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Co-Founder at @shopcider 🛠️🍏🥂 Prev: @Totokaelo, @DollsKill, @UberEats

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@JohnWizardRobb @kodjima33 @hhpriestess @jiyeonstoppable @omidotme @trycloudy @ShopCider Aww you are too kind John! TYSM again for getting the group together 🙏🔥

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I can’t help but think (and feel) that the world is generally very sad right now. Injured really.

Yesterday I was in Utah with family. Three generations. We played sports, enjoyed good food, saw friends, and just messed around all day. One of the best days in recent memory for all of us. This is where I grew up. It took me back to my childhood. Allowing me to embody those psychological states and feel the comparative difference between then and now.

The hollowing and sadness of the modern world seems to stem in part from our phones, social media, and the ferocious need to be seen and relevant in every moment. We have mistakenly idolized a specific kind of dysfunction: a manic, sleepless hyper-vigilance that needs to be omnipresent.

Everyone I know who’s unplugged for a week, returns reporting life-changing levels of improved life satisfaction. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t return feeling spry and vibrant and clear-eyed about the corrosive nature of current social culture. The science supports them feeling that way. They were in a dopamine deficit from the hyper-stimulated state of the world so everything felt gray. 

So why don’t we unplug more and more often? We’re all kind of trapped in a prisoner's dilemma. Most want to move to the mountains and be relieved of it all but are terrified that if they unplug, they’ll be invisible. Real life consequences of reduced power and status. So we stay plugged in and drink the poison. This hypervigilant state keeps us in chronic fight or flight (anxiety). Simultaneously, our addiction creates a dopamine deficit (the emptiness/grayness feeling) and a background hum of anxiety.

Mammals are biologically hardwired to co-regulate: physical touch, eye contact, proximity and in-person vibes. Things which release oxytocin and activate the vagal nerve's parasympathetic system. Screens eliminate all of this goodness.

There are small wins to be had here. More in-person time. A day off technology per week. A block of 4 hours. One hour before bedtime.  I hope that there’s a collective awakening that we’re all being mined for engagement. Then we get trapped. And then trap each other.

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@mikefutia Banana

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Revisiting this gem today… Daft Punk Random Access Memories Full Album Piano Medley https://t.co/PdymeVUrAo 🤖🤖

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Building in public in 2025?

https://t.co/sIX9qwVBGL

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@spenserskates definitely feeling special to have Anne in our corner! 🥰

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@awilkinson I think the problem is most men don’t care. 🫠 They won’t invest in this much effort to upload pictures. Even most women don’t do this.

[Zoomer Alcibiades @HellenicVibes]

We no longer live in a society

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

some great and terrible fears about the future as it exists today, re: thought rot from AI

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@AngelicVendette Congratulations Angelic! 🙌👏🍾 So excited for you

[AK @_akhaliq]

MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation

paper page: https://t.co/ijjTgxvVup

propose MVDream, a multi-view diffusion model that is able to generate geometrically consistent multi-view images from a given text prompt. By leveraging image diffusion models pre-trained on large-scale web datasets and a multi-view dataset rendered from 3D assets, the resulting multi-view diffusion model can achieve both the generalizability of 2D diffusion and the consistency of 3D data. Such a model can thus be applied as a multi-view prior for 3D generation via Score Distillation Sampling, where it greatly improves the stability of existing 2D-lifting methods by solving the 3D consistency problem. Finally, we show that the multi-view diffusion model can also be fine-tuned under a few shot setting for personalized 3D generation, i.e. DreamBooth3D application, where the consistency can be maintained after learning the subject identity.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Slide decks hide can shallow thinking. Narratively structured memos are harder to write because they require better thinking. It’s worth it.

[AK @_akhaliq]

Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold

paper page: https://t.co/Gjcm1smqfl

[Kevin Yang @kevinyang]

OMG it finally works!! 🚀🚀🚀

I got @OpenAI to draft emails 📧 for me in the background 🤯

This christmas I built an email assistant (https://t.co/3ALSbIJNlG) that automatically drafts email replies behind the scenes

no chrome extension necessary, here's the story 👇

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

POV: You're a Senior Data Engineer at Twitter. Elon asks what you've done this week. You've done nothing.

Frantically, you open ChatGPT.

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Just claimed my CiderPal digital collectible from Cider X WonderPals collection!
Unlock your CiderPal at https://t.co/dhrS1xR1H3
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[WONDERPALS 🌱 @WonderPals]

Filters work on pets too! hehe 😜

[Cider @ShopCider]

Cider X WonderPals shop is opening today! 🤩

Shop link:
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@8sianmom @ShopCider @8sianNFT @MrHikeArt Ahhh I'm fangirling rn 😍 @8sianmom

[Cider @ShopCider]

Loading your summer aesthetic ⏰ Cider x ZEPETO launching tomorrow 👀👀 #CiderXZEPETO #Ciderland #digitalwearable #digitalfashion #virtualfashion #fashion