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[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

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[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

Imagine a browser designed for your nervous system not your data profile.

That's Opera Air
🧘 Built-in focus tools
🌱 Mindfulness by design
⚡ Designed for humans, not clicks

Would you switch to a browser designed for less stress and more balance? » https://t.co/Mc6f8H1Alr

[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

Deprogramming conspiracy nuts using specialised AI — the positive aspects of realigning the most egregious aspects of legacy human bias & behaviour with this tech is so undervalued » https://t.co/fAFybA2iMM

[Min Choi @minchoi]

AI will disrupt Hollywood (Part 45)📽️

People are creating incredible short films and video with AI.

10 wild examples:

[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

Just a reminder to reconfigure your current thinking based on an AGI co-presence in the near future.

GPT-4 to AGI fundamentals explained in a series of well researched essays » https://t.co/G5c0wWArnO

[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

Farewell Auster. Kafka with a GPS mapping postmodern human experience » https://t.co/d5zc3nr2Qw

[Tony Tassell @TonyTassell]

A parable of HS2 from Andy Haldane, formerly of the Bank of England and now FT contributing editor. A sharp critique of short-termism in this oped https://t.co/zc8Z4OR0qc

[Judith Meyer @GermanPolyglot]

There is nothing that can justify deliberate violence against non-combatants. This means that attacking Israelis at a rave is wrong, bombing Palestinian hospitals is wrong, abducting Ukrainian children is wrong, torturing Russian prisoners is wrong… In fact the nationality of the victim or attacker is completely irrelevant. Either targeting innocents is ALWAYS wrong, no matter who does it, or you don’t have morals, you just have opinions.

We need to stop this weird move where we excuse/ignore war crimes from our preferred side and strongly condemn war crimes from the other side - it leads to the annihilation of ethics itself, everything becomes relative.

[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

Look up into the nightsky — feel kinship with the Cosmos.

We are part of it all, made of the same stardust = the very definition of secular spirituality.

We are made of atoms, all the same. Let us progress together.

Seeing the stars over the Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria = 🕊❤️✨

[Edward Stringer @edwardstrngr65]

The Pantheon: 1900 years of concrete that works. https://t.co/0h4Bm8jQ5p

[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

Rufus Wainwright: ‘I call Yorkshire Gold the crystal meth of teas’.
Amazing quote. Huddersfield also happens to be the top popper (amyl nitrate) maker and Yorkshire the craft beer capital, of the UK. Make of that what you will ⁦@rufuswainwright⁩ https://t.co/PXEw68QtvZ

[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

ToxMod seems an impressively good use of AI to make sure interactions are civil and to flag potentially toxic language — imagine a live monitor of this during talk shows and political debates. Mute incoming for Suella! cc: @mrjamesob @campbellclaret https://t.co/fMpbDTbtsf

[chris riddell @chrisriddell50]

Five years…a sketchbook of political drawings.

[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

Insightful & heartbreaking story bringing home how #brexit is destroying small business, across all sectors but esp. in crafts, arts, artisan & food sectors

[Henningham Family Press @HenninghamPress]

Time is money. If it takes twice as long to do something you earn half as much. This is the brutal fact at the heart of Brexit.

Let’s "Brexit" a £12.99 paperback, blow by blow, and see what difference leaving the single market has made.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

The Murdoch Succession

Thanks to @j_smithcameron for narration. Projection location New York City

#Succession

[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

From precariat to hyper-productive » Finally the UK (after highly successful experiments in Europe) is trialling UBI — just in time before AI sweeps away many jobs, & turbocharges productivity. Society needs to enhance & nurture productive living.

https://t.co/XDYFGOxLuQ

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

AI just took 3D modeling to a whole new level 🤯

Introducing Neuralangelo, a new AI model by NVIDIA that reconstructs mind-blowingly detailed 3D surfaces directly from 2D videos — like photogrammetry on steroids. 🧙🏻‍♂️

Keep reading to see this crazy magic for yourself 🧵

[Filippo Ulivieri @nessuno2001]

[Thread] I’ve noticed something odd happening in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. True, there’s plenty of odd things going on in The Shining, but this is really weird.

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[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

THE SHINING was released 43 years ago today. Not a huge success on its release, it has gone down as one of Stanley Kubrick’s most popular films and most influential horror movies ever made. The behind the scenes story is as outrageous as you might expect…

A THREAD

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[Matt Hanson ▙❘▟▂▁▄▎ @matthanson]

Sayonara to the Outernationalist. An exquisite, modernist composer.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer who scored films including “The Last Emperor,” “The Sheltering Sky” and “The Revenant,” has died at 71. https://t.co/0HOPaoBrMs

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

In 1966, media futurist Marshall McLuhan envisioned a form of digital research eerily similar to the customized queries now answered by AI. Then he makes a surprising admission about why he studies technological change—with a lesson I think many need to hear.