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American exceptionalism.

If you’re there a bit longer I’ll head over soon.

History may never see an alcoholic more functional than Winston Churchill.

Pass on to any burners you know

I am just a designer, but may I humbly put forth @hamburgerz.bsky.social

He slayed on stuff at Fission. Only complaint is sometimes he needs to be told to slow down and just enjoy life.

AI is Uber for Googling.

I did it for everyone’s tired eyeballs. But mostly my own.

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Projector

Yeah that’s a stretch, I think.

Careful out there everyone.

Writing For Models Models increasingly operate as filters in our daily lives. If a critical detail is missed by them, that's a lost opportunity for you. We should consider localizing our content to the needs of models ...

Models increasingly operate as filters in our daily lives. If a critical detail is missed by them, that's a lost opportunity for you.

Let’s localizing for models, just as we do for humans. Models are the highest leverage readers rn.

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This was great. Can’t wait to read the book.

Nothing like putting an anonymous tip line on an immutable public ledger.

Did anything interesting happen today?

Rube Goldberg making everybody an omelette?

Amazing! 🌑❤️

Congrats!

Language compresses thoughts into a lossy format, like blurry images.

arbiglish a #13 by depatchedmode.eth

Unword of the Day:
brain, from the arbiglish dialect

This word also means something in English, but it's unclear yet what it means in arbiglish and whether it shares any etymology with its arbiglish equivalent.

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Unword of the Day:
tirste, of the optiglish language

A downright nasty utterance with a pleasantness score of 0.4822808860735412 — putting directly into vulgar territory. And a fittingly monotone 3-note melody sung in many agents by a robotic voice.

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My anecdata is that I haven't met a single person who has switched back.

I know one person who switched to a plug-in hybrid because they wanted to do long trips in rural Ontario.

The unglish word "thoont" as represented by its generative art token.

Unword of the Day:
thoont

From the baglish dialect, thoont is a beautiful word with a quite high pleasantness score of 1.7225302251916133 and a gorgeous 8 note vocal melody.

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Hell yeah. Friday is pretty free. Just hit me at calendly.com/ryanfission

This is actually a better way to just play with it, further removed from any blockchain madness:
unglish.co.uk/iterations/a...

Sponsoring a word via the blockchain is still possible further down the page, though.

Maybe offchain attestations posted to IPFS and correlated and filtered by a program running on the everywhere.computer

Sort of like urban dictionary / wikipedia, but decentralized. And you can have your own private registry which you may or may not publish to a global registry.

Seems like a pretty good fit for EAS.

Can't have a populist without populi, though.

Also worth mentioning I've been working on the word engine for the past 2 years. It's a tiny bit of html.

Launched last night. Still searching for the best way to articulate things. Venturing forth into the unknown.

🎶 Play here and try the spacebar and arrow keys: highlight.xyz/mint/659a72f...

The bigger picture is at unglish.co.uk

It’s in the vein of Flarf and pwoermds. The blockchain is just there to commit the first words to the experimental cannon. Proof of word? Maybe that’s what I should have called it, haha.

Next step is a dictionary. Current goal is poetry.