Brian Dohn

[Brian Dohn @BrianDohn]

Is Bloodstone the next zombies map?? Prob just a code name but this just popped up #codzombies #bo6zombies #CallofDutyBlackOps6

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

One year ago, we showed you our vision for System 03.

Now, with the first trip successfully completed, see how it looks in reality:

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Just go out and make something.

🫶🏻

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

100 years of Star Wars (with Midjourney and Pika Labs)

[📹 douggypledger]

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

System 03's second extraction of plastic, all collected after sweeping an area of 480 square kilometers (more than 85,000 football fields) in 6 days.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

In honor of Keanu Reeves' birthday today:

“This is Matrix movie star Keanu Reeves. He was abandoned by his father at the age of 3 and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter passed away at birth. His wife passed away in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, passed away of an overdose. His sister battled leukemia.

No bodyguards, no luxury houses. Keanu lives in an ordinary apartment and likes wandering around town and is often seen riding a subway in NYC.

When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants, one crying as he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 - On the same day, Keanu deposited the necessary amount in his bank account.

In his career, he has donated large sums to hospitals, including $75 million of his earnings from “The Matrix” to charities.

In 2010, on his birthday, Sept 2nd, Keanu walked into a bakery & bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.

In 1997, some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.

In life, sometimes the ones most broken from inside are the ones most willing to help others.

This man could buy everything, and instead, every day he gets up and chooses one thing that can not be bought:

To be a caring person.
Simple Acts of Kindness

Share this — who knows, maybe Keanu will see it for his birthday!”

Tara Bull

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1948, a boy stared at a TV screen for the very first time.

Curious, I looked up the inventor of the electronic television and learned that it was an American named Philo Farnsworth.

Interestingly, he was completely disappointed by his own invention because he had hoped it would be exclusively used for education rather than entertainment. However, he changed his mind when he watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon on the very device he had invented, confiding in his wife that "this has made it all worthwhile."

Ironically, his only televised appearance was on a game show called "I've Got A Secret" in 1957. When asked about what he was currently working on, Farnsworth discussed the potential to one day create a display-only (flat-screen) type of television. He also talked about increasing bandwidth, improving cameras, creating memory files, and harnessing the power of nuclear fusion.

All very impressive for a man who grew up in a small log cabin built by his father in Beaver, Utah.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

John Mayer is a master of his craft.

He’s also one of the best I’ve come across at using analogy and demonstration to articulate and demystify the creative process.

Here’s a 14-clip (~7-minute) masterclass on mastery and creativity:

TL;DW

1/

“Whenever I want to write a big song, I can't...That's when I get writer's block: when I try to write a song to fill the entire galaxy. I've never gotten a song that way.

But if I write about something the size of a glass of water—a week later, I notice it's got the universe in it. So I'd rather have the universe in a glass of water than try to make a glass of water fit in the universe.”

2/

"What connects with people is you connecting with yourself."

3/

“Writer’s block is when the two people inside of you—the writer and the reader—when the reader doesn’t love the writer. It is not a failure to write. It is a failure to catch the feedback loop of enjoying what you’re seeing and wanting to contribute more to it.”

4/

“Don't shoot ideas down before you have them. 'That won't work' is the worst thing you can ever say. 'That didn't work' is cool, but 'that won't work' is not a way to go through life.”

5/

“I’ve seen the Cool metric change so many times. I'm not telling you don't chase Cool. I'm saying…by the time you reach what you think is cool, Cool is like, 'over here now.’ ‘The princess is in another castle.' You know what I mean? That's a Mario reference.”

6/

"I'm one-half consumer, one-half artist. So I try to put music out that I myself would want to hear as somebody on the other end."

7/

"I'm seeing a lot of motivation about you following your passion, but I'm not seeing any critical thought to what that is or how to be better at that.

So, really the product is passion and that's strange to me. Because my product growing up was sitting in a room yelling, 'Mom, I'm practicing,' for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours.

8/

"But then also read up...You know, this stuff doesn't just appear. It comes from somewhere.

And as soon as you realize you love something—it's almost like catching up with some great TV show on season 9, and you can go, 'oh my God, that means there's 8 seasons before this."

9/

"Whatever you learn is the tip of the iceberg. Dive underwater and find the rest of the iceberg."

10/

"So listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan brought me back to people like Kenny Burrell and Albert King and Jimi Hendrix and Elmore James.

So it became this family tree growing out of my CD player."

11/

"I came up with these guys as like references…It’s like if you're into the NBA and you wear different jerseys and you pretend you're a different player in the driveway—that's what I was doing..."

12/

"Which is a wonderful technique for being yourself. Failing to sound exactly like the person you want to sound like is a wonderful way to sound like yourself."

13/

After watching Cory Wong play guitar, Mayer told him,

"You have an anatomy thing working on your right hand. Your hand is shaped in a way—you have long fingers, very sinewy hands—that you're able to play like that.

That is an example of someone making the most of their anatomical gifts...

And I wish more people could embrace finding what their strengths are anatomically—the way your hand is shaped, the way your mind works, whatever—and play to those strengths."

14/

Mayer picks up an acoustic guitar and demonstrates his songwriting process.

“Well, I don’t always do it,” he admitted, “because it requires a stupid bravery all the time.”

“You just stare at the corner of the wall," Mayer explains then improvises some vocals, “stare at the corner of the wall / try to get it going on / but I can’t sometimes / you just keep going ’til you get something,” he stops singing.

“You gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it…it doesn’t matter [what comes out of your mouth].”

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[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

#Hiroshima was destroyed 78 years ago. All-out nuclear war today would have tens of thousands of times more explosive power:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The heliosphere is the outermost layer of the Solar System and protects the planets from powerful cosmic events like supernovae. This artist’s visualization shows its possible shape

[read more: https://t.co/2I5QoOJELR]
[source: https://t.co/ohE58xFpv8]

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

Ten years ago today, the largest cleanup in history officially began.

[Avid Media Composer @MediaComposer]

☕ Good morning, editors!
📷 https://t.co/Osve6SwNCM

#coffee #goodmorning #mug #editing #postproduction #editor #cutting

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

An illusory 3D staircase using a perspective technique called anamorphosis
https://t.co/uQqoAYRINM

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Humans are an API to ChatGPT.
ChatGPT is an API to Python.
Python is an API to C.
C is an API to assembly.
Assembly is an API to binary.
Binary is an API to physics.
Physics is an API to the machine that runs the universe.

It's computation all the way down.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The best use of technology is to improve quality of life.

Watch people’s beautiful first expressions of hearing sounds for the first time.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

"Persistence of vision display" or POV display are LED devices that compose images by displaying one spatial portion at a time in rapid succession. One example are Hologram Fans

[read more: https://t.co/z2DzmjRyFD]
[📹 https://t.co/rBVvKXLRiT]

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Amazing…

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This video created by British psychological professor Richard Wiseman demonstrates the power of perspective in creating illusions. It’s titled, “Assumptions”

[source, read more: https://t.co/NzDWEktT9P]
https://t.co/HMcH2P32I5

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This image by Pablo Carlos Budassi shows the observable universe on an increasingly compact scale, with the Earth and Sun at the center surrounded by our Solar System, nearby stars, galaxies, filaments of early matter, and the cosmic microwave background https://t.co/cP9jRJYsKV

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

In Bill Gates’ office, there’s a wall with the periodic table complete with actual samples of each item. 🤯