Nathan Branch

Digital Artist / Cultural Remixer / False Prophet - Interests: AR/VR, Mythmaking, Space Exploration, AI, Futurism, Techno-Optimism

[Nathan Branch @nathan_branch]

"Peace Love & Understanding / Annihilator 1" is a video diptych I created for the dual wall display at the RGBMTL 2025 show, a digital art event in Montreal on August 22nd-23rd. Because of the file's size, I uploaded it to Vimeo and you can watch it there.
https://t.co/WuiwoTwSew

[US Embassy NZ 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @usembassynz]

Ambassador Jared Novelly recently visited Wellington-based OpenStar Technologies to see how a Kiwi start-up is tackling one of science’s biggest challenges: nuclear fusion.

Founded in a Mount Victoria, Wellington flat in 2021, OpenStar is now developing a new approach to fusion energy, with ambitions stretching well beyond New Zealand - including growing its footprint in the United States.

And fusion energy? Apparently it’s always “10 years away.” OpenStar is working hard to make that joke obsolete.

Big thanks to Ratu Maitara, Thomas Berry and the team for the tour. 🇺🇸🇳🇿

[Curt Jaimungal @TOEwithCurt]

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." — Carl Jung

[Nathan Branch @nathan_branch]

I've been dabbling in a darker-magic universe for storytelling, still based on 1970s fantasy art but with a more overtly horror-fantasy vibe. Not sure which visual style I prefer, but I think I lean toward the more abstract nature of the video on the left. Both made with Grok Imagine. @imagine

[Nathan Branch @nathan_branch]

Been working on concepts for fantasy & sci-fi stories, storyboarding and image-prompting with Grok Imagine @imagine - I started experimenting with a horror-tinged fantasy aesthetic based on 1970s classic fantasy art and Grok brings dark blood-magic to vivid life. Ever onward!

[Andrew Rose @__drewface]

We are not post-truth, we are still in the extreme early days of discovering truths and meta-truths which help us to generate new truths

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

When T.S. Eliot was asked what he meant with his poem ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ - he said he didn’t know.

I think that was honest. Poetry is a kind of smudged music in language. You generate some thoughts and emotions, and hope they resonate:

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

I think we should all strive to live a life the creator of the universe would be interested in inhabiting, you know, to up the number of playable characters

[Nathan Branch @nathan_branch]

Words of wisdom. Take heed all denizens of the 21st century.🔥

[∿ @somewheresy]

Basically you need to completely stop thinking about ICE or whatever and immediately start injecting yourself with Chinese chemicals to make yourself hotter

[Andrew 😵‍💫 @pixlpa]

Creative software is obviously often sold on imaginary workflows that nobody will ever use, a vision of what it will feel like to make things. Good software is deeply embedded in reality and supports the work you actually do.

[Nathan Branch @nathan_branch]

@briancartmell 🥳🥳

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Rest in peace to Gene Shalit, a man whose Kermit the Frog interview went absolutely off the rails in 1984.

Nobody has interviewed a Muppet like this since.

[Nemo @thecaptain_nemo]

your soulmate is whoever you’d want to hold hands with as you watch AGI dissolve the planet and rearrange it into a dyson sphere

[Nathan Branch @nathan_branch]

The quote above is from the 1972 science-fiction novel "Roadside Picnic" by Russian brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. One of the best sci-fi novels ever written (imo). If you haven't yet read it, please do yourself the favour.

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

I don't want to escape the permanent underclass. I want to make sure there isn't a permanent underclass. Freedom and prosperity for all! Nothing less.

[Ali Yahya @alive_]

Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:

Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.

1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun.

2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love.

Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI.

Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.

[Paul LeCoque @paullecoque]

“So my final questions is, why would anyone put their hard-earned money into a random coin when there are innovative private or public companies out there building in AI, space, quantum, energy, autonomy, robotics, nuclear, etc? Real technology with real use use cases that will benefit society as a whole.”

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

“The most important feature of any telescope is the imagination with which it is used.”

- Vera Rubin

[Nathan Branch @nathan_branch]

@JosephMooneyMP Cody is a gem.

[Nathan Branch @nathan_branch]

@corsaren "A square made of marbles and a square made of stars are both squares" -- I love sentences like this. At first pass, it reads as matter of fact, almost prosaic, but then I do a double-take and just fall into it like it's a fathomless well.