Minh Do

Here's an interesting one: Hollywood started in California mainly to escape Thomas Edison’s camera patents and violent practices. In the early 1900s, Thomas Edison aggressively protected his film camera patents by suing independent filmmakers in New York and literally hiring thugs to beat up rogue filmmakers. To avoid constant litigation, many of them moved to California, leading to the creation of Hollywood in Los Angeles. This is so ironic in context of AI, and reinforces my sense that AI indeed does resemble something like hip hop, punk, and even the origins of Hollywood. Link to full story in comments.

Jensen Huang is basically @ishowspeedsui for AI people.

I think The “No AI Was Used” Label Doesn’t Work. Especially as more and more celebs come out being more open to AI at events like CinemaCon and Cannes like Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings: ""AI used in the right way, it's just a tool like any other tool." As AI usage becomes more ubiquitous, it's not going to be enough to declare you did or didn't use it, the question is actually to what degree did you use it? "The Anti-AI folks will not find it to be enough (as more and more people use it and understand how it works) because everyone is lying and the pro-AI folks will want their work to be taken seriously. They also view them as just a tool, but the truth is the nature of these AI tools is completely different. And knowing what degree of AI was used will become noise, easier to ignore, and therefore easier to appraise what we like about a work of art irrespective of how much AI was used. AI usage should be judged on a spectrum. This will help artists and audiences clarify what is palatable and demystify the work. People will be able to judge the work with more transparency. The lack of clarity and transparency, which is where we are today with agencies, studios, and artists hiding to what degree they’re using AI, is causing suspicion and feeding into narratives about why use of AI is nefarious and ethically objectionable."

@zeroxkyle Singapore always has nice ratios with a tiny highly educated population.

It appears Singapore is now #1 user of Claude in the world. GIC also led the $30 Billion Series G in Anthropic, by the way. Majulah. Singapura.

Chinese Gen Alpha is going to cook American Gen Z.

@catalystmic @PenitentPond @Variety love christ pop music.

@PenitentPond @minhsmind @Variety jesus is using ai to make music. get over it.

Jack Antonoff slammed people who use AI to make art and music as "godless whores": "So to everyone who is gassed up about the new ways you can fake making art, by all means drive right off that cliff. We're genuinely happy to see you go. Generations coming will be engaging in the ancient ritual of writing, recording and performing as it comes to us from God." variety.com/2026/music/new…

Artist trolls anti-AI hater by posting real art (an actual Monet) and saying it’s AI and anti-AI hater says why it’s shitty slop. Turns out the haters can’t tell the difference in the first place.

Spotify's Prompted Playlist is maybe the best thing I've experienced since Pandora in helping me find new music outside of actual humans. It takes a bit of talking to, but eventually you get the exact vibe/genre/sounds you want.

@tiffany_y_y_y This post and the replies make me want to go to New York.

what do I do in sf (or the bay) for a few days I’ve previously done: Pier 39 Alcatraz Boudin bakery Presidio Sutro baths Golden Gate Bridge Golden gate beach The painted ladies Fillmore street Chestnut street Chinatown Japantown Cafe Réveille Arsicault Bakery Salesforce tower Uber office Scale ai office Roblox office a16z office South Park commons That one office space building near oracle park that some YC companies work out of Stonestown mall Bay: Stanford Apple Park (but not inside office) Westfield Valley Fair Santana Row

@gavinpurcell Also missing Ben Affleck.

this isn't perfect but good lord ai imaging has come a loooooooong way

@gavinpurcell Justine Bateman as a director in there kinda invalidates the chart. And outspoken and demure are odd. But otherwise I dig it.

@affan_imran The irony of an Anti-AI bot wave is too funny. I mean it’s clear already that @IsThisA3DModel is using bots. Haha. I wonder if @SHL0MS is using bots as part of the art piece or he just got bots jumping on him.

@minhsmind I'm convinced these are bots

This is just too funny.

@rileybrown Remotion?

I’m telling you right now someone could build a $1B company that’s a full video editor that connects to codex, Claude code and cursor etc. A super app native video editor. Don’t even build the standalone app with an ai agent side panel. Waste of time. Just make it a plugin that works inside codex.

@PenitentPond @Variety There’s godless artists who also don’t like AI. They’re not mutually exclusive. That’s the point I’m making.

@minhsmind @Variety Making art is a form of worship and serves to spiritually uplift the viewer/listener. Atheists can't make good art, that's why the godless love AI slop much.

@D_studioproject Buddhist monks believe in god?

when you push realism too far using GPT Image 2 x Seedance 2.0 on Higgsfield

@kevinrose @github @digg Feels like a version of what you were trying to build @Scobleizer

this view really isn't for public consumption. it's more just to see the incoming stream from @github. this is what the raw firehose of incoming data looks like, we've eliminated bots (fake stars etc.) by only tracking the top 2,000 accounts as defined by the @digg AI algorithm: di.gg/ai/github -- next up, I'm going to format this and intertwine it into our home page in a way that elevates early signal.