Paul Witcombe

Running on crystallised intelligence and melancholy arpeggios | Sharing takes on tech, cars, music. 🚘 📷 🎥 🎧 🤖

[Paul Witcombe @paulwitcombe]

@genzgrad @maxescu I hope that is the case, although to be honest, by the time we actually do get it all, it'll be out of date anyway given the pace of AI development.

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@interaction It just says my number's being blocked, which is strange considering I'm using Poke all the time.

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VAT is probably the biggest issue for most small businesses. It’s near on impossible to avoid if you are even slightly busy. And if you go over the threshold without realising, you will be lucky to survive. Bearing in mind that the debt goes up every quarter with each return. Nearly all of my income over the last year has been shovelling into HMRC’S coffers. £500 of that in fines.

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@Codie_Sanchez But then they black out the windows…

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It's all well and good having the ability to be an individual auteur and to be able to make films in your bedroom but it doesn't matter if nobody sees them. A lot of the film industry is basically the mechanism for marketing these great films. Musicians have had this ability for a long time but record companies are still in business.

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@thegarybrecka to get back in the sea again and have a swim.

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I started using it based on your recommendation way back, probably around March time, and I've been using it ever since.

I think for most people it's the perfect agent solution. It has been such a massive help over the months I've been using it, and it has a great personality as well. That said, it's surprisingly difficult to get people to use it. I don't think they fully understand the capabilities of these systems.

The bouncer back in the early days was quite something to experience 😂

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I felt the same as you, from not wanting to put down everything that the estate does. I'm one of the few who isn't really a big fan of the SDE releases; I place more value on single, well put together albums and some official ‘bootleg’ albums.

By that, I mean just a one-off run that might be available only in record stores, just to bring back some mystery, rarity, and fun to the whole situation. This just seems like a pale imitation of what it could have been.

The name sounds like something for a lounge singer's compilation. I know not everyone is going to be happy with every release, and there's always going to be a large number who will complain, but I think on this one the sentiment is almost universal.

It is so, so disappointing.

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I trained to be a photographer. I came out of college and thought I'd just go back to construction for the summer, and I'm still doing that about 25 years later.

I think there are times in life when you have to do things; there's a decision to be made and, if you don't grasp it, you lose that opportunity. There is always something or someone that is going to take your time.

Time in the moment can seem slow, but in retrospect, it's extremely fast.

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I've been using Poke since the early days, this new update is a significant improvement: it is a lot faster and features many in thread in conversation actions. The only thing I would like is to be able to change backgrounds, contact pictures, etc. But that's just a small thing.

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Say hi to the new Poke! 🌴

Now officially approved by Apple to text on Apple Messages.

As the first and only AI agent. Chat now: https://t.co/VIWYU64dUI

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@jonbream @prince Better design & title would help. It feels & looks like one of those random knock off compilations.

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@rorysutherland It’s the way. It’s physics. It’s easier. It’s safer.

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@TheStingisBack Although I can appreciate Scorsese's films from a filmmaking perspective, none of them have ever really had the emotional connection that Spielberg's films have had. Especially growing up in the 80s with E.T. and all of that, those films were magical for me.

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@Kyrannio It would be another, albeit very small, revenue route for artists that allow their work to be used.

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@thegarybrecka Two proper workouts in the gym and then some sea swimming and some cycling (turbo mode) for recovery

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@KettlebellDan I found a rolling the foot along a rolling pin worked well.

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Local cliff goats.

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Sitting in the car park until the end of the song (Just my Imagination)