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South African Architect & Urbanist in the world

[zach lieberman @zachlieberman]

Sun spots

[CoffeeVectors @CoffeeVectors]

First off, yes this is real. Second, why are Americans so much more confident than Brits with fighting geese but not cats? 🤔

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

There are over 510 million square kilometers of area on the surface of Earth, but less than 30% of this is covered by land. The rest is water, in the form of vast oceans. This visualization by https://t.co/Ube1thutmZ uses data from UNSD

[read more: https://t.co/wUp0sN61gr]

[Olivia-Anne Cleary @OliviaACleary]

Yes, Chef!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Meet Bobi, 31 years old, the oldest dog in recorded history.

He smashed the previous record, an Australian cattle dog named Bluey, who lived to be 29 years and 5 months old.

[📹 Rodney Habib: https://t.co/jC2FRJsgF1 ]
https://t.co/7CNIo2aLTR

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Everybody should watch this so we can finally end this debate.

[Renaud Foucart @RenaudFoucart]

"Our simple model captures the main features of the economy"

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher: "How they plead poverty that they are losing money left and right when they give $100 millions to their CEOs."

“If we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines”

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

Roaring 20s starter kit

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An isochrone map depicts the area accessible from a point within a certain time threshold.

This map shows you how far a 5h train ride will take you, departing from any city in Europe.

[interactive map: https://t.co/E5z2oUma33]

[Michael Becker @michaelybecker]

I suspect 3D is one of the first areas to be decimated by AI. Rigging, UV unwrapping, texturing et al are solvable and automatable problems.

I do think humans will continue to operate these tools at a much higher abstraction level - but entire job domains will be gone

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

61 years ago #Today, Starfish Prime was launched and became the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space, one of 5 conducted by the US in the upper atmosphere. It disabled or damaged one third of LEO satellites

[read more: https://t.co/LgtnmKVgPu]

[🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal]

damn no wonder that shit hurts

[Tomoki Itamiya 板宮 朋基 @t_itamiya]

#AR 浸水体験アプリを小学校の #防災教育 で用いた最新事例です．#ハザードマップ を体験し，災害リスクを「我がこと」として実感してもらうための取り組みです．

[Juhani Halkomäki @JuhaniHalkomaki]

#generativeart #creativecoding

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

Thread of photos of Dutch people living in poverty before the Second World War.
Family living in a peat house.
Drenthe, the Netherlands, 1936.

[zach lieberman @zachlieberman]

Patterns

[Spencer Sterling @cerspense]

This is zeroscope_v2_XL. A new 1024x576 #texttovideo model designed to take on Gen-2. Explore prompts with the new 576x320 model, then commit to a high-res render by upscaling with zeroscope_v2_XL via vid2vid in the 1111 text2video extension. Check it out: https://t.co/huv6Mwtq6p

[Ross Piper @DrRossPiper]

Sweet Vernal Grass seed. On contact with water they spin. On the ground this allows them to 'burrow' through the sward and soil.