A striking presence at Zero 10. Beeple dogs absurdly... capturing imaginations, Xcopy coin laundry entering homes by the masses, Cherniak gems left & right. Haven’t had this much fun at the main fair since Cattelan’s Comedian. A must see for digital & traditional collectors alike.show more

𝓡𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 𝓡𝓲𝓼𝓮𝓻 + 𝗜𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗮𝗵 𝗦𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 jumps to No. 2... in this update. - Electric hands from the left side of the dish, complimented by a wiry, 6-foot-3 frame, 6.68 60-yard dash, & a real shot to stick at SS. Must follow for recruiters ➡️ Isaiah Snavelyshow more

🖼️ 24 HOURS OF ART 📊 Saturday Highlights 🏛️... All Time High at Auction 'Flux and Formation' by Emily Xie, jointly donated with AL & AL, hits Leonardo DiCaprio's private charity auction. reports a $100,000 result to none other than Blondie, marking an all-time high for Emily Xie. This continues a big Art Basel week for Xie and follows the private sellout of 6 artwork series 'Material Histories' with Adam Berninger, shown at Untitled Art Fair. 📰 At Auction Speaking of auctions, several are currently in progress: ▪️ Charity Auction via Leap in support of St. Jude: Features 30+ works, closes today at 3:00pm ET on donateart dot gg ▪️ 'Post-War and Contemporary Art' via Christie's: Includes 7 digitally native (or related) works ▪️ 'Next Wave' via Christie's Digital Art: 21 Lot auction 🎨 Art Blocks Activity It is another Art Blocks highlight filled 24 hours: - 'Fidenza' /999 by Tyler Hobbs Studio: 40 ETH, list: 46 ETH - 'Ringers' /1k by Dmitri Cherniak: 19 ETH to Robdog 🍾, list: 22 ETH - 'Chromie Squiggle' /10k by Erick / Snowfro / 🦩 / LAO / #️⃣ / 🔴: 6 sales for 31.54 ETH, list: 6 ETH - 'Meridian' /1k by Matt DesLauriers: 4.2 ETH to homerfan33 - 'Anticyclone' /800 by William Mapan: 2.3 WETH to Pal2891 🕵️ Artacle Insights We continue with our weekly digital art market deep dive, alongside Artacle: As the highest volume digital art week of 2024 settles, let's revisit the ARTCL index, which offers a macro perspective on the leading generative art collections. What does recent activity mean? As profiled last week, the index looked good within a month but remained down 50% year-to-date (YTD). Since then, ARTCL is up 30% this week and 42% this month, which narrows the YTD gap to down 35%. ARTCL index approximates: - November Low: 700 - Today: 1,000 - Break Even YTD: 1,500 - End of 2022 High: 3,000 - End of 2021 ATH: 4,000 Let's see where things go from here into the close of 2024. 📚 Collection: 5 Highlights - 'Winds of Yawanawa' /1k by Refik Anadol: 6 sales for 47.94 ETH, list: 8.9 ETH - 'CENTS' /10k (sovrn.art) by Rutherford Chang: 88 sales for 1.535 BTC, list: 0.016 BTC - 'DAMAGE CONTROL' by XCOPY 🏴: 10 sales for 10.78 ETH, list: 0.82 ETH - 'MAX PAIN' by XCOPY: 11 sales for 5.38 ETH & $9,249 total, list: 0.82 ETH - 'Opepen Edition' /15.8k by jack: 19 sales for 6.3 ETH, list: 0.25 ETH 💎 1/1: Highlights - 'Perfect Blue | 完璧な青' by Derech: 10.5 ETH to SuperRare John 💎 - 'Transient Reflections in Motion' by Botto: 5.324 ETH to yck.eth - 'A Mother's vision' by NLV: 1.5 ETH - 'blob pack study #1' (Feb 2021) by zach lieberman: 1 ETH 🎨 1/1/X: 5 Highlights - 'Light Years #001' /100 by Dmitri Cherniak: 8.5 ETH to LogicbombArt - 'Twelvefold' /300 by Yuga Labs: 0.2 BTC - 'ICXN' /500 (Art Blocks Engine) by XCOPY: 2.567 WETH to blinton - 'Synthetic Dreams' /1k by Refik Anadol: 1.4077 WETH - 'beef brothko' /666 by die with the most likes: 0.9263, 0.92, 0.9001, 0.9 & 0.8772 WETH 🖼️ Edition: Highlights - 'GIGACHAD' /100 by beeple: 24 ETH - 'REBIRTH' /100 by Beeple: 7.78 ETH - 'BULL RUN' /271 by Beeple: 7.75 WETH to d50f - 'Player' /256 by Sam Spratt: 7.5001 WETH to NFTButler_Doge - 'Red Lite District' /210 by OSF: 2.699 ETH to killivault - 'QQL Mint Pass' /679 by Tyler Hobbs and Dandelion Mané: 2.44, 2.4 & 2.399 ETH to SpiritMonke 🤝 Saturday Highlights are abbreviated. There is more to explore across art. Have an inspired weekend! Pictured: - 'Flux and Formation' by Emily Xie - 'Fidenza #795' by Tyler Hobbs - 'Perfect Blue | 完璧な青' by Derech - 'Ringers #304' by Dmitri Cherniak - 'GIGACHAD' by Beeple - Artacle (pictured each time we do a breakout analysis) - 'Player' by Sam Sprattshow more

