simon balmain
ai for the people, by the people 🟧
community lead at rabbit inc (creators of r1 and large action model) ✨
former senior community manager at twitter 🐦
past: sphere messenger, monzo, bbc
vegan, fan of funk music, travel, prince and michael jackson.
- This kind of coverage was unthinkable a year ago. Lesser companies would have died, and many thought we would. Instead we kept shipping, kept building, kept fighting. And now here we are. Back in the game, back in the fight. It's true - what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. #rabbitr1 #rabbitOS2
- I want to make sure that #rabbitr1 is well represented here on Bluesky, so if you own one, reply and let me know!
- We have one more software update drop for #rabbitr1 before the end of the year and I think it might be our best one yet 💜
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- I think over 100k sales of r1 is a very respectable number. It's orders of magnitude higher than what we anticipated, and I don't know of anyone else that has come close, to date.
- Digital nomad life. Third #workstation unlocked. Work from in-law’s penthouse unlocked. Maybe I should get a new screen. This one has 15 years and was burnt out due to too many Street Fighter 4 matches
- I also have the r1 in the stand underneath the monitor! The perfect place to keep it.
- Not suppressing links is and will continue to play a quiet but major role in the success of this platform. The web was built for connections, and links are the plumbing. It's ridiculous, that thanks to Instagram, "link in bio" and such things are understood vernacular.
- The rabbit r1 is becoming surprisingly useful. I may soon be able to teach it to drive one of my robots around with the newest feature. I wish it wouldn't burn through battery so quickly when it's idle.
- I would love to see a video of this in action when you do it!
- Today, I played a bit with the #rabbitr1. This device doesn’t deserve all the hate I've read about it. Ok, it’s not what they promised. But doing vacation or black Friday research with Cyberpunk 2077-inspired UI? It really seems like the future
- Very cool UI - thanks for sharing! 🐰
- #rabbitr1 is a great little motivation machine, with a touch of my own personal generative UI 💜 whenever you want, just press the button and ask for a motivational/inspirational quote.
- Glad to see this starter pack of Ex Tweeps starting to get populated! Thanks @aviralsrivastava.com for making it and verifying folks on it. go.bsky.app/6PLQCKwat://did:plc:kufpcxo4ti5dgvgexvns6fyv/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbs46ai54r2n
- Are there any starter packs here of former Tweeps? @goldengateblond.bsky.social @ginevra.bsky.social maybe you've seen one? #OneTeam
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View full threadSorry, I didn’t get any DM, is the slack org “Twitter alumni”? I’m on that one. Meanwhile, finding the login for the other one.
- The Slack instance is “Forever A Tweep” - I think that’s the only one I’m in that you would be in, as the other instance I have is for EMEA tweeps.
- We just shipped a new OTA on #rabbitr1! We added display sleep settings, some fixes for generative UI, and a holiday easter egg (see if you can find it!) Release notes here: t.co/im9hbwmqIu
- Can you find me in either of them? Same name.
- found and DMd on there!
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- I'm in a couple of ex-Tweep slacks but not sure which one you're referring to!
- I find more people from Tech X every day for this starter pack, but who am I missing? We’ve got @pawlean.com @threehourcoffee.bsky.social @danielroe.dev @dthompsondev.bsky.social @mojitojoe.bsky.social and lots more ✅ Follow the list 🔁 Repost for visibility go.bsky.app/8F5pzRxat://did:plc:l7efeeafuge6rror4ohqpbon/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbfc57oxsf2d
- Would love to be included! 💙
- quite dystopian scenes at #london #euston with the main entrance from the tube closed and diverted (apparently a man seen on the floor convulsing), and a power cut with emergency lighting on the main concourse with all the screens off. this on top of some flooding cancellations earlier.
- Since we first announced #rabbitr1 at CES earlier this year, Teach Mode was one of the things that captured the imagination of the world! And today, it's available in beta to all r1 users! Let's go!!! #AI #AInews www.rabbit.tech/newsroom/tea...
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- Very cool!
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- Guess you haven't looked at our website recently.
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- Yep, we had a team that would create these in house! I'm still really proud of it.
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- Truly incredible writing. Thank you for sharing! And I miss you! 💙
- This is the way @jay.bsky.team! I think a lot of people forget how developer friendly Twitter *originally* was. There wasn't even an official app for years, and when it finally arrived, it was through an acquisition of a third party one. There were so many fun tools and services back then.
- By the time I worked there, there were serious efforts to get that back to a good place, but of course they got stymied by the sale. Which is why I'm thrilled to see @amir.blue here now 😊
- We used to say at Twitter 1.0 that we were "a community of communities". And I think we all understood that, if that breaks down, if any one group or interest began to dominate the timeline...... People would head for the exit. You're seeing that play out in real time.
- Sorry to share a screenshot from the other place. But you need to be aware of the greatest comeback story in tech. Yeah I'm biased. But we ship. And we ship hard. #rabbitr1
- Our new generative UI feature on #rabbitr1 made it onto The Verge! And those are my Zelda photos lol www.theverge.com/2024/11/15/2...
- Generative UI has landed on rabbit r1! Go to your rabbithole and style your own UI with a simple prompt. So much fun! Here's some examples Animal Crossing style
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- I'm with you!
- Legit proud of this Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #3,317!
- Windows XP style
- So many possibilities! Give it a try today.
- Sonic The Hedgehog style
- Alien / MUTHUR 6000 style
- Barbie / Nicki Minaj style (shout-out to @nicholasliddle.com!)
- Legend of Zelda style
- MySpace style
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- 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💜
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- Doing great my friend, how about you?
- I am here. 🥰
- Hi auntie 😊
- we'll ship this as an experimental feature tomorrow! #rabbitr1
- We have started implementing generative UI on the #rabbitr1 🔥 This is what happened when I asked it to analyze Bluesky (it found the post from @rose.bsky.team) Still work to do, you can see the bottom part is slightly janky but a great first step. This UI is based on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- yall am i on some sort of list i really hope so a "cool people" list maybe hello everyone!
- one of our alpha testers in teach mode made this INCREDIBLE video. blown away! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiKM...
- Back when Twitter was sold, I was one of the first to tweet that I was impacted by the layoffs. It went viral, and the MAGAs pounced with "THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR BANNING TRUMP" etc Except: - I didn't work there when those things happened - I'm from the UK - Didn't work on content moderation
- All of these things would have been obvious from looking at my profile for two seconds. Cult-like behaviour, and low comprehension skills.
- I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"
- Yes, and Google Wave too for that matter!
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- Fact check - true
- 2 days into the new #Zelda #EchoesOfWisdom and holy crap, Nintendo did it AGAIN! So much fun 😊
