Julian Witte

Self-deprecating enlightened neo-buddhistic hedonist with a penchant for all things language, linguistics, music, culture, humanities & [regrettably] technology

[Julian Witte @julianswitte]

This ought to be considered a memo for all of Twitter.

[NPR @NPR]

"If you actually want to persuade somebody else, attacking that other person will drive that person farther in the other direction and it will alienate the people who are listening to your interchange ... " says social scientist Arthur Brooks. https://t.co/jne19cN7qR

[Julian Witte @julianswitte]

@slimspursy The desire to see an underdog rise to the occasion and triumph (hopefully), is something the European mind cannot comprehend.

[Julian Witte @julianswitte]

@CracraftFan World Cup W. No question.

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@zo_demalia Battle of the Bridge

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@zo_demalia Welcome to our nightmare. COYS

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@JonBergdahl It's not a world cup without a brief moment of neurotic meltdown from the England supporters, while the small nations party and live it up. It's like clockwork

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@JonBergdahl 💯

[Julian Witte @julianswitte]

@stoolpresidente You're finally getting it!

[OnsOranje @OnsOranje]

DALLAS = ORANJE! 🧡🫨

#NothingLikeOranje #FIFAWorldCup #NEDJPN

[Julian Witte @julianswitte]

@TylerAlterman Yet to see Backrooms, but the concept very much reminds me of a book I read 20yrs ago called "House Of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski.

Captivating & terrifying on a cosmic level. Found footage style literary horror with terrifying cosmic facsimile of the geometry of our world.

[Djed Spence @DjedSpence]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Julian Witte @julianswitte]

@sircalebhammer Demoralization.

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@bprintco @noodlebrett It's a bit of insider knowledge here, but if you were a bit older with some actual income or assets at the time, they would have asked you to provide proof. I'm sure the sweet old woman just marked you down as $0 income rather than put you through those hoops.

She's a real one.

[Julian Witte @julianswitte]

@bprintco @noodlebrett Many large healthcare systems operate as non-profits. So even if it's not necessarily a tax write-off exactly, they can use these patient financial assistance programs to maintain tax exempt status and demonstrate community benefit.

[Julian Witte @julianswitte]

@carleton_butler @WomanDefiner

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Alan Watts gives some of the most insightful thoughts on life and its worth watching 1000%

[Dev-Artemis Animation @DevilArtemisX]

I watched cowboy bebop when I was around 8-10.

Im 30 now.

Re watching Cowboy Bebop as an adult hits different.

When you’re younger, it’s easy to latch onto the cool fights, the jazz, Spike being effortlessly smooth. But coming back to it later, you start feeling the weight of the themes. Loneliness. Regret. People running from their past instead of healing it. Characters stuck in emotional orbit, unable to move on.

Stuff that flew right over our heads as kids suddenly lands hard af.

Honestly, I recommend any older anime fan do this. Revisit the shows you loved growing up. You dont just rewatch them, you re-contextualize them. Your life experience fills in the gaps the story always had waiting for you.

Same anime. Different you.
And somehow… its just better.

Cowboy bebop is a 10/10.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

I can immediately tell by the flavor of a post whether or not it's slop. Just taste the words. Can't you feel it from the texture alone? Gurgling, tepid slop. A tantalizing promise that looks full and bursting with realness, but immediately is revealed to be puffed up with air. There is the sense that something Very Important is trying to being conveyed, but if anything important is actually said, it's by complete accident.

Maybe it's written by AI, maybe not. It's difficult to tell because everyone who writes like this does it in nearly the exact same manner. It takes them a paragraphs to explain one simple idea, because they have so very few ideas they need to stretch it out and try to get real mileage out of it.

Because, ultimately, they don't care about ideas. They care about the image of themselves as someone who has ideas.

[Julian Witte @julianswitte]

@JoelWBerry It's just this, in 2025.

[Julian Witte @julianswitte]

No.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Today we are launching my favorite feature of ChatGPT so far, called Pulse. It is initially available to Pro subscribers.

Pulse works for you overnight, and keeps thinking about your interests, your connected data, your recent chats, and more. Every morning, you get a custom-generated set of stuff you might be interested in.

It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you. In regular chat, you could mention “I’d like to go visit Bora Bora someday” or “My kid is 6 months old and I’m interested in developmental milestones” and in the future you might get useful updates.

Think of treating ChatGPT like a super-competent personal assistant: sometimes you ask for things you need in the moment, but if you share general preferences, it will do a good job for you proactively.

This also points to what I believe is the future of ChatGPT: a shift from being all reactive to being significantly proactive, and extremely personalized.

This is an early look, and right now only available to Pro subscribers. We will work hard to improve the quality over time and to find a way to bring it to Plus subscribers too.

Huge congrats to @ChristinaHartW, @_samirism, and the team for building this.

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@_Zeets Bleak.