Cisco wave with the crew 📞🎶 #FurCon2025 w/Alpine KartFox... @Reograyfox 📷braytonbadger.bsky.socialshow more

We’re never going to financially recover from this 😩... #FurCon2025 w/Alpine KartFox @Reograyfox 📷braytonbadger.bsky.socialshow more

Grateful for the opportunity to make extraordinary memories on... the road with all of you, and blessed to be able to bring those memories back home to one day share with my children. “Stages” is out THIS FRIDAY on all streaming platforms, w/ music video out same day on YouTube 🎶 #NickCarterStagesshow more

Students – Sunoversity 2024 applications are open! Apply now... at Join our campus ambassador crew to: ✨ Kickstart your career by launching growth initiatives 🤝 Work with Suno’s founders and team, opening future career doors 🎁 Get exclusive merch 🎧 Test new features first 🌟 Enjoy Suno Premier for free! 🎉 Fun surprises (top performers could meet major artists!) 🎶 Shape the future of music! Share with your friends so you can all be part of the Sunoversity experience together 👇show more

Lady Gaga posts about her 40th birthday on TikTok:... “Haute & Freddy, Robyn, and Raye filled my birthday with their beautiful new albums 💋🎶. Had the best time listening and relaxing with Michael as we wind down The Mayhem Ball. Thank you, Michael for making my birthday so so special, I love you ❤️. May the birthday month begin 🫶 Thank you monsters for all your beyond kind messages. Growing up w you is something I will always cherish ❤️”show more

Move Afrika: Kigali was incredible 🇷🇼⭕️🙏 a sold-out BK... Arena AND DOJA CAT’s first-ever performance in Africa 🔥 #MoveAfrika is building the first pan-African touring circuit for global artists, creating thousands of jobs, and driving investment across Africa’s creative economy. 🌍 In partnership with pgLang, Major Tour Partner Cisco, Rwanda Development Board, and foundation partners — this movement continues to grow. Deeply grateful to every partner, crew member, and Global Citizen who brought this to life ❤️ We are also deeply grateful to Her Excellency Jeannette Kagame, First Lady of the Republic of Rwanda First Lady of Rwanda, for joining us last night and for your support of Move Afrika.show more

🙏🇺🇸🙏 On October 3, 1993, during the Battle of... Mogadishu in Somalia, a U.S. helicopter was shot down in hostile territory. Armed fighters quickly began moving toward the crash site. From above, two U.S. Army snipers saw what was happening. One of them was Gary Gordon. Gordon was part of the elite Ist Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta. He and his teammate requested permission to be inserted on the ground to protect the wounded crew. Command initially denied the request. The situation was too dangerous. They asked again. Denied. They asked a third time. Permission granted. With only their rifles and limited ammunition, they were dropped into the crash site, fully aware they would be surrounded. Their mission was simple: protect the injured helicopter pilot and crew for as long as possible. They secured the site and fought off wave after wave of attackers, buying critical time. Gordon ultimately gave his weapon to the wounded pilot so he could defend himself. Both soldiers were killed in action. The pilot survived. For their actions, Gary Gordon and his teammate became the first Medal of Honor recipients since the Vietnam War. He knew the odds. He went anyway. Sometimes courage isn't about winning. It's about choosing to stand your ground when others need you most. Lest We Forget. 🙏🇺🇸🙏show more

At more than 4,000 meters below the surface, the... submarine Orpheus II recorded routine data from the seabed. It was all quiet, until a massive, slow motion crossed the spotlights.🧐📷 The captain thought it was an optical glitch... until the sonar marked a live mass the size of a shipper. Her skin looked translucent, as if light had slipped inside her, and on her side a beating red cavity opened... like an exposed heart. No one in the crew ever spoke. All you could hear was the buzz of the engine trying to reverse, while the being slowly turned towards them. Recording ended with a metallic sound.. and a cut sentence in the box black. —“He's not alone... ”show more