🌟 Engines are fired up for the launch of... a new Solana Memecoin! 🌟 ⏳ Countdown: 34 hours until launch! 👉 Details: Quick Rundown: 🚀 10% team tokens (locked for 2 months) 🚫 Zero tax – this coin is all fun, with no fees 🎨 A unique design and concept sure to captivate fans The ticker and contract address will be revealed on Twitter right after the countdown hits zero. Pro tip: be ready at least 15 minutes early. Sometimes I may need to initiate the contract setup a bit sooner than expected or might encounter minor delays due to unforeseen issues. The goal? To give everyone a fair chance to grab a piece of this exciting new token. Our aim is to create a memecoin that's not just cute and funny but one that has staying power and makes a difference. 🖌Art Contest Alert: To celebrate launch day (in just 34 hours!), we're hosting an art contest with rewards at the end of the week. So dust off your creativity and join in for a chance to win! 👉 Stay tuned for more details – keep reading! 👈show more

3 Safety critical interventions in a 6-mile round trip... to the post office tonight with FSD 13.2.9. That’s 2 miles per critical intervention: 1. Goes right through a stop sign shown on map and visualization. See below. 2. At the intersection just past the stop sign, it did not yield right-of-way to oncoming traffic going straight as it was turning left. I had to emergency brake to prevent a collision. Reported. 3. After stopping and waiting at a stoplight appropriately, all of a sudden it accelerated through the stoplight for no apparent reason. I had to emergency brake before much of the car had not entered the intersection. (1) and (2) above are regularly reproducible and I have posted them earlier with videos. Anyone thinking there will be nationwide unsupervised FSD or nationwide Robotaxi this year or next year: you better think again. Still long TSLA, but FSD is at an impasse with no real improvements in 8+ months. Are they making a paradigm shift to simulation training. That’s been my hunch for months. AleXandra Merz 🇺🇲 Tesla AIshow more

When I first started lifting weights I struggled to... hit 135 on squats for 10 reps. Yes, I was that much of a chicken shit. I weighed 205 and I was pretty lean because I had been riding the exercise bike for 2-1/2 hours a day 5 days a week and doing keto for like a year prior to that. Now, after 2 years of dedicated training 4 days a week, I can now squat 540. That’s an official number at a meet. So thing is…fitness is a journey. My goal is to be squatting 600 by November. We will see. Getting there is half the fun! Enjoy the process!show more

First time back at Babbo since Starr took over,... last time I was here Mario Batali was still at the helm. Started with the Tagliatelle Tartufi with fresh Tuscan white truffles paired with the 2011 Barolo Renzo Seghesio, 'Ginestra.’ I’ve had Tagliatelle Tartufi at numerous high end Italian places in NYC, this was my least favorite, the best? Santi hands down. Babbo’s version seemed to still be swimming in Pasta Water, and not a lot of flavor. While the pasta was good not great, the Barolo exceeded my expectations. Followed with their 100 Layer Lasagne with parmigiano-reggiano crema, bolognese, Pugliese tomato marinara. Last time I had this was at Mario’s Del Posto. The portion at Babbo is family style for 4ppl, presentation is amazing. Was probably the only dish I remember loving at Del Posto, and was better here, by a ways! Paired tonight with the 2010 Brunello di Montalcino Mulinari, 'L'Aietta.’ Both the wine and Lasagna 10/10. Pure indulgence and flavor 💣! A must have. Currently my favorite lasagna in #NYC. Vibe and energy still very much as it was under Mario. I felt the service was better, friendlier, than prior, and food quality very similar maybe a little better than my prior visit. Fun place with a group, lots of energy and “vibe.” Overall, a better experience today than prior, and would come back with a larger group to explore more of the menu and their large list of Italian wines more fully. Didn’t hurt that the music tonight was all 80’s…show more

