The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @texttheater ever

March 16th, 2022

caitiedelaney The thing that’s still bothering me about this is that a giraffe is easily one of the most disproportionate animals when halved. Which half, scientists. In what direction is it halved. I hate this twitter.com/mailonline/sta…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 11:47 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

wortwicht @GabrielBerlin Kraftwerk-Stimme:

"Applizier das Remulat!
Es bereichert den Salat.
Artischocken, Rahmspinat,
alles schmeckt mit Remulat."

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 11:44 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

highfrontvowel Was thinking what if a die was continuous and then I was like wait a sec that’s just a ball 😵‍💫

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 9:14 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

eriktorenberg Effectively changing behavior is about both changing your old habit *and* convincing the people you interact with to understand that you’ve made a change

The previous way you showed up left an impression & you have to work to update the mental model people built of you over time

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 5:49 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

janalasser Last November we founded the "network against power abuse in science" (MaWi) netzwerk-mawi.de/en/power-abuse.

@JMWiarda interviewed us about the aims and activities of the network. I think the interview turned out very nicely 😊

jmwiarda.de/2022/03/17/das…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 5:48 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

xkcdtitletext @xkcd "Now, you may argue that the varying hour lengths and feedback effects would cause chaos. To which I say, yeah, and I'm also curious to see how the weekday cycle interacts with it! So, you in?"

via xkcd title text (retweeted on 5:22 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

xkcd Consensus Time xkcd.com/2594 pic.twitter.com/0rUNJtJ3sr

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 5:22 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

vagina_museum This illustration comes from the very catchily-titled "A sett of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment, of the practice of midwifery, with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases", because SEO was analogue in 1754.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 5:01 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

edyong209 I just...

My view on the daylight-savings-time debate is that I don't care when the sun rises or sets as long as I can be yeeted into it.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 3:20 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

edyong209 This is the same panic-neglect cycle that dooms us to a perpetual state of pandemic unpreparedness. It's truly amazing to watch it unfold *in the middle of a pandemic.*

theatlantic.com/health/archive…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 3:20 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

edyong209 Immunocompromised people: Can we at least get easy and equitable access to treatments before you decide to give up on preventing infections? theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Govt: What if we do the latter while making the former *more* difficult? twitter.com/nprpolitics/st…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 3:20 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

edyong209 The govt and its advisors have spent months assuring people that "we have the tools".

Maybe I should write an explainer about what the words "we" and "have" mean.

twitter.com/ddiamond/statu…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 3:19 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

DB_Bahn Nicht mal die Maske vom größten TikToker Deutschlands hat einen vernünftigen Platz bekommen. twitter.com/Tim_Vollert/st…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 3:17 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

»Für das nächste Jahr wünsche ich mir von dir ein Minimum an Konsistenz beim Benennen von Dingen.«

via Twitter Web App

»Kennst du den Witz, wo ein Grieche den anderen anruft?« – »Nein?« – »Also. Ein Grieche ruft den anderen an.« (Pause.) (Gelächter.)

via Twitter Web App

»Die sind toll, die alten griechischen Frauen.« – »Aber sie können auch schwierig sein.« – »Ja. Wer nicht.«

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cactus_chef Wenn ich auf einem Empfang wäre und einen frisch gefangenen, noch zuckenden Aal im Rucksack hätte und ihm (dem Aal) den Kopf abbisse, damit Ruhe ist, und den Kopf dann in hohem Bogen ausspuckte, würde er bestimmt im Dekolleté der just dann eintretenden Königin von Dänemark landen

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:08 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

neutsch_org liebäugeln – ulg lieb – ülge lieb – liebge·ulgen neutsch.org/Starke_Verben/L

via neutschbot (retweeted on 12:08 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

peterdhintz Können wir jetzt nie wieder von diesem unseligen Menschen hören twitter.com/tagesschau/sta…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 12:02 PM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

arankomatsuzaki CANINE: Pre-training an Efficient Tokenization-Free Encoder for Language Representation

A pre-training strategy w/o hard token boundaries trains a character-level encoder that outperforms mBERT w/ fewer parameters.

arxiv.org/abs/2103.06874 pic.twitter.com/XWWlD2X80q

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 10:31 AM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter Web App)

enpunktkapunkt Die ganze Nacht grundlos durchgeschlafen wie konnte das passieren

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 8:01 AM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

Wordle 270 3/6

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via Twitter for Android

"Irgendetwas an dieser Szene hat mich so irritiert, dass ich mich noch daran erinnere. Ich glaube diese Haltung immer wieder zu erkennen." Putinversteher herr-rau.de/wordpress/2022…

via Twitter for Android

cHHillee Everybody wants their models to run faster. However, researchers often cargo cult performance without a solid understanding on the underlying principles.

To address that, I wrote a post called "Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr From First Principles". (1/3)

horace.io/brrr_intro.html pic.twitter.com/pPiQLHmstH

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:23 AM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

spinfocl Was ich jetzt total knorke fände, wäre eine Kommunikation der BuReg (Lauterbach vielleicht?) was genau die Strategie bzgl. sein soll. Bisher habe ich mir die zusammenreimen können, aber jetzt wird’s mir doch zu erratisch.

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 12:36 AM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

RestonDad @DSenFloor It was a mistake made twice in the last century
Starting early enough to make it 3 times this century? pic.twitter.com/YFsfnR5jZ7

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 12:33 AM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

OpenAI GPT-3 can now make changes to existing content, not just predict what comes next. Released in the API today: openai.com/blog/gpt-3-edi… pic.twitter.com/jHXsDYcEM0

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:32 AM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

xkcd So glad to hear Congress is finally replacing daylight saving time with my common-sense system xkcd.com/1061 pic.twitter.com/m0zUKjC4hu

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 12:31 AM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

MohamadZoror thinking about the mechanic at Hyundai that found a rabbit IN my car pic.twitter.com/kWCAvOjmqz

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 12:29 AM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)

Grumpfdalm As a...
current Microsoft user

I want to...
see flow-breaking ads for Microsoft products all over my Microsoft products

So that...
I can discover the excellent usability of Microsoft products

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 12:28 AM, Mar 16th, 2022 via Twitter for Android)