DavidB
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This bears repeating, because it was written a long time ago and is more apt than ever: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in. —Turkish proverb
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ACW1234
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At LAX - pushing back from the gate some dumbass was taxiing behind us that wasn’t supposed to and our tow vehicle slammed on the brakes so we wouldn’t hit them, breaking the tow bar. It was loud! Now back to the gate to make sure the landing gear is ok
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@tvaziri.com
curious if you’ve seen this
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The Biggest Mistake in the History of Hollywood
YouTube video by Slidebean
https://youtu.be/yN0H_WfWOp4?si=FJtzwDa7aAsxf5YV
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The Jewish Journal (a publication I used to advertise in) has just published a cover article praising Charlie Kirk for keeping the sabbath and encourages buying his book. I’m sorry but what the actual fuck
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Charlie Kirk’s Last Stop: Shabbat
The late conservative activist pens a love letter to the Jewish Sabbath, and invites the world to reclaim its humanity.
https://jewishjournal.com/cover_story/387102/charlie-kirks-last-stop-shabbat/
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Culture Crave 🍿
8 days ago
AMC says they will not be screening an AI short film after online uproar A third-party ad programmer had planned to show it in ~30% of their theaters (via THR)
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🇨🇦Luigi Palazzini 🇨🇦
17 days ago
Done by Italian street artist Laika.
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I have never seen Shark Tale, and I never will.
10 days ago
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Got a basic path tracer up and running in TouchDesigner
11 days ago
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Michael Warburton
13 days ago
Love this 1994 photo of the late great CHRIS FARLEY - who was born 62yrs ago today. (📷 by Chris Buck)
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Alt National Park Service
13 days ago
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I approve of this use of AI
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MELANIA 2.0 (w/ Kling 3.0)
YouTube video by Ari K
https://youtu.be/jq55Z8PM9G4?si=iEsxkjo1KMabSNv3
14 days ago
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Just saw this today. It was… well it was a movie.
15 days ago
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👏👏👏👏👏👏
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16 days ago
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I was working out how to use bulletsolver in TouchDesigner and gave myself the challenge of making a ball labyrinth game I had as a kid. Still need to figure out how to punch holes in the sim but got the MIDI controls and camera switching working, as well as auto tracking the ball - no AI
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21 days ago
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I’m *really* trying to get on the AI bandwagon but goddamn LLMs are so fucking dumb. I agree with Yann LeCun; we’re wasting our time with LLMs - it’s a dead end. It’s not the answer nor will it replace everyone’s jobs. I’ve been using it heavily and I spend more time correcting it than anything
22 days ago
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I made a hologram shader in GLSL in TouchDesigner - 256 samples and still 60fps on my old iMac!
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23 days ago
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New project: recreating the slitscan Stargate sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey using the original artwork from the 1968 film and TouchDesigner. No images exist of the original transparencies so I took a tiny blurry JPG and upscaled and enhanced it with ChatGPT and Photoshop
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TouchDesigner Slitscan 2001: A Space Odyssey Proof of Concept
YouTube video by cgdavidb
https://youtu.be/RGDJn-zJ4o4?si=XI1cJErsuYEwQwd1
26 days ago
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Just so you know, the red line is when they start arresting journalists
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28 days ago
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I’ve been teaching myself TouchDesigner and recently learned how to use my MIDI controller with it. I used ChatGPT to create lighting passes for a test scene - check it out here
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Using MIDI with a LaunchControlXL3 and TouchDesigner to control an image
YouTube video by cgdavidb
https://youtu.be/Pi_z4yRn-mk?si=IV1tM2QynxZpBaOA
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✨[redacted]✨
29 days ago
just choked on my beverage
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Can you really say a director is a good director if they’ve only directed one film that was good and every subsequent film is a total dud?
about 1 month ago
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TORUS RADIUS 1, 0.9 🥯
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about 1 month ago
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Time to rewatch Alex Garland’s Civil War movie. For reference.
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We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein
Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump
about 1 month ago
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Every VFX artist should download Touch Designer and play with it. It’s mindblowing.
