Working on a procedural damage modifier in geometry-nodes. Trying... to avoid the use of mesh-boolean cause still too slow IMHO. Full flexibility, plus I'll add control via weight-paint. Might then post it on Gumroad if people show enough interest. #b3d #geometrynodesshow more

I cannot thank you all enough for all the... support you gave me on this post! So many people who I look up to supported me on this silly post. 🥹 I still can't believe it! I'm working on some anims rn but I'll make a vid on the journey of making this stick rig if you guys want!show more

I just saw this video on IG now. The... creator obviously does not know what it is. Yet, he's touching it. The main purpose of making this post is to tell you NEVER TOUCH AN ANIMAL OR PLANT YOU DON'T KNOW, most especially at the sea. If it now has bright colour, avoid it until you're sure it's safe to touch. The organism is called velella and it is mildly venomous. The venom doesn't really have effect on humans but some people might be affected by it. When it is touched, using that same hand to touch the the face might cause the face to itch or burn. Officially, it is not found in Nigeria, but I won't rule out its sighting totally. They're usually found in America's, Europe, Asia and Australia. In Africa, they've been found in Tanzania, Mauritius, and South Africa too. Therefore , they might get drifted to coastal areas in Nigeria too. Thank you.show more

Some personal/professional news: I'm launching "When the Facts Change... - economics and politics in a fast-changing world". Click on the link in my X biography to read my first post. I'll obviously continue to write my weekly "Economics Agenda" column for the Telegraph, and co-present the "Planet Normal" podcast each week with the brilliant Allison Pearson I've been encouraged by lots of people, not least on X, to do more writing and broadcasting. So here goes .... "When the Facts Change" will initially be limited to written posts. But, as I find my feet, I'll add audio and video content too. So please check out my launch post via the link in my X biog and feel free to share this news. 🧵 1/2show more

In January, we lost 15 cows to January Disease.... The dip in Gutu near our homestead is about 10kms away, so the lads on the ground often didn't bother going. Ticks where the cause. I built this app so that I could micro manage all our remaining 35 cows as I was just too removed at the time. Now that I'm here, this tool still is invaluable. I've tided it up and now its available for everyone, free to use. If you're in the diaspora or on the ground, get rid of the spread sheets and whatsapp message scrolling and get in total control of your herd! live now onshow more

Admin Post: This is a T Puller. It's really... hard to pull a door closed from a wheelchair and these make it much easier. They stick on the door on the hinge side. I just flip it out and use it to pull the door until I can reach the knob. In the past I've used pull ropes but I still had to go through, turn around, wheel back in to get close enough to grab the rope and then back out. Chesnyy could also grab and pull a rope but there needed to be room for her to maneuver and at times she's not at the door with me (especially if I'm taking another dog out) or she might be carrying something. T Pullers make the house a bit easier for me. #Accessibility Video description for inclusivity: and open door that leads out to a deck. There is a small black handle on the inside. A hand reaches out and flips it out and uses it to pull the door almost closed, then grabs the door knob.show more

If barbecue had a cathedral, this would be it.... The Salt Lick in Driftwood, Texas is home to one of the most iconic open-fire barbecue pits on Earth. Since 1967, brisket, ribs, and sausage have been slow-cooked over live flames in a setting that feels more like Texas history than a restaurant. Some people chase five-star restaurants. I'll take a seat next to an open pit full of smoke, fire, and barbecue. The best barbecue in the world is waiting in Driftwood, Texas. Would you make the trip? 🔥🥩🤠show more

13 years old. making $20,000 a month. working just... 1-2 hours a day. he didn’t work harder. he built a system. every morning, it looks at what’s trending. it finds the best posts from the last 24 hours. then it gives him 10 content ideas, ranked from best to worst. he picks one. one AI writes the post in his style. another checks it for mistakes. another posts it to 5 different platforms. one idea. five platforms. almost no manual work. after each post goes live, the system tracks what people liked, shared, and saved. it uses that data to make the next posts better. so the content keeps improving on its own. the results add up. 5 million views in 2 weeks. 100,000 bookmarks in 2 months. bookmarks matter. people only save posts they want to come back to. when lots of people save a post, platforms keep showing it to more people. that’s why his posts keep getting views… while he’s at school. while he’s sleeping. while he’s doing something else. the biggest advantage today isn’t working more. it’s building a system that works even when you don’t. watch the video. then read the full breakdown below.show more