Racing meets AI, & it’s actually exciting this time.... I came across FURMULA, a project that’s merging real-time racing mechanics with AI & NFT utility, & it’s got me hooked. Imagine having an AI agent as your pit crew - helping you optimize your team, tweak your cars, & plan strategies on the fly. Add some solid NFT utility, & you’ve got a racing game that feels more immersive than most GameFi projects out there. The beta is set to launch this quarter (staking is already live), & their January roadmap looks packed with updates. Oh, & here’s a fun fact: their presale hit a 10k SOL hard cap in under 45 seconds last month, & the token’s still holding 3x its value. This could be a good time to watch if the $FURM dip finds a reversal. Either way, gaming + AI feels like the next wave, & Furmula might just be ahead of the curve. What’s your take on AI-driven games? Web🌍 : Chart: Join the hype:show more

🇱🇧 BREAKING — Israeli Strikes Across Lebanon Israeli warplanes... carried out new attacks across southern and eastern Lebanon, killing at least four people and wounding several others, according to local authorities, and a journalist on the ground who spoke with Drop Site News. In Arabsalim, Israeli missiles struck a room containing bulldozing equipment near the municipality building, killing Zeinab Moussa, 80, and Maher Younes, a local butcher, 43, and injuring three others. Residents said the blast destroyed the structure, damaged nearby homes, and fits Israel’s wider pattern of striking storage sites for reconstruction equipment – sites it calls “Hezbollah depots” and “warehouses.” Further east, a wave of airstrikes hit Janta and Shmastar in the eastern Bekaa Valley, killing two people and wounding several others. Windows shattered at a nearby school, and students were treated for injuries and shock. Lebanese officials condemned the attacks as renewed violations of sovereignty, noting they mark another serious escalation despite a ceasefire signed in late 2024. (Information from Drop Site sources and L’Orient Today, NNA, Anadolu Agency) —— 🎥 1: Israeli aircraft launched a wave of airstrikes on hills surrounding the town of Shmastar in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa region. 🎥 2: Israeli warplanes struck the town of Arabsalim in southern Lebanon. 📷 1: Zeinab Moussa, 80, killed in Israeli airstrike on Arabsalim, southern Lebanon. Moussa had previously lost two grandsons in Israel’s 2023–24 war. 📷 2: Windows shattered at Shmastar Secondary School amid Israeli airstrikes on the area, leaving several students with minor injuries and others faintingshow more

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump is PUMMELING IRAN tonight... with a new wave of strikes They attacked a ship in the Strait, they are now FINDING OUT CENTCOM: "At 7:15 p.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command forces began launching the third round of strikes this week against Iran after Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces blatantly attacked M/V GFS Galaxy, a Cyprus-flagged container ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz. A civilian crew member is missing and the vessel is unable to continue the journey due to an onboard fire and significant engineroom damage. Iran was provided yet another opportunity to demonstrate adherence to the Memorandum of Understanding after being held accountable for earlier attacks on commercial vessels but has again failed. In response, the United States is imposing a heavy cost by continuing to degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the strait. The strikes are being carried out at the direction of the Commander in Chief."show more

I just dropped myself into a Taylor Swift-style music... video without writing a single prompt, timeline, or storyboard. I uploaded one photo and the song. That's it. Atlabs AI took over from there: • Built the character sheet • Planned the scenes • Generated the prompts • Synced every cut to the beat • Delivered a finished edit Most AI video tools promise automation, but the tradeoff is usually creative control. This was the opposite. The agents handled the production work while I focused on direction. Every scene, transition, framing choice, and creative decision stayed in my hands. When the edit was ready, I could jump in, swap shots, rework sequences, change the mood, and fine-tune the story. It felt less like using a tool and more like working with an AI production crew. We're moving beyond prompting. The next wave is directing autonomous creative workflows that understand the music, build the narrative, and still leave the final call to you. Character: ChatGPT Image Video: Seedance This is the most fun I've had making a music video in a long time.show more