This morning, two regime MPs physically attacked and beat... a Georgian citizen having a breakfast with his wife at an Abu Dhabi resort. They also threaten him "you'll come back to Tbilisi and see." Yesterday a Georgian, Lasha Gabitashvili, confronted GD MPs Irakli Zarkua and Viktor Sanikidze for treason at an Abu Dhabi resort. Everyone back in Georgia laughed at them, and especially at Sanikidze, who failed to stand up for Zarkua and kept silent as Gabitashvili swore at him - a very unmanly behaviour, especially that the regime thrives on so- called "traditional" and "macho" culture. This morning, as Gabitashvili had breakfast together with his wife, the two MPs, accompanied by their families, physically attacked him. Zarkua is in a white shirt, dark hair. Sanikidze is white shirt, tall, grey. Gabitashvili is in a red shirt. Gabitashvili keeps swearing at them for being traitors and Russia sellouts after the attack. In a separate video, he said he's unafraid of their threats and that every Georgian who isn't yet jailed enjoys freedom by a mere chance, and that anyone can be jailed at any moment. He called the UAE police. The regime MPs were there to enjoy a Coldplay concert. One of the family members of the regime MPs, a female, asks Gabitashvili "why are you even here??" like he has no right to have breakfast there. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtestsshow more

🇬🇧 JOURNALISTIC FRAUD IN BRAZIL: I think Elon Musk... should watch this beauty. Since 2003, Lula's party has been paying media outlets more than 20 billion for its propaganda of a fake democracy. Check out how the Brazilian media is a huge fraud now. The video below shows the exact same places on different dates. 👉 2023 (Left side): Media outlets reported that 4 million people united for the LGBTXYZ demonstration, at “Avenida Paulista”, where public sexual acts (a crime) and attacks on Christians (a crime) occurred. They were praised by the media, paid by Lula. 👉 2024 (Right side): 2 million people were present at the massive rally organized by the biggest conservative leader in Latin America, Jair M. Bolsonaro. However, Brazilian media outlets reported only 195k people at the same location, Avenida Paulista. Some left wing influences reported mere 50k and some alternative media channels reported about 500 to 700k. 🚨 How is that possible? For one group, there are 4 million, and for the other, only 195k people at the same location? Something must be wrong. We are either being deceived by corrupt media trying to manipulate the public opinion against the phenomenal conservative movement, or the LGBTXYZ community was never that large and is merely being used for political propaganda. What do you think? #PaulistaLotada #FraudeJornalistica #JournalisticFraudshow more

My wife bought a brand new iPhone at the... Apple store located at Jakande, Lekki Phase 1,Lagos last September. We decided to trade it in for a new one today at the Apple Store located at Westfield Stratford City Arcade (London) a few minutes ago Only God did not let them call the police on us The attendant scanned the IPhone and declared that it had been reported as stolen. Stolen from where? It was not a used iPhone It was new, purchased from an approved Apple Store and we have all the receipts intact The attendant saw our indignation and went ahead to consult with her superiors They scanned again and they declared that it was reported “missing”. They adjusted their language from stolen to missing and told us it has zero swap value. I was not shocked at all even though I should be. Nigerians like cutting corners for unhealthy gains and they always believe this is good business for them as long as they were able to make a buck. Somehow we were able to walk out of that Apple Store without any drama but I remember telling my wife that we would have had a lot of explaining to do if they had a policy that required that they must report such incidents to the police. Nigerian business people must try to do better than this There is something called integrity, it has a higher value than the dirty gains they think they are getting by playing dirty. I have always insisted on buying things in Nigeria because it helps the economy but I can see the reason many prefer to shop abroad. We must do better than this as a people. -GSW-show more

