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@neontaster @TrungTPhan I still believe the real story is the director and a new generation of film maker who developed their talent through non traditional means. I loved his first film Milk & Serial youtu.be/pbzGQ1lszv4?si… but Iron Lung, Talk to Me, Bring Her Back and 8th Grade are good examples

Is it fair to compare a $1m movie to a $165m movie? I say yes if the $165m movie is riding on the back of a 50 year franchise and helmed by a studio with infinite money and an infinite talent pool plus many examples from its own franchise of making huge returns on big budgets.

@suekhim How can I work with you.

AI is making kids dumber. It should be making them geniuses. Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇

@culturaltutor Massive win. I’ve been a follower for a long time and I find it very interesting to see both yourself and Curry Barker simultaneously graduate from social media to releasing content on established platforms catering for extended audiences

I’m making a show about buildings. The concept is simple: do for the man-made world what Planet Earth did for the natural world. But, when I pitched the idea, the answer was that nobody would watch it. So I released a pilot episode on YouTube. It’s got 5.4 million views, 379k likes, and 23k comments. People are interested, and now it’s time to make the full show. Six episodes, filming in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the USA, and releasing on a streaming service like HBO, Netflix, or Prime. Why does this show matter? First: we’re surrounded by buildings all the time. Look around yourself, right now… what do you see? Buildings are the logical conclusion of everything a society believes in. That’s the real focus of this show: not the buildings themselves, but what they say about us. Second: there’s global dissatisfaction with modern architecture. This feeling gets written about online, but nobody’s given a voice to it on film or TV. That’s what this show will be. But this isn’t just about criticising modernity. That’s easy. This is about learning from the past in order to understand and improve the present, for everybody. Third: there’s a drought of high-quality culture shows. When I spoke to film executives they said that only documentaries about sports, music, or true crime get funded. That’s a colossal missed opportunity. Galleries are always full, content about architecture goes viral online all the time, and people spend their precious holidays visiting beautiful cities. Why no shows about architecture, then? Tourists flock in their millions to see (for example) the buildings of Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona. But, if you asked those same people if they’re interested in “architecture”, they’d probably say no. To put that another way: not many people want to watch “a show about architecture”, but lots of people want to watch a show that illuminates the real world they’re living in, each and every day. What will the show be like? Six episodes, going chronologically through history and arriving at the present, each focussing on the architecture and design of a specific period: 1. Middle Ages 2. Renaissance 3. Enlightenment 4. The Nineteenth Century 5. Art Nouveau & Art Deco 6. Present Day But, in each case, the point isn’t just to learn about that era; the point is to learn about our modern world through those eras and what they’ve left behind. If you watch the pilot episode (included below) you’ll see what I mean. So the show’s not really “about” the past; it’s about the twenty-first century. That’s why it’s called The Modern World. When you think of a typical history show there are loads of interviews, stock footage, archive photos, historical recreations, and graphics. We’re doing none of that. Everything will be filmed on location, because we’re telling our story only through the real world that exists right now. And, rather than going to the most obvious places, we’ll focus on buildings that aren’t well-known but should be more famous. But that’s all big picture; what will it be like on screen? Buildings used to look different in every country, and now they look the same. Why? Because the weather is different everywhere, and buildings were always a way of dealing with that weather, using local materials. Now we have air conditioning and we ship concrete around the world, so we don’t need to design our buildings with regard to local weather or rely on local materials. Look at really old clocks and you’ll notice something: they don’t have a second hand… because it was only invented 300 years ago! Then you look at the present and you realise we’re surrounded by timers, by seconds ticking down and ticking up relentlessly. If we’re looking for a cause of our anxiety-inducing culture, that might be it. When you spend time with the sun-softened bricks and time-warped timbers of old cities you notice that synthetic materials like plastic have taken over. When we’re surrounded by things that feel temporary, how do you think it makes us feel? It’s only by seeing 19th century train stations, designed like cathedrals, that you realise tradition and technology aren’t enemies. New things don’t have to look boring: if the Victorians had designed AI data centres, they’d look like Medieval castles. In the 1920s, at the zenith of Art Deco, people believed technology would uplift humanity. That’s why they decorated their buildings with statues inspired by electricity. Only by seeing their enthusiasm can we realise our own cynicism, and perhaps begin to fix it. All of that… and much, much more. But, above all else, this show is about a way of seeing. If you want to understand any society then you need to look at what it creates, not what it says about itself. There’s a worldview in every single object; our skyscrapers are designed the same way as our phones. Learn to look at this world, to notice its details, and everything else starts to make sense. What now? I’ve been quiet online recently because I’ve been researching and working on scripts for six full-length episodes. Production begins when we’ve raised the funding. The Modern World is coming.

@michaelmiraflor @tomfgoodwin Cosmos, Are.na, Same Energy all worth a look depending on your topic

@tomfgoodwin too many AI slop images there now.

Are there AI platforms / tools / wrappers etc that help out specifically with moodboarding? I remember hearing about a couple a ~year ago, not sure if they are still around.

