just setting up my twttr

The song Regret by @shinichi_atobe hits such a specific emotional tone with so few elements. Masterpiece.

Recently finished Children of Strife, the fourth book in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series. Throughout the books uplifted creatures attempt to transcend their base instincts and adapt as a spacefaring, trans-species society.

In the new one, there’s a species of former sea creatures with intense sensitivity to personal space. One in particular finds himself captain of a crew of problematic “individuals” whose natures have gotten the better of them in clever ways.

The gender dynamics between spiders are a subplot explored throughout the series, but things come to a head (after many, many generations) in a particularly clever way in this one.

I find myself referencing these books a lot, with themes of posthumanism and transhumanism, and ideas that project well beyond AI personhood. Recommended!

As important to American art as anyone you can name

There were considerations to dimensions in time space that I don’t think I’ve experienced before. Also, there was a thousand+ people locked in for 80 mins in the dark.

Last month, @higgsfield generously reset everyone’s monthly quotas, and I tried burning through a month’s worth of credits in a few days. One experiment was a group of people singing a range of notes.

Since then, I’ve been building tools for animatics and reusable prompt ame a useful test: each video needed the right combination of pitch, timing, animation, and visual style for the performances to work together.

None of this was impossible before AI, but it would have been hard to justify the production costs just to explore a playful interaction like this.

Sound on. Try it here: throbbingpixel.com/ai-cappella

The optimal aim is to make the instrument sing. The tune is less important. I really couldn’t care less

We care about your cognitive load.

Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious.

Let's imagine The New Human, ten years from now (2036)! at The New Human - Creative Hackathon

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March 6h @Google Milano - The Ignite
March 7th @TrueLayer Milano - The Reveal

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With mentors, artists, researchers and curious humans!

Cobalt is used in e.g. smartphone & laptop batteries; over 70% of world output comes from the Congo, where wages are a few dollars a day & safety is non-existent. The majority of Congolese cobalt mining is owned by two foreign companies, CMOC (Chinese) & Glencore (Anglo-Swiss)

My interview with @jack about twitter and the need for permissionless social media protocols like Nostr is up. It's the first episode of my new podcast, revolution.social

youtube.com/watch?v=NS5JI-…

Here’s a demo of my newly released iOS app, Guided Alchemy—designed to help improve dream recall and support lucid dreaming. It’s free to use, with an optional subscription if you find it helpful or want to support the project.

guidedalchemy.app

RIP David Lynch
youtube.com/watch?v=UozhOo…

The “Tines” from A Fire Upon The Deep is the most creative and far-out imagining of an alien species I ever read. RIP Vernor Vinge.

Rest in peace Ryuichi Sakamoto youtu.be/z9tECKZ60zk

The “Grand” on Mission is illuminated for the first time in 30 years and it’s handsome.

And then, just a few moments later. Sunn O))) remains a national treasure, beloved freaks.

We have two options:

-Universal housing
-Homelessness

There is one rational option and one extreme option.

Allowing over 500,000 people to sleep on the streets tonight is extreme.

Join us tomorrow for SPECULATIVE BIOLOGIES, our Virtual Artist Walkthrough featuring interactive media works from our Creative Code Immersive Artists - Elizabeth Leister and Nathan Schager.
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