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By Crom! 44 years ago, on May 14, 1982, Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into American theaters with a sword in his hand and changed my imagination forever. "Conan, what is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." I was just a kid the first time I watched Conan the Barbarian. I knew nothing about Nietzsche, Howard, or sword and sorcery. I only knew that this half-naked man walking through the wild lands with a sword bigger than me was everything I wanted to be. Free. Strong. With no masters. Then came Robert E. Howard's books, and I discovered Conan wasn't just Schwarzenegger: he was a Cimmerian born under a leaden sky, a thief, a mercenary, a king. The pulp tales of the 1930s that invented an entire genre. Then the Marvel comics by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, the Frazetta paintings that looked like they'd been brushed in blood. Then the video games. And above all Conan Exiles, where I could finally walk myself, in my own sunburned skin, through those lands. Build. Survive. Fall and rise again. This whole imaginary, sword and sorcery, has become my language. When I write, when I draw, when I dream up worlds, there's always that red sun over a steppe, always a crude weapon in someone's hand, always a man alone against something greater than himself. As a child, Conan taught me the first lesson: survival makes you strong. The Wheel of Pain forges him into what he will become. That which does not kill us makes us stronger, the line that opens the film, and not by accident. But growing up I learned the second lesson too: sooner or later, you have to step off the Wheel. You can't stay chained to your own suffering forever, even if it shaped you. And then there's the third lesson, the most uncomfortable one. Howard puts it in Conan's mouth in Beyond the Black River: "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages, because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split." The civilized world can be crueler than the Barbaricum. Out there, among the steppes and forests, violence at least is honest. In civilization, cruelty wears a tie, smiles, signs you a contract. In the Barbaricum you are naked, you are alone, but you are free. And maybe that's why I keep going back, every time I write, every time I play, every time I dream. Crom does not listen to me. But that's how it should be. #ConanTheBarbarian #80sMovies #SwordAndSorcery #kingConan

@cb_doge X's algorithm seems to reward monothematic instead of real people with many interests, Leonardo da Vinci would be unknown, and cuts you off from the communities that interest you. A disaster.

𝕏 just open sourced its recommendation algorithm today on GitHub. Instagram and Meta are still keeping their algorithms completely closed. No code. No audits. No visibility for the public. This raises an important question: What’s stopping Mark Zuckerberg from open sourcing Meta’s algorithm? It is because they want to maintain full control over what people see and what narratives get amplified or suppressed. • When algorithms stay secret, there’s zero real accountability. Platforms can deny bias or shadowbanning because no one can check the actual code. • Even people who worked on similar systems have described them as “black boxes” difficult to fully understand or control what harmful or manipulative content gets pushed. • X’s move allows anyone to inspect how content is ranked. Meta’s closed system leaves users guessing while the company holds massive hidden power over information. • True transparency removes the ability to secretly shape public narratives. Closed algorithms make it much easier to control what reaches people without anyone knowing why. One platform is opening the system for everyone to see. The other appears comfortable keeping it hidden.

I think I'll take a few days break from X. Bye bye! go for a walk in the woods which is better. There are no algorithms that ruin your days... but only positive rhythms that reward you when you walk.

@teslaownersSV So from what I understand, it rewards single-topic profiles while a person with many interests in different topics is penalized. Leonardo da Vinci would be ignored by the algorithm.

NEWS: 𝕏 has open sourced its latest recommendation algorithm on GitHub. That makes 𝕏 the only major social platform publicly sharing the code behind its core recommendation system. It’s a major transparency move in an industry where most algorithms operate entirely behind closed doors. Developers and researchers can now directly examine how content ranking and recommendations work on the platform. github.com/xai-org/x-algo…

@XFreeze So from what I understand, it rewards single-topic profiles while a person with many interests in different topics is penalized. Leonardo da Vinci would be ignored by the algorithm.

𝕏 just open sourced the latest recommendation algorithm on GitHub 𝕏 is the only major social platform in the world to publicly open source its core recommendation algorithm It is by far the most transparent social platform in the world right now github.com/xai-org/x-algo…

@ArtemIoha79094 Yes, Arnold is not really all muscles and no brains.

@Hackatao you know Schwarz has always been role model for me i am this fan all my life! first in gym, then in business, then in art - true masculine symbol of our culture!

The details of @NFCsummit art curations, art spaces and exhibitors are out. If this program does not convince you to come to Lisbon in June, nothing will. avantgarde.nonfungibleconference.com/p/art-curation… Featuring @arabbankCH @dmitricherniak @opensea @CultCryptoArt @BottoDAO @bryanbrinkman @Eko3316 @Danae__io @vhils1 @edbyus @Coldie @LoroMasnah @BardIonson @spiritagents @BtcArtSociety @inkseart @EfdotStudio @dotjiwa @serc1n @normiesART @operator_______ @gretchenandrew @jonas_lund @kimasendorf @jackbutcher @LindaDouniaR @andreasgysin @larvalabs @ArtRescueLab @artontezos_ @Hackatao

"Alc al è alc e nuje al è nuje!!!" If you fall in love with a Friulian woman you have to know its meaning.

@RetroMoviesDB Fan from beginning

Conan: The Barbarian celebrates it's release day! One of the greatest adventures and revenge films of all time. Any fans?

@TheChiefNerd We use our brains, it consumes so little.

🚨 JENSEN HUANG: “The amount of energy that we need for computing is probably 1,000x more than we currently have.”

@cozmonika_art Non ho ancora capito gli orari di colazione pranzo e cena dei balcanici. Me li spieghi in modo definitivo?

It’s funny because it’s true lol

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Grok finds the beauty of Euler's Identity so dangerously sublime that he immediately deems it content that must be moderated.😂

@Xuegaogx this is good! have you a good dream?

@Hackatao dream

Why are you here?

@Angello3400PRMR win what?

@Hackatao Win, earn money and help people

@juicyrayzz win what?

@Hackatao Here to win

@XCOPYART by doing so you manipulate the counterculture...😂

not showing up everyday is counterculture

@Orrrus @MattiaC it will be!

@Hackatao @MattiaC let's go... gonna be a fun stream

OBJECTS WITH SOULS with @MattiaC twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…