Today we remember World War II Medal of Honor... recipient Brig. Gen. Frederick W. Castle. His Medal of Honor citation reads: "He was air commander and leader of more than 2,000 heavy bombers in a strike against German airfields on Dec. 24, 1944. En route to the target, the failure of one engine forced him to relinquish his place at the head of the formation. In order not to endanger friendly troops on the ground below, he refused to jettison his bombs to gain speed maneuverability. His lagging, unescorted aircraft became the target of numerous enemy fighters which ripped the left wing with cannon shells, set the oxygen system afire, and wounded two members of the crew. Repeated attacks started fires in two engines, leaving the Flying Fortress in imminent danger of exploding. Realizing the hopelessness of the situation, the bail-out order was given. Without regard for his personal safety, he gallantly remained alone at the controls to afford all other crewmembers an opportunity to escape. Still another attack exploded gasoline tanks in the right wing, and the bomber plunged earthward, carrying Castle to his death. His intrepidity and willing sacrifice of his life to save the members of his crew were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service." Castle is buried at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Belgium. We continue to honor and remember his service and sacrifice.show more

They found him where the fighting had been the... worst. Alone. Rifle empty. Magazines spent. And 23 enemy soldiers lying around his position. Private First Class Gary Martini was just 19 years old in April 1967 when his unit was ambushed in Vietnam. The jungle erupted with gunfire. Grenades exp|*ded. The line began to buckle under heavy attack. Martini did not pull back. He stayed where he was and returned fire. Wave after wave came at his position. He fired until his magazines were empty. Then he reloaded. Then fired again. The enemy tried to break through his sector. He would not let them. Somewhere in that storm of bullets and smoke, he was fatally w*unded. When the battle ended and his fellow soldiers moved through the wreckage, they found him still at his post. Around him lay 23 enemy bodies. He had held the line almost single handedly. He was 19. Nineteen. Most teenagers worry about school, about the future, about small things. Gary Martini faced d**th and refused to give ground. His stand bought time for his unit. Time to regroup. Time to survive. For his actions, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. looked like. A young soldier, alone in a jungle clearing, fighting until there was nothing left to fire. He did not run. He did not surrender. He fought until the end. Back home, his name faded with the years. The war became a chapter in a textbook. The faces became numbers. But once, in a violent clearing in Vietnam, a 19 year old stood his ground against overwhelming odds. 🫡🙏show more

