Mic

mhandisi…know yourself @varanimation

[Mic @makau_x]

Crazy…on happenstance just met someone I look up to

[Mic @makau_x]

I got stories to tell

[Jules Murot @JulesMurot]

Animation tip for a tough-guy look:
Rotate the head first, then the eyes 👀

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

Life is about fucks and is made possible by fucking.
Fucking literally brought you here.

But to live a fucking good life, you need to know what the fuck to give a fuck about.

Give too many fucks about what other fuckers fucking think and you’ll spend your whole fucking life asking for fucking permission to fuck.

Give too many fucking fucks about being fucking comfortable and you’ll fucking stay exactly where you fucking are.

Give too few fucks about your fucking health, your fucking word, and the people who actually fucking give a fuck about you, and you’ll fuck up everything worth fucking keeping.

And if you give a fuck about every little fucking thing?
You’ll be too fucking exhausted to do a fucking thing about any fucking thing.

Your fucks are fucking finite.

Give a fuck about who you’re becoming.
Give a fuck about what you’re building.
Give a fuck about the people you fucking love.
And for fuck’s sake, fucking follow through like you actually give a fucking fuck.

Knowing what fucking matters means fuck all if you do fuck all about it.

Namas-fucking-te.

[Mic @makau_x]

Coconut juice tomorrow will hit like crack…

[Eric @amerix]

Men,

As you talk to yourself,

Visualize your purpose and clarify your goals in life.

Talk silently, confidently with affirmation.

Talking to yourself connects you to your masculine spirit.

So, when you meet a man talking to himself, don't interfere.

#MasculinitySaturday

[Mic @makau_x]

a likkle for the stomach n testosterone of course

[Mic @makau_x]

Semen retention for the win

[Alex Boge @alexboge]

I find these World Trade Center simulations by Kostack Studio fascinating because they remove the smoke and let you see the collapse much more clearly.

In the real footage, so much is hidden by fire, dust, debris, distance, and chaos that many people come away with the impression that the towers simply dropped straight down into their own footprints.

But that is not really what happened.

These simulations make it much easier to see that the collapse begins in the heavily damaged and fire-weakened region, the upper section starts moving and tilting, and the destruction then propagates downward through the structure.

The towers do not simply disappear vertically into their own footprints. Large portions of the upper structure and exterior are moving outward and to the side as the collapse develops. Much of that motion is simply obscured in the real videos once the enormous debris cloud forms.

And this is also why I find these simulations useful when people describe the collapses as looking like “controlled demolition.”

Strip away the smoke and dust and the resemblance becomes much less convincing.

What you see is a highly asymmetric structural failure beginning around the aircraft-damaged and fire-affected floors, followed by an enormous moving mass progressively overwhelming the structure beneath it. There is tilting, rotation, exterior columns peeling away, debris being thrown far outside the building footprint, and structural failure occurring chaotically as the collapse moves downward.

That is very different from the neat mental image usually implied by “controlled demolition,” where structural supports are deliberately severed in a carefully timed sequence to produce a predetermined collapse.

And importantly, we already know what preceded these collapses.

Both towers suffered massive aircraft-impact damage. Fireproofing was stripped from portions of the structure. Large, uncontrolled fires then burned across multiple floors - for about 56 minutes in the South Tower and about 102 minutes in the North Tower - heating and weakening structural components until collapse initiated.

Once that upper mass began moving, the loads imposed on the floors and structure beneath became vastly greater than anything they had been designed to carry.

The result was progressive collapse.

No, an animation is not proof simply because it looks convincing, and these are not official NIST simulations. They are visualizations built under particular assumptions.

But as visualizations, I think they are extremely useful.

They let you see something the original footage often cannot show clearly: beneath that enormous cloud of smoke and debris was a complicated, violent, asymmetric structural failure - not two buildings neatly dropping straight down into their own footprints.

A note on the simulation: this is not intended to reproduce the collapse down to the exact motion of every beam, floor panel, and fragment of debris. No practical simulation could do that. Its value is in modeling the large-scale structural behavior - how the major sections deform, move, tilt, separate, and progressively fail. Think of it as a visualization of the mechanics and overall collapse behavior, not a frame-by-frame reconstruction of where every piece of steel ultimately landed.

[Mic @makau_x]

Lock in

[ER!S @bstract_thot]

i can't believe it, i literally can't believe it. i'm running the numbers over & over, typing it into the calculator different wats, even asking Claude to check my math. i absolutely cannot believe that doing something 2 hours a day equals one month per year. how is that possible

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

So uh, simulation theory might be real.

I dropped a sim computer into the simulation my Astra agents live in. One agent sat down and built a simulation of his own, with its own agents living inside.

Simulations all the way down.

[Mic @makau_x]

Feels like the last dance recently when out clubbin.

Dunno…

[Mic @makau_x]

Gbag na jat #rip

[Mic @makau_x]

Creating has never been this easy. Conceptualizing ideas is as easy as abc
AI is a marvel
Pros and cons

[Mic @makau_x]

You will own nothing and be happy 😃. Yay!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

This is GPT-6 Astra.

Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast.

[WellBuiltStyle @WellBuiltStyle]

Why can going to the gym 7 days a week sometimes feel easier than going 3x per week?

Momentum.

Starting and stopping creates friction.

Go Monday, then take Tuesday and Wednesday off, and Thursday requires you to get yourself moving all over again.

Go every day (even if some days are nothing more than 20 minutes of easy cardio!) and you never really stop.

It’s the behavioral equivalent of inertia: an object in motion tends to stay in motion.

This applies to almost everything in life.

It’s much easier to keep the ball rolling (even slowly) than to continually stop and summon the energy to start again.

[Mic @makau_x]

Interestingly, neither GTA 6 nor Red Dead Redemption was made with Unreal Engine.

Behind the scenes, Rockstar uses its own proprietary tech: the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE).

Makes you wonder

[Mic @makau_x]

GTA 6 is very tempting

Light years ahead in terms of incorporating modern day graphics, story lines, culture, jiggle effects, etc.

Piss poor they chose the discless route.

Might as well usher in cdcs while at it…

Ha!

[no.mind @the_no_mind]

Shopify billionaire co-founder & CEO Tobi Lütke — one of the most analytically rigorous founders alive — uses affirmations.

His exact words:

"If you tell yourself or write down something about yourself 100 times, it writes into the neurofrontal cortex at such a deep level that your brain will start reconciling you to that. It just works."

His personal example:

He was terrified of public speaking.

For one week he sat down every day for 10 minutes and wrote: "I love public speaking."

A week later the fear was gone.

"It's not like a placebo. You just actively change your neurofrontal cortex in this moment."

Your brain starts shaping your behavior around the identity you rehearse most.