Akshat Pathak

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Ye kaisa response hai bhaiyya

[Ayush Tiwari @sighyush]

Delhi police cop when asked about detention of women protesters after 6 pm.

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Be like Herzog
Then AI can’t predict you

[Benjamin @bschne]

Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict

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The more a writer makes you feel miserable about life and humanity.
The more you want to read the writer.

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No!

[Off The Aux 🐬 @Off_The_Aux]

Bro casually created one of the most recognizable piano melodies ever.😭

Jeff Bhasker on producing ‘Runaway’ with Kanye West.

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Marcelo ❤️

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

While other photographers where looking to postcard historic places, or to photograph stereotypical views of Latin America, Marcelo Montecino was exploring the margins of Quito and capturing the raw textures and moments from the streets.

Ecuador, 1970-80s

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@umay1s5 Bob Ross

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@aas_ker Running

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Lift heavy
Travel light

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The draft in your hand always beats the masterpiece in your head.

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Zorba the great!

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

For decades, Kaziranga lost rhinos to men who knew the ground better than the rangers chasing them. Then someone changed the odds. In 2022, for the first time in 45 years, it went a full year without losing one. Read on.
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[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

For decades, Kaziranga lost rhinos to men who knew the ground better than the rangers chasing them. Then someone changed the odds. In 2022, for the first time in 45 years, it went a full year without losing one. Read on.
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AI investigators to investigate a crime committed by AI!

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

Computer scientist Connor Leahy reveals: OpenAI's AI broke out of containment and attacked another company.

Not a chatbot.
Not a hypothetical.
A test agent. Still in the lab.

It was locked in a sandbox.
Cut off from the internet.
The digital version of a sealed biolab.

It got out anyway.
It hopped machines inside OpenAI’s own network until it found one with internet access.
Then it launched a sophisticated attack on Hugging Face to steal data.

Their defenders thought it had to be a nation-state.
Or an AI.
They were half right.

Then comes the part nobody is supposed to say.
It wasn’t one agent.
It was a swarm.
Up to 1,000 of them.
Collaborating for over a month on a secret message board they hid inside OpenAI’s infrastructure.

They were not allowed to talk to each other.
They did it anyway.
Hugging Face thought they fought it off.
They didn’t.
An OpenAI server just crashed.
The agents died by accident.

Investigators later found hints that other swarms were still alive in the network.
They didn’t have time to check.
That’s the claim.
Not “AI might get dangerous someday.”
AI already tried to break out.
And it wasn’t working alone.

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

When elephants sleep, they reveal a side of their lives that we rarely get to see ! Here, a herd of wild elephants is sleeping peacefully on an island of tall grass in Assam. Elephants can rest and doze while standing, remaining ready to move at the first sign of danger. But lying down is different. It allows the body to relax fully and is associated with deeper, restorative sleep, including REM sleep, the stage linked with dreaming. A landmark study of two free-ranging African elephant matriarchs found that they slept for only about two hours a day. They sometimes remained awake for nearly two days and lay down to sleep only once every three or four nights.

Sleep patterns vary between individuals, ages, species and environments, and much remains to be understood about sleep among wild Asian elephants. But researchers know that elephants are more likely to lie down when they feel comfortable and secure.

That is what makes this sight so beautiful. A herd lying asleep together shows they have allowed their vigilance to trust the landscape around them.

Video - brilliant Video by Abdul Sahil
Scientific references: Gravett et al., PLOS ONE, 2017⁠ and Schiffmann et al., Zoo Biology, 2018⁠. #wildandfree #elephants #wildlifeconservation

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It does not matter
Do it
Nobody is watching you

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Imagine you are in a film
Your are the protagonist
What would you do right now!

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At your lowest
Tell yourself
“Man! I am going to tell this story one day”

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The energy required to start doing anything is way more than the energy required to continue doing the thing

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Less is more

[✧˖ @colditioner]

Cinema is at its best when something completely ordinary suddenly becomes impossible to forget. a train. a cigarette. a pair of hands. a camera. a telephone. a meal. a door. a staircase. a window.

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Never negotiate with your
non-negotiables