A FEW YEARS AGO THIS NEEDED A CREW. NOW... IT NEEDS A PROMPT A late-night host compliments his guest. She says nothing, swings both legs up onto his desk and asks if it's only incredible or the best he's ever seen. He laughs and gives up. No host, no guest, no studio. None of it exists. - The legs landing on the desk are the hard part Two feet have to arrive on the edge of the desk with believable weight and no clipping through the wood, and his reaction has to land right on the beat after. How clips like this get made, the three-tool pipeline behind them, and how operators turn it into money is in the article below.show more

WOULD YOU HAVE BELIEVED THIS TALK SHOW WAS REAL?... LOOK AT THE AUDIENCE IN THE FOREGROUND A guest on a late-night couch tells the host her mic just fell. He sighs "Again?" and asks for someone from the sound crew. She answers with a shrug, his eyes go wide, and the whole room erupts. The guest, the host, the studio and the crowd are all AI. - The back of the room has to laugh on cue The two on the couch are the easy part. The hard part is the rows of heads in the foreground, which have to stay put, then react together on the exact line, with nobody moving half a beat early. Then comes the close-up of the host, and his face has to be the same face from the wide shot. Inside the article below: the build behind clips like this, and what they pay.show more

NINE LINES OF DIALOGUE. TWO SPEAKERS. ZERO REAL PEOPLE... Nobody filmed this. A guest tells her late-night host her mic fell, he asks "again?", and by the last line he's out of comebacks. The studio, the skyline behind them and the crowd in the seats are all generated. - The pause before "Again?" The joke lives in the gaps between lines, not in the lines. Each reply has to land half a beat after the last one, every mouth has to match its own line, and the audience in the foreground has to stay believably still while it happens. The three tools, the workflow and the revenue behind clips like this are laid out in the article below.show more

A CARNIVAL GAG LIKE THIS IS THREE TIMED EVENTS,... NOT ONE Bank-a-ball booth, plush prizes hanging overhead. She throws from behind camera, the ball bounces off the board and misses. Right as it lands, a guy in a cap pops up from behind the stand trying to catch it. She laughs, fixes her skirt, leans down for the next ball. None of it happened - not the booth, not the throw, not the guy who popped up at exactly the wrong moment. - Three moving things have to land on the same beat The ball needs its own arc, bounce, and miss off the board. Her throw needs the weight shift and follow-through of an actual pitch, not a mimed one. And the guy behind the stand has to time his entire pop-up to the second the ball lands, or the joke reads as staged instead of caught. None of the three gets generated with the other two in mind by default - getting all three to agree on one beat is the actual trick. Landing three unrelated timings on the same beat, on command, is the same process the article below turns into a business - across five different characters, every time.show more

Just caught up with OMB Director Russ Vought. Asked... if the White House wants the House to make any changes to the bill, he said, "We need to pass this bill. We need to get it to the president's desk." So no changes? "We need to pass this bill and get it to the president's desk and we're on a limited time frame."show more

the thing you rent for $200 a month just... became something you can own for $1,700 once but the money is not even the real story for the first time a 200 billion parameter model is not in a datacenter, it is sitting on a desk the cloud spent years convincing you a model this size needed their servers, their meter, their monthly bill people are stacking four subscriptions into a $440 a month bill to rent what one box this size now owns outright it needed a box the size of a book the moment the model moves from their datacenter to your desk, the whole game changes it stops being about who has the best AI it becomes about who ships it on every desk the cloud told you this needed a datacenter it needed a desk i did the full math on what this kills in the article belowshow more

166,000 neurons from a dead fruit fly now hunt... drones from a bedroom desk. A white drone the size of a palm lifts off the carpet, and a black 3D-printed turret on the desk swings after it, with the fly's brain working its 2 stepper motors, 1 camera and 2 barrels through a nest of rainbow wires on a breadboard. That brain sits in the top-left corner of the screen and flares every time the drone jerks. A Patriot interceptor costs about $4 million, and armies are firing them at drones worth a fraction of that. This brain is smaller than a poppy seed, and Google put it online for free 2 weeks ago. Then someone gave it a job it was built for. Most of a fly's brain exists to see motion, and this brain is male, and male flies spend their lives chasing whatever moves. The drone climbs past the ceiling fan and the crosshair climbs with it, then drops when it drops. For 18 seconds it never loses the drone. In the last shot the drone flies home to the guy holding the controller, and the crosshair follows it right onto his chest. It spent its whole life dodging swatters. Now it's the one aiming.show more

