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@Fuululuu This can't seriously be an issue ._. Wooden models have been used for posing reference by artists for centuries/millennia. Anyone complaining that a 3D model is "cheating" must also be insisting that all digital artwork isn't "real art" then I take it?

‼️ALRIGHT ARTISTS ‼️ Are we up for the challenge? All you gotta do is trace this lovely pose I put together in DesignDoll. Go, create. No AI bullshit. All skill levels and styles are welcome to join. Reply to this tweet with your finished artwork! I will check ALL submissions. 🫶

@ChibiReviews Totally random, but I know you like EXTRA big girls, and gotta give props to the devs for the Steam page description: store.steampowered.com/app/3220050/Bi…

Do women actually do this or is it just guys that do?

@MrJohnJnr This is the report from Feb 2026, not new news.

EXPLOSIVE REVELATION: FBI raid of an unlicensed biolab in a Las Vegas home linked to the Chinese Communist Party, found thousands of vials of blood and tissue. Genetically engineered mice were designed to carry COVID. Tests showed the vials contained COVID, hepatitis and malaria. FOLLOW ME, FOR THE NEXT DROP!

@BrandonBVarnell I want translations, not syntax-ignoring transliterations nor self-insert-commentary laden rewrites nor the linguistic butchery done for the sake of the mythical "modern audience".

Nobody is asking people to translate "私は猫が大好きです" into "I regarding cat really like". We're asking translators not to change the original meaning of the source content. We're asking translators not to add "skibidi rizz toilet" or to change "Male pride is such a pain" into "Fragile masculinity at it again." We're asking translators to keep the content as authentic to the original intent as possible. You can clean up direct literal translations to be more palatable to the English tongue without changing the meaning of what's being written or spoken. I really don't understand what's so hard about this.

Just about anyone can test this effect at home on their own. :) If you own a cellphone, use it to take a picture of the night sky using normal/daytime settings. Then take one with the default "night mode" or whatever your phone camera app calls it. Then take one with manual ISO settings at a high value and a 300-500ms exposure time. All 3 photos are real, you took them yourself. All 3 photos will look vastly different.

From the very same people who demanded to see stars in photos… now come complaints about the photo that shows these stars. 🙄 Let’s walk through what you’re actually looking at. These two images were taken less than a minute apart from Orion during Artemis II, using a Nikon D5 with a 14–24mm f/2.8 lens. The EXIF data is publicly available. This is not speculation. The image on the left is essentially what the scene looks like to the eye. The image on the right uses the full capability of a modern sensor, with higher ISO, longer exposure, and a wider aperture to pull in far more light. That is why you can clearly see the stars. (ISO basically is simply the camera’s sensitivity to light.) Nothing was added. Nothing was “photoshopped.” These are two direct captures showing what happens when you change settings with a capable camera. Now here’s why this matters. For decades, one of the loudest talking points from Moon landing deniers has been: “Where are the stars in the Apollo photos?” Apollo did not use modern digital cameras. They used modified Hasselblad film cameras with low-ISO film, about ASA 64 for color and ASA 80 for black and white, chosen specifically for photographing bright, sunlit lunar surfaces. That choice was intentional. Those cameras were designed to be simple, reliable, and usable with gloved hands. Limited settings. Low light sensitivity (ISO). Built and setup for the lighting conditions they knew they would encounter. And that comes with a tradeoff. When you expose correctly for a bright foreground, faint stars do not register. There was no practical way, with that equipment, to capture both a properly exposed lunar scene and faint background stars in the same shot. What these Artemis II Orion images demonstrate, very clearly, is exactly that principle, using a modern DSLR camera. One setting → no stars Another setting → stars appear Same place. Same moment. Same reality. The only thing that changed was the camera settings. And now that the answer is literally being shown to them, the question somehow remains, because like all zombie conspiracies, the goal is not understanding and seeking the truth, it is keeping the dead conspiracy alive.

@mattvanswol This is also why you never see Dems wearing hats. Because then they would be literal asshats. :)

It is honestly insane to me that the Democratic Party’s logo is literally an ass (donkey) with holes in it. Assholes. That’s their actual logo.

@Paz_Anon @MachtWaffen @WeaponsVault High uric acid content in their meat IIRC. Basically, the meat from the big ones smell & taste like urine.

@MachtWaffen @WeaponsVault Yes yes, I understand completely, but what do they do with their carcass? Because the meat is tasty, it's widely consumed in Italy, some other parts of Europe, etc And the hide can be used for leather just like any other mammal

I never thought I'd see the day that drones are dropping lawn darts on hogs

@ChibiReviews I'm actually hoping the Japanese creators/publishers figure out that global fans would be almost certainly happy with AI voice-clones of the original JP VAs (with appropriate credit/pay given to them) instead of local idjits adlibbing woke shit into dubs.

