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[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

What even is time and space?

Kurt Vonnegut's "Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millipedes - with babies' legs on one end and old people's legs at the other”

So here's me walking through the world, leaving a 3D snapshot of every moment exactly when and where it happened.

Feels a lot like onion skinning reality (to use the animation analogy). We are beings stuck in the arrow of time - who get momentary glimpses of what it means to break free from it. Perhaps this is one of those glimpses.

Did not expect the last post to blow up like that. Really enjoyed the convos - thanks for all the love and the new rabbit holes to dive into.

[Jason Wilde @JasonWilde108]

Before the Flood, the world was different.

In Mesopotamia, kings ruled for impossible lengths of time. The Apkallu were non human sages associated with the Apsu who brought knowledge to mankind.

Then the Flood crushes everrything. After, the sages become more human and kingship basically starts again.

Genesis tells a pretty much the same story. People live for hundreds of years. The Nephilim and “sons of God” appear before the Flood. Then the catastrophe happens and human lifespans collapse afterward.

In 1 Enoch, the Watchers descend and teach humans things they supposedly were not meant to know. Metallurgy and crazy weapons. Astronomy and navigation. That happens before the Flood too. Hmmm??

The Maya remembered earlier versions of humanity that were destroyed and replaced. Their surviving creation traditions even describe early humans as possessing abilities and knowledge that the gods later restricted.

The Greeks remembered previous ages of humanity populated by god like beings and heroes before later mankind came.

India preserves Manu surviving a world destroying flood, while its larger stories describes humanity moving through radically different ages separated by destruction and renewal. YUGAS.

Common sense tells me we shouldn't pretend the only thing these cultures remembered was a big rainstorm.

Again and again, the old stories describe a world before the flood where humans lived differently and knowledge came from fish teachers, gods interacted directly with mankind, extraordinary beings existed and civilization was under conditions that disappeared afterward.

Then something happened.

The world was reset. Could every culture simply have invented variations of the same basic idea? Of course.

But what were people trying to describe?

I think there is a real possibility they were describing it as it happened.

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Space and time reconstructed in 4D

Is this how higher dimensional beings see us - every moment at once?

Starting to understand what Vonnegut meant by humans being “great millipedes” - clearly it applies to our four legged friends too!

Geolocated 2d video → per frame 3d gaussians → each left precisely where & when it happened

[ashen @ashen_one]

FYI in case you wanna make an app

[Sanjay Jha @JhaSanjay]

If you love London, please don’t watch the rest of this Instagram. If you have a tough stomach, please do.

London is my favorite city in the world, but this book got me seriously depressed. And I am an incorrigible optimist.

London Falling is a dark book. It is also a very sad book. It is an outstanding book.

#NoTelePrompter

[Python Programming @PythonPr]

Layers of AI

[Chetaslua @chetaslua]

Fable 5.2 is pure JS thats it one shot

animal edition , i did not even prompt it to be so detailed and it made proper snacks for different animal

for someone who saw my account first time may not how i have access to fable 5.2 just check my previous tweet and also opus 5.2 is being tested in claude web

@bcherny can i get credits my 200$ subs plan is over @claudeai

[Suganthan Mohanadasan @suganthan]

What 🫣🫣

https://t.co/Op6eF5Ke5E

What a time to be alive man….

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

I was a very fortunate kid. My dad's GP surgery sat between the Dell and Hampshire's County Ground, so at weekends I could go to a game and get a lift home afterwards. It left me with a passion for both sports and a belief that sport opens a window onto who we are.

When I was growing up, the Tebbit test was a matter of intense debate. Which side did you cheer for at the cricket? For all the criticism it received, it was a test anyone could pass. If you supported England because you saw it as home, you were part of the team regardless of the colour of your skin. Born in Southampton, 10 year old me passed it without even knowing about it.

Giving the @MCCOfficial's Cowdrey Lecture on Thursday made me think about cricket's place in our national life and the current arguments about identity.

In Britain we've built the world's most successful multi-faith, multi-ethnic democracy. I was a beneficiary of it. Whatever issues people had with me as PM (and there was no shortage) my race and religion weren't among them. I could read a lesson at the King's coronation or light Diwali diyas on Downing Street with my daughters without controversy. Foreign leaders assumed these must be huge symbolic moments. For most Brits, they just weren't that big a deal.

But Britain's democratic achievement is now under strain. Some of the challenges are ones I've written about before, like Islamism, and the failure of governments, including the one I led, to adequately control immigration. But something else is going on - a risk that we start equating skin colour with nationality.

After I left office, a debate kicked off here on @X about whether I was English at all, because I was a "brown Hindu". During the election campaign I'd been shocked when footage was broadcast of someone calling me a "Paki." It was shocking precisely because it was so unusual. That kind of abuse had simply not been a feature of my political life. But the Englishness argument was stranger still. Call it the reverse Tebbit test. If you're not white, it no longer matters who you support at the cricket, because you can never be English. It's a test no non-white person can ever pass.

I have no truck with people who offend our sense of fairness and come here illegally; I spent half my premiership trying to deport them to Rwanda. I think the bar for legal migration should be high. It is entirely possible to want a radical reduction in immigration and a far more robust approach to integration, and still totally reject the attempt to turn Britishness into a DNA test.

If you're born and brought up in England and view it as home, what are you other than English? Denying people their Englishness or their Britishness because of the colour of their skin is a recipe for alienation and a two-tier society. How are children who hear this meant to feel?

Sport can play a small but significant role here. Cricket is played by nearly every major ethnic group in this country. Ask what my largely white rural constituents in the Dales and the British-Asian kids in Bradford have in common, and the answer is cricket. If cricket can produce England teams in which every kid can see themselves, the impact reaches far beyond the boundary.

As I write in @thetimes today, we must all be on the same side, cheering for the same team.

We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak says "Britishness" must not be turned into a "DNA test"

"Attempting to deny people their Englishness or Britishness because of the colour of their skin is a recipe for alienation, for a two-tier society"

[Claude @claudeai]

A thread of our favorite things people built with Claude recently:

https://t.co/bLVmlNj5ew

[Harirah Ismaila. @rirahcreates]

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[el.cine @EHuanglu]

the project is now open sourced, you can check the full workflow and prompts for free here:
https://t.co/3QuyruWbli

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

wow.. ChatGPT-6 Astra just made a Tom & Jerry live-action scene all by itself..

[FBI @FBI]

Indian Country will NOT be forgotten. This FBI is putting more agents, more resources, and more attention where they belong — in the field, fighting for these communities.

With the largest-ever surge to Indian Country through Operation Steadfast Promise
and quadrupled rewards to at least $25,000 through Voices Not Forgotten, we will continue to find justice for missing persons, victims, and families waiting for answers.

[FPL Swamp King 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @FPLSwampKing]

@CharlieVantFPL +Gibbs White

[Chad Infi𓄿 @chad_infi]

It all started with a male ego

[Tiger @tigertwting]

We’ve always been cute. Unlike that random wig wearing PR merchant who needs a whole mane to look intimidating. 🤡

[FPL Jagador 🇮🇩 @FPLJagador]

Current WC draft 99% locked in. Let's see what the pressers say tomorrow. Off to bed, night.

#FPL

[Baker343 @BakerFPL343]

Been fun on wildcard this week, had some really good discussions on the pods and in discord.

Think I’m set barring any embargoed news or updates in the morning.

Thoughts on Patreon (no paywall always), draft below

https://t.co/ZBdNjQ1cbh