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Imagine a browser designed for your nervous system not your data profile. That's Opera Air 🧘 Built-in focus tools 🌱 Mindfulness by design ⚡ Designed for humans, not clicks Would you switch to a browser designed for less stress and more balance? » opera.com/nb/air
Deprogramming conspiracy nuts using specialised AI — the positive aspects of realigning the most egregious aspects of legacy human bias & behaviour with this tech is so undervalued » popsci.com/technology/con…
AI will disrupt Hollywood (Part 45)📽️ People are creating incredible short films and video with AI. 10 wild examples:
Just a reminder to reconfigure your current thinking based on an AGI co-presence in the near future. GPT-4 to AGI fundamentals explained in a series of well researched essays » situational-awareness.ai/from-gpt-4-to-…
Farewell Auster. Kafka with a GPS mapping postmodern human experience » theguardian.com/books/2024/may…
A parable of HS2 from Andy Haldane, formerly of the Bank of England and now FT contributing editor. A sharp critique of short-termism in this oped ft.com/content/70d1b7…
There is nothing that can justify deliberate violence against non-combatants. This means that attacking Israelis at a rave is wrong, bombing Palestinian hospitals is wrong, abducting Ukrainian children is wrong, torturing Russian prisoners is wrong… In fact the nationality of…
Look up into the nightsky — feel kinship with the Cosmos. We are part of it all, made of the same stardust = the very definition of secular spirituality. We are made of atoms, all the same. Let us progress together. Seeing the stars over the Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria = 🕊❤️✨
The Pantheon: 1900 years of concrete that works. eandt.theiet.org/content/articl…
Rufus Wainwright: ‘I call Yorkshire Gold the crystal meth of teas’. Amazing quote. Huddersfield also happens to be the top popper (amyl nitrate) maker and Yorkshire the craft beer capital, of the UK. Make of that what you will @rufuswainwright theguardian.com/music/2023/sep…
ToxMod seems an impressively good use of AI to make sure interactions are civil and to flag potentially toxic language — imagine a live monitor of this during talk shows and political debates. Mute incoming for Suella! cc: @mrjamesob @campbellclaret pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-e…
Five years…a sketchbook of political drawings.
Insightful & heartbreaking story bringing home how #brexit is destroying small business, across all sectors but esp. in crafts, arts, artisan & food sectors
Time is money. If it takes twice as long to do something you earn half as much. This is the brutal fact at the heart of Brexit. Let’s "Brexit" a £12.99 paperback, blow by blow, and see what difference leaving the single market has made.
The Murdoch Succession Thanks to @j_smithcameron for narration. Projection location New York City #Succession
From precariat to hyper-productive » Finally the UK (after highly successful experiments in Europe) is trialling UBI — just in time before AI sweeps away many jobs, & turbocharges productivity. Society needs to enhance & nurture productive living. theguardian.com/society/2023/j…
AI just took 3D modeling to a whole new level 🤯 Introducing Neuralangelo, a new AI model by NVIDIA that reconstructs mind-blowingly detailed 3D surfaces directly from 2D videos — like photogrammetry on steroids. 🧙🏻♂️ Keep reading to see this crazy magic for yourself 🧵
[Thread] I’ve noticed something odd happening in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. True, there’s plenty of odd things going on in The Shining, but this is really weird. 🧵 1/50
THE SHINING was released 43 years ago today. Not a huge success on its release, it has gone down as one of Stanley Kubrick’s most popular films and most influential horror movies ever made. The behind the scenes story is as outrageous as you might expect… A THREAD 1/34
Sayonara to the Outernationalist. An exquisite, modernist composer.
Breaking News: Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer who scored films including “The Last Emperor,” “The Sheltering Sky” and “The Revenant,” has died at 71. nyti.ms/40yxI2Q
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