Scott Bleackley 🇨🇦

🧬 You're having a panic attack over a cherry blossom you've never feared. Because your grandfather did. This isn't metaphor. It's molecular biology. 🧵 Thread: How ancestral trauma rewrites your DNA (and how to rewrite it back)

ELIOX 🇨🇦 S6 E48 🦋 How Life Remembers: From Metamorphosis to Simulation Mar 20, 2026 • 38:52 A caterpillar's brain turns to liquid. The butterfly remembers anyway. So do its grandchildren. A 10-year-old proved it. 🧵

🏹 You're not failing at love. You're succeeding at being a mammal. Norwegian research reveals the evolutionary mismatches wrecking modern dating — and it's kinder than you expect. 🧵 🎧 buzzsprout.com/2405788/episod…

🇨🇦 HELIOX · S6 E44 · NEW EPISODE 📜 The Print Shop Rebels: Why History's Steering Wheel Isn't Out of Reach 12 people. Bad coffee. A preposterous idea. They ended the slave trade. Rutger Bregman's 2025 BBC Reith Lectures. Deep dive. 🧵 #MoralAmbition #HeliOxPodcast

This short film made with Seedance 2.0 is absolutely insane. The realism looks like a real movie — no one can tell it's AI.

In 1820, 94% of humanity lived in extreme poverty. Today: under 10%. We doubled life expectancy. Eradicated smallpox. We ARE the medieval dream. So why is everyone burned out and miserable? New episode of Heliox 🧵

Geoffrey Hinton rebrands AI hallucinations as confabulations. Intelligence reconstructs reality into plausible stories rather than storing facts like a database. The engine producing creative synthesis also produces confident, incorrect details.

Cost of this 15 sec original animation is less than 0.6 USD.

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." — Vincent Van Gogh

Amazing prompt from @astronomerozge1 Prompt: { "generation_request": { "meta_data": { "task_type": "black_and_white_photobooth_expression_grid_4x4", "language": "en", "priority": "highest", "version": "v1.0_BW_PHOTOBOOTH_EXPRESSIONS_4X4" }, "input": { "mode": "image_to_image", "reference_image_usage": "very_high", "preserve_identity": true, "preserve_facial_features": true, "preserve_hairstyle": true, "notes": "Use the reference as the primary anchor. Create a dark black-and-white photobooth-style expression grid. Keep the same adult woman identity and hair. Each panel should show a different facial expression. Minimal background, direct photobooth flash look, natural skin texture." }, "output": { "aspect_ratio": "1:1", "resolution": "ultra_high", "num_images": 1, "layout": { "type": "grid", "rows": 4, "cols": 4, "gutter": "thin", "panel_consistency": "high" }, "sharpness": "crisp_photobooth", "grain": "subtle_analog_bw" }, "scene": { "concept": "classic photobooth contact sheet with expressive faces", "environment": "plain neutral backdrop, no props", "lighting": { "style": "direct photobooth flash", "key_light": "front flash, slightly hard but flattering", "shadows": "soft short shadows behind subject", "avoid": "cinematic side light, dramatic backgrounds" }, "camera": { "lens": "50mm", "distance": "tight head-and-shoulders framing", "focus": "eyes sharp in every panel" } }, "subject": { "type": "adult woman", "wardrobe": "simple strapless or bare-shoulder photobooth look (no logos)", "hair": "keep same hairstyle across all panels", "makeup": "minimal, natural", "anatomy_rules": "correct facial proportions, no warped eyes/mouth" }, "expression_set": { "panel_01": "natural smile, soft eye contact", "panel_02": "head tilted back laughing, joyful open smile", "panel_03": "serious / slightly annoyed stare, lips pressed", "panel_04": "playful wink with subtle smirk", "panel_05": "tongue out, playful teasing expression", "panel_06": "wide surprised eyes, mouth open in shock", "panel_07": "kissy lips / duck face", "panel_08": "hot expression", "panel_09": "hands framing face, playful wide eyes", "panel_10": "blowing a kiss toward camera", "panel_11": "serious neutral expression, direct stare", "panel_12": "soft confident smile", "panel_13": "gentle closed-lip smile", "panel_14": "chin resting on hand, pouty playful look", "panel_15": "slightly confused or skeptical expression", "panel_16": "eyes closed, peaceful happy smile", "panel_17": "disgusted / scrunched face", "panel_18": "tight eyes closed grin, expressive smile", "panel_19": "side smile with eyes closed, content expression", "panel_20": "neutral serious face, calm direct gaze" }, "style": { "color": "pure black and white", "contrast": "medium-high", "background": "flat gray", "finish": "slight photobooth grain, clean edges" }, "quality_control": { "identity_lock": "strict", "hands_priority": "high", "avoid": [ "extra fingers", "missing fingers", "deformed hands", "warped face", "uneven eyes", "melted mouth", "plastic skin", "text", "watermark", "logo" ] }, "negative_prompt": [ "color", "sepia", "overly cinematic lighting", "beauty retouch plastic skin", "low resolution", "blur", "distorted anatomy" ] } }

A = 4πr² Exactly the surface area of a sphere, yet this shape—born from two perpendicular circles—unfolds perfectly flat without stretching, rolls in hypnotic figure-8 rhythms, and keeps its center of gravity impossibly still. The Oloid: where math whispers secrets of effortless motion, zero turbulence, and pure elegance.

Two wolves fight inside us — evil and good. "Which wins?" "The one you feed." We've been starving the good wolf for decades. Science says it's killing us. 🧵 Thread: 🎧 buzzsprout.com/2405788/episod… 📖 helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/1…

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🆕 HELIOX S6E38 🇨🇦 — “We Are All Middle Managers of Aliens Now” AI isn’t just answering questions. It’s clicking buttons, running experiments, becoming an agent. The 2026 AI Safety Report says we’re not ready. #AIAgents #JaggedAI 🧵

🧵 THREAD: What if superintelligent AI fails not because it's evil — but because it got distracted by French poetry? A new paper from Anthropic & EPFL is quietly rewriting the AI safety playbook. 🧵

She missed the last shot of her career. And smiled. Jennifer Jones. Best female curler ever. Corporate lawyer. Olympic gold medallist. Thread on physics, psychology & perfection: 🥌🇨🇦👇

🇨🇦 Canada asked 11,000 people how to govern AI. Then used American AI to read their answers. The irony cuts deep—but reveals something profound about the future we're building. Season 6, Episode 32 of Heliox 🎧

Artist Guillermo Galetti, turns discarded metal into captivating biomechanical sculptures

That lift you feel seeing your favourite coffee shop—before tasting anything? That's your brain time-traveling. McGill scientists watched neurons literally shift backward in time. Published in Nature. 🎧 buzzsprout.com/2405788/episod… 📖 helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/your-brain-i…

Your brain is brilliantly lazy—and MIT research just proved why that makes you efficient. For decades, scientists thought we scan entire environments & build perfect mental maps before moving. Wrong. We improvise, building just enough map, just in time.