Miglena

my Sunday got high jacked by getting access to @midjourney alpha #daretoshare24

We're so close to inventing TV

@aakashgupta Apple is SO goated, that these groundbreaking, “AGI-making” AI labs, hiring “the top” creative talent in the world can’t even launch a single physical product without sending in spies to steal Apple’s METAL FINISHING techniques. This is hilarious.

Apple just sued OpenAI, and the wildest part is how they got caught: one candidate screenshotted confidential Apple files on his Apple work laptop hours before his OpenAI interview. Apple reads its own server logs. The recruiting pipeline generated its own evidence trail. The complaint says OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan, a 24-year Apple veteran, directed candidates still employed at Apple to bring "actual parts" (batteries, logic boards) to interviews for show and tell sessions. One candidate was surprised, saying he didn't even know you could take those out of the office. Apple also alleges Tan circulated an internal Apple offboarding document to coach new hires on dodging exit security checks, and that a departing engineer kept his Apple laptop, found a bug that still gave him access to Apple's cloud storage, and downloaded dozens of confidential hardware files after joining OpenAI. Then the supplier: OpenAI allegedly got one of Apple's manufacturing partners to demonstrate a proprietary metal finishing technique by letting the partner believe Apple had approved it. Over 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. Apple says it flagged all of this to OpenAI in February and never got a response. Five months later, it filed. The ask reveals the strategy. Apple wants an injunction barring OpenAI from using the secrets, the return of every file, and full discovery into io, right as OpenAI preps its first device launch and an IPO. If a judge grants it, OpenAI may have to prove the device was built clean, component by component, before it ships. The device was supposed to run on the world's best hardware talent. Now its bill of materials is evidence.

please, wear your nice clothes everyday. the special occasion is being alive.

@thedesignely 1 but if you can reveal a little more at once couse at first I couldn’t make out what it was until I saw two. Beautiful either way though

Help, which mask reveal looks better?

I agree there are some bigger forces at play. And I didn’t mean to imply it’s solely your responsibility, but I do think more men should speak out otherwise it leaves this vacuum not only for the content creators but for religious leaders, politicians, and people of real influence to claim that this is primal natural attraction and that they speak for all men which is what’s causing these disturbing ideas to go mainstream. But I am glad you have open dialogue with your girls and I’m really sorry they had to go through this sick right of passage.

It’s heartbreaking. We talk to our girls about this stuff all the time. We’re lucky that nothing’s off limits in our house. I wish more families felt they they could have those conversations. But at the end of the day, I’m not a substitute father figure for young men. Respect starts at home. Social media has absolutely poured petrol on the fire. The Tate brothers, the looksmaxxing crowd, and every other bloke selling insecurity and misogyny to teenage boys have far more influence than they should. But it’s bigger than social media too. We’ve somehow normalised the sexualisation of pre-teen girls across parts of mainstream media, and that should make everyone deeply uncomfortable. It always comes back to the same thing for me. How is Maxine Carr the only one who ended up in prison? This isn’t a problem created by one or two monsters. It’s far bigger and more powerful than that.

Everyone’s over here panicking about AI taking their jobs. I’m more concerned about the 50 year old bloke leching over my 12 year old daughter and her friend on the tram, then smiling and winking at her as she got off. She was so scared she had to call us. This is the second time we’ve had this type of thing happen in the last year. Or my 17 year old daughter having to think twice about what she wears in 30°C weather because grown men in their 30s, 40s and 50s have literally pulled over, rolled down their windows, made weird noises at her, or just stared and leched at her in a way that makes her feel unsafe. How the hell have we normalised this? If you’re a grown man making teenage girls feel uncomfortable in public, you’re not “complimenting” them. You’re a sick fucking creep. Leave the kids the fuck alone!

Please, like they didn’t know all along.

@lancedraws Appreciate you chiming in while not giving that ragebait any more engagement.

Can AI make sense of client feedback and deliver great results? Can AI capture the exact feeling a brand needs? Can AI design at both the macro and micro level? Can AI create custom wordmarks? Can AI ideate and execute with precision? Can AI execute a wide range of styles depending on the brief? Can AI make harmonious, simple and distinctive visual identities? Can AI know when to spice things up and when to show restraint? Serious companies and founders who care about their brand are investing in design more than ever. This feels like a bait

@dudufolio Reuters for world events, yahoo finance for investments, twitter for design/tech stuff and a shit tone of newsletters for micro niches.

Do you guys use anything to catchup with all the news or do you just rawdog twitter?

Occasionally I want to engage in a good faith discussion about design in the comment section of a tweet but then re-read the original tweet only to remember that 90% of takes on this platform are carefully crafted “spicy takes” meant to bait me into a response, so I immediately disengage in the delusional hope we can slowly start to reverse this attention death spiral we call “the feed”. I then proceed to wonder if that can ever actually happen or our monkey brains are way too fried already and we’re all doomed.