🚨 96% OF SPACEX SHARES ARE STILL LOCKED Right... now you're trading on 4% of total supply the rest is sitting behind a lockup agreement counting down to zero. Here's what the calendar looks like: > August 6 → Q2 earnings, 20% of insider shares unlock instantly > Every 2 weeks after→ another chunk hits the market > By September → float goes from 4% to nearly 10x overnight For every 1 share trading today, 10 more are about to show up. Facebook IPO at $38 in 2012 lockups expired, supply showed up, buyers ran out six months later it was trading at $18. SpaceX is the same movie on a much bigger screen. My target: $74-85 before year-end. Keep in mind: I’ve called every major market top and bottom for over 10 YEARS. I was one of the only people who called the top in October, and I’ll do it again, that’s literally my job. If you still haven’t followed me, you’ll regret it.show more

More than 10 lakh Bengalis jam Brigade to see,... hear and cheer PM Modi. I have seen scores of rallies at Brigade Parade Ground since the 1977 historic Left rally. But nothing comes close to what I saw at PM Modi’s rally today. It was not a sea of people but an ocean of Bengalis who kept pouring in, tidal wave after tidal wave, till there was not an inch of space left. Brigade has a 10-lakh capacity. The ground was choked long before the PM arrived. All roads leading to Brigade were jammed by buses, tailing back several miles, from which people were unable to alight. As Modi Ji spoke, the loudest support came from Adivasis and farmers (chaashi) who were out in full strength. Also women and youth — the women stood on chairs, the youth couldn’t get enough of Modi Ji. It was a very hot scorching day and there was no covering tent. It was all open. Nobody complained. Best part — I sat with the unwashed masses to get a sense of their sentiments. They were organic and raw. This could be the inflexion point all of West Bengal and Bengalis have been waiting for. The bend in politics that could yet rewrite the destiny of Obhaga Bangla — unlucky Bengal, a State deprived, dishonoured and disinherited by its corrupt, criminal and communal rulers.show more

I still think about this most recent blizzard a... lot… Crazy 10-15 miles can make such a big difference for banding. Places with little to no elevation 36-40”+ of snow. Would’ve seen 25-35” of snow had that been the case instead of ~18 accumulation. Great storm for me. But everyone knows the difference between their all time storms and great storms. This was an all timer but not for me. I wrote down some notes right after the blizzard that I’ll explore in a blizzard analysis vid at some point in the coming weeks/months. But I wouldn’t change too much about this winter tbh. Would’ve been great to see 30”+ of snow? Sure. But outside of the widespread busts there wasn’t really one system where I was so completely left out. And it made it so there weren’t too many let downs. And also I experienced a true blizzard for ~8-10 hours straight. Very rarely get to say that so far inland.show more

TWO TIER POLICING IN ONE MORNING. Outside a peace... conference at the JW3 community centre in North London. The video on the left (now with blurred out face) is of a Jewish man walking his dog who, enraged at the awful chants coming from the pro Hamas lot, gave them the finger. As you can see, he was pushed away by police and warned that if he didn’t leave he’d face arrest. The video on the right shows someone in the pro Hamas group, giving a Jewish person the finger in front of a police officer who did nothing. The two tier element couldn’t be starker. For more than year British Jews have had to put up with this light policing of groups of people who are not shy about expressing their support of the aims of Hamas. This is emboldening and radicalising people. It puts us all in danger. Being antisemitic and hateful towards British Jews will do nothing to help the people of Gaza.show more

The vet had been honest with the Hollands. Baxter... didn't have much time left, and the kindest thing they could do now was make whatever he had left count. So on a warm Saturday in June , instead of a normal quiet day at home, they loaded the old Bernese into the back of the van and drove him two hours to the coast. Baxter had never seen the ocean. He was 13, and his whole life had been the backyard and the same worn spot on the living room rug. The kids wanted him to see something big before he went. He moved slow getting out of the van. His back legs weren't what they used to be, and the boys had to help him down onto the sand. For a second he just stood there at the top of the beach, nose up, taking in all that salt air and open water like he couldn't quite believe it. Then something in him shifted. He started down toward the surf on his own, stiff and determined, the way he used to trot to the door when the kids came home from school. When the first cold wave washed over his paws, his whole face lit up. He didn't run, he couldn't, but he waded in up to his chest and stood in the shallow water with the sun going down behind him, and the whole family just watched. Nobody said much. They didn't need to. They stayed until the light was almost gone, taking pictures, letting Baxter rest against their legs, giving him one perfect afternoon to hold onto. The vet was right about the time. Baxter left them a few weeks later, at home, surrounded by the people who loved him. But he saw the ocean first. And every one of them is glad they gave him that.show more