Can a dragon become your best friend? Watch this... legendary friendship come to life before your eyes. Made by using GPT Image 2 + Seedance 2.0 on Picsart prompt: Create a 15-second hyper-realistic live-action cinematic video in 16:9 with fast-paced, emotionally warm storytelling, spectacular action, and seamless multi-shot transitions. Absolute photorealism with feature-film quality, shot on anamorphic 35mm lenses, realistic camera physics, subtle handheld movement, natural lens breathing, cinematic motion blur, restrained film grain, and physically accurate lighting. The scene takes place entirely on a rugged alpine mountain summit with jagged gray metamorphic rocks, loose gravel, exposed cliff edges, dry golden alpine grass, distant mountain ranges, a deep blue sky with thin cirrus clouds and low white cumulus clouds, illuminated by crisp late-morning sunlight. Maintain perfect environmental continuity throughout every shot. The main character is a beautiful woman, approximately 25 years old, with long thick naturally wavy blonde hair, fair skin, bright blue eyes, and an athletic feminine build. She wears a weathered brown leather medieval explorer outfit consisting of a fitted leather tunic, dark trousers, tall leather boots, leather bracers, a travel satchel, a belt, and a medieval sword. Preserve her exact facial features, hairstyle, clothing, body proportions, and identity consistently throughout the entire video. Her companion is a gigantic biologically realistic pink-red dragon with dusty reptilian scales, amber eyes, curved horns, muscular limbs, powerful claws, a long tail, and large translucent wing membranes with visible veins. The dragon behaves like a real undiscovered animal, with subtle breathing, shifting muscles beneath its scales, moist reflective eyes, realistic weight, and physically accurate interactions with the environment. The dragon always remains vastly larger than the woman. A powerful alpine crosswind acts as a third character throughout the sequence, constantly influencing the woman's flowing blonde hair, clothing, satchel straps, grass, dust, loose gravel, and the dragon's wing membranes and neck spines. Every gust behaves naturally according to the terrain and camera angle, with believable delayed secondary motion. The sequence begins with an extreme ground-level camera hidden between dry grass and sharp rocks. Wind drives dust and gravel across the lens while the woman stands confidently on the exposed ridge. A gigantic dragon shadow sweeps rapidly across the landscape before one enormous wing passes overhead, dramatically darkening the frame and creating a violent pressure gust. Cut to a dynamic forward-moving perspective traveling low toward the woman as the dragon approaches at high speed. The mountain rocks rush past with strong parallax while her long blonde hair and leather clothing whip dramatically in the wind. The dragon's heavy breathing creates subtle camera movement. Transition into a fast lateral tracking shot racing parallel to the rocky ridge. Foreground boulders repeatedly hide and reveal the action while the dragon runs beside the woman with tremendous weight. Massive claws strike loose gravel, sending rocks toward the camera as dust trails behind. The dragon suddenly brakes beside her, carving deep tracks into the rocky ground while a sweeping cloud of dust fills the frame. Move into a close reverse circular orbit around both characters as the dragon gently lowers its enormous head. The woman smiles warmly, steps closer, and softly places one hand against the dragon's snout. Their foreheads gently touch in an intimate emotional moment as the dragon's folded wing temporarily shelters them from the wind. Focus shifts naturally from her fingers resting on the scales to the dragon's amber eye and finally to her genuine smile. Cut to an unusual snout-mounted close-up beside the dragon's muzzle. The dragon gives a playful snort, blasting a gust of wind that sends the woman's long wavy blonde hair, clothing, and satchel flying backward. Laughing naturally, she briefly loses her balance before affectionately pushing the dragon's muzzle away with both hands. The dragon playfully nudges her again while the camera receives a subtle physical bump, creating an authentic documentary feel. Transition to a perfectly vertical top-down aerial shot directly above the rocky clearing. The dragon unfolds its enormous wings around the woman, nearly filling the frame. A single powerful wingbeat creates a visible expanding pressure wave across the terrain, pushing dust, grass, gravel, and clothing outward in physically accurate concentric motion. The woman crouches, shielding her face while laughing as the dragon begins its powerful takeoff run. Finish with a dramatic cliff-edge aerial shot as the dragon launches directly over the camera. Loose stones fall past the lens while one translucent wing passes overhead, revealing veins, scars, and stretched organic membranes illuminated by sunlight. The camera dives backward along the cliff before stabilizing into a sweeping cinematic reveal of the mountain summit and expansive valley. The dragon performs one fast, low fly-by above the woman, whose hair and clothing are once again swept by the powerful wake. End with a wide composition of the woman standing alone on the exposed ridge as the dragon gracefully glides across the open sky above the vast mountain landscape. Maintain absolute live-action realism throughout with consistent lighting, geography, scale, anatomy, wind direction, environmental continuity, and character identity. Negative Prompt: CGI, animation, cartoon, stylized fantasy, magical effects, glowing eyes, fire breathing, supernatural particles, unrealistic physics, weightless movement, plastic textures, synthetic skin, morphing, duplicated characters, anatomy changes, inconsistent scale, extra limbs, deformed wings, inconsistent lighting, random landscape changes, HDR look, oversaturated colors, text, captions, subtitles, logos, watermarks, interface elements, low quality, blur, noise, artifacts.show more

