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Michael Kutsche

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Painter/ Digital Artist /// Sotheby's | PROOF Grails | SuperRare 💎| Feature film Character Designer | @PhantomzeroNFT https://t.co/pmQrNbB1nC

Los Angeles, CA Katılım Mart 2010
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Michael Kutsche
Michael Kutsche@michaelkutsche·
🚀I'm proud that my newest 1/1 frag·men·tal has been selected for the upcoming Contemporary Discoveries auction at @Sothebys , starting Feb 22nd at 10am HKT. Excited to be featured alongside legends such as @terrelldom , @brokedidonato and @sleeprNFT 🔥
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Michael Kutsche@michaelkutsche·
@pepemedicieth @shillypreston That's good to know, and saves me some second guessing next time. Regarding your claims, yes, you can back them up, you're cherry-picking your facts based on your narrative, which skews your whole perspective on things (with regards to Netanyahu, IDF etc.).
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Pepe de’ Medici 🐸💚
Pepe de’ Medici 🐸💚@pepemedicieth·
That’s an absolute strawman if I’ve ever seen one. I don’t even have Truth Social downloaded. And no, obviously i don’t believe in some grand conspiracy with journalists. Every single one of my claims can be backed up from primary sources as well as mainstream news sources. Now please name a SINGLE fact that’s incorrect from what I said. You won’t because you know I’m right and now you’re running.
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ShillyPreston.tez de la créme 💙💛 🍉
ShillyPreston.tez de la créme 💙💛 🍉@shillypreston·
This is what is happening in Iran. I thought it was 20k killed, but it looks like more than 40k have been killed in two days. Pray for our Iranian friends. Collect from Iranians if you can, and reach out to the ones you know so they know you care.
Maral 愛 @Maralll69

Gm According to the latest reports, more than 43,000 people have been killed in just two days. Over 10,000 have been blinded, and more than 350,000 people have been injured among the people of Iran. #IranMassacre #IRGCterrorists Fuck you IRGC , we will destroy you 🫡

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Michael Kutsche
Michael Kutsche@michaelkutsche·
Yes, I've read it, that's why I replied with my theory that many of the men in power are basically mentally dysfunctional. I agree with what you said with regards to Hamas and IRGC, but you conveniently left out the fact that Netanyahu is just as guilty and in fact, a war criminal (ICC rightfully issued warrants against him) because it doesn't fit your narrative. I don't know why exactly you're favoring one war criminal over the others though. I entered the conversation mainly in defense of the Palestinian civilians who are suffering the most because of this conflict, much more than the Israeli side. But ABOVE ALL, we have to abdicate from tribalism entirely, we can't have people fighting some idiot's wars based on race, religion, gender, income, whatever it is. It is just someone's utterly idiotic fantasy that one side is better than the other and deserves more. You're either a decent human being or you decide to be an asshole, and that's REGARDLESS of your background. We either become pro-humanity rather sooner than later or it all goes to shit.
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Pepe de’ Medici 🐸💚
Pepe de’ Medici 🐸💚@pepemedicieth·
@michaelkutsche @shillypreston Did you not click “show more” and read my full tweet? It seems like you stopped after the 3rd sentence?
Pepe de’ Medici 🐸💚@pepemedicieth

Michael, I’ll preface by saying this, a Palestinian life is worth equal to a Jewish or Israeli life. One of my best friends in school is an Arab Palestinian, I have nothing against Palestinians. What I’m upset about is the nonsense and blatant lies coming from mainstream media. During the war, Israel has delivered over 2 million tons of aid, totaling ~101,000 full aid trucks. And 3,000 calories per person per day. Name another war where a county delivered such large amounts aid directly to their adversary. Additionally, during the war Israel vaccinated 1 million Palestinians from polio. Why would they do this if they just wanted to kill Palestinians so badly? It’s ridiculous. What you don’t want to face is the reality that Israel was forced into this war by Hamas, an IRGC proxy whose leadership resides in Qatar and has no care for the Palestinian people. Yahya Sinwar was even quoted calling the civilian casualties “necessary sacrifices”. Roughly $40-50 Billion has gone into building up Gaza in the past two decades. They could have built up a peaceful civilization, invested into their people. Instead they spent billions building a network of terror tunnels larger than the NY underground & firing rockets at Israel. This culminated in the barbaric genocidal rampage we saw on October 7th where 1200 innocent Israelis were killed and 250 more were kidnapped. If Hamas had released the hostages and surrendered the war would have ended then and there. Instead they decided to drag it out for two years. For that the blame lies squarely on Hamas.