It happened during a slow shift at a retail... counter. An employee leaned against the register, phone tilted just enough to show the screen. On FaceTime with a friend, she laughed and casually read out a customer’s credit card details that were still pulled up on the system, the number, the name, even the expiration date. Another coworker overheard it all, frozen between disbelief and panic, knowing what they were witnessing could ruin someone’s life in seconds. This isn’t a harmless mistake. It’s a serious breach of trust and privacy. One careless moment can lead to fraud, legal consequences, and permanent damage to a company’s reputation. Some lines should never be crossed. How can customers trust businesses with their personal information if employees treat it like gossip?show more

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Reports of a U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt II going... down near the Strait of Hormuz raise a key question: how easy is it to bring one down? At first glance, the A-10 looks like an easy target. It is slow, flies at low altitude, and lacks the stealth and speed of modern jets. But it was never designed to avoid fire. It was designed to survive it. Every part of it reflects that idea. The pilot sits inside a titanium armor “bathtub,” critical systems are duplicated, and the engines are placed far apart to reduce the chance of a single hit taking it out. Even the fuel system is built to limit severe damage. Its combat record proves it. During the Gulf War, A-10s often returned with heavy damage, damaged wings, failed hydraulics, and barely working systems, yet still made it back. Modern air defenses can hit an A-10, but destroying it is a different challenge. Flying low through terrain and battlefield clutter makes targeting harder, and its strong build means one hit is rarely enough. That durability is what keeps it relevant. While newer jets rely on stealth and speed, the A-10 depends on pure survivability. It is not invincible, but it was built with one expectation: it will take fire and still return.show more

Pro-Palestinians who dared to find workarounds to lawfully protest... were later found and swarmed by cops and escorted out (if they weren’t arrested, this happened too simply for walking in an area) This cop in particular had a “no fear” tattoo in Hebrew so I looked him up out of curiosity. Full on Zionist. 43 division. Pass it on if you’re in the Scarborough area. Muslims and Palestinians will want to avoid there if they need to report anything (Also, I fully support the way they’re speaking to the cops. In fact, I think it’s quite restrained. If I had to face someone who ideologically and/or financially was supporting the people who murdered my family, while also preventing me from lawfully protesting about it, while also treating me like a second class citizen, I don’t imagine I would have this type of control.)show more

Ajax Y Passing Drill❌❌❌ A simple passing practice used... by clubs such as Ajax & Barcelona to work with players on their passing and receiving skills, plus much more! • 3 Different variations within the video, however there are many more that you can use • Work on players passing weight & accuracy and ensuring they are passing to their teammates correct foot to allow them to receive the ball comfortably and then play at speed⏲️ • Working with players on their first touch so that it sets up their next action whether that is to put the ball in the correct place to then pass off their second touch or if they need to set their touch to then dribble or run with the ball🎯 #SundayShare The Coaching Family Coaches' Voice Sport Session Planner The Sporting Resource SessionShareshow more