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How I Create Audio-Reactive Art | Touch Designer Crash Course
YouTube video by pwnisher
https://youtu.be/12J2XH2UxDc?si=nwZtMgEOCVnDR19v
about 1 month ago
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In (much better) alternate universe
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about 1 month ago
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I’d love to know how these companies expect to earn trillions of dollars from AI so they can start paying off this debt. It’s a house of cards.
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about 1 month ago
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 1 month ago
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Lizzy For Democracy
about 1 month ago
This IS the best one yet...
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Daily Kos
about 1 month ago
Cartoon ✍️: Ruin the country By Nick Anderson More here 👉
www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics
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New music posted
on.soundcloud.com/30hMPmsd22gz...
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The Temple of the Sun: Remastered
90s demoscene techno. Originally composed in 1999 in Impulse Tracker, I was never happy with the quality of the samples at the time. Now over 25 years later, I've rebuilt it from the ground up the way
https://soundcloud.com/behemuthm/the-temple-of-the-sun-remastered
about 1 month ago
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The Dilbert Douche died
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about 2 months ago
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This should probably be talked about a bit more
www.npr.org/2026/01/13/n...
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Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader ...
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/13/nx-s1-5675781/pentagon-musks-grok-ai-chatbot-global-outcry
about 2 months ago
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The Associated Press
about 2 months ago
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another” took top honors at the 83rd Golden Globes in the comedy category, while Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare drama “Hamnet” upset “Sinners” to win best film, drama.
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'One Battle After Another' and 'Hamnet' take top honors at Golden Globes
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another” and Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare drama “Hamnet” took top honors at Sunday’s 83rd Golden Globes, where the up-for-sale Warner Bro...
https://apnews.com/article/2026-golden-globes-1538032b1bb06383484b15c3c4b9c16f
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Chad the Bird is the Sage we need in these trying times. I highly recommend going through all his videos
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South Bye, Southwest [FULL] 03/15/25
YouTube video by Chad The Bird
https://youtu.be/wlStvskhk6Q?si=kxcfg8hLePIvhqKM
about 2 months ago
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Jon Cooper
about 2 months ago
100% this!👇
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈
about 2 months ago
This comment from the Auschwitz Maemorial FB page is VERY important to read today in America.
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Just watched a screening of Avatar Fire and Ash and there was a panel discussion afterward where Cameron said that he respects artists and generative AI cannot create anything new. This was encouraging but I’m remaining somewhat skeptical
about 2 months ago
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Bethankit Hums
about 2 months ago
Please support Michael de Adder, who does great work:
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AI is useful for some things
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about 2 months ago
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Posting AI recreations of other artists’ work and adding insult to injury by not crediting the original artist serves no purpose than rage bait. What kind of artist does that?
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about 2 months ago
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Hopeful in AZ
about 2 months ago
Uneducated voters will always be a greater danger to this country than immigrants.
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Something new to listen to
on.soundcloud.com/09Lwk6cqtmlX...
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The Nothing
I used to be active in the Demoscene and #trax in the 90s, writing music with Impulse Tracker in DOS on a 486. I occasionally get inspired to make new music. These days I use Logic Pro and Spitfire, V
https://soundcloud.com/behemuthm/the-nothing
about 2 months ago
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I remastered a song I wrote back in 1997 if you wanna check it out
on.soundcloud.com/6ONE4sUinLI6...
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The Frozen Lotus Blossom: Remastered (2026)
Originally composed in 1997 in Impulse Tracker, I found the original piece on hornet.org and recreated the sequencing in Logic Pro, while using all new samples.
https://soundcloud.com/behemuthm/the-frozen-lotus-blossom-remastered-2026
about 2 months ago
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I look forward to the day when the Trump fortune made during his time in office is seized and given back to the American people
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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/31/us/trump-deals-policy-conflicts-web.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFA.zyDo.CE_iy4YC4eAd&smid=nytcore-ios-share
about 2 months ago
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If you’re a guest at Mar-a-Lago, you’re a bad person.
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about 2 months ago
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So what are the current odds on Vance invoking the 25th amendment by February?
about 2 months ago
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New release - Tart Formica
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Tart Formica
Ambient leads into EDM
https://soundcloud.com/behemuthm/tart-formica
about 2 months ago
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