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THIS 12-YEAR-OLD CHINESE KID JUST BUILT THE IRON MAN INTERFACE WITHOUT WRITING A LINE OF CODE He waves his hand and 6500 particles on the screen behind him morph into Saturn, then a globe, then an alien mountain range. The trick is MediaPipe tracking his fingers through a laptop... show more

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And his reaction was similar to a kid hitting his first 180 🤣 Just shows how much he wants this 3rd world title, the grumpy old man is up for a fight this year!

And his reaction was similar to a kid hitting his first 180 🤣 Just shows how much he wants this 3rd world title, the grumpy old man is up for a fight this year!

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Detroit police say a father disciplined his 13-year-old son. When the dad walked back into the house, the kid shot him in the back. Then took the family SUV, with the family dog still inside, and fled. 🚨 He made it all the way to Ohio before police caught him. A father tries to raise his kid right and ends up shot for it. What is happening to this generation?

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Clown World ™ 🤡

315,473 views • 16 days ago

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.

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.

Blaze

38,242 views • 3 months ago

RFK Jr’s son has Long Covid. His kid was disabled by the virus and he still pushes the incorrect and eugenicist narrative that only the old and sick have to worry. His kid has a chronic disease now. His kid IS the “expendable”. This man is a monster.

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Kelly

210,054 views • 3 months ago

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Gipp 🦅

735,627 views • 3 months ago

My 15 year old just bought this with his hard earned money that was suppose to be for a truck… he bought it from another 15 year old yesterday and they had to change out the spark plugs today… This kid is gonna be the 💀 of me 😵‍💫

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Riverrat328

36,295 views • 3 months ago

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211,968 views • 7 months ago

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Defileo🔮

3,018,058 views • 3 months ago

My little cousin configured a $103,000 BMW last night. He's 15. I laughed. Then he showed me his Shopify dashboard. 7 million orders. Revenue chart that doesn't fit on the screen. $500,000 last month. He's not even old enough to drive the car he's about to buy. I asked him what tools he uses. He said Claude and six prompts. $20 a month. That's it. What broke me is he said he still feels behind. Most people twice his age don't make that in a year. His exact setup is in the article.

My little cousin configured a $103,000 BMW last night. He's 15. I laughed. Then he showed me his Shopify dashboard. 7 million orders. Revenue chart that doesn't fit on the screen. $500,000 last month. He's not even old enough to drive the car he's about to buy. I asked him what tools he uses. He said Claude and six prompts. $20 a month. That's it. What broke me is he said he still feels behind. Most people twice his age don't make that in a year. His exact setup is in the article.

Raytar

5,354,285 views • 3 months ago

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Monday Q Info

560,549 views • 2 years ago

A 17 year old high schooler told his mom he needed a Steam Deck for school. She said no, it's a gaming console. He said it runs Linux. She didn't know what that means. Bought it for his birthday. $280. He never installed a single game on it. Opened the terminal, installed Claude Code and typed his first command while holding the device like a PlayStation controller. Thumbsticks on both sides. Code editor in the middle. The most ridiculous dev setup anyone has ever seen. At second 0:09 you can read what he typed into the terminal: claude your code looks like absolute shit Claude didn't argue. Just started rewriting the shader, adding bloom effects, fixing chromatic aberration and improving the particle system. On a gaming console held in two hands on a couch. His friends play Fortnite on their Steam Decks. He builds software on his while lying in bed. He set up Claude Code with custom skills, hooks that auto run tests every time a file is saved and memory that remembers every project across sessions. The stuff most developers pay $200 a month for and use at maybe 20% capacity. He runs it on a $280 handheld and squeezes out every feature. Within three weeks he had built and sold four small apps to local businesses. A booking page for a barber shop, an inventory tracker for a vape store, a menu site for a taco truck and a scheduling tool for a dog groomer. All built on a Steam Deck in his bedroom. All coded by Claude while he gave instructions with his thumbs. Made over $13,000 in his first month. His mom still thinks he plays games on it. His teacher caught him using it during study hall. Looked at the screen expecting a game. Saw green code scrolling and Claude asking: Do you want to make this edit to main.js ? Teacher had no idea what she was looking at. Told him to put it away. He closed the lid. Claude kept running inside. A $280 gaming console that his mom bought thinking it was a toy is now a development workstation that earns more per month than her car payment. Setup time: 20 minutes once. Time he saves every day: 3 to 5 hours. Money made in month one: $13,000. Games installed: zero. His grandpa asked him to install FIFA last weekend. He said the console is busy. Grandpa asked doing what. He said working. Grandpa didn't ask again.

