"Do you know that the sun's light takes about 8 minutes to reach you? When you look up at the sky, you are actually looking right into the past. What you see happened 8 minutes ago. If you can see the stars, which are much, much further away, it could also be many years ago."

standing room only for physics? faith in humanity restored ✨👏

Wait, you’re still doing manual background removal?! 🦖👀 Gemini 3.0 Flash + code execution is a game changer for computer vision pipelines. I just built a workflow that: ✅ Edits an image with NanoBanana 🍌 ✅ Auto-creates transparent PNGs with OpenCV 🖼️ ✅ Draws bounding boxes - for ~$0.006! 💸

TIL the word "aniconic" from my art history class (referring to pieces that avoid depicting subjects in human form, instead representing them through symbols, abstract forms, or empty spaces) and am now obsessed with creating these for my favorite historic tech humans, guess the people below:

Bengaluru friends! 🇮🇳👋 Beyond excited to visit for the Gemini 3 Hackathon hosted by Cerebral Valley and Google DeepMind later this month. Can’t wait to finally meet y'all in person - the innovation coming out of this region is honestly unmatched, and y'all're going to ship some absolute magic. 🪄

💕 love that writing and words were considered works of art, just as elevated as a painting or tapestry

💕 Love that @n8n.io has added a "chat with the docs" feature into their website - makes it super simple to get answers for questions without hunting through a file tree!

Over-the-moon and out-of-the-solar-system proud of @spacewhalerider.com, whose research will be pregaming the Bad Bunny light show at CU Boulder's Fiske Planetarium next month. 🪐🧑‍🚀

TIL why the word "vaccine" has etymology tracing back to "vacca", the Latin word for cow. 🐮

🧱 Am the biggest, most vocal fangirl of code execution with the ai.dev Gemini APIs - especially when coupled with things like visualizing bounding boxes in an input image, or plotting on a coordinate plane. Check out this quick example with LEGO bricks: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...

😢 am still so dang bummed that wikipedia removed my fictional people list from @riceuniversity.bsky.social's page, it's such a solid line-up:

Google bought DeepMind today, 12 years ago. 💖

📒 Wrote a quick blog post and Colab notebook showing how to use ai.dev 's batch mode with @hf.co Datasets, Google Cloud, and one of our Gemini models (Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite, but you could swap in any model docstring!). 🔗 dev.to/googleai/ben... 🔗 github.com/dynamicwebpa...

🤯 the solar parks in India are *staggering* - can you imagine driving 15km, and only seeing panels on either side of you?

✨🚌 Spotted Modal bus wrappers on the San Francisco MUNI buses this morning!

🧮 I've created a collection of automations recently, using @github.com Workflows and the ai.dev Gemini APIs - but my favorite one might be math bot. A beautiful new 3D-math-thing delivered to my inbox each morning, with a short background on why it's interesting/important + code to replicate:

👋 Reminder: the Gemini APIs in ai.dev have a batch mode, which not only saves time – but also money (up to 50% of the standard costs)! If you're sending in many requests all at once, I strongly, *strongly* recommend taking a look. ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...

📄 ✍ Late to the party, but just created a document signing app with Google AI Studio's Build in four iterations! It asks the user to upload a PDF, then converts each page to an image and uses Gemini to define bounding boxes around open fields that would need to be completed.

TIL the technical term for trash-talking is "counter-detailing", and will absolutely be deploying this bad boy as a descriptor on the regular

TIL "Acetaminophen* has for decades been the nation’s leading cause of acute liver failure." 😰 * Largely from extra-strength Tylenol

am chomping at a bit at the very idea of waiting, but seeing this many people take advantage of longreads from the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social = 💓

😰💊 "To this day, agency officials estimate they learn about somewhere between 0.01% and 5% of the serious problems that patients and consumers experience with prescription drugs. [...] For over-the-counter remedies like Tylenol, reporting problems are far worse."

🙌 Google DeepMind crew at the @ycombinator.bsky.social founder + alumni mixer! Everything from data annotation, to assistance with managing private equity companies, to robotics hardware, to just-in-time information serving for sales reps, to tankless diving equipment (!!).

every time i see a vector or spinner art installation it just makes me want to sprint towards it with a blow dryer 😆

🎸✨Instead of hiding my questionable and ever-evolving @lastfm.bsky.social history, I built a Python bot to roast me about it every morning! 🤖 Poe API + ScriptBot (w/ Gemini⚡️) ⚙️ @github.com Workflows (running daily for free) 📩 Gmail (to bring it all home) And the best part? ~$1.75 per year to run.

definitely was not expecting this question on the India visa application 😅🇮🇳 (and character limit means that I'm going to need to decide between "tattoo of wifi signal" or "tattoo of the molecular structure of dopamine", which one is more distinctive??)

good morning from the top of the combo jungle gym / art installation in DeepMind MTV 🧗☀️

🙌 Join the Gemini 3 global hackathon for early API access to build next-gen apps! We’ve got $100k in prizes + funding opportunities for the best builds. If you've yearned to start a passion project or to kick the tires on an idea for a company, there's never been a better time. gemini3.devpost.com

😰 The stories of people who developed cancer due to using baby powder (TL;DR, if it's talcum-based then it's almost certainly contaminated with asbestos) are *heartbreaking*. Sure does make a person wonder what seemingly innocuous products we're using now are actually horrible for our health:

Robots 🤝 Google AI Studio aistudio.google.com/apps/bundled...

