4/ Many had vanished, taken away, coughing, by the health workers in their vans. Yet the sense of chronic doom had lifted from Skid Row, replaced by a dark elation. "At least something is changing" thought Joey, leaning against his ancient shopping cart.https://twitter.com/scrivenix/status/1339039857025318912?s=20 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Will Bickford
5/ An evangelical Christian missionary was trying to convert an atheist software engineer. "You know why you should really join us? Because the Christian God is the alpha and the omega!" "What difference does that make?" "He's a full-stack god!"https://twitter.com/wbic16/status/1339060418128572419?s=20 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Malcolm is back by the 🌎cean!
// I give up on 'kilt' ... can't think of a joke or story. This is going to be one of the 4-5 I can afford to pass on.https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1339047982918864897?s=20 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted David Vintinner
6/ Tired of hearing "corporations are not people," Galt, Inc developed an AI to design an anthropomorphic representation of itself based on internal data and employee photos. Unfortunately, no matter how they tuned it, the AI only generated lizard faces.https://twitter.com/dpvintin/status/1339197314586513410?s=20 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted /usr/siya
7/ Q: Why did the philosophical zombie skip the inverted spectrum question on the philosophy of mind final exam? A: He was unqualiafied to answerhttps://twitter.com/siyagule/status/1339103671976603649?s=20 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted 🅑🅔🅝
8/ Through the dirty windows of the Covid-shuttered bakery, the empty display cases, once full of scrumptious cookies, were visible. Camped under the awning, a derelict homeless woman watched a rerun of the Hallmark Christmas movie she'd once starred in.https://twitter.com/ben_mathes/status/1339070560379265024?s=20 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Brian Skinner
9/ The man with a hook for a hand, his face dark under the hood of his anorak, limped slowly down the rainy pier, his wellingtons squelching in the puddles. At the end of the pier, a woman in the wet dress screamed, "Help! I'm being murdered by a cliche!"https://twitter.com/gravity_levity/status/1339057186039881729?s=20 …
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// damn this is hard. I may not make it to 100.
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Shane Breslin
10/ The mayor swore to get 100% of the town vaccinated, and after a mighty effort, it was done. But after the last person in town was vaccinated, with much fanfare, a great melancholy descended on the town. Things had returned to normal.https://twitter.com/shanebreslin/status/1339130960709885954?s=20 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Tiago Forte
11/ "Wise master, I aspire to goodness, but evil surrounds me. What should I do?" asked the seeker. "There is no certainty of grace in this life," the master replied sadly, "All we can do is take notes on the evil around us, and review them weekly."https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1339040174114631680?s=20 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Arun Shroff
12/ "Sir, the AI has locked into a self-improvement recursion and has locked the bunker doors. It has enough backup power to launch the missiles!" "Isn't MacGyver in there?" "Yes sir, but it's no use. The AI has collected all the paperclips!"https://twitter.com/arunshroff/status/1339118476280082434?s=20 …
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– Our mission is simple. We drill, we extract and feed on the soft biomass, move our cities inside, then drill the lower bit. – And what if there's another turtle, underneath? – Recursion, rookie. It is the only answer to infinite regress.https://twitter.com/arunshroff/status/1339118476280082434 …
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