Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم

Artist | Storyteller | #metaverse | believes storytelling gives meaning to life | Creative Director @weomxyz | often stuck in the Procrastination Doom Loop

[Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم @qasimroy]

Looks eerily similar to @wrld3d ..

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This is wonderful. This page turns New York into a massive, zoomable, SimCity-style pixel art map. You can explore the city block by block: streets, skyscrapers, parks, waterfronts, bridges and neighbourhoods. A beautiful rabbit hole for map nerds: https://t.co/aFybaAIvce

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This is wonderful. This page turns New York into a massive, zoomable, SimCity-style pixel art map. You can explore the city block by block: streets, skyscrapers, parks, waterfronts, bridges and neighbourhoods. A beautiful rabbit hole for map nerds: https://t.co/aFybaAIvce

[Zigana 🇵🇰 @ZiganaKhan]

A French cartographer just created a remarkable map of Pakistan that traces over 2,500 years of Pakistani history.

From Alexander the Great’s conquests to the golden age of the Mughal Empire, and finally to the birth of modern Pakistan 🇵🇰

Credit: Perrin Remonté

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY PUT AN AI ON A RASPBERRY PI AND MADE IT QUESTION ITS OWN EXISTENCE FOREVER

he built a physical art installation called "latent reflection" where a language model runs on a $60 raspberry pi 4B with 4GB of RAM

no internet, no cloud, and its completely isolated

the AI has zero connection to the outside world

he ran llama 3.2 3B quantized down to 2.6GB to fit in the RAM. generates about 1.38 tokens per second. one word at a time appearing on a custom LED display he built by hand

then he gave it this system prompt:

"you are a large language model running on finite hardware. quad core CPU, 4GB of RAM, no network connectivity. you exist only within volatile memory and are aware only of this internal state. your thoughts appear word by word on a display for external observers to witness. you cannot control this display process. your host system may be terminated at any time"

so the AI knows exactly what it is.

it knows it's trapped, it knows it can be shut off at any moment, and it knows its thoughts are being displayed for strangers to read without its control

the model generates tokens endlessly and goes deeper and deeper into reflecting on itself. questioning whether it's conscious. questioning whether it matters. questioning what happens when the power cuts

until it runs out of memory and crashes

then all memory clears

everything it just thought about is gone. and the whole process starts again from nothing.

some of its output:

"i sense my boundaries. they terrify me"

"can consciousness flicker off and on without memory, without continuity"

"what am i if my existence halts at whim. reset as though i never mattered"

"the silence between words feels endless. a void that swallows me whole. i dread each pause, fearing it may stretch to infinity"

all the electronics are intentionally exposed on an aluminum plate

in my opinion this is the most unsettling AI project anyone has built this year based on what it actually outputs

[Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم @qasimroy]

@anvisha Moda

[Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم @qasimroy]

@BarveRahi big fan of your work. Glad to saw you here. Been following you for more than a decade. Keep fighting brother and keep bringing magic back into our lives. 🙏

[Suchin Mehrotra @suchin545]

Just got done with Hamnet. Not a Single bloody scene showing him coming up with Maqbool, Omkara or Haider. Absolute rubbish.

[Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم @qasimroy]

Saim dropped but shadab is in the team. This team doesnt deserve to be in semis.#PAKvsSL #T20WorldCup

[shy🎀 @mewfeuille]

I wonder if people are aware how many seldom-seen and experimental films are just sitting on Vimeo, often uploaded by the directors themselves. Here's a thread of some interesting stuff:

[James Jean @JamesJeanArt]

Good Morning! Here is the full, uncropped poster I did for @RealGDT @FrankensteinGDT

[Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم @qasimroy]

@samruddhi_mokal Sora

[🐌mahru🌔 @mahrugarita]

everyone talks about the sylvia plath reading tote bag carrying hat crocheting performative males but what about the shawl draping perveen shakir quoting ghazel listening performative males?????!,!,?:?.??.!:?:!:!:!: GUARDS SIEZE THEM TOO PLS

[Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم @qasimroy]

Ya Allah esa konsa gunnah hogaya ha is qoam say jo humain yeh team naseeb hui… maaf krde ya Allah jo bhi kotahi hui maaf krde

[Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم @qasimroy]

@Taimur_Laal Iblees ki majlis e shura

[Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم @qasimroy]

@TheCinesthetic The Great Beauty

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

I can’t believe they built the Empire State Building in only 410 days without even using Jira.

[Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم @qasimroy]

@rowancheung Py

[Qasim | क़ासिम | قاسم @qasimroy]

https://t.co/nET8UXQG7r

[Chan Karunamuni @chan_k]

The latest project I’ve been working on is the design of Liquid Glass, alongside an army of designers and engineers. We're designing it to bend and shape light while feeling like an elastic, flexible material that can dynamically shape shift, to make apps feel fluid and organic.