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@NicholasCraven_ @Montreal Cabaret Kingdom?

have you ever been to heaven? have you ever seen the gates?

@Su1cideByC0p @taxspendlib It’s a nuclear bunker in disguise.

@taxspendlib I mean we never really did get much out of the olympic stadium

my wife's photos make Montreal look like an apocalyptic wasteland

NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos “An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms... They used a distributor, which I just discovered, and that distributor’s name is Vydia. They used Vydia to upload all these AI-generated songs. Vydia has since decided to make copyright claims on all of the videos that were used to feed that AI engine to sound like me. So Vydia has come forward and made copyright claims on my YouTube page. Because YouTube does not personally review these things, I am no longer making money on YouTube. Vydia is making money on YouTube off of my own videos of me playing my own banjo in my own backyard with traditional folk songs, some for my own family, over AI-generated music.”

@shagbark_hick Love this take. Spot on!

It's insane to watch people wring their hands over the future prospects of teenagers. My half-brother is now 17, soon to leave the house, and a couple family members are biting their nails over "his future" in a way that makes no sense to me. The risks are lower now than they've ever been. As long as a young man stays away from drugs, leaves the house ASAP, has a sense of adventure, and is willing to work, he more or less can't lose. Even if he bottoms out badly, he's not gonna starve, and he'll bounce back. Yet people act as if the stakes are deathly high. They seem to think that if he makes one false move he's doomed, will be forced into some squalid node of the toothless underclass, cast out and scorned. This kind of neuroticism is what you might expect in a starving, anarchic, famine-stricken nation, but in 2026 USA, it seems cartoonishly absurd and out-of-place. Nobody seems to like to admit that a young man can really just "wing it" and do fine in America. He can have no plan at all and just make it work as he goes, it's not a big deal. He can do weird stuff, go off track, move somewhere random, take any job, whatever. The world's his oyster but a cast of middle-aged nervous nellies seem hell-bent to freak him out, drag him down, kill the very sense of adventure that is his best asset. Having watched him grow up since he was a baby, it's honestly hard to watch.

@newstart_2024 Alcohol is a weapon to keep the masses fat, stupid, sick and compliant. It’s even in the Marshall plan. Keep Euros drunk so they don’t start another world war.

@elonmusk It’s super cool Elon is among us and just Elonmaxing all the time.

My idea of a good time is working with amazing engineers to create incredible technology 🤩 The Tesla chip research fab will have all the machines needed to do logic, memory, packing & masks in one building for a lightning fast development cycle. Heaven 💫

Share your AI Art Have you made something amazing with AI? Images, videos, anything goes! Tomorrow (Sunday), I’ll feature the top creations in a special post Drop your best work below 👇

@kai_xbt Which ones makes all the dudes look like lesbians?

Threadguy explains how NYC has been completely oneshotted by peptides "Every person you meet in New York City introduces themselves with what peptides they're taking now. It's surreal. This didn't happen in LA, this didn't happen in Virginia. You meet somebody and they're like 'hey nice to meet you, I'm on Retatrutide and BPC.' It's like the new pronoun. The new vegan. There's literally a sign in front of Equinox in the men's locker room that says 'this isn't a pharmacy, please don't sell peptides in here.' It is genuinely societal psychosis amongst 25 year old males."

@tetsuoai Not impressed with the update.

🚨 xAI just dropped a massive upgrade to Grok Imagine! Now you can choose between two modes: Quality (new): Produces next-level images with jaw-dropping detail, realism, and creativity, generating four high-quality images at once instead of an infinite scroll. Speed: Delivers lightning-fast generations with consistently impressive results, just as you've experienced before. way more power. just select a mode, then type what you want to imagine. here are two prompts that you can try. prompt one: A dramatic low-angle cinematic view of a menacing knight in intricate ornate black plate armor and helmet with flowing dark cape, riding a powerful muscular black warhorse in full gallop charging directly toward the viewer across a vast field of tall green grass. The knight raises a long straight sword triumphantly high in his right hand. The horse has a wildly flowing mane and tail whipped by motion, ornate leather-and-metal barding, and tack. Foreground shows extreme radial motion blur streaks in the grass conveying tremendous speed and velocity. Background features towering jagged snow-capped rocky mountain peaks under a vibrant deep blue sky with voluminous dramatic white clouds. Epic dark fantasy atmosphere, highly detailed textures on armor and horse, cinematic high-contrast lighting, dynamic heroic composition. prompt two: A serene young woman with fair skin, shoulder-length straight dark brown hair, and a calm introspective expression gazing slightly downward stands centered in a vast barren white sand desert at night under a deep dark navy blue sky, with distant low dark rocky mountains on the horizon. She wears a long flowing translucent white hooded robe with subtle iridescent holographic shimmer and prismatic rainbow-cyan reflections across the fabric, the hood up over her head. In both hands at chest level she holds a single glowing bioluminescent blue cross, jesus in the middle is emitting intense bright cyan-blue light that illuminates her robe, hands, and face. Directly behind her head and shoulders is a massive luminous circular rainbow halo aura with concentric glowing rings transitioning from inner vibrant blue and cyan outward to turquoise, yellow, orange, and red, crowned by a brilliant white starburst light at the top center casting dramatic volumetric god rays downward. Cinematic mystical ethereal atmosphere, photorealistic yet fantastical style, sharp focus, high detail on fabric textures, rose petals, sand ripples, and light effects.

