Astrid Wilde ☼
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don't see myself investing more in a place where deep fakes of friends nudes can go viral, body gore videos show up on the timeline uncensored, and it's owned by someone who's hurt people i love. if you don't have my number and want it DM me. otherwise i'll see you on threads
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Remember when this was a "conspiracy theory" 🤐
Women were being gaslit by the media for saying this last year but go off.
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if you're a single guy and not learning some form of social dance, why?
it opens the door to so many opportunities for socially acceptable flirting that are otherwise closed for men to engage in
and LITERALLY EVERYWHERE you go to dance there will be more women than men
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today it's worth remembering how long it took from the invention of the transistor to its first commercial application
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no bigger red flag than someone with no long term friends
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the moral panic about AI art right now is a perfect historical parallel to the moral panic by musicians when sampling became a thing
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just a casual reminder that the reason North Atlantic temperatures are going up is because shipping emissions have been keeping the North Atlantic artificially cool for decades and mandating their reduction was predicted to have this exact effect. don't buy the scaremongering
How can you just sit here and smile? How can you go about your day with your brunches and birthday parties and bridal showers?
Whole countries could disappear. Billions could die from flood and fire and famine.
We have reached the precipice. Don’t you see?
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the impact that anonymous users on Tumblr from 2008-2012 had on the Overton window is radically underestimated. like 30 of us made up a bunch of words and flags and summoned demons into the world. things that didn't exist before became Real Things ex materia
I was going to do this for Pride weekend but you know, life, so: I wanted to talk about a thing. I created the
#pansexual
flag, a thread.
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during my undergrad i had a professor who was super interested in generational differences in attitudes towards dating and relationships. he asked the class *a lot* of
@Aella_Girl
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5 years ago I was homeless and on the street after getting kidnapped, trafficked, and had $45k stolen from me in 2015
Today I have a 5 figure retirement account, a $15k car, a college degree, no debt and...
I just received a 6 figure offer today that will 3x my annual salary 🥳
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the Fed’s new program means banks can now borrow against their long duration bonds at par without limit. there is now zero risk for moving everything out to long duration and huge rewards for locking in 4.5% coupons for 10+ years. US banking just unlocked new levels of degeneracy
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@CassandraRules
if you didn't cry of happiness watching that you have no heart or you hate the US
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"but how will they earn without school"
meanwhile, unschooled kids
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Google dropped their music language model paper today "MusicLM"
Describe the music you want with a text prompt, even whistle a melody to further shape the output but 😭 they decided not to release it 😭
ACCESS TO CREATIVE CULTURE SHOULD BE FREE TO ALL 😤
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the world as you know it today will be unrecognizable in 20 years. probably sooner. people haven't even begun to grasp what it means for every digital workload becoming 99.9% cheaper inside of a decade
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the best part of Stable Diffusion getting open sourced is seeing the explosion of people working in ML finally say how they really feel about the people who want to rule the world in the name of """AI Safety""" and """reducing xrisk"""
such a huge white pill 🥰
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why did the entire internet move on from LK99 so quickly
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"have you read the network state" -guy who doesn't even know the names of his neighbours
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If you couldn't decide to quit your job tomorrow without it having a material impact on your life (for at least a couple years) then you aren't able to think clearly. Poverty or fear of poverty influences every decision you make, whether you realize it or not.
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no one needs to give you permission to learn Linear Algebra. you can just learn it. few
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people's obsession with round numbers in made up units is hilarious
in the US some men have a weird complex about not being 6'0 and in parts of Europe they have the same complex about not being 180cm. a full inch shorter lol
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*famous EA steals Billions and gets caught*
EAs: hmmm well if he broke his terms of service then we don't think that was very EA of him. but you don't have to give back the money he stole and then gave to you.
*famous EA writes an e-mail 2 two decades ago that's racist*
EAs:
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meeting someone new is fun partially because you also get to meet a new version of yourself that they bring out
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very bizarre to watch a friend go from being a multimillionaire running 3 businesses to complaining about capitalism being their entire online brand and now living at the edge of poverty.
politics is poison. don't let it ruin your life. your beliefs are your destiny
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hard to overstate how many geniuses work at $NVDA realtime hair and fur has now been solved. decades of research and development was just overturned by one dude at Nvidia in his free time. Gilles Daviet is a beast
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my sister just self-identified as an NPC
the Zoomers are not okay
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"children are naturally better at learning languages" is pure cope. just an excuse by adults to not feel bad about themselves for their inability to commit to practice
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I have a lot of friends that embody the divine feminine, but not many who embody the divine masculine. Where do unashamed masculine men spend their time?