@menrva33 No, just what I’m gonna have to evaluate now. Just had a POC in London for a client at Clarkenwell Design Week running opensource tech and cheap Chinese smartphones but success means time to scale up and I’m looking at options and need options for every price/ quality threshold

@nickjohn Is this yours?

Now I know how it feels to be a chinese copycat. 🐈‍⬛ Tomorrow: 3D printing. Tuesday: Launching for 149,95€, including the app. cheaper, better features and honest. 9350 direct contacts in the first mail batch, 90k 2.batch in my industry. The era of overpriced software is finally over. well deserved. Happened in 72hrs. What outrageously expensive product from a market leader are you currently replacing because its features suck?

@andreasklinger My old friends from Varjo. Top team

I just visited a company in Finland that can turn any transparent surface — windows, glasses, plastic, anything — into a 3D display that perfectly augments what you see behind it. Welcome to Distance . One of the most exciting companies in Europe right now. And they're only two years old. We're not talking about a tiny rectangle in the corner of your windshield. The entire glass becomes your screen. They showed this to Kia's design team. It led to a concept car with a full edge-to-edge 3D windshield that paints navigation onto the actual road, shows you what the car sees, highlights threats, and yes, could theoretically replace every Pepsi billboard with a Coke one. But the defense side is where it gets serious. As a neighbor to Russia, Finland feels the pain of Ukraine very directly. The Distance team wanted to be part of the solution. Their field operator headset gives soldiers jet fighter-grade situational awareness. Any sensor (thermal, infrared, multispectral) overlaid onto what you actually see. Tested in over a dozen field trials with the Finnish army. Driving armored vehicles in arctic conditions in the middle of the night with full 3D perception. The field operator headset effectively allows soldiers to see through smoke, and with extra cameras even behind walls. Some of what they showed us had never been shown publicly before.  And there's more cooking under the hood they couldn't share yet. Two years in. Moving at the speed of light. Welcome to Europe!

@janusch_patas On behalf of the automotive industry. We need to talk.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.18263 Project: sjj118.github.io/RT-Splatting/ Code: github.com/sjj118/RT-Spla…

RT-Splatting: Joint Reflection-Transmission Modeling with Gaussian Splatting Contributions: • We introduce a unified surface-volume Gaussian scene representation for jointly modeling sharp specular reflections and clear transmission in real-world scenes containing thin semi-transparent surfaces. • We propose Specular-Aware Gradient Gating to suppress misleading gradients from complex specular regions, substantially reducing floaters in the transmission branch. • Extensive experiments demonstrate that RT-Splatting significantly outperforms prior methods while maintaining real-time rendering and enabling flexible scene editing.

@yunta_tsai Horse Power was TokenMaxxing at the time He invented a metric that allowed him to sell his product and you could argue he was the Jensen of his day with that regards. Token Factory. @rorysutherland would like this

Attempted to write a Steam Engine hype at the era of Industrial Revolution as if it was the age of AI — The steam engine breakthrough is insane right now. Watt’s separate condenser + new GRPO optimization just dropped the 405 hp-class engine. We went from 7 hp → 70 hp → 405 hp+ in basically three years. One machine now does the work of 50+ men or water wheels — nonstop, rain or shine, anywhere. Textile mills, ironworks, everything scaling 5-10x overnight. Productivity exploding. This isn’t incremental. It’s automating physical labor at massive scale. Jobs shifting forever. Society about to look unrecognizable. The Industrial Revolution isn’t coming. It’s here and accelerating faster than anyone predicted. Terrified. Excited. Both. What a time to be alive. 🚂💨

@liminal_warmth @dioscuri Now do requiem for a dream. Same positive energy

Omg I love this so much

@menrva33 @BoocaMart Let’s do it. I had new consultancy jobs come in this week as well as the day job but as you know I smell some kind of collaboration here.

@nickjohn @BoocaMart We really need to speak 😅. Next week 🤞

The blind man answered: “Jesus, I want to see.” “Go, your faith has healed you.” - Mark 10:52 The best apps often happen by accident. 🫣 I was working on a new construction tool for @boocamart when I realized: > LiDAR works flawlessly in total darkness, completely independent of ambient light or visual tracking. So I thought: Why turn the lights on? Let's turn this into a Batman/Daredevil app so the blind can "see" again. 🦇👨‍🦯 Isn't this exactly the kind of use case AI was invented for? Thanks to @claudeai and @GeminiApp, I made a prototype entirely on the go using Swift Playgrounds @Apple integrated Spatial Audio so the user can hear the precise 3D direction and distance of objects through their AirPods - just like echolocation.🔊 To give the app its "eyes," I connected the Gemini API via @GoogleAIStudio / @OfficialLoganK The AI detects objects in real-time and acts like an ADAS system, describing exactly what's ahead. It still needs some love when it comes to latency and accuracy…😅 It works with Google Cardboard or any cheap VR headset where you can just slot in an iPhone. Next: > using a WKWebView workaround to pipe the data into @threejs for that ultimate Daredevil-style echolocation point-cloud visualization. > add fitness and movement-based games to this - everyone should do exercises 🦾 > improve raw AVFoundation to get the raw LiDAR data completely in the dark..AI vision model still needs ambient light to actually recognize and name the objects. What else could we do with this? #LiDAR #ComputerVision #AR

@BlendiByl @gorkem @MeshyAI @fal @neilsonks @theworldlabs At this point, the community has built on top of @neilsonks foundation to rebuild HYWorld.