New grok update is terrible.

@thewrongjess After 6 months it felt like I used to be under water before.

Stop drinking alcohol. Not trying to be righteous or preachy, but my mental health did a 180 when I quit.

@StefanMolyneux Covid was eye opening. And I was among the “smartest” in nyc. The. They voted for Biden! lol

Smart people tend to hang around other smart people - it took social media for smart people to finally realize just how little the average person knows- and how confident the average person is that he knows a lot!

@robertlufkinmd War on Drugs

What happened in the 1980's so that everyone, everywhere, of all ages started getting fat?

@shagbark_hick Vegas

Worse, there appears to be no will to create a "low-rent intellectual scene" in the USA. I suspect this is largely because the youth are more immobile than ever. To create a "mecca" for artists, thinkers, and so on, you need several things: 1. You need a low-rent place 2. You need footloose "thinking people" who are willing to relocate to that low-rent place more or less on a whim. 3. There must be ample cheap bars and cafes in that place. 4. Those present must be FAR more interested in studying, debating, reading, writing, loafing, and making art than in working a job. Numbers 1 and 3 already exist in amplitude. There are tons of American towns that are super low-rent with ample cheap bars and cafes. Probably thousands of such towns exist -- some of them even exist on Amtrak, relatively close to major cities, or near substantial airports. It's numbers 2 and 4 that just don't seem to exist. Very few young intellectual types seem disposed to move across state lines on a whim -- especially to a low-rent, low-wage place. Moreover, most younger thinking people are lately taken with chasing high wages in order to finance an increasingly socially-requisite luxury lifestyle -- they're just not interested in "slumming it" so they can write novels and such. This is strange, because most of them do romanticize times and places when great artists, writers, and thinkers were "slumming it," discoursing into the night, living in motels, Patti Smith wandering Brooklyn in the 80's, McCarthy in El Paso, etc. I do not think it's a dramatic overstatement to say that because of this state of affairs, America's cultural and intellectual influence is stagnant or perhaps even on the wane. Our art sucks, our novels suck, our intellectual classes suck, our universities are death-spiraling, and there are no more "vibrant and cheap" havens for thinking people anymore. This is largely because our increasingly small pool of thinking people has been immobilized, atomized, and psyopped into running the rat race.

@CryptoMikli If you were smart you’d realize it’s a weapon to make the masses stupid, sick and compliant.

Clavicular reveals the real purpose of alcohol "If you were actually smart, you would realize the purpose of alcohol is to lower your inhibitions to talk to girls. That's the only time it makes sense to leverage such a toxic drug like ethanol"

@CryptoMikli “You aren’t pretty enough to be this big of a bitch.”

Clavicular says women are becoming brutal with rejection and they try to embarrass men for no reason "Women are brutal as fuck these days with rejecting people. I think one thing that I don't really like is sometimes a dude will be in a bar, literally just go up and call a girl pretty, with no creepiness to it, no overly touchy behavior or whatever, and she'll start screaming just to embarrass the dude and brutalize him" "I think it's just that they feel disrespected, that someone lower in percentiles feels like they could somehow enter a relationship with them. It's sensible to a degree, you know, how could you actually think that this approach would work out, but I don't really think that there's a reason for them to go out of the way to be brutal"

@realEstateTrent He’s ghetto trash propped up by the CIA.

Snoop Dogg might be the most universally liked person in America. What traits does he have that allow him to connect with basically everyone?

@SeedOilDsrspctr If Darwin was right they’d be a lot smarter.

What’s your strongest opinion about plants?

@minhsmind Absolutely. But they are way better than all the stuff not created. And it’s a ton of fun making the stuff.

I think there’s some degree of AI image psychosis going on: where you think your images and video are better than they actually are because you spent all that time down the generative rabbit hole with them.

@RoyalistW Every person who survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge regretted it the millisecond they couldn’t take it back and realized all their problems were easily fixable.

Suicide is an act I can not understand If you have given up on life then there is no reason to fear death much less anything else. Quite your job, wander the world, live in the woods, etc, etc. You might as well risk it all if you’re ready to throw it all away anyhow.