[Discrete Fourier Transform] by Hand ✍️ In signal processing,... the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is no doubt the most important method. But the math involved is extremely complex, literally, involving a summation over a complex number term e^(-iwt). I developed this exercise to demonstrate that underneath such complexity, DFT is just a series of matrix multiplications you can calculate by hand. ✍️ Once you see that, it should not surprise you that a deep neural network, which is also a series of matrix multiplications, with activation functions in-between, can learn to perform DFT to process and analyze signals so effectively. How does DFT work? [1] Given ↳ Signals A, B, and C in the 🟧 frequency domain: ◦ A = cos(w) + 2cos(2w) ◦ B = cos(w) + cos(3w) + cos(4w) ◦ C = -cos(2w) + cos(3w) ◦ Each signal is a weighed sum of four cosine waves at frequencies 1w, 2w, 3w, and 4w. ◦ We will apply Inverse DFT to convert the signals to time domain representations, and then demonstrate DFT can convert back to their original frequency domain representations. ↳ Signal X in the 🟩 time domain. X is sampled at 10 time points 1t, 2t, …, 10t: ◦ X = [-2.5, -1.8, 3, -0.7, -1.0, -0.7, 3, -1.8, -2.5, 5] ◦ Suppose X is also a weighted sum of the same four cosine waves, but we don’t already know their weights. We will apply DFT to discover them. [2] 🟧 Frequency Matrix (F) ↳ Write the coefficients of A, B, C as a matrix F. Each signal is a row. Each frequency is a column. ↳ A → [1, 2, 0, 0] ↳ B → [1, 0, 1, 1] ↳ C → [0, 1-, 1, 0] [3] Cosine → Discrete ↳ Sample from the continuous cosine waves at discrete time points 1t, 2t, 3t, to 10t. [4] Cosine Matrix (W) ↳ Write the samples as a matrix, Each frequency is a row. Each time point is a column. [5] Inverse DFT: 🟧 Frequency → 🟩 Time ↳ Multiply the frequency matrix F and the cosine matrix W. ↳ The meaning of this multiplication is to linearly combine the four cosine waves (rows in W) into time-domain signals (rows in T) using the weights specified in F. ↳ The result is matrix T, which are signals A, B, C converted to the time domain. Each signal is a row. Each time point is a column. [6] Transpose ↳ Transpose T, converting each signal’s time domain representation from a row to a column. [7] DFT: 🟩 Time → 🟧 Frequency ↳ Multiply the cosine matrix W with the transpose of matrix T. ↳ The purpose of this multiplication is to take a dot-product between each time-domain signal (columns in the transpose of T) and each cosine wave (rows in W), which has the effect of projecting the signal onto a cosine wave to determine how much they are correlated. Zero means not correlated at all. ↳ The result is an intermediate version of the “recovered” frequency matrix where each column corresponds to a signal and each row corresponds to a frequency. ↳ Compared to the original frequency matrix F, this intermediate matrix has non-zero weights in the correct places, but scaled up by a factor of 5 (n/2, n=10). For example, signal A, originally [1,2,0,0], is recovered at [5,10,0,0]. [8] Scale ↳ Multiply each value by 2/n = 1/5 to scale down the intermediate matrix to match the magnitude of the original frequency matrix F. [9] Transpose ↳ Transpose the recovered frequency matrix back to the same orientation of the original frequency matrix F. ↳ Like magic 🪄, the result is identical to the original F, which means DFT successfully recovered the frequency components of signals A, B, C. [10] Apply DFT to X: 🟩 Time → 🟧 Frequency ↳ Now that we have some confidence in DFT’s ability to recover frequency components, we apply DFT to X’s time-domain representation by multiplying W with X. ↳ The result is the an intermediate matrix. [11] Scale ↳ Similarly, we scale down by a factor of 5 to obtain the recovered frequency components of X (a column). [12] Transpose ↳ Similarly, we transpose the recovered column to row to match the orientation of the frequency matrix. ↳ Using the coefficients [0,0,3,2], we can write the equation of X as 3cos(3w) + 2cos(4w). Notes: I hope this by hand exercise helps you understand the essence of DFT. But there is more technical details, such as: • Sine: The complete DFT math also includes sine waves that follow a similar calculation process. • Phase: Here, we assume all the cosine waves are aligned at the origin, namely, phase is 0. If a phase p is added, for example, cos(w+p), we will need to calculate the sine component and use their ratio to figure out what p is. • Magnitude: If phase is not zero, the magnitude will need to be calculated by combining both cosine and sine terms.show more

