Mark Sabalauskas

Indie tabletop roleplaying game designer, zine publisher. (he/him)

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

I wrote Return to the Stars, a tabletop science fiction role playing game, which helps players create their own stories in an optimistic space opera setting. Pop culture collides with political machinations to determine the fate of the galaxy!
#hopepunk

https://t.co/rfBoAzhheS

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

[Cora Buhlert @CoraBuhlert]

I just saw Masters of the Universe at the Savoy Theater in Hamburg St. Georg and it was awesome. I laughed, more than I expected, I cried and I was at the edge of my seat. This movie has amazing action, a lot of heart and something to say. #MastersOfTheUniverse #MotU

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

I had early access to Dreambeans from @GoogleLabs

Think of it like a magazine, with an editor who is trying to tailor the articles to your interests. Daily it surfaces stuff you didn't know to ask for.

Some things you'll just glance at. But I also have great stuff I've kept.

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

The queen of C-pop, and outspoken advocate for marriage equality and LGBTQ+ rights, provide the theme song, and she received for first Golden Horse nomination for it.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/hvHiDFVLZF

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

"The premise is stark, but the story is told with tenderness, quiet humor, and a sustained political dread that never needs to announce itself." https://t.co/WGPT9FMN4v

[AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success]

Gemini Omni Flash prompt rejection is crazy 😐
Am I the only one facing this?

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

@fofrAI Neat. I asked it to build a memory palace counting up from 1-5 in Mandarin, showing me the Traditional Chinese character, speaking the word in Mandarin, showing me how to pronounce it, with a visual cue to remember the pronunciation.

[László Gaál @laszlogaal_]

New day now Omni findings: it can translate audio (no original or translated text given in the prompt):
- it keeps the background music intact
- it adjusts the edit if needed.
For example the japanese and spanish sentence during the creme close-up shot is longer, so it kept that shot longer and trims that edit point…

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

@Team_Greenfield Pretty cool that we also get the sound as bonus in a three work prompt!

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

The story starts with a quiet bureaucratic shock: the teenage daughter discovers she is adopted after requesting a copy of the family registry for a college tuition waiver.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/L6jRtAZBmr

[🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog @testingcatalog]

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Mythos 1, "claude-mythos-1-preview", is being prepared for a release on Claude Code and Claude Security.

The model became visible for a short amount of time on Claude; besides that, new strings mentioning Mythos have been added.

> Access to the Claude Mythos model in Claude Code and Claude Security.

It still doesn't mean the general public will have access to this exact model, according to Anthropic's earlier communication.

More below 👇

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

"The premise is stark, but the story is told with tenderness, quiet humor, and a sustained political dread that never needs to announce itself." https://t.co/WGPT9FMN4v

[Alexander Chen @alexanderchen]

Testing Gemini Omni line drawing capabilities 🎻 isolating the key object in my video. Prompt in 🧵

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

Maggie Cheung and Joey Wong are mesmerizing as sworn sisters, two snake spirits who have cultivated their souls over centuries.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/96Sc7qmeCR

[fofr @fofrAI]

Omni is good at text and at tracking subjects. You can combine these things to make moving labels, etc.

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

@emollick Yeah, people are comparing it to Seeddance fight choreography, but real mulitmodal what's special, for editing, and giving Flow video to video abilities.

I placed my wife's favorite stuffed animal in Apollo footage, and did style swap tricks.

https://t.co/edLRyXvLKt

[CHRIS FIRST @chrisfirst]

I uploaded a screenshot of Google Maps to Gemini Omni with a route drawn on it.

Then I prompted it to create a first person view of someone driving a taxi cab along the route in the reference image.

Pretty close to the real thing.

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

Attempts to document the rise of Artificial Intelligence feel like trying to paint a watercolor of a tidal wave in which you’re swimming.

Read the full article: The Analog Heart of the AI Debate: A Film’s Perspective
▸ https://t.co/SGEjEERUDG

[Mark Sabalauskas @MarkSab]

The film reportedly faced initial resistance, and significant portions were later excised by authorities in 1944, leaving us with a potentially compromised version of Kurosawa's original vision.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/PTML819der

[fofr @fofrAI]

Some prompts I'm using a lot with my Omni gens:

- Change [x]. Keep everything else the same
- One long unbroken scene/No jump cuts
- No dialogue
- Include plenty of appropriate detail in the background elements to make the scene feel realistic and natural