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"Please do as I have requested ONLY if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck. Please DO NOT do as I request if there is any fear of punishment motivating you, out of hope for reward, or out of a desire for me to like you more if you do it."
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as insane as this sounds to read with the benefit of hindsight, i totally understand.
i felt this way about someone once too. in 2015 that person kidnapped me, trafficked me, and blackmailed me out of my life savings at the time of ~$45,000. i spent the next 3 years homeless.
The most remarkable two paragraphs ever written in human history
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What's an esoteric opinion you have that is of potentially high consequence but you feel like no one is talking about?
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just paid more in taxes for 2022 than my 2021 income, how was your day
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yet another reminder that history is constantly being rewritten to serve political ends. Margaret Hamilton won the Presidential Medal of Freedom for writing the Apollo 8 software... despite being hired after the mission had already been completed. oops 🤐
What an incredible rabbit hole. Margaret Hamilton, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for "[leading] the team that created the on-board flight software" for the Apollo missions, wasn't even hired until after the completed software had already flown to the moon in Apollo 8!
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@ESGhound
invented in 1947. first ever commercial use was in 1952. first ever mass produced device to rely on the transistor was the Sony TR-63, released in 1957.
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what's the male equivalent of the manic pixie dream girl
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the $MMTLP story continues to get crazier. 100% will be writing about this, hopefully by the week is out
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reminder that messing with your hormonal profile fundamentally alters the way you perceive the world. it changes how you experience taste and smell and even who you find attractive. choosing to alter your baseline is not a decision to be taken lightly
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actual lifehack
you can just ask people when you want things from them once you're okay with them saying 'no'
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this attitude is fundamentally foreign to the gen z psyche. most of the young people i know see flirting without explicit invitation to do so as a violation of one of the most sacred parts of the social contract.
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has philosophy just been going in circles for hundreds of years
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prediction: Harvard will invent a new form of discrimination and in 5 years the Asian demographics at Harvard will not be >10% above where they are today
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until then, massive respect to all the men who dgaf and flirt without permission or in the 'wrong' contexts in the face of this new anti-flirting norm 🫡
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What happened with Sam Bankman-Fried/Alameda/FTX and what are the near term implications, a 🧵
I'm going to try to make this as simple as possible so my friends outside of finance can understand
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i did this on a bike for years, never saw anyone else do it but BLESS. social scripts aren't real, just do what makes sense
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"why do you think EA's AI xrisk subculture in SF has a mind virus"
because i know dozens of people that plundered their future exactly like this. delusional irreversible decisions that have no possible payoff. depressing to see another wave of it 6 years later
In 2017 I was convinced AI timelines were <5 years so I cashed in my 401k and blew away the money and let me tell you this particular form of intellectual consistency is Not Recommended
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you don't need a reason, you can just do
you don't need a reason, you can just feel
you don't need a reason, you can just go
you don't need a reason, you can just be
you don't need a reason, you can just love
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long-winded despair about the imminent end of the world is a religious ritual
so is tithing
so is castration
make cool stuff. use the leverage available to you (including LLMs and fossil fuels). keep your money. have children.
despair is a choice. you are free to leave it 🦋
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can't take seeing people i love publicly flagellate anymore. i look forward to being able to be your friend again once you all come to your senses but i must love you from afar for now
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Deadly serious, is there ANYONE who can tell me a single good use case or business model for ARPANET - or even TCP/IP?
Deadly serious, is there ANYONE who can tell me a single good use case or business model for ChatGPT - or even GPT-3?
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reminder that almost every historical number is just made up.
everything you think of as an "objective" or "neutral" historical data point. from "deaths during the Iraq war" to "median US income in 1948"
sure, you can find a number. and it has a 100% chance of being made up.
