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I'm seeing a lot of people saying it is just a bad upscaling instead of Gen AI, but it is indeed Gen AI animation. There are things going on in it that just don't make any sense for puppet animation. Here are some parts that make it clear, I slowed down the video so it's easier to notice the chunky parts. I checked the past ADs and it's possible to notice details (from an animator's POV) that are common and make sense for human work, so it was definitely a choice to use AI on this new AD

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It's so painful to wish your own national team to lose. It's difficult to explain, but it didn't happen over night. Slowly but surely we realized our team doesn't represent us, and works as tool of the regime that has tormented us for 47 years. Sport doesn't bring Iranians together anymore. It's a stark reminder of Islamic Republic's crimes and why we hate it. The salt on the wound is FIFA's full cooperation with Islamic Republic as there was almost no footage of Iranian fans, because they were showing lion and sun flags and chanting anti Islamic Republic slogans. Before the offside was called, only a single Iranian fan was shown and it was a zoom to her face. I doubt anywhere in the stadium could provide a "politically correct" camera shot from the attending Iranians, as the majority carried lion and sun flags and other anti-regime flags and banners. These are the majority and real Iranians, whether the world likes it or not. The Lion and Sun will rise again.

It's so painful to wish your own national team to lose. It's difficult to explain, but it didn't happen over night. Slowly but surely we realized our team doesn't represent us, and works as tool of the regime that has tormented us for 47 years. Sport doesn't bring Iranians together anymore. It's a stark reminder of Islamic Republic's crimes and why we hate it. The salt on the wound is FIFA's full cooperation with Islamic Republic as there was almost no footage of Iranian fans, because they were showing lion and sun flags and chanting anti Islamic Republic slogans. Before the offside was called, only a single Iranian fan was shown and it was a zoom to her face. I doubt anywhere in the stadium could provide a "politically correct" camera shot from the attending Iranians, as the majority carried lion and sun flags and other anti-regime flags and banners. These are the majority and real Iranians, whether the world likes it or not. The Lion and Sun will rise again.

Siaxares 🇮🇷 🇺🇸

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Stateless History Node is almost like a regular Ethereum node, but it doesn't store state and it doesn't have EVM execution. It's used only for syncing events and thus - is faster and gives you FREE INDEXING. You don't have to pay 6 figures for RPC anymore! Just spin up a Stateless History Node, plug rindexer or Ponder there, and enjoy free (AND FAST!!) indexing! This node is syncing >1000 blocks per second at my local pc (less than 6hrs for the whole Ethereum), and it should use less than 200GB - which means you can host it on a MacMini, Hetzner or whatever. You can futhermore filter that by using block ranges or bloom filters, etc - I haven't developed this yet. What you see is a proof of concept. It works via native devp2p 'eth' protocol, but with EIP4444 and The Prune we would have to also support era1 archives and Portal Network. But so far it works - there are plenty of peers serving historical receipts, and they serve them FAST! If you run Stateless History Node you can also serve the blocks and receipts - so that could help to preserve archival data too. For now there is no data validation yet (and even no data storage - that's a very early PoC), but we can verify validity of chain by simultaneously running a lightweight CL node (or not lightweight if you're extremely paranoid). And then support verifying the hashes of receipts and blocks with their parents, maintaining full integrity and zero trust. It's also written in rust, btw. So, I guess, at least for Ethereum Mainnet the era of RPC's pumping moneybags is over - there's finally a local, trustless and free indexing alternative available. Too sad this won't work for Optimism / Base , cause despite introducing P2P after Bedrock - they haven't enabled receipts transfer in the protocol (or at least I couldn't find one). Arbitrum is even sadder - I don't believe there is a P2P layer at all - you just have to run your own node, hold state and execute blocks to get events. There is hope - Paradigm recently released Ress - stateless execution, but it requires nodes to support Witness preparation & exchange - but this could work for L2s - cause the main blocker for local RPCs rn is huge state (VPS with TB storage cost a lot), and the second blocker is EVM forks makes it hard to hold a node - it needs to be maintained, upgraded, etc. Ress at least solves the state part. But anyways, I will try to continue working on this and release some MVP version with RPC endpoint and data storage soon - follow the updates!

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