Rhys Riddell

Writer, photographer, post modern mystic. kindness, compassion, creativity and community. Make something and share it. Manifesting Elysium on Earth since 1975.

[Rhys Riddell @aetherborne95]

Beauty might be the only “truth” that doesn’t require belief, argument, or abstraction — because it happens to us. It’s a truth revealed through experience rather than deduction.

Beauty doesn’t ask you to approve or agree with it. It simply reveals itself.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

I’d rephrase it like this:

Christopher Nolan shot BATMAN BEGINS (2005) entirely on 35mm film and has never embraced digital cameras for his features.

As he told American Cinematographer, “Film is the best way to capture the texture & gravity of light.”

[Richard Kadrey @Richard_Kadrey]

Ahem

[Rhys Riddell @aetherborne95]

@HouseGOP My goodness you’re stupid.

[Albert Dros @albertdrosphoto]

Frozen Mountains - Icebergs rising from the fog in Greenland

[Richard Nadler @RichardNadler1]

GN!

[jerad armijo @awayiflew]

Otherworldly photographs of the moon

Photographed in the Southwest

[jerad armijo @awayiflew]

Abstract photographs of sand dunes

Photographed in the Wild West

[Rhys Riddell @aetherborne95]

@matsefcik Wonderful!

[Rhys Riddell @aetherborne95]

Fascinating

[Merlow @exeMerlow]

Richard Feynman stood at a Cornell blackboard in 1964 and explained the problem every AI lab is fighting in 2026. The BBC filmed it. Almost nobody watches it.

The lecture is about why nature only answers in mathematics. Every team forcing language models to reason is hitting the wall he mapped 62 years ago.

He was 46. The Nobel Prize came 11 months later. The footage survived on film reels and now sits free on YouTube with fewer views than a keyboard unboxing.

Watch the blackboard section near the middle. He takes 1 of Kepler's laws and rebuilds it from nothing, with notation a 12-year-old can follow.

No slides. No jargon. 1 piece of chalk.

An ML engineer I know paused it 4 times and made his whole team watch it before standup.

You're 62 years late. The lecture is still free.

[Rhys Riddell @aetherborne95]

Simply incredible

[L'uomo degli abissi @Fanrizio21]

Mali 1988

Harry Gruyaert

[Rhys Riddell @aetherborne95]

@Variety What’s his game?
He sees what Trump is and what’s coming and wants to be on the other side?

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

They have Billionaire Donors, expensive PR firms, and federal grants.

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We'll take those odds.

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#DeFlock #Flock #Surveillance #FYP

[Nastya Gornaya @nastyagornaya]

The film negative ⠀| ⠀The photo itself

[Rhys Riddell @aetherborne95]

@nastyagornaya Gorgeous. Really well done.

[Rhys Riddell @aetherborne95]

@TheCinesthetic It’s gonna be remembered as one of the greatest action movies of the 21st century.
Where people stumbled was in trying to understand it where the whole point was to experience it. Aspects will always be incomprehensible. You ‘understand’ through the experience, not thought.

[Rhys Riddell @aetherborne95]

@PenPizzaReport I see…
Thanks!
Keep up the good work.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Emily Wilson, whose 2017 translation of the Odyssey Christopher Nolan drew on for his new film, has brought Homer back from antiquity. One of the most celebrated translators in the world, she is reviving a fading academic discipline and shining with a harsh and brilliant light in the humanities’ gathering gloom. “The ancient Greeks teach one to be modern,” the poet and classicist A. E. Stallings observed. “They taught that to me and to Emily. It was time to strip away all the mannered layers—the tarnish of centuries—and she does that. Her translations have the freshness of the sky after a storm. Read Judith Thurman’s 2023 profile of the translator: https://t.co/4c9tma8Cdq

[Virgin Reports @VirginReports]

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