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Michael Kutsche
Michael Kutsche@michaelkutsche·
@pepemedicieth @shillypreston "Mainstream Media" in this context and coming from you implies "professional journalists are all conspiring and lying" and also "I align my reality to Truth Social". Sorry but I will not debate facts with someone who decided to live in an entirely different reality.
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Michael Kutsche
Michael Kutsche@michaelkutsche·
The term "mainstream media" is a dead giveaway to me that you already drank too much of the kool-aid by those currently in power, just like the term "citizen-journalism". The idea of defaming and discrediting journalism is to open the floodgates for unbridled ideological propaganda machines. I know this deeply because I grew up in Germany and we enjoy in-depth education early on about the fallacies of Nazism because of the mistakes of our grandfathers. I believe there is truth in that on both sides (and even beyond that) there's despicable psychopaths driven by materialism, elitist world domination fantasies, ideology and an utter contempt for every human being outside of their inner circles. I believe you can put Trump, Netanyahu, Khamenei into that category. And blood is also on the hands of those putting them into power and profiting from loyalty to them. It is the sad truth that the ruthlessness of these types give them advantage over decent human beings trying to make a better example of how leadership in governments could look like. And in uncertain times like these, these populist types and demagogues are gaining even more ground. It would be preferable if people would start seeing them for what they are, but this would require for everyone to stop for a second and come out of the loop of having their lower instincts be constantly stimulated by their ideological disinformation bubbles.
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Pepe de’ Medici 🐸💚
Pepe de’ Medici 🐸💚@pepemedicieth·
Michael, I’ll preface by saying this, a Palestinian life is worth equal to a Jewish or Israeli life. One of my best friends in school is an Arab Palestinian, I have nothing against Palestinians. What I’m upset about is the nonsense and blatant lies coming from mainstream media. During the war, Israel has delivered over 2 million tons of aid, totaling ~101,000 full aid trucks. And 3,000 calories per person per day. Name another war where a county delivered such large amounts aid directly to their adversary. Additionally, during the war Israel vaccinated 1 million Palestinians from polio. Why would they do this if they just wanted to kill Palestinians so badly? It’s ridiculous. What you don’t want to face is the reality that Israel was forced into this war by Hamas, an IRGC proxy whose leadership resides in Qatar and has no care for the Palestinian people. Yahya Sinwar was even quoted calling the civilian casualties “necessary sacrifices”. Roughly $40-50 Billion has gone into building up Gaza in the past two decades. They could have built up a peaceful civilization, invested into their people. Instead they spent billions building a network of terror tunnels larger than the NY underground & firing rockets at Israel. This culminated in the barbaric genocidal rampage we saw on October 7th where 1200 innocent Israelis were killed and 250 more were kidnapped. If Hamas had released the hostages and surrendered the war would have ended then and there. Instead they decided to drag it out for two years. For that the blame lies squarely on Hamas.
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Michael Kutsche
Michael Kutsche@michaelkutsche·
Whatever your line of reasoning, it is pretty cynical in light of the actual reality of this. Palestinians are basically dying in a giant prison, or how else would you call the living conditions there? Meanwhile, over 100 humanitarian agencies accuse Israel of persistently restricting or blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza, while Israelis go about their life pretty unaffected. And don't get me started on the systematic, government backed, harassment and violence of aggressive Jewish settlers against Palestinians in West Bank. The Israeli government and everyone siding with them and supporting them is ANYTHING BUT the victim. They are the villain, and thankfully the world is coming out of the brainwash phase and slowly waking up to this truth. For decades, anyone condemning the oppressive behavior and influence on world politics by the Israeli government was shut down as being "anti-Semitic". But a person celebrating Jewish culture can ABSOLUTELY be the same person critical of the Israeli leadership and military. Another thing that strikes me is the "Medici" in your handle. How are you using a name that is synonymous with being a patron for the arts and at the same time support a government and president that is openly hostile against freedom of artistic expression (and I suppose you voted for Trump)? You can't really be pro-art without being pro-humanity (a word I'm borrowing from Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari btw). Incarcerating and de-humanizing a whole population and making them suffer for the actions of their government is despicable, period. Your citing of the Hamas foundational charter implies the logic that "because they want to see us all dead, it gives us the right to strike hard first." Whether you meant that or not, it is EXACTLY how it comes across in this context, to people outside of your own head.
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Pepe de’ Medici 🐸💚
Pepe de’ Medici 🐸💚@pepemedicieth·
The Hamas Ministry of Health doesn’t differentiate between civilians & militants. By most estimates, Israel has killed around 20,000+ militants out of the 73,000 figure. This puts the civilian to combatant ratio at around 2.5:1 Considering the unique implications of how densely populated the Gaza Strip is, and how Egypt refused to allow refugees to cross its borders to safety, to have a civilian to combatant ratio below most modern urban wars proves incredible restraint.
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Michael Kutsche
Michael Kutsche@michaelkutsche·
Regardless of your very convenient little analysis, we're looking at 75k Palestinian deaths vs 2k Israeli deaths since October 2023, and you're still playing the victim, SMH. The history of all this is complex, but we're way past the point where Israel can still just conveniently play the innocent victim. And anyone trying to defend Netanyahu in this matter is morally bankrupt in my books.
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Pepe de’ Medici 🐸💚@pepemedicieth·