This post about bench press safety escaped containment and... got a lot of people commenting in disagreement that safeties/spotter arms would've saved him. And in truth, my language below was a little too absolute: safeties MIGHT have saved his life (though even if so, would not have prevented all damage), but it's far from certain that they would have, so I stand by the overall sentiment. I will explain in detail below. The spotter arms have to be set below the top of your arched chest or else they’ll interfere with every rep - you'll clang the bar on the safeties, which not only severely interrupts proper technique and performance, but can also be potentially injurious in its own right as the clanging against the safeties takes you out of the rhythm of the rep and leads to uneven and chaotic force application demands mid-rep. The safeties can’t be set a mere milimeter or even a half inch below the chest: both because most racks have 2-3 inch hole spacings that don't allow such finely calibrated setting, but even if they do - also because as a gross movement pattern, not a fine movement pattern, you can’t control the movement of the bar precisely and accurately enough not to clang the safeties if they’re so close to your chest. Human beings performing gross movement patterns simply lack such fine control: on heavy sets, the bar might be slightly uneven on one side, you might lose a touch of your arch over the course of the set, etc... and end up clanging the safeties anyway, if they're set so close to the top of your arched chest. These issues are not form errors that can be prevented with proper training, but are inherent limitations in the human capability to control gross motor pattern movements at a heavy weight. Thus, the safeties have to be far enough below your chest in order to not interfere with the set itself, such that they can’t possibly catch the bar before it hits your chest in the case of a sudden catastrophic drop. The proper placement for the safeties is far enough below your chest so as not to interfere with the normal execution of the set and so the bar never touches the safeties at all during the set, even with the inherent human limitations of gross motor pattern control. But high enough such tha - if you find yourself unable to successfully press the bar to lockout - you can bring the bar under control back down to your chest, exhale and drop your arch, and the bar will ideally now rest on the safeties instead of your chest and you can crawl and slither out from under it. Worst case, you can roll the bar slightly upwards and the safeties will soon take it, well before it would lie on your neck. I have an example of using the safeties this way in the video below, with 485 lbs. The ability to set this position with precision and accuracy depends on the equipment you're using: Some racks/benches have 1 inch spacings for this purpose, which is excellent and allows greater precision in safety placement, but most common racks have 2-3 inches between holes and thus people must often have the safeties a little lower than they'd ideally be. The main point is the proper use and purpose of safeties in the bench press is not really to catch a very rare catastrophic sudden drop onto your chest, but to allow you to survive the much more common situation of a normal failed rep. Could they theoretically save your life in such a situation where you drop it? Yes, they might. They won't stop the bar before it hits your chest but they might reduce the impact by stopping the bar from going further down and reducing the impact. This may or may not save your life in this rare catastrophic drop situation - it's good to have them there, set up anyway, but it's far from a sure bet. The most important things you can do are to learn and practice good technique, which involves stiff wrists in a very slightly bent back position, and thumbs around the barbell - NO SUICIDE GRIP. The safeties won't catch the bar and stop it from hitting your chest, so it's best to reduce the chances of dropping the bar on your chest from almost zero to even closer to almost zero. I've been bench pressing regularly for well over 20 years, always put my thumbs around the bar, and have never dropped it on myself. Nor has anyone I have coached to the best of my memory, over tens of thousands of sets and hundreds of thousands of reps. I have used safeties to successfully avoid getting trapped under the bar after a failed rep. In the video below, I tweaked my pec while pushing through a rep at 485 and had to set the bar on the pins to avoid getting trapped under it. This kind of situation is the primary use for the safeties. It's good to have them set up regardless - they might indeed save you if you somehow still manage to drop the bar, but they also very well might not.show more

You don't need arm days to build big arms.... Pure heresy in the bro-science scriptures, I know. But 30 sets, six different angles and a conga line of finishers won't build them. That just buries the muscle in fatigue and damage faster than it can repair. Arms are small. They already take a beating from every row, chin and press you do. Pile an arm marathon on top and you sail straight past stimulation into the swamp, where the body is too busy patching torn tissue to build anything new. Here is the entire programme. One biceps exercise. One triceps exercise. Two heavy sets each. Twice a week. Lift heavy enough that the weight does the talking, then stop before fatigue muscles in. Give the arm one hard, clean reason to grow and leave it alone to get on with it. Four working sets a week, per arm. Watch them grow.show more

