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[Daily Berserk 𒉭 @daily_berserk]

#BERSERK #ベルセルク

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

Godfather of AI: "If you sleep well tonight, you may not have understood this lecture."

This 47-minute lecture is the best thing I saw about AI in the last few months.

It will definitely help you understand how it actually works and where it's going.

Geoffrey Hinton built the neural networks behind every AI alive, then quit Google to warn the world about it.

The part nobody wanted to hear:

> AI is already developing abilities its creators didn't intend
> in most cognitive tasks it's already ahead of us
> the question is no longer if it surpasses us but when
> the only decision left is which side of that line you're on

Right now the average person opens Claude, types something, gets an answer, closes the tab.

They think they're using AI. they're using maybe 10% of it.

I went through his entire lecture, then mapped everything he described to what Claude can actually do today.

17 Claude features most people will never find on their own.

Full breakdown in the post below.

[Kōda @aimikoda]

Saber Poi Ritual

Midjourney + Gpt Image 2 + Seedance 2.0 + Suno

Workflow and prompts are in the replies.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

10 websites that cure boredom better than TikTok.

Want to actually have fun online again? Open one of these websites.

Save this list.

1. Zoom Quilt
An infinite zoom animation that never ends. Pure mesmerizing chaos.
Site → https://t.co/MOHHeCOGwQ

2. MapCrunch
One click teleports you to a random Google Street View anywhere on Earth.
Site → https://t.co/sYoccelfWJ

3. Stellarium Web
A real-time map of every star, planet, and constellation directly above your head right now.
Site → https://t.co/5HWRv2eGqg

4. neal fun
The internet's playground. Infinite Craft, The Password Game, and 30 other addictive experiments built by one developer.
Site → https://t.co/3YBKjGAeDc

5. Universal Paperclips
A free incremental game that will eat 4 hours of your life and you will not regret a second.
Site → https://t.co/hNuhntFmoC

6. GeoGuessr
Drop into a random Street View location. Guess where you are. The puzzle every curious mind gets hooked on.
Site → https://t.co/h8ttdjRYLq

7. Radio Garden
Spin a globe. Click any green dot. Listen to live radio broadcasting right now from that exact place.
Site → https://t.co/LiJ7jLyIMG

8. A Soft Murmur
Mix rain, thunder, coffee shop, fire, waves, and wind into your own custom ambient soundtrack.
Site → https://t.co/ZeTNbkfuD4

9. The Useless Web
One button. Infinite random useless websites. All better than another TikTok scroll.
Site → https://t.co/zT0XGDPfji

10. Window Swap
Look out a window from a stranger's home somewhere on Earth. Real, slow, beautiful.
Site → https://t.co/xFOhKTa8RW

Wonder. Exploration. Beauty. Curiosity. Surprise.

[Zoe Thorogood @zoethorogood]

Part 2 of how I make a comic page ! These videos are too much work haha 😅

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New poster for Christopher Nolan's ‘THE ODYSSEY’.

In theaters on July 17.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

What if consciousness is not generated by the brain, but instead exists as a fundamental force of the universe, similar to gravity or spacetime?

For decades, mainstream science has largely adhered to physicalism, conceptualizing the brain as a biological computer and consciousness as an emergent phenomenon arising from neuronal activity.

Leading neuroscientists such as Dr. Christof Koch of the Allen Institute and Dr. Nicco Reggente of the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies are now questioning this materialist perspective. They argue that consciousness is not merely a byproduct of biological processes, but a primary, irreducible feature of reality itself, on par with gravity, mass, or the fabric of spacetime.

Drawing on the analogy of a radio receiver that tunes into an external broadcast rather than producing the signal internally, these researchers propose that the brain interacts with a universal field of consciousness. In this view, our subjective experiences offer a direct window into a deeper, more fundamental layer of existence.

If this hypothesis is correct, it would dramatically reframe longstanding scientific mysteries. The notorious “hard problem” of consciousness, explaining how physical matter gives rise to subjective feelings, would effectively dissolve. Rather than asking how the brain produces the mind, scientists could instead investigate how consciousness gives rise to the appearance of matter.

This paradigm shift holds profound implications for cosmology, philosophy, and medicine. It could provide new frameworks for interpreting near-death experiences and other altered states of consciousness. If consciousness is independent of the physical body, death may represent not an end, but a return to the fundamental essence of the cosmos.

[Zickl, D. (2026). “Is Consciousness a Building Block of the Universe?” Popular Mechanics, May 23, 2026]

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

🚨BREAKING: A cognitive scientist from MIT has mathematically proven that evolution guarantees we see zero percent of true reality, that most consciousness in the universe exists without a body, and that non-human intelligences with a wider window on reality than ours can reach in and manipulate it the way a programmer manipulates a video game.

Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine who has spent 40 years building a mathematical theory of the observer. His work was cited by John Wheeler in the "It From Bit" paper. He studied under Marvin Minsky at MIT, spent two decades secretly meeting with Francis Crick to study consciousness, and has nine specific mathematical conjectures on the table that would derive general relativity, quantum field theory and the Big Bang from a single framework. The top high-energy physicists in the world, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross, are already saying spacetime is doomed. Hoffman thinks he knows what replaces it.

This interview is the first time he has publicly laid out what his mathematical model explains about alien life, embodiment and the structure of reality.

It already derives time dilation and quantum wave functions directly from differences in observer window size. Physics has spent a century failing to solve the measurement problem because it has been looking in the wrong place. The observer has to come first, and no physicalist framework can get you there.

A consciousness with a larger observer window has access to the underlying structure of our reality in ways we can't perceive or counter. A craft going Mach 40 instantaneously in our headset could be a leisurely maneuver in theirs.

The implications for UAP and alien life are immense.
Embodiment, being locked into a body with fingers and toes as your only interface with the world, is a probability zero anomaly in the full space of possible minds. He also says current large language models are dumber than cucumbers. His new framework, the recursive trace logic, is a completely different architecture, and some of the biggest names in frontier AI have already come to him about it.

The framework has no ceiling, and the implication is a single unified consciousness exploring itself through an unbounded number of perspectives, each one capable of waking up.

Death, in this framework, is just the closing of an icon on the desktop.

Full conversation is live now.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

The laptop hasn't changed in 30 years. NVIDIA just changed it

RTX Spark is their first PC chip ever.

- RTX 5070 level GPU
- 128GB unified memory
- 1 petaflop of local AI
- thin, light, barely throttles unplugged

Your AI agent lives on the machine. 24/7. No cloud.

This is step one of the agentic AI PC, and everyone else is about to copy it.

[THE GHOST IN THE SHELL Anime Series | July 7, 2026 @thegits_animeEN]

#theghostintheshell
Scheduled for July 7, 2026[JST]

#thegits

[Art Hits Hard @nightwriter22]

Director Denis Villeneuve considers Rendezvous with Rama his first true hard sci-fi film—grounded, realistic, and closer in style to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey than Dune’s epic scope.

Eric Roth wrote the screenplay. The production will showcase Villeneuve’s signature slow-burn tension, vast minimalist visuals, and immersive practical/VFX sequences inside the giant alien cylinder.

The project will be budgeted at $190–250 million but is currently behind Villeneuve's upcoming James Bond film.

[AniTV @AniTVOfficial]

Norman Reedus says he has started watching 'Chainsaw Man' after Hideo Kojima recommended it to him.

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

BREAKING: Netflix just dropped the first trailer for In the Hand of Dante, featuring Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Al Pacino and Martin Scorsese. This film has been on my radar for such a long time- I can’t believe we’re finally getting the release on June 24th. This looks excellent.

[Out Of Context Manga @mangaa]

HERO EVIL

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

Films every serious cinephile should watch:

1. Citizen Kane
2. Seven Samurai
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Schindler's List
6. Mulholland Drive
7. Rashomon
8. The Godfather
9. Bicycle Thieves
10. Breathless
11. Stalker
12. Tokyo Story
13. 8½
14. Sunset Boulevard
15. The 400 Blows
16. Vertigo
17. Persona
18. Chinatown
19. Barry Lyndon
20. Come and See
21. Wild Strawberries
22. The Seventh Seal
23. Andrei Rublev
24. Yi Yi
25. Metropolis
26. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
27. The Rules of the Game
28. L'Avventura
29. Au Hasard Balthazar
30. Scenes from a Marriage
31. Mirror
32. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
33. Nashville
34. Blue Velvet
35. Chungking Express
36. In the Mood for Love
37. Satantango
38. Jeanne Dielman
39. A Separation
40. Ran

How many have you seen?

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Robert Pattinson in 2026.

[A24 @A24]

Witness television history. PRIMETIME, a new film by Lance Oppenheim, starring Robert Pattinson. In theaters this Fall.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

A new class of toys has a very susceptible target audience: the parent with lots and lots of screen-time guilt, @elcush writes: https://t.co/2r0ekDAulc

[cabana. @cabanadrives6]

The Mamoru Oshii Collection

18 Films
4 Anime Series
30 + Shorts/Extras
Angel's Egg New 4K Remaster
Patlabor 1/2 + Early Days Series
Ghost In The Shell 1/2 4K Blu-Ray

Thank you @rynvie and the oshiiarchive project for the help

https://t.co/j5agZVbFDx

[Marie Ruiz-Vidal @RuizVidal7]

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