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In Australia, a man named Alfie Date moved into a retirement home at the age of 109. About 12 hours after he arrived, two of the nurses came to his room and asked if he could knit. He could, he’d been at it since 1932. They told him about a program asking volunteers to knit tiny woolen sweaters for an endangered species called Little Penguins. The sweaters stop oil-covered birds from cleaning themselves with their beaks during a spill, because the oil is toxic if they swallow it. Alfie said yes. He spent his last two years knitting hundreds of them. He was lost in 2016, at 110.

not to be that annoying person, but david byrne is right about all this

A man is on a smoke break at work, we are watching him, he is watching the time. After all, five o’ clock can’t come soon enough. He will finish his cigarette and turn around and go inside, we will catch the door, wait ten seconds and go inside as well. As he’s going home, we will be going to work. It’s rush hour in New York and that is perfect, we become nothing, specks in the sea of chaos, playing our part in the universal dance. Nobody sees us, because nobody looks up, everybody has somewhere to be, and I suppose we’re no different. More than any other shot, I’ve been asked what I was thinking in the moment of taking this self-portrait and the answer is absolutely nothing. It was pure presence. The wind was picking up and a storm was coming, sirens and horns blended into the cacophony on the streets below, but inside, there was the same silence that drew me to the work five years prior. Two months later, we’d do it all again, this time, arriving as an enormous storm passed, a double rainbow sprawling across the sky as we stepped onto the roof. We didn’t waste time, everybody climbed in succession and I shot and filmed. We were, once again, specks in the sea of existence, playing our small part in that orchestrated dance we know locally as New York City, but beyond, the world. New York Times Tower // 2023.

@starks_arq Amir DM us, the UK film industry wants a word 💚

Seedance 2.0 + real recorded video + reference image for style = wild.

@BlackboxAIhost @wadadawadada Yooooooooo Go time! We're making OMNI, a cute lil interdimensional space frog Pokémon companion for creative /neurodivergent folk and we've been envisioning OMNIBOX for ages Exactly what ur working on! Based in London wya? Time to get the network up EarthLink! 👽🛸✨

your phone connects to a small radio in your pocket that radio talks to your blackbox node the node runs AI, mesh, and value transfer no sim. no carrier. no bill. you own the network. v1 → comms. data explorer. value transfer. v2 → image/video over radio. social layer. this is an open source project we need contributors rf. embedded. protocol. fullstack. tag someone who should be building with us!

President Trump locked out of the Situation Room by his own staff. Whispers of nuclear codes requested and refused. A ceasefire on a timer. Before the world freaks out... Save the Notice! Share it! When the grid goes, the screenshot in your camera roll is the last manual you'll have. blackbox [dot] host

@starks_arq @babakarto We gotta make ZOMBOZOS Zombie Mafia Movie

i gave a friend unlimited credits and the rights to use my face…

Bringing AI to Hollywood: Episode 2 After New York, we flew to LA. The place that ran motion pictures for the last 100 years. It shaped how we think about heroes, friendship, and success. Now we’re showing up with a bag and a laptop, chatting with the creatives building what’s next. Old world meeting new world and we are documenting everything. Sat down with @PJaccetturo to compare workflows and talk about the future of generative AI. Met @hardeep_gambhir and @Chandan_Perla on the distribution of AI films. One meeting we couldn’t film. Top tier EP. No human was replaced in this process.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ We’re hiring creators to join this team of technical creatives - let’s build the future of film together. Enjoy our series - we will keep them coming

@starks_arq @UtopaiStudios

Historical epics used to cost millions. We captured Alexander the Great’s darkest realization using @UtopaiStudios. Here's the exact blueprint:

What ancient instruments sounded like. Video by Bilimtuel Which is your favorite?

VR founder Jaron Lanier says a future where people are paid for the data they give AI is better than one where everyone depends on billionaires to survive "artificial intelligence is a marketing term, even a religion" The software behind drug discovery and chatbots is very different, but we call it all "AI" because it serves politics, ideology

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The hydration revolution made us all look younger, created the "I gotta piss" guy, now it has brought us wearable water.

Michael Jackson couldn’t read sheet music and wasn’t a trained instrumentalist, but he composed like a human multitrack recorder. Instead of writing notes, he 'sang' every part of a song into a tape machine, drums, basslines, guitar riffs, horn stabs, string sections, harmonies, even reverb cues. Engineers said he’d walk into the studio with the entire arrangement already finished in his head. He’d beatbox the groove, layer vocalized bass and chords, then sing each string line one by one until the full orchestration existed as stacked vocal tracks. Musicians would then translate those vocal sketches into instruments, often discovering that his “sung” arrangements were harmonically complex and rhythmically precise. This wasn’t a gimmick, it was how he built some of his biggest hits. Billie Jean, Beat It, Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough, and Smooth Criminal all began as fully voiced demos where every element was performed with his mouth. Producers repeatedly said he had perfect internal pitch and could recall entire arrangements days later without hearing them again. What looked like a limitation, not reading music, became his superpower: he composed directly from imagination to sound, without ever touching a piano. © Reddit #drthehistories

the whole cheat code to life is just being delusional and confident asf

@ProofofMaro Blue Lotus Flower if u want the natural version

I was today years old when I learned there’s a peptide that opens your third eye

When Kanye West dropped $7M on a Super Bowl ad slot but spent $0 on production—just a raw iPhone selfie filmed from a car backseat. The 30-second spot that cost $7,000,000 later pulled in 284,357 Yeezy orders, generating $19.3M in under 24 hours. 😳

If you've suffered due to circumstances in your life or because of your vices, you've already paid the price to hold huge success. Don't forget to cash your ticket in. It is a mistake to wallow in the miserable intersection, but most people do. Rumplestiltskin technique can be adopted for life: learn how to spin it into gold; your only task is to figure out how to leverage your struggles into a unique advantage. The secret is that you can rewrite the past to make everything worth it.