The genocide blood libel is a lie that would not hold up in any international court. If Israel had an intention of killing all the Palestinian Arabs then the population of Palestinian Arabs from the river to the sea wouldn’t have 7x’d since 1948. Additionally, 20% of Israel’s population are Palestinian Arabs with equal rights under law. Many are close friends of mine. The only genocidal party in this is Hamas. Their foundational charter literally states: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."
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Henry Daubrez 🌸💀
Henry Daubrez 🌸💀@henrydaubrez·
Junkyard King - Ep. 0 | MAKING OF ⚙️ HERE’S HOW I MADE THIS, STEP BY STEP 🧵👇 1/14
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Henry Daubrez 🌸💀@henrydaubrez·
So. Yesterday I received a DM on Instagram from a very prominent director. Mostly known for animated movies, and someone who rose to fame in the 90s with one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Here was the message: “The short film is terrific. I would love to learn more about your process. Which tools, etc. Let me know if you’d be willing to share.” Someone who genuinely loves animation. Someone who helped establish the medium many of you care deeply about. Someone who has spent decades pushing storytelling forward. Curious about AI. Respectful of the work. Interested in understanding how it’s done. If people at that level can approach this with curiosity instead of fear, I’m pretty sure the rest of us can manage to do the same.
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Runway@runwayml·
A breakthrough in real-time video generation. As a research preview developed with @NVIDIA and shared at @NVIDIAGTC this week, we trained a new real-time video model running on Vera Rubin. HD videos generate instantly, with time-to-first-frame under 100ms. Unlocking an entirely new creative paradigm and bolstering the foundations of our General World Model, GWM-1. Real-time generation opens a fundamentally different design space for video models and world simulation. We're investing in co-designing our models alongside advances in hardware to keep pushing this frontier.
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Michael Kutsche@michaelkutsche·
😂Lots of hate energy in the comment section, the anti-AI Hobbits are furious! Some criticism is fair though, for example, this shouldn’t make the look of the game diverge from the original design, especially when it comes to the character’s look and personality, in any way that is not intended by the game designers. As a character designer for film I'm 100% on board with this, and one of my pet peeves has always been when the VFX department strayed from my director-approved designs for whatever reason. But what the haters don’t get is that this is only version one. Perfect style consistency is already achievable in AI image and video workflows, and AI is moving fast. A more mature version of DLSS 5 could, for the first time, make games that aim for realism go far beyond the artificial look and limitations of real-time engines like Unreal and even (soon to be obsolete) Arnold-type raytracing, making it look like actual film without even touching uncanny valley territory. Nintendo-style games could reach something much closer to the visual quality of the Super Mario Bros. movie. Stylized games could finally look like actual frame-by-frame hand-drawn animation instead of stiff 3D characters with toon-shaders slapped on top. With this tech, the game of the future can be basically ANYTHING a team of game designers can imagine and PRECISELY HOW they imagine and design it, without polygon count and ray tracing limitations. What’s also funny is that we went from 8-bit consoles to absurdly power-hungry high-end GPUs and ever more massive computational overhead just to render these 3D worlds, with enormous energy use and development costs at every stage. Every new console or graphics card was celebrated as the next breakthrough in graphical fidelity. But suddenly people are outraged by what is actually a very logical next technological step. As if games before AI were somehow “eco.” The documented psychological damage of video games across swaths of dopamine-addicted teenagers, combined with the huge energy cost of running and advancing the medium, was everything but "eco" to begin with.
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NVIDIA GeForce@NVIDIAGeForce·
Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality. Learn More → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…
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Michael Kutsche@michaelkutsche·
😂Lots of hate energy in the comment section, the anti-AI Hobbits are furious! Some criticism is fair though, for example, this shouldn’t make the look of the game diverge from the original design, especially when it comes to the character’s look and personality, in any way that is not intended by the game designers. As a character designer for film I'm 100% on board with this, and one of my pet peeves has always been when the VFX department strayed from my director-approved designs for whatever reason. But what the haters don’t get is that this is only version one. Perfect style consistency is already achievable in AI image and video workflows, and AI is moving fast. A more mature version of DLSS 5 could, for the first time, make games that aim for realism go far beyond the artificial look and limitations of real-time engines like Unreal and even (soon to be obsolete) Arnold-type raytracing, making it look like actual film without even touching uncanny valley territory. Nintendo-style games could reach something much closer to the visual quality of the Super Mario Bros. movie. Stylized games could finally look like actual frame-by-frame hand-drawn animation instead of stiff 3D characters with toon-shaders slapped on top. With this tech, the game of the future can be basically ANYTHING a team of game designers can imagine and PRECISELY HOW they imagine and design it, without polygon count and ray tracing limitations. What’s also funny is that we went from 8-bit consoles to absurdly power-hungry high-end GPUs and ever more massive computational overhead just to render these 3D worlds, with enormous energy use and development costs at every stage. Every new console or graphics card was celebrated as the next breakthrough in graphical fidelity. But suddenly people are outraged by what is actually a very logical next technological step. As if games before AI were somehow “eco.” The documented psychological damage of video games across swaths of dopamine-addicted teenagers, combined with the huge energy cost of running and advancing the medium, was everything but "eco" to begin with.
NVIDIA GeForce@NVIDIAGeForce

Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality. Learn More → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…

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Michael Kutsche@michaelkutsche·
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Brendan Carr@BrendanCarrFCC

Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change!

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Pedro L. Gonzalez
Pedro L. Gonzalez@emeriticus·
Setting aside specific grants in question here, the fact is DOGE failed in its stated mission. Government spending is up. The government is more dysfunctional and spends more money. But this guy doesn't care. It's all about the glee of being seen as engaging in transgressive behavior. That's it. There is no higher principle. Nothing like patriotism or honor or any discernible conviction, just an awareness that he was involved with something that his friends say was "based" and liberals hated, and that is enough, even though it was a failure on its own terms. A whole generation of people have simply had their brains boiled by the new right to such a degree that they are happy to throw away their talent instead of putting it to good use, and here is one of them.
Molly Ploofkins@Mollyploofkins

One of Musk's DOGE bros explains how he flagged "DEI" grants for termination

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this is a manifestation of the moral collapse in the US, where even in situations where we choose or are compelled to use violence against others, it is presented as a game, corrupting fond childhood memories of many it looks like a psychological programming video. the intent seems to be to dehumanize the enemy maybe you think it’s insignificant and “it’s just a meme for the lulz bro,” but it is coming from the highest office in the land, presenting leadership both within and outside of nation vile and disgusting

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෴෴෴ˢᵉⁿᵉᶜᵃסּ ͝סּ ͝סּ ͝@allseeingseneca·
I’ve spent the last year building something new. A new body of work. AFTER JADE. 9 artworks. 7 cast glass and jade sculptures. 2 digital paintings. Debuting at Hong Kong @ArtBasel. Created in collaboration with renowned atelier @AspreyStudio. For over a decade my work has lived mostly in painting and drawing. But the worlds I build have always felt like they belonged to something not from here. Glass and jade. Materials tied deeply to Chinese visual history. They become vessels for my own mythology. Relics. Precious objects filled with narrative. Cast. Carved. Preserved like artifacts from a story that never quite existed. AFTER JADE March 27–29 Hong Kong Art Basel Grateful. See you then.
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