Tim Bartel

Hardcore Wiki(pedi)an

[DJ P.R. 🙄 @djpr]

„Wenn jetzt umgekehrt das Wahlergebnis anders gewesen wäre und die CDU mit Manuel Hagel 13 Stimmen Vorsprung gehabt hätte – und man hätte diesen Vorschlag gemacht –, dann würde ich gern mal wissen, was Jens Spahn dazu gesagt hätte.“

Voigt: „Ich glaube, so einfach ist es nicht.“

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

Before AI coding agents, I'd constantly have 2 or 3 side-projects that I would struggle to finish

AI completely changed the game

Now I have 15-20 unfinished side-projects

[Tim Bartel @avatar]

@simonfranglen @andyeah20133 @a_gleckman No worries, I'm used to it :-)

[Tim Bartel @avatar]

@davey_juice @PeterSweden7 As the top foreign nationalities in Brussels by percentages are from France, Romania, and Italy - I somehow doubt that they're very much interested in building an Islamic caliphate... but hey, YMMV.

[sky @skydotcs]

the time picker on iphones alarm app isn’t actually circular it’s just a really long list

[Tim Bartel @avatar]

@kitkatxxoo @P_Kallioniemi What a weird country.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Well, it wasn’t easy, but Trump did it.

He ended the several hundred year friendship between the US and Canada — our neighbor and closest ally.

Isolationism is a dumb idea, but going out of your way to get countries around the world to actually hate us is even stupider.

[Ben Steiner @BenSteiner00]

I’ve seen a lot of the Toronto running community, but this guy wins.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Until 2015, before @NASANewHorizons, this was our highest-resolution picture of Pluto:

[nolen @itseieio]

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB....

[Scotty Cameron @twitscotty]

After 41 years we did it congrats everyone

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Cat doorway challenge
https://t.co/WAC1o1XnOt

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

The left face appears whitish and the right one blackish, but they are the same luminance.

左の顔は白く見え、右の顔は黒く見えるが、同じ輝度である。左の画像は80%の等黒色画像であり、右の画像は20%の等白色画像である。等黒色画像では、無彩色が一番明るくなる（知覚としては白となる）。等白色画像では、無彩色が一番暗くなる（知覚としては黒となる）。

[DJ P.R. 🙄 @djpr]

Robert Habeck erklärt hier der Lobbyistin Marie-Christine Ostermann noch mal ganz ruhig und sachlich, wieso Atomkraft ökonomischer Schwachsinn ist. #Lanz

[Sam Altman @sama]

here is sora, our video generation model:

https://t.co/CDr4DdCrh1

today we are starting red-teaming and offering access to a limited number of creators.

@_tim_brooks @billpeeb @model_mechanic are really incredible; amazing work by them and the team.

remarkable moment.

[Jonathan Ware @ReassessHistory]

So, here it is.

Can the IWM *really* claim © on Crown Copyright images etc where copyright has long expired?

Surely these images should be out of copyright & free to use, right?

Right? /1
#History #Heritage #Museums

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

They stole something for you. For decades, they stole it. That thing they stole? Your entire culture. For all of human history, works created in living memory entered the public domain every year. 40 years ago, that stopped.

1/

[John Penniman @Historiographos]

I will never recover from this student email.

[Glitch 💻😺 @glitchfur]

.@SoatokDhole's blog may be the first website ever that has warned me about *not* having an ad-blocker enabled in my browser.

[Charlie Holtz @charlieholtz]

David Attenborough is now narrating my life

Here's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth: