say less!

@piousdeenn and a few others could be added.

Arabic has 14 words for love. Each one describes a different stage. And here's what got me. Each one comes from a root that has nothing to do with love. Until you see the connection. And then you can't unsee it. All 14. Let me walk you through them.

My friend with ocd is fiddling with a browser extension so that whenever they look up something triggering as a compulsion it just redirects to this instead

@redpillb0t NOOOO NOT CONNECTING WITH GOD DIRECTLYYY I think there's more than a few churchgoers lacking frontal lobe activation... 🌚

This man suspiciously disappeared after he exposed the spells that are being cast in music.

@MolassesAss @redpillb0t Innit 😂

@redpillb0t No. He's just trying to justify white folks clapping on the kick instead of the snare. In almost every so g in 4|4 time, the snare is on the 2, which is where you clap along. This is so very stupid.

Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded. At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him. It worked. He had a seizure on the spot. They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing. When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline. He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later. Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language. The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief. That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness." He earned the right to say it. its never over. never give up fren.

British Actors are taking all the Roles 🎬😂

In Australia, a man named Alfie Date moved into a retirement home at the age of 109. About 12 hours after he arrived, two of the nurses came to his room and asked if he could knit. He could, he’d been at it since 1932. They told him about a program asking volunteers to knit tiny woolen sweaters for an endangered species called Little Penguins. The sweaters stop oil-covered birds from cleaning themselves with their beaks during a spill, because the oil is toxic if they swallow it. Alfie said yes. He spent his last two years knitting hundreds of them. He was lost in 2016, at 110.

not to be that annoying person, but david byrne is right about all this

A man is on a smoke break at work, we are watching him, he is watching the time. After all, five o’ clock can’t come soon enough. He will finish his cigarette and turn around and go inside, we will catch the door, wait ten seconds and go inside as well. As he’s going home, we will be going to work. It’s rush hour in New York and that is perfect, we become nothing, specks in the sea of chaos, playing our part in the universal dance. Nobody sees us, because nobody looks up, everybody has somewhere to be, and I suppose we’re no different. More than any other shot, I’ve been asked what I was thinking in the moment of taking this self-portrait and the answer is absolutely nothing. It was pure presence. The wind was picking up and a storm was coming, sirens and horns blended into the cacophony on the streets below, but inside, there was the same silence that drew me to the work five years prior. Two months later, we’d do it all again, this time, arriving as an enormous storm passed, a double rainbow sprawling across the sky as we stepped onto the roof. We didn’t waste time, everybody climbed in succession and I shot and filmed. We were, once again, specks in the sea of existence, playing our small part in that orchestrated dance we know locally as New York City, but beyond, the world. New York Times Tower // 2023.

@starks_arq Amir DM us, the UK film industry wants a word 💚

Seedance 2.0 + real recorded video + reference image for style = wild.

@BlackboxAIhost @wadadawadada Yooooooooo Go time! We're making OMNI, a cute lil interdimensional space frog Pokémon companion for creative /neurodivergent folk and we've been envisioning OMNIBOX for ages Exactly what ur working on! Based in London wya? Time to get the network up EarthLink! 👽🛸✨

your phone connects to a small radio in your pocket that radio talks to your blackbox node the node runs AI, mesh, and value transfer no sim. no carrier. no bill. you own the network. v1 → comms. data explorer. value transfer. v2 → image/video over radio. social layer. this is an open source project we need contributors rf. embedded. protocol. fullstack. tag someone who should be building with us!

President Trump locked out of the Situation Room by his own staff. Whispers of nuclear codes requested and refused. A ceasefire on a timer. Before the world freaks out... Save the Notice! Share it! When the grid goes, the screenshot in your camera roll is the last manual you'll have. blackbox [dot] host

@starks_arq @babakarto We gotta make ZOMBOZOS Zombie Mafia Movie

i gave a friend unlimited credits and the rights to use my face…

Bringing AI to Hollywood: Episode 2 After New York, we flew to LA. The place that ran motion pictures for the last 100 years. It shaped how we think about heroes, friendship, and success. Now we’re showing up with a bag and a laptop, chatting with the creatives building what’s next. Old world meeting new world and we are documenting everything. Sat down with @PJaccetturo to compare workflows and talk about the future of generative AI. Met @hardeep_gambhir and @Chandan_Perla on the distribution of AI films. One meeting we couldn’t film. Top tier EP. No human was replaced in this process.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ We’re hiring creators to join this team of technical creatives - let’s build the future of film together. Enjoy our series - we will keep them coming

@starks_arq @UtopaiStudios

Historical epics used to cost millions. We captured Alexander the Great’s darkest realization using @UtopaiStudios. Here's the exact blueprint:

What ancient instruments sounded like. Video by Bilimtuel Which is your favorite?

VR founder Jaron Lanier says a future where people are paid for the data they give AI is better than one where everyone depends on billionaires to survive "artificial intelligence is a marketing term, even a religion" The software behind drug discovery and chatbots is very different, but we call it all "AI" because it serves politics, ideology