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If gentrification has a sound, it’s silence. Xochitl Gonzalez on why the rich love quiet so much, and what it means for everyone else:

The best way to use Luma is to generate a key image with your favorite tool (Midjourney, etc) and then have the AI animate that. It will still have that AI video feeling of limbs and people mutating, but you will get closer to what you want.

Here is an otter on the red carpet.

He proved to the King that he has the right to be with his daughter

Ok, guys, listen. My main point is weeding out the wrong people. It's just since the money attracts the worst kind of people that's the general feeling I currently have. I'm ok with alternative solutions. :D

We should have to use a hyper connected dopamine machine for every little task.

✨So I put the most useful features of my phone into a fun little package to prototype a digital sidekick!✨

It’s making me comfortable thinking of reducing my phone time a LOT.

Details in thread:

So a former NSA director is now on the board.

A peculiar, closed wing paper plane

[📹 paper_plane_2.o]

Hey managers: to keep your people, let them work from home 2 days a week.

Landmark experiment (1600+ ppl, 2yrs): random assignment to hybrid work
-Increased satisfaction
-Reduced quitting by 33% (especially for women & long commuters)
-No costs for performance or promotion rates

Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs for Critical Thinking

Be maths

“There is zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”

—@susancain on why we should celebrate the talents and abilities of introverts

a man --ar 4:5 --style raw --personalize hywvz4y --stylize 1000

It is well known that horses have an amazing ability to sleep standing up and it's rare to see them laying down.

Yet, they lay down more frequently than you can imagine, especially to simply rest. And sometimes eat at the same time.

[📹 chestnut.marley]

can your calculator do this?

Tree of Knowledge

This framework of looking at money is very valuable

Nicht die Fläche wählt, sondern die Menschen!

Für die Darstellung wird jeder Landkreis in einen Punkt umgewandelt, wobei die Größe des Punktes proportional zur Anzahl der Wähler-/innen ist 👉 das Wahlergebnis wird dadurch besser abgebildet und weniger verzerrt.

Die Mutter einer vergewaltigten, ermordeten und verhöhnten Geisel schrieb mir. Meine Antwort kann niemals ausdrücken, was ich empfand. Mögen Mutter und Tochter Frieden finden🙏.
#HamasRapists

In den letzten Stunden erreichen mich zigtausende Nachrichten aus #Israel und der Welt. Geiselangehörige, Freunde der Opfer, Soldatinnen, Unternehmer. Mein Herz und die Postfächer laufen über🙏.

Ihr Lieben weltweit🤗,
ich danke für euer Vertrauen.
#RapeIsNotResistance

Midjourney + Luma AI

Test #5.
Image to video. The initial image is in the thread.

The Midjourney prompt: Movie still, fire --ar 16:9 --stylize 1000 --p [MY PERSONAL STYLE]

The Luma prompt is super simple: 'movie'.

#LumaDreamMachine

What a fascinating image:

Imagine going to the club in 1970 to hang with your friends and a band you’ve never heard of called Kraftwerk is playing and they ruin your night by inventing techno music

I feel like you can improve the quality software dramatically by simply paying programmers way-way less than they are paid today. That automatically weeds out all the obnoxious hustlers and impostors which paradoxically may result in a net positive. Too bad the demand is too high

Tony Robbins explains how to make a desire enter your unconscious mind in order to manifest it

Making decisions often takes the sting out of making decisions.