After more than a decade in the public spotlight,... and three assassination attempts on her husband in two years, Melania Trump has had enough. In a blistering post Monday on the social media platform X, the first lady nailed ABC “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel for his classless attacks on President Donald Trump and his family. And she demanded ABC do something about it. Melania referred to it only as a “monologue,” but her post was pretty clearly a response to a joke Kimmel made Thursday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, in which he referred to the first lady as an “expectant widow” — two days before a murderous gunman attacked the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington while both Trumps were inside. And there was truth in every line of her post: “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and [deepen] the political sickness within America,” she wrote. “People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. “A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. “Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community?” Kimmel’s material is more about feeding the liberal superiority complex than it is about being funny. The fact that he still has a show at all is more a testament to the nauseatingly liberal bias of American media than any quality of the entertainment he provides. And if anything, “coward” is too kind a term for a man who casts potshots at the president while protected by his own celebrity, the kind of man who would lie to his benighted audience about matters like the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and then lie — tearfully — about his own lying. As to Melania’s demand that ABC do something about Kimmel? Smart money wouldn’t be betting on that happening anytime soon. As a symbol of the “resistance” to all things Trump, Kimmel enjoys a spiteful popularity that’s independent of any actual humor he’s still capable of. Long the No. 2 man in ratings for late-night shows, Kimmel is seen in the industry as poised to move into the No. 1 spot once the equally distasteful (and equally Trump-hating) Stephen Colbert leaves CBS at the end of May. ABC has already proven it has no problem allowing Kimmel to pollute American airwaves and politics in pursuit of profit — and Kimmel still makes a profit for the network, according to Fox Business senior correspondent and New York Post columnist Charles Gasparino. But for millions of Americans, sickened by the likes of Kimmel and Co., and their unrelenting attacks on a president supported by more than 77 million voters, the first lady’s post on Monday was a welcome turn. The American left will undoubtely ignore the post — or celebrate it in some sickening fashion. But the sane parts of the country will understand the point. Melania Trump has had enough. Conservative Americans have, too.show more

🚨 THIS IS END OF AI BUBBLE The S&P... 500 keeps hitting all-time highs. But almost nobody sees the systemic crisis brewing. Wall Street has built a giant debt pyramid. Just like in 2000. How it works: Companies borrow billions using inflated assets as collateral. Then they give that money right back to buy more of the same assets. On paper, it's a masterpiece: Stocks report record valuations. Buybacks show explosive returns. Markets keep skyrocketing. In reality, a big part of the demand is fake. It's a circular loop. And it only works as long as cheap money keeps flowing. When rates stay high long enough, the collateral loses value fast. Even worse: most companies still aren't making enough to justify these huge costs. This is not "if". It's already starting. Remember, I warned about the last three major reversals before they happened. My next call will be the biggest one this cycle. Turn on notifications. Most people will follow me too late.show more

harua’s peak babygirl behaviour: 🐰 let's be honest. i'm... kinda cute right? so if i make myself look like i'm in trouble, i think everyone will come over to help. still, i think i need to be more than cute. if necessary, i'll resort to crying to get help. 🐰 "team want to be spoiled or team want to spoil someone" i want… to be spoiled !!! 🐰 i was using blush on, you know! today too, after the makeup was done, i went back to the mua and asked, "do you think i could add some more blush?" then she said, "sure, i'll add it for you~" and added more. rua 🐰 admitted that when he wants a favor from nico, he would call him "nico-oppa"show more

The Ed Sullivan show was a staple in many... US households. It featured a mix of new and popular hip music along with the more established "parent's" music coming from stars like Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. One of the hip new 60s groups that made it's way onto the Sullivan stage was the Mamas and the Papas. The story goes that the band was upset about having to lip sync their performance. So in pure hippy rebel fashion Michelle Phillips decides to eat a banana during what should be her parts of the vocal harmonies to the songs they were supposed to be performing! There's still some debate on whether this was a truly rebellious gesture on the part of the band, or if the band was just having a bit of fun. Michelle Phillips debunked the story (I'll post in the comments) but still there are those who insist that it was an act of 60s Flower Children rebellion!show more

Bird tries to steal fish from pelican, and then... this happens. This just might be the luckiest fish ever… but its fate? Still unknown. It’s not unusual for a gull to perch on the back of a pelican and try to snatch a snack straight from the pouch. Why not? It’s basically a stinky floating buffet with a built-in lookout post. If you’ve ever held a pelican (I have) they are a little ripe. But today, this fish went from swimming peacefully in the surf, the black abyss of the pelican’s pouch, to freestyle flipping and flying through the air. Did it make it? I honestly don’t know. But it definitely had one wild adventure, and if it did survive, just imagine the story it’s telling its fishy friends.show more