>Localizer admits what we all knew they were doing to Japanese Companies >They wonder why people cheer for them to be fired and replaced by ai

It's because the traditional starting age for heroic tales is around 14~16. Old enough to be transitioning from child>adult, young enough to not have adult responsibilities and therefore, they have the freedom to adventure. Applies all the way back thru storytelling to mythologies. That's why they're always highschoolers in anime.

@IanCarrollShow What exactly are you complaining is being covered up here?

Extremely graphic and disturbing. This is what Pam Bondi and Kash Patel and Donald Trump are covering up. This happened thousands of times to thousands of innocent children. And it’s still happening. There is no moving on until these people are put away for life. Be that in a cell or a grave.

@WacyKitty @RobertKennedyJr @HHSGov @SecKennedy @FDA @NIH This is a very good question and I hope it reaches someone who can answer it.

@RobertKennedyJr Mr. Kennedy, why is FMT still restricted by the FDA? Fecal Material Transplants are verifiably effective for at least several diseases and conditions but the FDA considers poop to be an untested drug. PLEASE change this.

The magic number they need to aim for is 21min. That's how long a half-hour show really is, minus commercials & OP/ED credits. Anyone who does not have concerns about retaining IP rights will be able to make full-length TV shows at that point, nearly for free. I'm looking forward to the goofiness of watching AI-liveaction versions of old favorite anime already. How does this thing handle more extreme deformation / non-real physics when fed an animated source that is further from reality than Attack on Titan?

Seedance 3.0 specs just leaked. If this is accurate, this isn’t another incremental AI video upgrade. It’s a structural shock to Hollywood. • 10 to 18 minute coherent films in one pass • Persistent narrative memory across scenes • Native multi language voice with emotional control • Shot level directing inputs like a real production workflow • Cost reportedly a fraction of traditional shoots We are not talking about TikTok clips anymore. We are talking about full cinematic episodes generated from prompts. Hollywood’s moat was scale, capital, and distribution. AI just compressed all three.

@Rainmaker1973 @dumbfrenchrat This one's for you

A Canadian man who had two rats as pets learned that letting them drive a miniature car reduced their levels of stress, so he gave them an electric miniature car and taught them to drive. [📹 emperorsofmischief]

It's going to be an IP nightmare to deal with it outside of China, was probably coded/trained only in Chinese (naturally less accurate/reliable in other languages,) etc. I think the only genuine reason we won't see GenAI being used commercially anytime soon is because of IP laws are lagging in addressing how it can be used while still retaining rights to IP. ie: Text2Img/Vid does not qualify for copyright protection in the USA.

seedance 2.0 is the only model make me so scared literally every job in film industry is gone, you upload a script, it generates scenes (not just clips) with vfx, voice, sfx, music all nicely edited, we may not even need editors anymore and now I understand why it’s not available outside china there are features that feel so illegal, you upload screenshots or storyboard frames from any movie, and it generates full scenes that feel like from the original movie, but its different and sometimes looks better another feature is crazier, you upload any film clips, and you can just… edit anything.. like swap characters, add vfx, change bg, color grading.. at this point maybe the only thing we still need is screenwriters because the stories AI write are still cliché but.. the machine is learning faster and faster this feels like the quiet end of traditional film industry and the beginning of something we dont know

Include a request in your posts for anyone in the CN system to check/verify stuff for you. It'd be pretty easy to tell if was redone by same poster or diff account. CN system uses semi-random 3-word bird codenames, so we can't tell you what the real @ handle is, but we could ID/compare the CN handles.

@tweet_amulya Look at when that version was added and look at my initial tweet Someone redid the same community note and added it The original was 100% deleted

They fucking deleted the community note WHAT THE FUCK Nah this shit sus as hell

@johanna_e24 @SKTheKingYT WTF you talking about the black community in America for? -_-

@SKTheKingYT Did Tony Montoya tell you to change your DNA!? You Alien 👽 All your hard work, legacy and money is being managed by white people but yet you still have negros out here loving this alien who did nothing for the black community of America. 🤢🤮

@cremieuxrecueil Just curious, but is there a possibility it's linked to that "new baby smell" that infants have? <,< Like, is there any research on what causes that smell and/or links between that smell and female reproductive drive?