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in these circles men now perform the same kind of performative helplessness role in romance that women used to (think "Baby, It's Cold Outside" but gender swapped) because for those men signalling romance first comes with large social risks they've decided not worth bearing.
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extremists of this view see people who break this unspoken NO FLIRTING rule as likely predators. flirting with people while at work? off limits. at conferences? off limits. where there's any history of a power dynamic? (e.g. student/professor) OFF LIMITS.
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meanwhile... median income for the writer's guild vs. the median income for the rest of California
Here's what I think of the streamers' cruel plan to "starve us out"
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remember when the entire world bought into the 5G marketing hype and just wholesale accepted worse battery life, slower upload speeds, and an inferior technology in almost every way in exchange for... nothing? Billions of dollars of capital wasted downgrading infrastructure 🙃
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maybe one day the kids will abandon this social precautionary principle or stop using those cursed dating apps and we can all enjoy the messiness of flirting together again without calling men or autists who lack finesse 'creeps' and 'predators'
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they have closed themselves off to the possibility of flirting so totally that they are now functionally oblivious to all cues from women of romantic or sexual interest.
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source to save you from searching for it
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if you're so smart why don't you speak at a 3rd grade reading level
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and men signalling romantic interest first continues to become more expensive/risky as time goes on. i've seen male friends reported to HR departments and fired for flirting with coworkers. i've seen male friends get in trouble at their University for flirting with classmates.
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i wish all of my friends in tech could have a single longform conversation with someone making capital allocation decisions in medicine about how many different ways they tried to use AI that either didn't help or actually worsened patient outcomes
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i love how whenever i say something not widely known without a source cited people start accusing me of making shit up lol y'all should know better by now
as i said, this was both a known and intended effect
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this time i was the *only* person in the room to say 'no.' to me what makes dating and romance fun is all the blurry/messy bits! when it's unclear whether interest is reciprocated, and signaling interest is much more fun when it comes with higher social costs
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the more extreme versions of this attitude continue to grow in popularity with the generation who doesn't know what romance meant in an era before dating apps. this has fundamentally changed what it means to perform masculinity in the West
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negotiating social boundaries will always be messy and gets messier when you introduce factors like age gaps or power inequities but i would rather live in a world with more sexual playfulness and flirting, not less.
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the cult of xrisk has a nonzero risk of becoming the defining death cult of our century. think of how many millions of people are killed by the FDA blocking access to medicines on the basis of the precautionary principle and extend that to every innovation in every field, forever
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these people openly want to rule the entire world because they have the hubris to think their idea of "Ethics" is more enlightened than everyone else's. then they directly benefited from huge financial crimes. and they are singularly obsessed with cultivating a "friendly" image.
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the Western social credit score has arrived. welcome to the censorship dystopian hellscape. without a new Constitutional right to privacy every privately owned platform will be doing this by 2030. everything you say *anywhere* will be catalogued and scored against you
BREAKING: Activision will add real time in-game voice chat moderation in Call of Duty. AI powered detection will work in-game to listen and report rule breaking issues automatically.
It’s live today in MWII and Warzone in NA and expands worldwide with MW3. Here’s the details:
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because this situation doesn't allow for either sex to get their needs met i suspect that we're likely to see a reversal of this social attitude soon, or if we don't that performative masculinity will find a new outlet. but i also thought that 10 years ago so maybe not 🤷
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sociopathic charisma is something i never would have believed in if i hadn't experienced it first hand. but there really are people out there who spend their entire lives honing their social intelligence to gain wealth, power, and status.
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this attitude has been around since at least the 1920s (the anti-flirt club immediately comes to mind) but it really didn't didn't become a competing dominant social expectation until dating apps rewrote social norms in the 2000s. now it's impossible to get away from.
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women tend to enjoy playing the plausible deniability game more than men and i've also seen female friends getting increasingly frustrated by these oblivious gen z men.
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we're still in the early stages of this, where that masculine performance hasn't yet found an alternative outlet, and in many circles *women signalling interest first* has become the rule rather than the exception.
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Grandmaster Flash teaching the world how to replicate his signature live break mixing techniques on PBS in 1983 is one of the most important moments in hiphop history
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop. What is your favorite Hip-Hop moment of all time?