🙌 Build, run, and share custom AI benchmarks on @kaggle.com that are evaluated on the leading AI models with reproducible results! www.kaggle.com/discussions/...

📚🎶 Extremely impressed with the San Francisco Symphony and SF Public Library for hosting a free chamber music concert tonight! Packed house, all ages, pristine vibes:

🎼 A massive pet peeve for me when learning new piano pieces is attempting to either imagine—or hunt down a recording—for how a song might sound. ai.dev/build just built me a sheet music to MIDI alternative using Gemini 3.0: paste in or take a picture of sheet music, then hear the track.

🙌 Had so much fun today delivering the ai.dev vibe coding workshop at @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social! And it's wild to think that the new state of the world is: "by the end of this class, all of you should have created and deployed an application on Google Cloud".

Will be in Dubai for a little bit on the week of February 23rd! Who should I meet while there? And if you have recommendations for food or activities, please send 'em over - have never been to the UAE before, but have heard that the chocolate and the architecture are something special. 🍫🏙️

🇯🇵 my local japanese supermarket sells sashimi bowls made fresh every hour, and i am *obsessed*

The "No More Tears" Johnson & Johnson tell-all has been *wild*. Nuggets: - Talcum is colocated geologically with asbestos, so it often has trace contamination. - Baby powder, makeups = you guessed it, both talcum based - J&J created fentanyl, Merck and Pfizer did cocaine and morphine More below:

Multimodal spatial reasoning + code execution = 🤯 Watch Gemini 3.0 Flash in Google AI Studio analyze this architectural diagram. It uses Thinking to plan a strategy—actually creating image crops to verify the tiny "WC" labels—and then uses Code Execution to draw precise bounding boxes. 📐✨

🏗️ Google DeepMind and Google Cloud are at @ycombinator.bsky.social today! Come learn all about Google AI Studio, the Gemini APIs, Antigravity, the Gemini App, and all of the @googlelabs.bsky.social products.

*slaps the roof of this thread* You could film so many sci-fi movies in this bad boy

🧵 Thread on beautiful data centers: MareNostrum 4 (Barcelona SCC): Often called "the most beautiful data center in the world," this facility is housed inside the Torre Girona Chapel, a deconsecrated 19th-century church. When fully installed, it will have a peak performance of 13.9 Petaflops.

Fresh off a backpacking trip across Australia (every territory except for WT and Tasmania!) and still can't wrap my head around the scale. 🇦🇺🥾 NT is larger that western Europe, yet has a population of ~260k people. And 53-60% live in just one city (Darwin). 🤯 1.35M km² of almost pure wilderness!

⚡️ If you aren't getting the speed you'd like from Gemini 3.0 Flash in ai.dev, try experimenting with Thinking settings (Minimal, Low, Medium, or High)! Below is a side-by-side comparison, no speed ups. It took me longer to configure settings than it took Flash to write the code+visualize the heart!

Oh, all of the people I've missed seeing on Twitter are *here*! This feels like a dang reunion -- hey there, friends. 🥹💓

TIL that farmed salmon have an antioxidant introduced into their food supply (astaxanthin), so that their flesh mimics the pinky-orange color of wild salmon... Naturally-caught salmon get their color from eating krill and algae; the same process also makes flamingos pink.🦩🐟

@mcccclean.bsky.social Not sure how often you're on Twitter, or here for that matter – but if you haven't already seen it, the Game Worlds exhibition at ACMI is stellar!

wild what you can do with Veo 3 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview in Google AI Studio - testing out here with a public domain song, a picture of me, and music styles decade by decade

👋 Want to make sure that your favorite IDEs and extensions (Roo Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) always use the latest Gemini API models and features? Make sure to either add one of the files below into your context window, or MCP-ify the SDK repo: 🔗 JS/TS: lnkd.in/g8nn7GVT 🔗 Python: lnkd.in/g4XKNF-j

🍌 There's always money in the banana stand! Make sure to check out our latest model in Google AI Studio - Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview. Editing, reimagining, extraction and more. 🖼️: "The Green Cap" by Alex Katz

a poem about ai art assembled by an ai which composed news headlines about ai art gist.github.com/dynamicwebpa...