This guy built a visual scanner that reads 468... points on his face and 42 points on his hands from a regular webcam and turns them into a cloud of thousands of particles right between his palms. Inside, MediaPipe and TouchDesigner are linked: the first captures hands and face from the webcam with high accuracy, the second turns those coordinates into a live plane and feeds it into a POP system that instantly generates a swarm of particles in the shape of a head. No studio, no render farmer, no VR headset. Just a laptop, a webcam, and 1 TouchDesigner session. And traditional VJ studios keep teams of 5 people on a setup with lighting, custom hardware, and commercial plugins, while his expenses are only a TouchDesigner subscription and a regular USB camera. One laptop runs MediaPipe and TouchDesigner simultaneously, holds the camera stream at 60 FPS without drops, and in parallel processes 468 face points + 21 points on each hand. The camera captures frame after frame, MediaPipe in real time sends TouchDesigner the finger coordinates and face geometry, and the POP operator inside the engine translates those numbers into thousands of particle points with colors from bright pink to gold. This setup immediately defines the role of the tool and the limits of its autonomy. It knows where the fingertips are at every moment of the frame. It knows how to read the face geometry at any angle to the camera. It knows how to draw a swarm of particles between them with the right color and contour. → MediaPipe pulls 468 points from the face and 21 points from each hand, 60 times per second → TouchDesigner receives those coordinates, builds a virtual rectangle between the fingertips, and feeds it into the POP system → POP generates thousands of particle points in the shape of a head, coloring them in a gradient from bright pink to gold → The HUD layer adds green corners and a blue neon frame, styling the image like an AR interface → All layers assemble into 1 real-time frame that projects back onto the video in the camera window → The final image is recorded to a file or broadcast to a projector for a live installation And only when the guy spreads his hands wider does the plane between the palms stretch; brings them together, it narrows. Otherwise the system runs on its own. And when he moves from his home room to a concert hall, the same laptop with the same webcam launches the same TouchDesigner session in just 5 minutes, without reconfiguration, without a new team, and without a single line of new code. In his work setup there is no studio of his own and no team for assembly. On the desk sits a laptop with a webcam, on top run MediaPipe and TouchDesigner with POP operators, and the same setup through a USB camera moves to any concert without a new configuration. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest Creative Coding setup on 1 laptop: 0 render farms, 0 studio lighting, and between them 3 libraries, thousands of particle points, and 1 webcam.show more

THIS ROBOT HAS A DEAD FLY'S BRAIN AND IT... WALKS LIKE A FLY scientists sliced the fly into thousands of layers thinner than a virus to copy every wire in its body the fly didn't survive the map did: 166,700 neurons, from the brain all the way down to the legs so somebody built it a new body six metal legs, 18 motors, two camera eyes and a battery strapped to its back no walking code, they just wired the leg neurons into the motors and switched it on > it turned its head and looked straight at the camera > then it walked, three legs down, three legs up, the exact way a real fly does > when someone reached for it, it froze > when the hand got closer, it ran nobody taught it any of that the fly has been dead for years, and its brain still knows how to escape next on the list is a mouseshow more

“I can’t end it like this.” Alan Jackson has... made a complete jackass of himself today, desperately trying to trip up Jen McCabe. The judge has had enough of him and his antics. The truth is the truth—no matter how long you badger someone or how hard you try to spin it, it won’t change.show more

Watch Macrons right hand. He notices a bag of... what looks to be a white powder on the desk then tries (unsuccessfully) to subtly cover it and put it in his pocket. Could it be the President of France has a bag of cocaine with him? He certainly looks sheepish after noticing it.show more

