Justin Gaethje explaining the concept of “Half Beats” in MMA and why it makes his striking so effective
“You think you’re gonna get hit here … but I hit you in between those beats. You brace then let go and I hit you in the let go part. That’s what makes the shot effective”
Brad Pitt recalls standing at Eau Rouge as F1 cars flew past and it took the air out of his lungs
"I stood at the base of Eau Rouge, the story track in Belgium, Spa. For me it was the greatest track we got to drive. You stand at the bottom and they go up this blind S"
"Lewis [Hamilton] talks about how the Gs first compact your spine into the ground, then you get to the top and it's blind. He said it's the only track where you have down and upward Gs"
"You stand right next to the wall, the cars are right here, they go flat out. It takes the air out of your lungs. It is so staggering"
Justin Gaethje believes it will be tough for Ilia Topuria to become champion again because opponents won't fear him the same way anymore:
"I didn't break Tony Ferguson's confidence. I changed the perception of his opponents of him.
Before this, he was the guy you couldn't get through. Once I showed people that all you gotta do is get through that, then nobody is gonna go in there thinking he's unbeatable now.
That was his identity. That's gonna be such a tough task for him, to fight people that aren't scared of him."
(via @joerogan)
When I say filmmakers wish they can make a mid-tier Spielberg film, this is what I mean. His blocking is like watching a little mini-ballet. The camera moves are motivated by the actors. Violà you have at least 9 shot compositions in 35 seconds.
Hook (1991) | Steven Spielberg
Even with the Bears on summer break, Kyle Monangai is still locked in the lab. It doesn’t matter if it rains or shines, he’s going to put in work.
Year 2 loading….📈
🎥: @sidelinehustle
Justin Gaethje on how he beat Ilia Topuria
“I was able to reset his feet every 1-2 seconds. I fought a perfect fight. He was completely caught off guard. I said when we go to [rounds] 2-3, you’re gonna be in hell. That’s where he was.”
via @PatMcAfeeShow
Let me explain why an AI art company just built a full-body medical scanner, because almost everyone is reading this as a random pivot.
Ultrasonic CT works by firing sound through your body and recording the ripples that scatter back. Half a million emitters the size of a grain of sand, surrounding you in water, each one listening. What comes back is noise. Reconstructing a clean 3D image of muscle and tissue from that scattered acoustic mess is an inverse problem, and it is brutally hard. The hardware is the easy part. Butterfly Network already makes the chips. The reconstruction is where every previous attempt stalled.
That reconstruction is the exact problem Midjourney spent years getting good at. Turning ambiguous input into a coherent image is what they do. They aimed it at sound waves instead of text prompts.
This is why the scan takes 60 seconds while a full-body MRI takes 60 to 90 minutes. Close to 100x faster, no radiation, no magnets, resolution down to a fraction of a millimeter.
Then read the part most people skipped. The scans happen at a spa. Hot tubs, cold plunges, and a machine that quietly images your whole body while you relax. The scan is a side effect. You barely notice it.
Run it forward. The plan is 50,000 machines doing a billion scans every month. Midjourney has no investors and no quarterly hardware margin to chase. The payoff was never the scan fee.
A billion monthly full-body scans is the largest longitudinal map of human anatomy ever assembled. Every model trained on it gets sharper, and every sharper model makes the next scan worth more. This was always an image company. They just found a kind of image nobody else could generate.