Colin Mutchler

Key distinction: being bipartisan isn't good enough in a world where more Americans don't identify strongly with either major party. We need trans-partisan solutions that value our independent Americans as a major force. #UnrigTheSystem

Maybe in his imagined virtual world in which everything is software systems controlled by the brains of humans and computers, but our bodies are more than brains and there is deep wisdom in our relationships to other species and our geographies.

While I agree that the culture of the people are more the country than the land, I think Elon has a major blind spot: that cultures have evolved alongside their relationship to their land, climate, and the plants and animals of their ecosystem.

@bilawalsidhu Seems like video feeds are now on similar path to SEO text content, with AI tools scaling up volume exponentially, dramatically reducing % expressions of authentic human experience. Money made for traffic bots with continued increase in human loneliness and disconnection 😬😞

TikTok’s Symphony Creative Studio turns URLs into videos, creates avatars, dubs in 30+ languages, oh and refreshes campaigns weekly. It’s HeyGen meets Synthesia -- all inside TikTok. AI generated ads at the speed of virality. Get ready for a lot more "UGC" content in your feeds 🫣

@umesh_ai @LumaLabsAI Yeah I’m going to try editing the photos to remove any unnecessary noise like other objects in background so that the portraits are at least more exclusively focused on her face. But inherently since they are real archival photos they aren’t going to be as perfectly aligned.

@activefree @LumaLabsAI Photos can be used as well, right? I think one way is to use a zoomed-in version of photos focusing more on the face and try animating.

👶 Face of Time 👵 Made with #LumaDreamMachine 1.5 Sound on 🔊 Complete workflow ⤵️

@umesh_ai Thanks for sharing. I'm trying to do a similar life timelapse, but with my real grandmother as source material instead of AI generated characters. Since photos aren't designed for the workflow, and @LumaLabsAI keeps transitioning entire scene instead of face only. Any ideas?

Prompting Tips: There's a Prompt Guide that’s super helpful. I recommend checking it out and experimenting. You can even load the whole guide into an LLM and customize it for your own prompts. For smooth transitions between two frames, I tried testing with and without prompting.

@PicturesFoIder This is the correct answer since hippos are vegetarians anyway

@PicturesFoIder Obviously Hippo since they eat plants. All the others would want to kill and eat me. usatoday.com/story/news/202….

You have to survive 20 minutes with one of them for $100 Million Which are you picking?

If you're angry that I gave a giant asshole $8 so I could get an "edit tweet" button, holy shit are you going to be furious when you find out where the fossil fuels that heat my house come from. Shopping your way out of monopoly capitalism is a fool's errand. You are not an ambulatory wallet. Shopping isn't politics. Politics are politics: organizing, writing, speaking, voting, ringing doorbells, marching. Shopping. Is. Not Politics.

@bilawalsidhu Loving following your experimentations @bilawalsidhu. The use case I'm interested in is recreating 360 memories of a local place. So imagine using Google Streetview data of a city block, feeding archival photos of that block, and recreating what it could have been. Possible?

Happy FridAI and good morning ya'll! 🌄 🌸Soak in those gorgeous cherry blossoms! 😍 🏯 Tokyo-inspired AI video creation 🇯🇵 🔮 NeRFs + ControlNet + EbSynth = Visual Alchemy! 🪄 ✨What scenes should I transform next? Share your suggestions and I'll add them to my creation queue!

Prediction: the breakthrough experience will be putting a relatively photo realistic version of your FaceTime partner on a chair or couch in your living room. engadget.com/apple-mixed-re…

@sama Many animals and other beings have consciousness and experience time and memory at similar and sometimes superior levels as humans.

haven’t seen this as a twitter thread, so: what true thing do you believe that few people agree with you on?

I’ve spent the past year visiting memorials, monuments, and museums in Germany, exploring how that country remembers the Holocaust. I wanted to understand if there was anything the U.S. could learn. The story is out now on the cover of @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…!

"Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration" is out TODAY! So grateful to @megan_comfort and @Maura_R for believing in it from the beginning and to my magnificent partner, @gretchengehrke for moving mountains to make it possible for me to write.

What if we added native maps of original nations to downtown historical signage? Deepening our experience of the history of our place.

"The frequency seems to be increasing .... mostly juvenile males." Maybe the activists from the ocean are starting to get organized. npr.org/2022/08/20/111…

Thought you might potentially know someone who could potentially connect us. @gob @benwerd @coreyford I found this article interesting and relevant. michelsonip.com/intellectual-p…

A friend is looking for legal counsel familiar with @creativecommons licenses. In particular, they're exploring CC in combination with an agreement to address culturally appropriate adaptation of content or accountability mechanisms when content is mis-appropriated.

@tonystubblebine @Medium Congrats Tony, that’s such exciting news! ❤️

Be someone who handles hard better.

“Democrats spend too much time & energy imagining policies that a capable government could execute and not nearly enough time imagining how to make a government capable of executing them. It’s not only markets that have failed.” Agreed ⁦@ezraklein⁩ nytimes.com/2022/05/29/opi…