NOBODY IN YOUR HOUSE GETS PAID FOR THIS. THAT'S... EXACTLY WHY IT GOES FIRST. Watch the water, not the robot. It tips a full bucket across the terrace and the run-off comes back rust orange. That isn't dust. That's months. Then it picks up the long brush and works the same square four times before moving on. No gloves. No kneeling. No standing up slowly afterwards. Last shot: clean tile, edge to edge, right into the corner by the railing where everyone gives up. Now the part nobody says out loud. Cleaning a home is the largest unpaid job on the planet. It has no salary, no title, no invoice. It has never appeared in a single GDP figure. Nobody's CV says nine years of weekend floors. And because it had no price, everyone assumed automation would come for the paid work first. Backwards. The job with no salary is the easiest one on earth to hand over. Nobody negotiates. Nobody strikes. There is no union for Sunday.show more

After a lifetime together, neither of them wanted to... let go. The old lion no longer has the strength he once did. His steps are slower, his mane is weathered, and his eyes carry the weight of many years. As his caretaker kneels beside the mane in tears, he gently leans into her hands and closes his eyes, trusting the same person who stood beside him through every season of his life. No words are needed. Just a lion, an old friend, and one quiet moment that says everything. Some goodbyes are spoken with a touch instead of words.show more

Everything I do that the training orthodoxy officially forbids:... - Four to six reps for everything, back to biceps, no rep-range variety - Two or three hard sets per exercise, then I stop - No arm day. The arms get a little work, often, and grow fine - No slow negatives. Down under control, then drive it up - Abs trained with added weight and low reps, like a normal muscle - The Smith machine, on purpose, without shame - Fasted, first thing, no pre-workout anything - No deloads, no muscle confusion, no periodised misery - In and out inside the hour, a few days a week Every item on that list is a heresy to somebody with a certification and a supplement discount code. The muscle has read none of the certifications. It responds to load and goes home.show more

I spent 48h to find this ''bot trading wallet''... on Polymarket He made 10,057 trades in one month and earned $87,000 > this wallet is an arbitrage bot > trades only BTC Up or Down (5 min) only > always use the same strategy And here's how it trades: > waits until one of the outcomes (YES/NO) falls below 35¢ > buy more when the average price is low > watch how the opposite outcome moves > makes sure the total average prices are under 99¢ > if he doesn't have a hedge, just closing the position with no losses This is exactly how algo-trading works His profile:show more

There's been an unfortunate incident in LA with a... Uhaul plowing into a crowd of anti-Khameini protestors This man should never have been able to get near the crowd with a uhaul but some info about the situation seem to be - signage on the truck is anti both the shah and the current ayatollah. is this his actual position or is this camouflage to have gotten into the protest to perpetrate an attack? "no Shah, No regime, No Mullah" Mullah is a religious leader so possibly referring to the current leader and not a king like Pahlavi Timeline appears to be - anti-Khameini protestors try to rip signs off his vehicle and are bashing on the windows and eventually his passenger side window is broken - guy in uhaul then stutterstops forward into the crowd, eventually accelerating further, then stuttering again, then full stopping down the road - there is a man surfing on top of the uhaul in the 3rd video, below I have posted another video showing the man on top of the uhaul trying to take the posters off the side, so he is likely part of the anti-Khameini protestors - uhaul driver is taken into custody by police is this a case of police not having the street sufficiently blocked off and so a guy was able to get a uhaul in here? He should not have been able to drive a uhaul this close to a massive protest crowd There are a lot of people saying this is a terrorist attack, it is possible it could be one but I don't think there's enough information to accurately assert that at this time The chronology of events also shows it is possible that the driver was in fear of his life since protestors were banging on the uhaul, windows, and removing signs+ eventually breaking his window Whatever turns out to be the actual case, it is an unfortunate event and as of right now a seeming silver lining is that no deaths have been reportedshow more

Two weeks into year seven, a student calls his... Jewish classmate 'devil.' By the second half of the year, students are giving the Nazi salute as she walks past, which the school justified as a 'soldier salute.' By December, there's a hakenkreuz (Nazi symbol) carved into her desk. She tells her teacher she's upset and needs help. The teacher says no. This is one mother's testimony to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. When she later surveyed others, she found the same pattern everywhere: kids stop reporting because they've learned nothing happens when they do. It's on the record now.show more