Let’s be absolutely clear with the facts from today’s... “march against the far right” which I attended from the start. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1. These were left-wing organisations from all over the UK. Every union under the sun was in attendance. National Education Union are definitely indoctrinating children within the teacher and school environment, just look at their presence today. It is very concerning. Watch what they teach your kids. They, as an education union, along with Unite the union: join a union, were also fighting over who got to be at the front of the march today, thanks to two lesbian powerhouses not having it. Comedy gold 😂 2. The second video shows over 100 coaches being used to bus in all these so-called “concerned citizens” on organised transport. They are all part of a left-wing narrative which just doesn’t work anymore, we see exactly what they are doing. That was the entire left-wing loony left in attendance. That’s it. That’s them. This is a major point! We have millions who know what’s right, and the left wing in this country is about to get the shock of their lives in the next elections, swept off the map. That was a panic march. They know it’s coming! 3. There was no working class at this march! Fact! It was all middle and upper class people who attend the usual Palestine marches and Palestine Action events. They hate the Union Jack flag and they hate the working class. This was a stunt by the well-organised unions to pretend the country is behind them which it is not. And that was clear as day to witness today. Also a clear panic march. 4. We don’t have much to worry about. These people are not in the real world. They are privileged and wealthy. And as I said, that’s the crowd, that’s them. They are in total fantasy land, and it’s now time for the adults to get back in charge. 5. Long live England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✝️🇬🇧show more

This video was taken the day I played through... the first build of the Neural DSP Archetype JM X plugin. We’d set up my amp rig in the live room and were switching between the rig and the plugin. I threw every test at it; does turning the volume knob to 5 create a natural response in tone? It did. Does a single note that’s held die out without a noise gate eating it or the “math” just giving up? It did. Do two notes bent at once with distortion on create natural harmonic overtones exactly like the amps in the room? They did, exactly. I had the engineer switch between signals without my knowing. “That’s the amps,” I’d guess. “Plugin,” the engineer would say, several times. It had fooled me. Neural DSP had done it. It wasn’t just a faithful recreation of my sound - it was the first plugin I’d ever heard that proved that digital modeling could create a digital emulation with zero compromises. I’d like to say that we went back and forth countless times, making tweaks until it was right, but the truth is that they pretty much nailed it on the first try. Only a few EQ changes and some changes to a couple of the effects pedals were needed. The thousands of hours of creation came to fruition yesterday when the plugin was released, and it’s been a joy to see and hear players putting this software to the test and being as impressed as I was in this video. Thank you to every guitar player who created such clever and great sounding presets and for spreading the word. I can’t wait to hear all the new music that’s created with this plugin. Getting my sound is just the beginning of what it can do, and I can’t wait to hear what musicians create with it.show more

Millie had been returned to the shelter three times... before anyone called Mrs. Lawson. The first two families said she was too nervous. The third said she spent most of the day hiding beside the washing machine and wouldn't let anyone touch her without trembling. A shelter worker finally opened an old folder and found a faded note from six years earlier. Millie had once been fostered for nearly eight months by an elderly woman named Helen Lawson, who had helped her recover after she was found injured beside a highway. Mrs. Lawson hadn't seen her since the day Millie was adopted. She was 75 now, walked with a cane, and wasn't sure the dog would remember her after so much time. When she arrived, Millie stayed at the back of the kennel and stared at her. Mrs. Lawson stood outside the bars for a moment before quietly saying the name nobody at the shelter had been using. "Millie?" The dog lifted her head. She sniffed the air, sat up and watched the woman's face as though she were trying to reach back through six years of memories. Then her tail began tapping against the floor. A few seconds later, Millie rushed toward the kennel door. When the shelter worker opened it, she didn't run down the hallway or jump at everyone nearby. She went straight to Mrs. Lawson, pressed her whole body against the woman's legs and made the same quiet whining sound she used to make as a frightened young dog. Mrs. Lawson lowered herselt to the floor and held her. "You remembered me," she whispered. Mrs. Lawson knew she could no longer manage a young, difficult dog on her own, but Millie wasn't young anymore. The shelter arranged help with walks and veterinary appointments, and that afternoon they left together. Millie slept beside Mrs. Lawson's chair that first night. For the first time since returning to the shelter, she didn't hide. Do you think dogs remember the person who first made them feel safe, even after years apart?show more