Случилото се вчера във Варна не е просто политическа новина. Това е предупреждение за всеки един от нас.
Арестът на кмета Благомир Коцев – по обвинение, изградено единствено върху твърденията на един човек, без доказателства, свидетели или записи – поставя въпроси, много по-големи от конкретния случай.
Защото, когато институции, които години наред не виждат корупцията, реагират само по един сигнал, и то в удобен за тях момент, възниква основателно съмнение как се прилага законът. И за кого.
Случаят не е изолиран. Той показва как работи система, в която има избирателно правосъдие.
Днес става дума за кмет във Варна.
Утре може да е всеки от нас.
Ако подадеш сигнал – може да разследват теб, не виновния.
Ако бъдеш блъснат на пътя – последиците ще зависят от това кой си, не какво се е случило.
Ако работиш почтено – рискуваш да бъдеш наказан, не защитен.
Това не е въпрос само на справедливост. Това е въпрос на сигурност – за нас, за семействата ни, за бъдещето на града и страната ни.
Европейската комисия е категорична:
– липсват присъди за корупция по високите етажи,
– съдебната реформа е блокирана,
– институциите ни не са достатъчно независими.
Това е реалността. И тя няма да се промени сама.
В такива моменти подкрепата на хората е безценна.
Аз самият съм го изпитал. Ваша беше силата, която ми помогна да продължа, когато системата се опита да ме смачка.
Защото именно гласът и активността на обществото показват, че няма да се примирим. Че няма да позволим страхът да замести справедливостта.
Подкрепете Благомир Коцев днес на протеста в 18 часа пред Община Варна.
Присъствието Ви има значение. Не само за него, а за всички нас.
try out gemini 2.5 pro in @cursor_ai if you haven't already! it can be used with and without agent. max mode coming soon (with more context)
team has tried it and early sign seems positive, would love to hear what you think and what you've found so far!
Color contrast accessibility tools are now available in the @figma color picker! Grateful for the chance to design this, and I hope it helps contribute to more design in the world being made more inclusive. Let us know what you think!
Благодарение на новия ъпдейт на #ChatGPT сме на няколко месеца време от създаването на медицински консултанти, които ще съветват хората страдащи от фатални болести като #рак, какво да правят…на база последните научни #изследвания от цял свят. Започва нова епоха!
Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird
This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,
The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
Sofia. Bulgaria 🇧🇬. I will hold substantial talks with Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov, meet with President Rumen Radev, government officials, parliamentarians, politicians, and journalists. Defense support, 🇺🇦 Euro-Atlantic integration, the @NATO Summit, security guarantees, and the implementation of the #PeaceFormula.
Today's an exciting day for anyone using design tokens! With today's Figma release there's going to be native tokens in the form of 🌶️ Variables! Now… will Tokens Studio support this? Hell yes! We just released 1.37 of Tokens Studio for Figma with support for Variables!
I am an #Apple fanboy, but the marketing team should know better :D
On the left side is a highlighted photo of the #wwdc23 event > what Apple is aiming for.
On the right side is the 1984 Super Bowl Commercial > which Apple is fighting against.
#irony?
I spent 10% of my life contributing to the development of the #VisionPro while I worked at Apple as a Neurotechnology Prototyping Researcher in the Technology Development Group. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked on a single effort. I’m proud and relieved that it’s finally announced. I’ve been working on AR and VR for ten years, and in many ways, this is a culmination of the whole industry into a single product. I’m thankful I helped make it real, and I’m open to consulting and taking calls if you’re looking to enter the space or refine your strategy.
The work I did supported the foundational development of Vision Pro, the mindfulness experiences, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ products, and also more ambitious moonshot research with neurotechnology. Like, predicting you’ll click on something before you do, basically mind reading. I was there for 3.5 years and left at the end of 2021, so I’m excited to experience how the last two years brought everything together. I’m really curious what made the cut and what will be released later on.
Specifically, I’m proud of contributing to the initial vision, strategy and direction of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ program for Vision Pro. The work I did on a small team helped green light that product category, and I think it could have significant global impact one day.
The large majority of work I did at Apple is under NDA, and was spread across a wide range of topics and approaches. But a few things have become public through patents which I can cite and paraphrase below.
Generally as a whole, a lot of the work I did involved detecting the mental state of users based on data from their body and brain when they were in immersive experiences.
So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure, skin conductance etc.
There were a lot of tricks involved to make specific predictions possible, which the handful of patents I’m named on go into detail about. One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something I’m proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will happen after you click. So you can create biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior, and redesigning the UI in real time to create more of this anticipatory pupil response. It’s a crude brain computer interface via the eyes, but very cool. And I’d take that over invasive brain surgery any day.
Other tricks to infer cognitive state involved quickly flashing visuals or sounds to a user in ways they may not perceive, and then measuring their reaction to it.
Another patent goes into details about using machine learning and signals from the body and brain to predict how focused, or relaxed you are, or how well you are learning. And then updating virtual environments to enhance those states. So, imagine an adaptive immersive environment that helps you learn, or work, or relax by changing what you’re seeing and hearing in the background.
All of these details are publicly available in patents, and were carefully written to not leak anything. There was a ton of other stuff I was involved with, and hopefully more of it will see the light of day eventually.
A lot of people have waited a long time for this product. But it’s still one step forward on the road to VR. And it’s going to take until the end of this decade for the industry to fully catch up to the grand vision for this tech.
Again, I’m open to consulting work and taking calls if your business is looking to enter the space or refine your strategy. Mostly, I’m proud and relieved this has finally been announced. It’s been over five years since I started working on this, and I spent a significant portion of my life on it, as did an army of other designers and engineers. I hope the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and Vision Pro blows your mind.