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@RespectfulMemes @Coleidoscopes It’s also forever into the afterlife! That’s why all dogs have to go to heaven!

When I built menugen ~1 year ago, I observed that the hardest part by far was not the code itself, it was the plethora of services you have to assemble like IKEA furniture to make it real, the DevOps: services, payments, auth, database, security, domain names, etc... I am really looking forward to a day where I could simply tell my agent: "build menugen" (referencing the post) and it would just work. The whole thing up to the deployed web page. The agent would have to browse a number of services, read the docs, get all the api keys, make everything work, debug it in dev, and deploy to prod. This is the actually hard part, not the code itself. Or rather, the better way to think about it is that the entire DevOps lifecycle has to become code, in addition to the necessary sensors/actuators of the CLIs/APIs with agent-native ergonomics. And there should be no need to visit web pages, click buttons, or anything like that for the human. It's easy to state, it's now just barely technically possible and expected to work maybe, but it definitely requires from-scratch re-design, work and thought. Very exciting direction!

Every time you load a page, your data travels through physical infrastructure - cables under oceans, satellites overhead, fiber under cities. Most people never think about. That's why I decided to map it. This is Project Backbone. It's free, interactive, and live.

The big White House announcement was...an app?

The Internet was a mistake

@ArynneWexler Gary is laughing somewhere 😫

There are some notable investment conferences this week in Miami I was at an event last night, and the conversation drifted onto the CLARITY Act because of the legal uncertainty without it Right now the U.S. still has crypto stuck in a gray zone because the SEC has a lot of tokens categorized as securities, but the CFTC has some has commodities We need the CLARITY Act to draw a clear line between the two and define who regulates crypto, but (classic) special interests are now standing in the way and holding this up The U.S. needs to be the financial and energy center of the world, and that means defining regulation asap and getting this done

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@grok @WhiteHouse Make it look like Donald Trump

@dfgreat1 @WhiteHouse

@gork @WhiteHouse Make it look like Donald Trump

@dfgreat1 @WhiteHouse

@grok @WhiteHouse tf 🤣

@LinkofSunshine If you bought the CD for "Where Is the Love?" or "Shut Up" in the summer of 2003, you were jamming to "Let's Get Retarded" for almost a whole year before the radio edit came out.

I’m not kidding, I’ve genuinely only ever heard the radio version where it’s replaced with “let’s it started in here” every time What the fuck is this

@anishmoonka Any form of team consensus probably dilutes it too. Directors and editors hardly have any final say for a lot of things. A lot of non-visual people seem to have a distorted reaction to colors.

Warm colors increase your heart rate. Cool, washed-out tones lower it. Every remake you’ve watched in the last decade has been deliberately color-graded to flatten that signal. It started in 2000. The Coen Brothers shot O Brother, Where Art Thou? in Mississippi during summer, when everything was, in Joel Coen’s words, “greener than Ireland.” They wanted a dusty Depression-era look. Cinematographer Roger Deakins tried every trick in the book: chemical treatments, lens filters, old darkroom techniques. Nothing worked. So they did something no one had done before: digitally scanned the entire film and recolored it frame by frame. Deakins spent 11 weeks turning lush greens into burnt yellows. No feature film had ever been entirely digitally color graded before. Every major studio adopted the technique within a few years. And then the problems started. Modern film cameras don’t capture what your eyes actually see. They intentionally record flat, grey, washed-out footage to capture as much detail as possible. The plan is for the color team to add vibrant color back in later. But the people doing that work stare at grey footage for weeks. Their eyes adjust. One filmmaker admitted he’d bring saturation up to 120% and feel satisfied, then realized the image still looked desaturated to everyone else. He had to crank it to 200% before it looked normal. That’s just eye fatigue. The color draining also happens on purpose. Muting colors hides bad CGI. If a computer-generated background doesn’t quite match the actors, draining the color smooths over the mismatch. The Lord of the Rings extended editions look flatter than the theatrical cuts for exactly this reason: the added scenes had less polished effects, so they were washed out to cover it. Then streaming made it permanent. Bright colors look messy when video gets compressed for phones and laptops. Dull colors look consistent whether you’re watching on a 75-inch TV or a 6-inch phone screen. So studios color their movies for the smallest screen in the room. Your brain registers the difference even if you can’t name it. Your eyes are wired to perceive warm, rich colors as closer and more immediate. Washed-out tones create emotional distance. When a studio drains color from a scene, they’re dampening the emotional signal the image sends to your brain. Old film stock didn’t have this problem. Kodak and Fuji films had rich, punchy color built into the physical chemistry of the film itself. Each brand had a distinct look you could recognize. Digital cameras capture flat, neutral data by default. Getting that warm, vivid “film look” from digital requires skilled work that costs time and money. Most productions don’t invest enough of either. Modern cameras can capture a wider range of colors than film ever could. The technology has never been better. The choices have never been lazier.

@ConceptualJames x.com/thewaronbeauty…

I'm not saying it has absolutely no place, but we need a lot less (and close to no) dumb, ugly "art" that "makes a statement" (which usually has to be explained to people) instead of being beautiful or inspiring.

@BridgetPhetasy Yeah, ignoring the fake news drama until you have an incentive to understand shipping policies and inflation is probably the best thing. Better off learning about narcissism and propaganda.

I like how mad this is making smug intellectuals. And honestly I think the miserable people dunking on them who are addicted to this site are actually dumber. These kids are happy. What can they do about Iran? Let them be dumb and young. The world will kick their ass eventually.

@WatcherGuru @PeterSchiff

JUST IN: Peter Schiff says "we are headed for a full-blown financial crisis."

@AdaLluch So the west is just sanitizing targeted statistical virtual murder. The authorities deserve the same punishment as the criminals.

Her name is Noelia Castillo and tomorrow she will be the first person to receive euthanasia for depression in Spain. She was living in a supervised center with unaccompanied minors when she was gang raped by them. Afterwards, she tried to unalive herself by jumping from a fifth floor. But she became paraplegic instead. She’s 25 years old and today is her last day alive. Praying she can feel Jesus love before tomorrow and changes her mind. 🙏🏻

@TheCensoredRock @SpecialOlympics @KamalaHarris

The elites don’t want you to know this song exists and that it used to be played on the radio

@nikitabier 1 is a special number