The War was cold, but accidents happened... May 25... 1968: a Soviet Air Force Tu-16 "Badger" [Reg. Unknown] crashes 150 mi West of Norway, all 6 aboard die. Jet made a low pass near US Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9), flying just 50 ft above the sea, when the wingtip hit a wave that sent the bomber into a cartwheel. The accident was captured in camera by a US film crew that was aboard the ship. More info below ⬇️ 🧵 ‘I was there and watched the entire thing while working on the flight deck. I was a helicopter mechanic in HS-9 at the time. When it overflew the flight deck you could feel the heat and smell at jet exhaust. After the flight deck overfly (starboard to port) he continued to fly away from the ship at low level. He gained a little altitude and started to make a left turn, leveled back out, lost altitude and just when it looked like he was going to make a controlled ditching his left wing dipped and hit the water and then he cartwheeled in a ball of flame.. Our helicopters were in the air already and made a beeline for the crash, hovered in the smoke but no one survived.’ Extra info with statements by an eyewitness are from an article from "The Aviation Geek Club" (will add link to their full article latershow more

Now listen to my rap 🎶 Seedance 2.5 just... nailed it Prompt : Use the uploaded reference image as the exact character reference. Lock her facial identity, eye color, skin tone, hairstyle, makeup, body proportions, and overall appearance throughout the entire video. She has long black hair tied in a low ponytail, soft natural makeup, expressive grey-green eyes, and wears the same fitted white graphic baby tee, oversized denim shorts, white crew socks, chunky sneakers, silver hoop earrings, layered necklaces, rings, and an oversized black bomber jacket hanging loosely off her shoulders. Maintain perfect character consistency in every shot. Create a high-end American hip-hop/rap music video inside a premium photography studio transformed into a modern urban performance space. The set features a blue cyclorama backdrop, minimalist graffiti walls, a professional drum kit, vintage brown leather sofa, polished concrete floor, blue neon tube lights, industrial spotlights, subtle atmospheric haze, and cinematic contrast. The aesthetic should feel like a mainstream Western rap music video with luxury production value. The video opens with an ultra-wide close-up as she looks directly into the camera with a confident expression and folded arms. The camera quickly cuts to a dramatic side silhouette where she lowers her head, then raises it while making relaxed hip-hop hand gestures. A full-body wide-angle shot reveals her casually grooving to the beat, shoulders bouncing naturally as her oversized jacket shifts with realistic fabric movement. The camera circles around her in a handheld shoulder-mounted tracking shot while she confidently lip-syncs to the music with expressive facial performance. She points toward the lens, smiles slightly, then steps forward with effortless swagger. A dramatic low-angle hero shot emphasizes her presence as she spreads her arms confidently beneath glowing blue lights. She walks toward a professional drum kit, sits down naturally, and begins striking the drums energetically in perfect rhythm with the music. Fast cuts alternate between overhead, side, and close-up angles showing realistic stick movement, expressive reactions, and synchronized performance. The scene transitions to a blue roller shutter covered in minimalist graffiti where she squats casually with elbows resting on her knees, maintaining eye contact with the camera while continuing to rap confidently. The camera slowly pushes in from the side before cutting to her lounging effortlessly on a vintage brown leather sofa. She leans back comfortably, one arm stretched along the backrest, nodding naturally with the rhythm while continuing her performance. A dramatic side silhouette sequence follows with atmospheric haze and strong blue backlighting as she performs smooth body movements, expressive hand gestures, and confident lip-sync. Her hair moves naturally with subtle airflow while the camera glides around her using wide-angle lenses that enhance depth and energy. The final sequence returns to a full-stage performance. She stands center stage beneath powerful spotlights surrounded by drums, graffiti, neon tubes, and blue studio lighting. The camera slowly pulls backward while she delivers the final lyrics with bold attitude, ending in a confident pose as the lights fade behind her. Professional rap music video cinematography, cinematic handheld movement, wide-angle lens distortion, premium studio lighting, realistic skin texture, natural eye reflections, detailed hair strands, physically accurate lighting and shadows, authentic lip-sync performance, expressive body language, smooth choreography, realistic fabric simulation, high-end fashion editorial styling, luxury commercial quality, immersive urban atmosphere, 16:9 widescreen, no subtitles, no logos, no watermarks, no on-screen text.show more