Luke Watson

Exited founder/CEO. MD of Superluminal, advisor/director. Hunter, spearo, mountaineer, yachty, snowboarder. Doer of things.

[Luke Watson @lukewatson]

@Figure_robot Your definition of “toys scattered everywhere” and mine are somewhat different.

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Were excavators formerly cavators?

[Luke Watson @lukewatson]

@elonmusk Make a version for Australia. We’re starved of EV truck options, today it’s more or less monopolised by BYD.

Cybertrucks should land in Sydney before Mars!

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@ericweinstein Superb reference

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In funny coincidence news, @bryan_johnson (#dontdie who does amazing longevity work) and @liverking (Brian Johnson, who does... stuff) share a name. Both ends of the health spectrum, bookended by Johnsons. 🤣

[Luke Watson @lukewatson]

Can we have a button on YouTube to flag content as being copied from elsewhere with some idiot pointing & doing reaction faces? Send the revenue to whoever made the actual content instead of these doughnuts.

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What is the optimal speed, spread and particle density for water sprayed at a bubble bath to cause a net reduction of bubbles rather than an increase? #showerthoughts

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@larsmoravy Make the full range in right hand drive.

[Luke Watson @lukewatson]

Has anyone ever said mitochondria without adding “, the powerhouse of the cell” on the end?

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@ItsDeanBlundell Isn’t this exactly what trump wanted? Get the European powers to spend more so the US doesn’t carry so much of the burden, plus he gets to say he pushed for peace when others didn’t.

That’s not to say Macron et al shouldn’t have done it, but it seems unlikely trump’s unhappy.

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A growing number of people talk about some form of UBI being inevitable due to AGI. But how does this get paid for in countries with no relevant companies or IP to generate tax revenue from? Sounds like a great recipe for runaway spending & hyper inflation.

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We need to start making cars in Australia again. Domestically owned, domestically produced.

Duties (customs, LCT) in markets with no domestic competition are punitive consumption taxes against consumers.

[Luke Watson @lukewatson]

Hey @WHOOP - what on earth is going on there at the moment? You lost my order twice, multiple weeks without support responses (ongoing since 4 Dec). 6 year long customer about to cancel due to an ongoing horrendous experience. Is anyone home?

[Luke Watson @lukewatson]

@actualAlexJames lol as an Aussie who lived in the US a long time, rest assured we have a far more functional democracy than the US. Send your trillions if you like though. 👍

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Amongst all this apocalyptic US political rhetoric people seem to forget we’ve seen both these people in the box seat already.

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“A company spokesperson said” shouldn’t be acceptable attribution. It’s a by-phrase for comms team concocted bullshit. Quotes should have to be attributed to an actual person, it’s such a low bar of accountability.

[Luke Watson @lukewatson]

@YouTube - add the ability to filter out those garbage AI voiceover videos that are flooding YouTube and the ability to toggle on/off shorts from my feed, then you’d have me upgrading to a paid account immediately 👌

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@theSamPadilla And to think when I moved to the US in 2006 I lived in Soma. A pretty safe if not a bit boring area, then to Hayes Valley in 2009, which was recently gentrified, lots of cafes & restaurants, people talked about how it used to be dangerous.

Sounds like it’s all turned to shit.

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@mashable Seems like not taking photos of your butthole would also be a viable solution to this problem.

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@NotionHQ should acquire @Superhuman. Bring the best email client into the best productivity platform. Integrate them such that emails can be added to a Notion DB as tasks, which in turn can be shown in Notion Calendar. 🙏