Will Duffield

Internet Speech Governance. Adjunct Scholar @CatoInstitute. Unreasonable opinions are my own.

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

Did they really get pinned?
Did she kiss him and cry?
Did he pin the pin on?
Or was he too shy?
https://t.co/035a9MAC6H

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

YouTube comments are an anthropological goldmine.

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

@Devin_J_Monahan well *someone* has to supervise the waterboarding

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

surprise steel drums at the speakeasy

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

@FeralPHunter Hell yeah

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

@turtleinstincts milihelens are much more consistent, you've got six from me :)

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

'Tis the season

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

Here is the turtle. Really bad location to lay your eggs miss. Wonder if this is the turtle version of going into labor in the back of the car on the way to the hospital

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

@FeralPHunter Quit dancing around :p

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

@zdch @EddyElfenbein @MattLira where did you find this? @Actualwebutante

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

@selentelechia Sam Kriss puts it best

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

distant ancestors stay winning

[Dr Anton Howes @antonhowes]

A remarkable scene from the 1549 siege of Exeter by Catholic rebel forces:

One of the defending commanders on behalf of the king, Bernard Duffield, had been sallying out to attack the besiegers in the suburbs beyond the city walls. But the city leaders disagreed with the tactic and, after a big argument in which Duffield "fell out in foul and disordered speeches", had him imprisoned.

Hearing of this, Duffield's daughter, Frances, came to the mayor to demand his release. Yet upon being denied, "she waxed so warm that not only she used very unseemly terms and speeches unto the mayor, but also, contrary to the modesty and shamefacedness required in a woman, especially young and unmarried, ran most violently upon him and struck him in the face."

The incident provoked such alarm that a rumour spread that the mayor had been beaten or killed, causing the defending troops to march on the guildhall, but order was just about maintained.

[Magnus Pharao @MagnusPharao]

I think we should all resolve to make our own personal translations at this point.

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

@turtleinstincts Laser-based weather manipulation (to give us fair winds)

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

@turtleinstincts Good thing spent the afternoon cleaning the Laser!

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

@gptbrooke Yes indeed!

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

Osprey Thread

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

I've seen language consistency issues in a number of models (tokens may be language agnostic), but this is a much higher concentration of foreign language characters than usual.

[Lukas Petersson @lukaspet]

I think xAI uses a Chinese model for their reasoning summaries for Grok 4.3.

(no other chinese charachters in the context window)

[Will Duffield @Will_Duffield]

driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people meet cab drivers, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

As driverless cars threaten to slowly replace taxi drivers, Big Tech is yet again destroying human interaction and calling it “convenience,” Xochitl Gonzalez argues. https://t.co/1AApUlmnGo