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Alex (ｱﾚｯｸｽ)
@alexwilson.bsky.social
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News Nerd • Engineering Lead • Red-Team • Electronic Musician • 🇬🇧 Brummie in 🇯🇵 Tokyo • he/him


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sam this is wild WTF
a conversation reading: noted. we’re live. tell me something\ yeah ok: most “cutting-edge” ai research rn is just fancy matrix compression with a marketing budget. also, you’re probably dehydrated. fuck you're right obv. drink some water, touch some grass, maybe uninstall a package manager or two just for fun. has the funniest person who has ever lived been born yet? probably not. comedy is compressing pattern-recognition error into a dopamine spike, and we’re still running 200k-year-old firmware. once we get someone with 4chan pattern-recognition + seneca timing + tiktok delivery, it’s over. that said, robin williams w/ a neural lace would be UNFAIR. if the cut-off is right now. who was the funniest person to date? if we’re freezing the timeline rn: richard pryor. no contest. dave chappelle’s close, but pryor invented that level of raw + vulnerable + surgical. george carlin is for reddit. mitch hedberg is for your sadboi phase. norm macdonald was a chaos elemental and deserves a separate category. everyone else is downstream.
May 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works "This lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology."
May 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Well, we finally did it folks. We finally found the exception to @ianbetteridge.com's law.
"Is James Corden the UK's most annoying export?" as a push-notification from "The Times and The Sunday Times"
April 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Hong Kong sure is beautiful this time of year.
March 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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greendale community college
January 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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happy near year lxds. may 2025 bring you love, health and wealth.
Which of these terms was named the Oxford University Press word of the year? Brain rot
January 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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I did my best but ... only 14 :(
A screenshot reading, "You got 14 out of 23 questions right. A highly respectable score, without succumbing to full-blown Westminster geekdom!"
December 31, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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hah!
a list of 5 most listened to podcasts: 1 - abroad in japan 2 - darknet diaries 3 - cyberwire daily 4 - ft news briefing 5 - cortex
December 29, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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merry christmas folks!

these are jaffa cakes - which came in a tin which is also a fully functional clock!
a tin of jaffa cakes which came in a tin which had a fully functional clock. the time it displays is 5:40.
December 25, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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Did you know you can "feature" a workflow in Slack?

Recently I learned about this feature and it slaps. So good for self-serve.

Check it out: slack.com/help/artic...
A screenshot of a featured workflow on Slack. In place of the normal input box, there is a button reading "Request a thing".
December 12, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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Definitely too late now!
Two suitcases now in the entrance of a Japanese apartment. There are some unopened slippers on the floor.
November 24, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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More photos on IG, but, well, it’s too late to back out now. 😅
Two suitcases on a train platform. The train is the Heathrow Express.
November 23, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Lost a bag to one of these gangs last year, and I tracked down its airtag to a drain near the Olt Kent road. The police said this is common, the gangs clear out trackers + put things in faraday bags pretty sharpish.
A drain grate, with an airtag visible inside.
November 16, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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This implies the existence of a magical half-way point in which Milka Philadelphia rocks your world. I can't wait.
A pack of Kraft-brand Philadelphia soft cheese with Milka chocolate branding. It shows a picture of a a chocolate-coloured spread on bread.
November 12, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Duolingo is the worst for this, holy hell. Here are two I found, but I’ve definitely seen/received worse.
A notification from Duolingo reading “A real friend honors their Friend Streak, Alex”. A dialogue in Duolingo allowing me to select an image, to send a notification to a friend reading “Please don’t make me cry!”.
November 11, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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Experiencing festival withdrawal: #Bangface was dope. Thanks for the laughs.
October 7, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #36,449!
September 17, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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first pumpkin spice of the season ✅
A Starbucks cup
August 26, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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When the glow of the blood-stained moon shines upon the land...

(UK right now)
picture of a red moon (but really it's just pepperoni)
August 18, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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Tell me you're stuck home with Covid without telling me you're stuck home with covid.

(BOTW stats)
# Shrines Total: 151/152 Ground Shrines: 119/120 Sky Shrines: 32/32 Lightroots: 120/120
August 5, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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It's now 1230. I've been trying to debug this problem since 1000.
Trying to find why my calculations are all off by exactly 12 sigh, I was missing some brackets the entire time. there go 3 hours of my life. Turns out that (40*0.5*((3*17/40)-0.66))/17 and (40*0.5*(3*17/40)-0.66)/17 are different and I just couldn't spot it. And then (((40*0.5*(3*17/40)-0.66)/17)-((40*0.5*((3*17/40)-0.66))/17))*((16+17)/2) is just a rounding error off of 12.
July 20, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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tried to run before I could walk
July 14, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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checkmate
July 14, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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How's your evening going?
February 14, 2024 at 12:36 AM