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in a room of ~55 people only 3 people said 'no' and those that did were also the oldest people in the room (and i was one of them)
2. if you had the ability to socially signal romantic interest in a way that was hidden from others unless it was reciprocated would you prefer that?
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@Aella_Girl
only thing i interpret this as meaning is that he has awful aesthetic taste in emoticons
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another trend in these circles i've noticed, especially with my younger friends, is that men increasingly don't just play the role of performative helplessness but also of *learned helplessness*
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one of class periods that sticks out to me the most involved a series of questions about people's dating preferences:
1. if you had the ability to know with >95% certainty whether a relationship would "work out" (however you define that) before it started, would you want to know?
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@goblinodds
his dating success is inversely correlated to the gender ratio of a given social scene lmao
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but noticing this trend *has* made me update the way that i signal interest. these days i tell people explicitly when i'm interested in them and leave the ball in their court from there (maybe with some periodic reminders if they don't signal disinterest 😜)
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how do all my attractive polyamorous bisexual friends keep ending up in relationships with straight monogamous men who be like "you aren't allowed to spend time with your friends who you find attractive" ??? pls stop doing this to yourselves
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literally practiced music for 10-16 hours a day 😅 and have no desire to ever make a living in music now
"The thing you do obsessively between age 13 and 18, that's the thing you have the most chance of being world-class at."
- Bill Gates
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"we can't let people make music, they might borrow from cultures they don't understand"
LET PEOPLE WITHOUT MUSICAL TRAINING BIRTH NEW THINGS INTO THE WORLD. i can't wait for someone with no formal training or even understanding of music production to drop a pop hit 😍
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glad everyone finally caught on to the Fauci animal torture story. disappointed they didn't catch on months ago when
@CassandraRules
wrote about it. i wonder what happened that we're now 'allowed' to talk about it without 'disinformation' warnings 🤔
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if i haven't told you to watch Heavenly Delusion (天国大魔境) yet, just watch it
you're dropped into the middle of a world without any exposition, you just get to watch the characters and be surprised along with them
so far the best animated story of the 2020s
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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scammers, every one of them. get your money out of this trash exchange ASAP.
why are people calling themselves "Altruists" engaging in this kind of deception at scale??? 🚩🚩🚩 updating terms and conditions to allow them to implement a stealth bid wall?? I am fvcking livid
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~~~2022 highlights~~~
HABITS PAYOFF:
✅ met >1 new person/day
✅ working in new media and 3x in income
✅ live close to Friendly Ambitious Nerds
✅ publishing my writing again
✅ met >100 Twitter mutuals in meatspace
✅ walked >4km/day average
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had a second interview today for my dream job. brain stopped working right before it. like, to the point that if you asked me the names of my best friends I would have struggled to tell you. never bombed something before like this and have no explanation. kinda unsettling tbh
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you're not as smart as you think you are. you don't live at the most important time in human history. you are not working on the most important problem ever. the world is not beyond saving nor is it in need of saving
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imho the more people regularly interface with simulated worlds, the more people will buy into Bostrom's simulation theory. I think that because of this simulation theory will be a dominant religious paradigm in the developed world within our lifetimes
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suffering is not inherently Bad. pleasure is not inherently Good.
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let's say, hypothetically, the CFO of an $800M marketcap company just followed you on Twitter
and hypothetically you also think there's a >99% chance this company is engaged in money laundering
how would one best troll them
hypothetically
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thinking something nice about someone? tell them
don't think about it
just do it
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reached out to one of my favourite professors to tell him thank you and he sent me this 😭
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i would rather *not* do this because i feel like it ruins a lot of the fun of the cat and mouse game of flirting BUT maybe my making this post will mean in the future people will adjust for me instead of the other way 'round and i won't have to anymore 😇
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a few thousand people like this man have been engineering the future for a decade and if i told you how much money the media industry has spent preparing for this moment you wouldn't believe me. the era of the glass slab is coming to an end the era of the HUD is about to begin 🤩
I spent 10% of my life contributing to the development of the
#VisionPro
while I worked at Apple as a Neurotechnology Prototyping Researcher in the Technology Development Group. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked on a single effort. I’m proud and relieved that it’s finally
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continually confused by how few people talk about this tbh
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also i would like to apologize for poisoning the English language and i will not be taking questions about this at this time
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