The fertility transition may be self-reinforcing because fertility has a social component. If people have fewer kids when they're exposed to reduced fertility levels, then as fertility falls, the decline might feed itself and go ever lower. If the 'maternal instinct' (so to speak) is really augmented by exposure to babies and/or young kids, then lower fertility now implies lower fertility in the future. It's hard not to believe this social aspect matters at this point. There's mounting evidence for it. For example... - Exposure to exogenously lower birthrates in China reduced fertility (x.com/cremieuxrecuei…) - Exposure to infant simulators increased teen pregnancy rates (x.com/cremieuxrecuei…) And there's another piece of evidence: birth order effects. If children born later in their birth order have fewer kids, that could indicate that reduced exposure to kids at earlier ages leads to lower fertility. An alternative explanation for birth order effects is age effects that result from things like the accumulation of parental germline mutations or reduced uterine environmental quality. To test between these explanations, you can look at birth order effects on males versus females. Since males aren't the limiting factor to reproduction, we might expect effects on their fertility to be more limited or absent. If a birth order effect is just a mutation accumulation thing, it shouldn't be asymmetric by sex. If there's symmetry by sex, however, that doesn't speak to either explanation. Using a massive Swedish register, Morosow & Kolk showed a sex asymmetry: later birth order (and thus reduced kid exposure in one's youth) was associated with lower fertility. In these sibling fixed-effect models, being born later was related to having fewer of kids for women only, and this does not appear to be explained biologically. There are also other ways to look at this. For example, for men, birth order doesn't seem to be all that related to transition probability, i.e., the probability of increasing from 0 to 1 kids, from 1 to 2 kids, from 2 to 3 kids, from 3 to 4 kids, or so on. There may be some effects for later transitions for males, which suggests that the biggest hurdle for guys is going from zero to one and one to two. Perhaps male fertility is more malleable among the subset who have a consistent partner they can have kids with. Regardless, compare the male plot to the transition effects plot for women: Similar to men, moving from 0 to 1 isn't affected so the early birth order fertility bump comes from later transitions. It's an effect on wanting or simply not precluding kids beyond the first one, and as such, it's more likely to signal a choice—either to pursue having kids or to avoid abortions—than a biological effect. And it's a choice that might be linked to the formative experience of having young siblings, with exposure to more of them being more conducive to future fertility. The possibility that the fertility decline reinforces itself isn't novel, but it deserves more thought. It is a prospect that presents a lot of room for choice: it can be exploited to increase fertility through social means, or to reduce it further, even if that only happens because people let it continue to drift downwards. Source: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@TRHLofficial I think it's intended more to prevent surrogates from being forced to hand over the child after finding out too late about the evilness of the would-be parents.

Our country is so broken, that we have to write a law to ensure mothers can’t sell babies to pedophiles.

@GrageDustin Those things look kinda like they're all the same but different colors. Follow the money. Can't be that many suppliers for bulk dildos out there.

🚨 BREAKING: Anti-ICE protesters are throwing and sticking dildos to a vehicle outside the Whipple Federal Building In Minneapolis. They later find out it’s one of their own activists. 😂 Incredible.

@NextScience So, teaching someone how to use a calculator instead of teaching them to do the math themselves reduces their math comprehension skills. Why did they need to do a study on AI use to reach this conclusion?

🧠 MIT recently completed the first brain-scan study on ChatGPT users—and the results are deeply revealing. Rather than boosting brain function, prolonged AI use may be dulling it. Over four months of cognitive data suggest we might be measuring productivity all wrong ⤵️ In MIT’s study, participants had their brains scanned while using ChatGPT. → 83.3% of users couldn’t recall a single sentence they’d written just minutes earlier. → In contrast, those writing without AI had no trouble remembering. Brain connectivity dropped sharply—from 79 to 42 points. → That’s a 47% drop in neural engagement. → The lowest cognitive performance among all user groups. Even after stopping ChatGPT use in later sessions, these users showed continued under-engagement. → Their performance remained lower than those who never used AI. → This suggests more than dependency—it’s cognitive weakening. Beyond the scans, educators flagged the writing itself. → Essays were technically solid, but often called “robotic,” “soulless,” and “lacking depth.” Here’s the paradox: → ChatGPT makes you 60% faster at completing tasks… → But it reduces the mental effort required for learning by 32%. The top-performing group? → Those who began without AI and added it later. → They retained the best memory, brain activity, and overall scores. Using ChatGPT can feel empowering—but it may quietly offload your thinking. → You gain speed, but lose engagement. → You get answers, but stop learning how to think. The takeaway isn’t to avoid AI—but to use it intentionally. → Use it to assist, not replace your mind. → Build cognitive strength—not dependency. MIT’s early study on AI and the brain lays out the stakes. The way we use these tools matters more than ever.