The sentence is not the oldest, but the oldest written in the first known alphabet. It appears on a head-lice comb some 3,700 years old and says, in its totality, “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” A testament to the millennia-long struggle betwixt human and nit.
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AI Tweet Generator is a site that does exactly that. Punch in someone’s Twitter handle and it’ll generate a bunch of tweets that sort of look like something they’d say. Really, though, as with a lot of AI stuff, the mistakes are the more enjoyable part of the output. Here’s what it came up with for the Chief Twit:
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Get ready for gaming on TikTok.
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has been testing games in the app for a while now — not just videos of games, but actual playable titles — and it seems we can expect a proper launch for the feature next Wednesday, November 2nd. The FT has a report on what TikTok is calling its “first gaming event,” but check back here next week for the details.
TikTok to launch standalone gaming channel
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