153 - Tweet Roundup Pt. 2 🗨️🐤
Hey there, !
The man takes on feedback and gives the people what they want (also it’s low effort but anywayyyyyy) LET’S GO:
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There’s an empty void in space so big that if you traveled across it you wouldn’t bump into anything for 752,536,988 years - space is mind-bogglingly large
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Yugoslavian computer pin-ups - making computers sexy since 1989
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Let’s add to the avocado toast debate - what do you WANT from us?
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DALL-E shows us how great painters would make data visualisations - Picasso’s don’t look half bad? Also some of the tweets underneath are like charts ‘’…but with cake’, ‘…by Vincent Van Gogh’, ‘…as a traditional Chinese painting’, ‘…by Dali’. Fascinating use of DALL-E and the different images they can build!
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Another one from DALL-E - what would Pokemon cards have looked like throughout history? - honestly a top tier tweetstorm from Randall Munroe (XKCD dude). He starts going back through the decades and you’re like ‘okay this is pretty cool’ and then suddenly he’s in the 1800’s, then 1000 BC, then he’s looking at prehistoric Pikachu’s and it’s AMAZING.
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Has the world become less colourful? - yes, and here’s some proof.
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Old Hollywood bloopers - pretty cool to see that humans haven’t really changed that much over time :D
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Do Not Ask Your Children To Strive - Nikita Gill is a user on Twitter who posts these wonderful poems. I’m really enjoying some random poems come into my feed - some poignant and beautiful like this one.
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Geoguessr was too easy on Earth, so this dude went and memorized Mars - this guy is actually crazy - he’s posting stuff on TikTok which is like ‘Geoguessr but I only have 0.1s to work out the country’, or ‘Geoguessr but only looking at dirt’. It’s honestly ridiculous, amazing, and hilarious to watch.
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Voyage through time - a new competitor has entered the field - Stable Diffusion - which could be programmed to evolve from one image to another!
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Being killed by a recorder in a game - wouldn’t even be mad!
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✔️Real Life Recommendations
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Broker - a fantastic Korean thriller which was the last movie I saw at MIFF. Featured the dad from Parasite (Song Kang-ho), kpop star IU and the cool Korean chick from Sense8 (Bae Doona) - telling the story of a ‘broker’ who takes abandoned babies and sells them to other couples off the black market. It sounds crazy but it’s a wonderfully human story that shows a different side of the world - orphans, adoptions, the parents forced to abandon their babies, the ones who want one for some reason. Some really great performances, and though slow at times, a nice unraveling of the story! Highly recommended.
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Soon Doo Boo - on Swanston St, near the new Dodee Paidang (which is also tremendous). A nice little Korean place that does some fun and tasty dishes. I haven’t tried the fried chicken, but the japchae was very nice!
🚌 Adventures on the Information Super-Highway
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Happiness is two scales - another model for thinking about happiness - rather than have a single-scale spectrum of happiness, it’s instead a model which is a separate happiness gauge and an unhappiness gauge. The way to solve your happiness could come from increasing your happiness (do more fun things) or decreasing your unhappiness (reduce the crap things). A quick article that gives some really actionable insights - which is awesome.
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Against discipline - an interesting quirk of insight: “And what I thought was that many of the things that feel really good to me, that make me happy, that give me the sense that I am in the right place doing the right thing, are incredibly hard to start doing” - the author contends that it’s not because we need ‘discipline’ to do these things, but just that we’re all little stubborn 7-year-olds who don’t want to do what they’ve been told to be ‘disciplined’ about, rebelling against ourselves!
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Mexican Loan Apps, Extortion and the Google Play Store - some heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting stories of how people get sucked into debt spirals because of a lack of loan regulation in Mexico. It’s always interesting to see the kinds of things we take for granted - some small regulations and laws that protect us from predators all round.