@mintdotgg Creativity should not be locked behind remembering short cuts and submenus
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3D is no longer a skill, it’s just expression
You can now restore any nostalgic game, TV show, or movie and build you’re own video game out of it with Mint
It’s never been easier to generate, rig, and animate characters and worlds all from one chat
The future of 3D is going back to the past
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The goal shouldn't be to just push black students into schools they aren't qualified for with DEI policies
How about trying to actually improve the performance of black students?
Lincoln Restler@LincolnRestler
1 in 5 NYC public school students are Black, but at Stuy - our most prestigious high school - 3 of ~800 incoming Freshmen are Black. We urgently need state legislation to modify the admissions process. A single test should never be only factor deciding who gets in & who doesn’t.
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i said the answer was more interesting than a yes or a no. here it is.
left is grok 4.5's build. three minutes, one prompt, cold start, every test green. right is the original, the same scene grok build and i grew over three weeks of iteration. same locked spec on both sides.
here's the part that breaks brains: grok 4.5 matched every single number in that spec. 5,200 bark fibres, exactly. 650 stars, exactly. trunk tapering 0.62 to 1.55 over 4.6 units, exactly. the acceptance gate came back 12 for 12.
and the scenes still don't look alike. the grass on the left technically exists, 8,000 instanced blades, but the spec never gave a blade height, the model guessed short, and the lawn vanished. the crown clumped upward instead of spreading, because "a rounded ancient crown" is an adjective, not a number. the pond shrank to a smear at the rim. every number transferred perfectly. everything alive in the scene lived in the adjectives.
that's the actual state of coding agents in july 2026. speed is solved. correctness is mostly solved. taste is not close. you can hand a model your spec. you cannot yet hand it your eye.
i bench agents. this is what the benches are for, finding the exact line between what's solved and what's marketing. all tests green and the world still doesn't feel right. sit with that one.
Sudo su@sudoingX
three minutes and eight seconds. that's how long grok 4.5 took to build this entire three.js world from my locked spec. one prompt in grok build, zero steering, first full run. seven files, about 2,200 lines. floating island with procedural bark and rock, grass, a day night cycle, a lake with lily pads, fireflies, flying goblins. and a 12 test acceptance gate it had to pass without touching the tests. all green. i benchmark coding agents constantly and the speed still caught me off guard. the timer in the video is real time. i fired the prompt and got up for water, it was verifying its own browser render before i sat back down. this is what the new frontier pace feels like. the bottleneck isn't the model writing code anymore, it's me writing the spec. xai came late to coding agents and is moving like they know exactly whose lunch they're eating. is the build perfect? that's the next post. the answer is more interesting than a yes or a no.
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Hilarious how all the libs are responding like, "so what, I still love it here. I get robbed by black guys every week, pussy. We have corner bodegas where I can get Bangladeshi diarrhea platters at 2am. Try getting that in your lily white suburb with its grass parks and children who can safely play in the street."
Dan Nunn@danyay
Visited Chicago for a few days and had a great time. Was hoping to write a tweet about how safe it is and how its reputation is undeserved. Then on the walk home on the final night, River North area from Mom’s Place around 2:30am, a black guy rapidly approached my friend and I asking about subway directions. I figured something was up since I assume the subway doesn’t run at that hour. As we walked faster, we saw two other guys at the corner staring at us, probably accomplices. “Be prepared to run,” my friend said. We must have walked faster enough, or maybe we misread the situation, but I won’t go around saying “Chicago is so safe!” Rather, be vigilant and you’ll have a good time. Still love the city.
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Just posted to the EA Forum: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SePcpmiS…
Another benchmark: Scott's donations would have generated 50-100x the QALYs if provided as cash transfers to the global poor via @GiveDirectly.
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.@mackenziescott has given away $26 billion. What did it buy in health?
I built an interactive model from her own gift database: ~70,000 QALYs weighting each study by causal credibility, ~200,000 taking every effect at face value.
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I'm working on two versions of this in parallel:
A math-based approach, and an AI model approach.
Math on the left, AI on the right. They are close, but man, the lines the AI was able to pull out are crazy.
Astropulse@RealAstropulse
I am building the single most effective AI art -> real pixel art converter on the internet right now- it's not close, and I'm so excited! The amount of distortion it can correct for is unprecedented.
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@DumbFxckFinder And people say ai slop. Best shit ive seen all day 😆👍
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@brianchau57 I agree with your points; the McDonald’s example is not good however, if you read the case details, they were really doing dumb shit outside of normal practices. It wasn’t just a simple case of spilled hot coffee. I think we are all learning that empathy has limits
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We tested Fable 5, Grok 4.5, GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra, and GLM 5.2 on the same arcade game prompt.
This was the result :
Claude Fable 5 - the smoothest gameplay of the four. fluid movement, no jank.
Grok 4.5 - nailed the screen shake, particle explosions, neon cinematics. most visually dramatic build.
GPT 5.6 Sol - the all-rounder. genuinely great gameplay experience, nothing broken, everything solid.
GLM 5.2 - an open-weight model shipping a complete, playable build that held its own against three closed frontier models.
Which one did you like the most?
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things might get a bit ✨ weirder ✨
midjourney 8.2 preview
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Marco Rubio finding out he has to run as a Progressive in Maine now too.
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@JohnLeFevre You’re forgetting all the cool parties and celebrities she gets to hang out it. Worth it
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Imagine if MacKenzie Scott Bezos donated her $26 billion like this?
giving it directly to low income kids and teaching them about investing and compounding. Giving them a leg up.
Instead, she burned her money with fanatical left wing bureaucrats and their 6-7 figure salaries, NGO outsourcing, endless corruption and fraud, and radical causes that have made the world worse for 100 years.
Gwynne Shotwell@Gwynne_Shotwell
My husband and I are honored and thrilled to participate in the Invest America program and gift a share of our SpaceX stock to a Trump Account for each of more than two million children across our great nation. Every American child under 18 can benefit from having a Trump Account, but our gift specifically goes to the Accounts of children (ages 11-17) that live in areas with lower average household incomes with a bit more emphasis for those that live near our central Texas home. We have been fortunate in our careers and hope this gift encourages the next generation to continue the journey of enabling humanity to live and fly amongst the stars. A huge thanks to all that worked to bring this incredible program to life.
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@Midnight_Captl Report to the SEC they don’t play around. Maybe get a bounty
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Collette shouldn’t be calling Dylan anymore. There should be no more privileged information, access, or support given
SemiAnalysis got way too influential way too fast. Not enough life experience, and now you have a bunch of kids effectively pushing around the narratives that our entire stock market revolves around. Platforming them was a mistake
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@AldenWhitfeld Apparently Americans are responsible for filling up all the diesel gas tanks in Africa just in case someone has a medical emergency
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Exactly, where are all the bodies? It’s 2026, everyone in Africa has a cell phone, there would be pictures. Instead we get estimates and projections and videos of fake boxes of supplies. WHERE ARE THE BODIES? Instead, that money was a redistribution of American taxpayer money with maybe 1% going to actual “aid”
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A recent article in @TheArgumentMag accused @elonmusk of killing millions by cutting USAID. I looked into the evidence, and it does not hold up. Link to the new post in the replies.
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@boltondynamics Tech only recently got good enough for professional use. Images: after nano banana release (fall 25). Video: seedance2 (feb 26). Programming: opus 4.5/openclaw (jan 26).
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