🚀 Introducing EgoExo Forge - built on top of... Rerun, Gradio, and Hugging Face hub (I’ll be in San Francisco July 21–29 — if you’re into robotics, egocentric AI, large-scale data collection, or just want to chat, DM me!) In my opinion, large-scale, diverse, and high-quality data is still the largest bottleneck for generalized robotics deployment. I believe that some version of imitation learning from human examples will be the most scalable + clean way to train humanoid robots 🤖 (similar to what Tesla did for Full Self Driving). Teleop is too expensive to collect a large enough dataset in a reasonable manner, so passive collection via egocentric (and in certain cases, exocentric) views feels like the right bet. Over the past few months, I've been trying to build out the scaffolding for this and using Rerun as my underlying infrastructure. Data being collected needs to be easily inspectable + time series and rerun provides the right tooling for this. My goal is to first build out a ground truth representative dataset from already existing open source data, generate some reasonable baselines, and then go out and collect my own data that adheres to the defined schema. 🔍 Starting with open-source datasets 1. EgoDex from Apple 2. HOCap from Nvidia and the University of Texas at Dallas 3. Assembly101 from Meta All these different datasets have different sensor configurations + annotations, so my goal with egoexo-forge is to have one consistent labeling scheme + data layout. I built a data pipeline that aligns all of the different datasets in one general schema assuming the COCO133 keypoint layout that allows for exo+ego, ego only, or exo only Since the scaffolding is already there, it becomes MUCH easier to add other datasets. So the next ones that I'll be including are HD-EPIC kitchens dataset, HOT3D, and finally my own personal iPhone + insta360 go collection method. Once I have a diverse variety of datasets, I'll double down on what I believe to be the key algorithms required to make useful data for imitation learning 📊 1. Camera Pose estimation via SLAM/SFM for ego perspective (and automatic calibration for exo) 2. Human pose estimation for both egocentric + exocentric views 3. Metric 3D reconstruction + object tracking I'll be setting up reasonable open-source baselines for each of these to validate that these datasets work, and then finally try to use the generated datasets for some imitation learning via the pi0-lerobot repo I've been working on. I plan on making a blog post + providing more info on all of this in the near future so stay tunedshow more

“There is a tension between what the users of... a currency want – and the users of a currency tend to like freedom, autonomy, and discretion as to what they spent their money on – and what the issuers of a currency want; and bluntly, the issuers of a currency want control. Control of monetary policy, and control of you.” The Bank of England’s consultation papers make very clear the level of control that they wish to exercise over you, and over your supposed financial autonomy, if you were to use their #DigitalPound. (1) You’ll need to provide ID in order to use the #DigitalPound: “For the digital pound, tiered access would allow for different levels of user access and functionality based on the amount of identification (ID) a user is willing or able to provide.” (2) The Bank will dictate how much you can hold: “The Bank would place some limits on holdings of digital pounds, at least during its introductory period.” (3) The digital pound will be programmable, if not by the Bank itself then by third party providers: “Programmability, delivered by Payment Interface Providers, could also enable the use of smart contracts, which carry out specific actions based on pre-defined terms and conditions.” Quotes are from from the Bank of England’s Digital Pound consultation paper: Whatever the #DigitalPound will be, it won’t be cash. Cash does not require me to show ID to use it. I can hold as much cash as I want or need. And, along with #Bitcoin, cash is a bearer instrument whose title is freely transferrable upon delivery, which is very difficult for a central bank to control. And long may it stay this way. A huge shout out and thank you to Lyn Alden, who made this point much more eloquently than I did in her excellent book #BrokenMoney. Thank you! Also I’m aware that my hand gestures in this clip are reminiscent of Richard Hendricks manipulating ‘datas’ on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in #SiliconValley, and for this I can only apologize: #BitcoinConference #Amsterdam #NoToCBDCsshow more