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Dillon Thomas retweeted
Way too many getting their copies of Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave early and none of them are ME 😩
Dillon Thomas retweeted
i am ok with this specifically because i think cloud gaming is ass and the least we normalize it the better since it’s a gateway drug to owning even less of your stuff
Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming - Starting November, Game Pass plans include a set number of cloud gaming hours each month:
Game Pass Ultimate: 15 hours
Game Pass Premium: 10 hours
Game Pass Essential: 5 hours
non-Game Pass users can purchase cloud playtime hours
news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/…
Dillon Thomas retweeted
this is WRONG. they LOVED bureaucracy. romans invented the concept of a building inspector!!! augustus capped apartment blocks at 70 ft because they kept pancaking on tenants, nero wrote an entire building code after rome burned in 64 ad, including mandating wider streets…
What blows my mind about the Roman Empire is that lack of technology is far easier to overcome than lack of freedom from bureaucrats
Like unironically these guys built the most insane civic architecture and still hold the record
We have to technology to build something a hundred times bigger than ever but instead we chose to employ bureaucrats and allow them to micromanage every detail of buildings down to toilet spacing and the number of fasteners per foot
They were willing to spend a significant portion of their GDP on making their civilization epic, and we have cheap bullshit and decay
Terrible trade
Absolutely humiliating
Dillon Thomas retweeted
obsessed with pope leo’s reaction when the vatican librarian explains it’s safer to touch manuscripts with bare hands rather than gloves
Dillon Thomas retweeted
A society that replaces historians with AI is a society that is committing suicide
Dillon Thomas retweeted
the dumbest person you know is being told "You're absolutely right!" by ChatGPT
Dillon Thomas retweeted
Maybe we should all apply for jobs at the water treatment plant citing our experience of living through the city’s water crises causing us to learn way more than we ever needed to know about the inner workings of the water treatment plant.
Dillon Thomas retweeted
The capacity for self-reflective critical thinking is what stands between humanity and the descent into a new form of totalitarianism
AI is technological ideology. It strips you of the right to think for yourself while turning you back against yourself in isolation. It's inhuman
In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
Just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT in January 2023, a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90 percent of them had used the chatbot to help with homework assignments. In its first year of existence, ChatGPT’s total monthly visits steadily increased month-over-month until June, when schools let out for the summer. (That wasn’t an anomaly: Traffic dipped again over the summer in 2024.)
Dillon Thomas retweeted
we are jumping off the cliff into mass illiteracy and nobody with any power at any major university or secondary school system is willing to do anything about it
just unrelentingly bleak nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
