he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, et al.
UK / 📖 Airstrip One
Joined August 2018
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If your friends aren't talking about:
• Tolkien (and other fantasy literature)
• making a good cup of tea
• quantum field theory
• Greek mythology
• birds they've seen and heard today
• Doctor Who
• etymology and glossopoeia
then you should be friends with meee!
Dr Rob retweeted
I think the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity
How utterly grotesque. One wonders if some of these people are so obsessed with non-human and post-human intelligence because they've already failed miserably at being human
Dr Rob retweeted
The naysayers are getting embarrassing. Every day, people are using AI to make incredible breakthroughs and answer some of the toughest questions around, like "what do I like about my child?"
Dr Rob retweeted
How'd we go from reducing your carbon footprint to building data centers everywhere 🤔
Dr Rob retweeted
I call it the Villa Diodati effect. Throw us some sauce during a famine and we will treat it as a whole meal
Dr Rob retweeted
I don't want my coffee machine on Wi-Fi. I don't want an app for my car, a QR code for my menu, Al customer service, or Google Al Overviews. I just want to buy something once, have it work, speak to a human if I need help, and be left alone. Is that too much to ask?
Dr Rob retweeted
Every single new piece of AI technology is like “yooo check out this new way we’re breaking the social fabric and reality and making it harder for you to trust anything and everything besides what you see right in front of you with your own eyes 🤗🤗🤗”
Evil ass fucks
Dr Rob retweeted
I swear to god if I hear another person on this app talk about the mainstream media while mainlining the disinfo slop on here all day, I’m going to lose my mind
Dr Rob retweeted
Everyone is going to be functionally illiterate soon
What a grim opening line:
‘The new owners of the Daily Telegraph have made large numbers of staff redundant, telling them the title will be transformed from a newspaper “into a global, AI-powered premium media and intelligence business”.’
theguardian.com/media/2026/o…
Eight powercuts this evening. A couple were under a minute, but the last went on for long enough that (a) we thought it was set in for the night and we'd wake up to electricity in the morning, and (b) when the lights did unexpectedly turn back on, my eyes were seared away
