(N.B. tweet is deliberately preposterous and overweening -- point's still valid)
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Edoardo Maggio
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I do words. Content designer, writer, and editor at maize.
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capitalism: sorry your land is not ✨ p r o d u c t i v e ✨ enough, you need to move to a million-plus people city where the air is thick with smog and the sky is grey
me: ok 🥲
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If you're worried ChatGPT might actually replace you, your job is probably bullshit to begin with (and something we could all benefit from were it to come to an end).
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I somehow understood this myself when I was fourteen -- and I am no genius
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Andrew Bosworth AMA summed up quickly 
“VR isn’t mass market enough. Mammals need to see surroundings”
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I know this isn't malicious, but it perpetuates the weird stereotype that people who enjoy playing games are wasters. I think about stuff like The Witcher 3, Yakuza 0, and The Last Guardian and categorically consider them to be among my favourite entertainment experiences ever
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I love Nick Offerman but I'm very tired of this phrasing. You don't "lose" time to video games. Do you "lose" time when you watch a movie? Marathon a TV show? Listen to an album? Come on. Games aren't just Pong anymore
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I wasn't prepared to hear the game responsible for Nick Offerman's brief, but intense, video game addiction.
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WhatsApp just added Avatars, but you have to make a new one, not use Meta Avatars which are supported on FB, Insta, and Messenger. I don’t understand this; I thought the whole point of Meta Avatars was to have a shared identity across all platforms.
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woot woot
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META WINS COURT NOD TO BUY WITHIN UNLIMITED IN LOSS FOR FTC
$META
btw I wholeheartedly agree with the article's point -- here:
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It's like when they talk about Apple and say "the company that makes one of the most popular phones in the world" -- no, it is *the* most fucking popular phone! Just say it!
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Uses of the English language that never fail to irritate me: "one of...". The hell do you mean, "*one of* the best episodes"?! There have been THREE episodes! You don't have a "best of" *ranking* out of three goddamn episodes! It's either *the* best episode or it ain't! jfc
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fucking FINALLY
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Here are just a few of our plans. Up, up, and away! #DCStudios #DCU @DCComics
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It's been a minute, but and I are back at it with Artifact - a personalized news feed using the latest ai tech. Visit artifact.news to sign up and join the community.
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Microsoft's 343 Industries will still make Halo games, despite rumors to the contrary. But with mass layoffs (at least 95 people), an engine pivot to Unreal, and a focus only on multiplayer for the near future, 343 is hitting the reset button. New story: bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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I still don't get why Sony is trying to make VR gaming happen
tiktok is hell
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There’s a TikTok trend of Family Guy clips stitched together with footage of people playing mobile games.
It started as a way to dodge DMCA takedowns, but turned into a multi-sensory dopamine drip that will take our collective attention span to zero.
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8 years...
On January 30, 2015, the very first episode of Life is Strange was released, which deeply marked players and us as a company.
Thank you all for supporting us for so long! 
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I am personally very proud to see an Indian make a name for himself in white-collar financial fraud, an area often dominated by white Americans
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I love this so much
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Just spent 20 minutes debating and diagramming the famous 'Buffalo buffalo buffalo...' sentence with someone, and by the end of it a video of the proceedings would have landed us all in psychiatric commitment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_b
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Google just launched chat.google.com, its alternative to chat.openai.com.
And let me tell you, it's nowhere near as good.
You truly need to be on a whole 'nother level of unfathomably fucking stupid to conjure up a thought like this (no offense to actual thoughts), and possibly even more miserably pathetic to give it any sort of credit.
Seriously, America: how is this possible?
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Every day I'll spend a few hours or so keeping up with my country's political landscape and current affairs, often coming out of my 'sessions' nauseated by much stupidity.
Then I'll open Twitter and—lo and behold!—it's two dead brain cells fighting for third place.
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They want to take your guns.
They want to take your gas stoves.
And now they want to take your Xbox.
What’s next?
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If you squint you can already see the 2024 article where it's reported how this was an absolute disaster
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i veicoli gonfiabili usati come esche durante la seconda guerra mondiale
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Looking at this / classic and despite, well, Glass' fate, it is still a video that could be recorded today and somehow not feel like the TEN-YEAR-OLD jump that it is. Given that it's still consumer tech we're talking about, it's wild.
This was so beautiful. The perfect expression of the barren, windswept void at the heart of the whole thing. A grift without an ounce of style or even audacity. The kind of scam a calculator would invent. No two organisms have ever had worse chemistry than this.
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The hottest new programming language is English
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"If somehow the lord..." (iykyk)
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Is this for real, ? 🤦♂️
(I also wonder if that's the same for ' newsletter)
ChatGPT will take over some jobs sooner than others:
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My boss asked me to email him an "e" with an accent above it
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