Experimenting with adding playable characters to the toolkit using @MeshyAI on @fal, needs some polish but already functional! 🎮 Incredible work by @neilsonks and @theworldlabs, been playing around with it for hours lol

@neilsonks Really is excellent work

its open source at github.com/neilsonnn/imag…

open-sourcing a 3D gen toolkit for Claude Code input image → environment, meshes, physics, lighting, & audio

@menrva33 “A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam," -Frederik Pohl Vandalised Waymo Data centre protests Layoff levelled at AI Lowest public sentiment in AI since it entered the public vernacular The touch paper is already lit

Beside all the cool tech, don’t forget: people will stand up against the bots and AI. They will!! Civil unrest. Riots. Sabotage.​ When you copy all the fancy future tech from the 80s/90s/00s movies, fine. But the movies always showed the other side of the coin. And everyone, really everyone in the tech bubble, gives absolutely zero. I’m not talking about the bullshit EU AI Act trying to keep AI and bots in check. I’m talking about 900 million people in China living on $10/day, for example. What are you going to do with all those people? Pull a Thanos snap? 🫰 Self-fulfilling prophecy incoming. It will happen. Exactly like in the movies. Exactly. And not just one movie. No. A batshit crazy mix: The Purge, I Robot, Terminator, Elysium, Blade Runner, Matrix, etc.. Life imitates art. And art just wrote the manual in the past. And don’t hold your breath for universal basic income. Not with these politicians running the show. It ain’t happening. Not in our lifetime.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ I could open Polymarket right now and bet on this. I’d win.

@TomLikesRobots Yes. Haaa

Experimenting with a watercolour animation style on SeeDance 2 and Adrien Brody appears on the TV (with canned laughter?). Does anyone else get actors/celebrities randomly turning up in their videos?

@janusch_patas This is great

I'm excited to share the Geo Register Plugin for LichtFeld Studio from the LichtFeld community! This plugin helps bring Gaussian splat scenes into real-world geographic space. It registers a scene to WGS-84 and ECEF coordinates, so you can click any point on the model and get its latitude, longitude and altitude. It supports multiple georeferencing sources, including EXIF GPS data, image position CSVs, RealityScan camera parameters and saved similarity transforms. Once the scene is registered, you can export geo-referenced splat models as LAS, LAZ or 3D Tiles datasets for use in GIS and 3D mapping workflows. Built for anyone working with drone data, photogrammetry, Gaussian splatting, GIS, ArcGIS or CesiumJS. Link in the comment below!

@menrva33 I’m on it

Daily business = working with professional athletes, soccer players worldwide. Providing them with pro equipment - as I’m working for big brands (like keiser = Christiano is a fanboy 😬) also facility construction. Running a robot on my sites since 2018 …Gyms, Olympic trainings courts etc. So I know first hands what’s overpriced and what makes sense or not😉. in Germany the fitness equipment industry it’s a kind of mafia 🤫🤐. If you run a equipment leasing agency you would be rich, I can tell you. my mission is providing amateurs nearly the same pro level but without investing the same. Power to the people is the slogan. Wether with smart AI integrated, refurbished equipment, sponsoring etc. It’s not getting in competition with the big players, it’s more like a whole new market nobody has on the radar. You should have a look at boocamart.io tap on fitness No worry I don’t want do sell sth. I want that people understand what I have cooked 😇 Currently a lot of text…the beta phase ends next week and I will update with real screenshots from the users from inside. And it’s not like that I’m building only my own tools, it’s more like providing the clients with every tool, service, provider available worldwide but in on single marketplace. Amazon / skynet for fitness , than construction than every other industry. Bold statement i know …but possible in 2026 with AI. That’s not my fault 😅

Mediapipe / Roboflow bros ‼️👇 There’s a seriously underserved market in Germany for deep vision tech. All you need: an HDMI cable, an iPad, and some slick AR movement games. 🎮 Health gaming is blowing up - gyms, schools, corporates, personal training. The demand is real. 🦾 The image shows what clients are currently paying for. Overpriced hardware with literally a Kinect sensor in 2026 with an AI label on top. 🙄 Clients have zero idea this is possible also with a mobile device. 😏 Germany alone: ~9,600 gyms. 35,000+ rehab centers. 90,000 sports clubs. 10.000 personal trainer 🎯 Massive disruption window. Wide open. You want some cake 🍰 ? thank me later​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🫡

@menrva33 ..As a designer from a professional sports family. I really get what you’re proposing and it looks great. I wish you the best of luck and if you wanna bounce any ideas around, don’t be a stranger.

@menrva33 You’re very much on my radar. I see what you’re doing and I can read between the lines of the application, market and solution you have developed. I think you’re gonna do great just through honest repurposing of existing technology connected in a novel, not obvious way…