@jaredpgranger It’s attention hunger games and I hate it

This platform has been quite strange. People speaking their truths (if its true to them, it's true to them), then people seeing the engagement it gets, and baiting posts to get that same engagement. And look, I get it. It's what gets engagement. But, it's still gross.

This app is an absolute clusterfuck now

i made an app that turns videos into stop motion animations you can create an animation in <1 minute using just your iphone made with roboflow RF-DETR (+other computer vision magic) to auto-select keyframes i'll release a testflight app soon, let me know if you want to try :]

Build this infinite grid for my portfolio with a little help from the @Framer agent. It’s wild how quickly things can move because of it. I’ve not seen a better implementation of AI in a design tool yet. Check out the template below. It’s FREE for the first 48hrs!!!

I think the anxiety this time is exacerbated by the fast pace of things in addition to the garden variety imposter syndrome, which makes people nihilistic but I fundamentally believe that while processes are changing at the end of the day you’re still competing against other people, ai-powered or not. So far I’ve seen the design floor rise exponentially but I also see fewer and fewer products/launches make real lasting impact. I think the future of the design role will be figuring out how to out-impact the competition in both product and marketing so when you put it like that actually nothing is really changing except the process.

I have been thinking about whether to comment on this. Not clear if Gal is serious, rage baiting, etc. Whatever the case, it has spread enough in the design community that I want to share some thoughts. The psychological journey people go through with AI is quite fascinating to me. A new model launches, people think the world has changed, they sometimes have an existential crisis, then they play with the model, they understand its strengths and limitations and then they settle down. A few weeks later, the cycle repeats. On top of this, even before AI, designers have often shown insecurity and imposter syndrome. There are probably many reasons for this. First, before ~2010 design wasn't valued by the tech industry in the way it is today. Second, the people attracted to working in the field of design are often very open to new ideas and have high empathy. Third, there is no "one path" to working as a designer and designer backgrounds are often pretty random. Ironically, despite the insecurity + imposter syndrome so many designers feel, design is more important than ever. I truly believe this. And yes, I have an incentive to believe this. But just think about it... the logic couldn't be more clear. More design is entering the world, the attention economy is real and therefore creativity / design / point of view is how you will stand out. Your brand, marketing, product design, moments of delight and overall customer journey must be excellent. Some companies already get this and are fighting wild battles over design talent. Other companies are still figuring it out. Everyone will get there and it will be obvious in retrospect. This isn't a new trend with AI. It is a trend that we've seen over the last decade. Designers used to complain about not having a seat at the table. Now designers have a seat at the table. And many of the businesses I speak with are pulling from their design bench when looking for new leaders for their business... they know that design thinking and the design process is what they need to adopt everywhere to win. I'm not saying that every stakeholder gets it. But so many are trying to learn right now. Designers need to do more than create great work, they have to spend a lot more effort educating. Showing work can also trigger anxiety. Sometimes the best solution to a design challenge is the first thing you think of. And other times you have to explore for quite a long time to come up with something great. Inputs to a design process might include things that feel like traditional office work and are easy to point to... reading docs, talking with teammates, formal research, etc. Inputs might also include a walk in the park, an interesting dream you had the night before, a good song you listened to on the radio during your commute, a painting from the 1800's or all sorts of other cultural / emotional input. In summary, I've never been more confident in the role of design and impact design can have. I wish designers felt the same confidence. This is the moment to be more bold, to take more creative risk, to double down on the power of design. Everyone is on their own journey, and there are lots of fascinating ways to move through life, so if Gal is serious about "quitting design" then I wish him the best in his adventures ahead. But I hope if others follow they do it because there are other things they are so excited about spending time on vs fear of AI.

I think he’s pivoted a couple of times. I believe he initially blew up with some procreate illustration timelapses so this might just be the next pivot. But I agree you shouldn’t burn every niche when you leave. Truth is nobody knows how this market is gonna look in 5 years. And I wouldn’t underestimate the juniors. I see a lot of amazing new talent, in fact I’m more worried about mid-career people stuck in their ways.

I love Gal's work. But this is unfair to do to the thousands of junior/mid level designers WITHOUT actually showing what Fable 5 produced... It sends a false signal that their dreams, aspirations, and efforts are basically obsolete, if not worthless. Someone may seriously read this today and feel extremely demoralized to continue with design WITHOUT any evidence, all because a seasoned and highly influential person "said so." I am not someone to overact by calling this "dangerous" (designers should always just keep designing) but it is not prudent to say stuff like this without anything to show, especially for young designers.

Worried about AI? People can bake bread at home, but 99% of people will still buy it. Think about the reasons they buy it, and then lean into that.

@karenxcheng @cursor_ai Delightful

i hooked up a rotary phone from the 1920s to an AI agent, that replies on a mechanical display it’s like a dumbphone without distracting notifications here’s how i built this w/ @cursor_ai