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Why is the text in a picture typewriter style? Is he trying to project formality?. Odd person



Is he perhaps implying something nefarious about a typewriter? Maybe his typewriter disappeared and he's suspecting Sam Altman? Very suspicious.


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That’s what I came to ask. Why is it a picture at all? A screen shot of text rather than the actual text? If it’s posted from his own account why post a screen shot of something he wrote? That frankly makes it less authentic and more weird.

The font itself is weird. It’s not a programming monospaced font it’s a typewriter font which has weird kerning and other aspects that make it both noticeable and less useful than a console font.

What an end to end bizarre post.


That's just courier, which was originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for their typewriters, but is perfectly fine as a programming font. Heck, you can find it in use as a programming font (in books, reports, papers, etc) probably going back to the 1950, so it's been a "programming font" for nearly 70 years.


I’m not saying people didn’t use this font for a terminal but it’s not a font designed for terminals it’s designed to optimize the strike of a typewriter. Using it on a modern terminal is anachronistic at best, but using it to provide the content of a tweet in an image is bizarre.


It's a monospaced font and he's a computer programmer. Probably a screenshot from emacs or whatever text editor he uses. Not that weird.


I expect my aging parents who were working full time before personal computers existed to know how to copy and paste text instead of taking a picture of a screen, and my bar for managing a technology incubator/fund is higher than that.


Perhaps it was intentional to make it not copy pastable as text.


You’re aware that OCR-copying text from images is a builtin feature of smartphones and even some desktop OSes nowadays?


Respectfully, what in the world would be the point of that? It's not like it's impossible to reproduce the text if you can't copy/paste.


I thought the coveted "blue check" allowed long Tweets? Even less reason to post an image of text.




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