they justified? That has to be determined by your own moral compass. But certainly they weren't just picking on the poor oppressed Mohammedans.
Natasha Montreal@NatashaMontreal

The Crusades were not random wars of aggression. The Crusades were the Eastern Christian response to centuries of Islamic conquest. They were primarily defensive wars. In early Christianity there were five centers of high authority: Rome, Alexandria, Constantine, Antioch, and Jerusalem. Each one had a Bishop and administered a large region, both politically and religiously. The origins were Apostolic and the cities were the core seats of Christian authority. Islam rose out of the Arabian Peninsula in the early 600s. Almost immediately after consolidating power in Arabia, the Muslim state launched rapid military expansion against its neighbors from 632 onward. Islam took 3 out of 5 of the Patriarchal Holy Sees (Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem) in the 7th century. The Crusades were the Eastern counteroffensive. The Muslims had conquered the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and were in Tours, France by 732. It took over 700 years for the Spaniards to expel the invaders. The Reconquista was a parallel Western front. The Ottomans laid seige to central Europe for hundreds of years. They took the Balkans and Constantinople fell in 1453. Vlad Tepes of Wallachia (reimagined in modern times as the horror character Dracula) fought them off heroically for 6 years and drove them out of his principality. They laid seige on Vienna in 1529 and were expelled from Vienna 160 years later. Only Rome remained from the original Holy Sees after 1453 when Constantinople fell. Things you don't learn in school these days.

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