A 17 year old high schooler told his mom he needed a Steam Deck for school. She said no, it's a gaming console. He said it runs Linux. She didn't know what that means. Bought it for his birthday. $280. He never installed a single game on it. Opened the terminal, installed Claude Code and typed his first command while holding the device like a PlayStation controller. Thumbsticks on both sides. Code editor in the middle. The most ridiculous dev setup anyone has ever seen. At second 0:09 you can read what he typed into the terminal: claude your code looks like absolute shit Claude didn't argue. Just started rewriting the shader, adding bloom effects, fixing chromatic aberration and improving the particle system. On a gaming console held in two hands on a couch. His friends play Fortnite on their Steam Decks. He builds software on his while lying in bed. He set up Claude Code with custom skills, hooks that auto run tests every time a file is saved and memory that remembers every project across sessions. The stuff most developers pay $200 a month for and use at maybe 20% capacity. He runs it on a $280 handheld and squeezes out every feature. Within three weeks he had built and sold four small apps to local businesses. A booking page for a barber shop, an inventory tracker for a vape store, a menu site for a taco truck and a scheduling tool for a dog groomer. All built on a Steam Deck in his bedroom. All coded by Claude while he gave instructions with his thumbs. Made over $13,000 in his first month. His mom still thinks he plays games on it. His teacher caught him using it during study hall. Looked at the screen expecting a game. Saw green code scrolling and Claude asking: Do you want to make this edit to main.js ? Teacher had no idea what she was looking at. Told him to put it away. He closed the lid. Claude kept running inside. A $280 gaming console that his mom bought thinking it was a toy is now a development workstation that earns more per month than her car payment. Setup time: 20 minutes once. Time he saves every day: 3 to 5 hours. Money made in month one: $13,000. Games installed: zero. His grandpa asked him to install FIFA last weekend. He said the console is busy. Grandpa asked doing what. He said working. Grandpa didn't ask again.

Marlow

3,237,526 views • 4 months ago

A 30-year-old Chinese man turned himself into an AI girl, and the result will shock you He built a $3,700/month Fanvue business in his bedroom He didn't use wigs or cosplay. He used AI to build a completely new identity on top of his own footage Same room, same camera, but a totally different creator on screen His workflow is stupidly simple: Claude designs the character, ComfyUI generates the face, and Kling turns stills into viral reels In his first month, he barely cleared $320. But in the second month, one video hit 500,000 views Money started rolling in: he gained 50 paid Fanvue subscribers before any real automation even started The secret weapon? A custom Claude system that analyzes chat data, optimizes pricing, and drafts replies to fans in the girl's voice He only spends 30 minutes a day scheduling reels and running the machine This is no longer content creation. It is identity arbitrage The full workflow and tools he used are available in the article

A 30-year-old Chinese man turned himself into an AI girl, and the result will shock you He built a $3,700/month Fanvue business in his bedroom He didn't use wigs or cosplay. He used AI to build a completely new identity on top of his own footage Same room, same camera, but a totally different creator on screen His workflow is stupidly simple: Claude designs the character, ComfyUI generates the face, and Kling turns stills into viral reels In his first month, he barely cleared $320. But in the second month, one video hit 500,000 views Money started rolling in: he gained 50 paid Fanvue subscribers before any real automation even started The secret weapon? A custom Claude system that analyzes chat data, optimizes pricing, and drafts replies to fans in the girl's voice He only spends 30 minutes a day scheduling reels and running the machine This is no longer content creation. It is identity arbitrage The full workflow and tools he used are available in the article

shmidt

105,533 views • 2 months ago

You can't put into words what Paul Mullin means to Wrexham. For all his heroics on the pitch, he transcended it through his connection with the fans and the community. He gave his all for the club and delivered when it mattered the most, time and time again. The type of goalscorer a generation was told about but had never seen themselves. The man who turned us all into believers and made those dreams come true. A victim of his own success, he propelled us up the leagues so quickly that we didn't get to enjoy him long enough. To do what he did while missing two pre-seasons is absurd. Most of all, he is a great person. Someone who always puts his family first and stands up for what he believes in. A working-class lad from Litherland, who became a global star. A true Wrexham legend and one of the very best to ever wear the shirt 👑 #WxmAFC

You can't put into words what Paul Mullin means to Wrexham. For all his heroics on the pitch, he transcended it through his connection with the fans and the community. He gave his all for the club and delivered when it mattered the most, time and time again. The type of goalscorer a generation was told about but had never seen themselves. The man who turned us all into believers and made those dreams come true. A victim of his own success, he propelled us up the leagues so quickly that we didn't get to enjoy him long enough. To do what he did while missing two pre-seasons is absurd. Most of all, he is a great person. Someone who always puts his family first and stands up for what he believes in. A working-class lad from Litherland, who became a global star. A true Wrexham legend and one of the very best to ever wear the shirt 👑 #WxmAFC

Rich Fay

15,435 views • 2 months ago

A trucker I know hasn't spoken in three days. His kid just bought a BMW in cash. He's 19. He drives Charlotte to Jacksonville. Has for 23 years. $54,000 a year. Never complained. Never asked for more. Last Tuesday his son called from a BMW dealership in Miami. $48,000. Paid cash. The kid built a Shopify store with AI. Six prompts in a chat window. Nine weeks ago he had nothing. He FaceTimed his dad — showed him the Shopify dashboard on his phone, then walked outside and pointed the camera at the BMW. $31,000 last month. $12,537 the month before. All from his bedroom. His son made in 9 weeks what he makes in 14 months. He asked one question. "How much did this cost you?" "Twenty-one dollars, dad." He sent me the six prompts that night. They're in the article below. You'll either paste them or scroll past them.

A trucker I know hasn't spoken in three days. His kid just bought a BMW in cash. He's 19. He drives Charlotte to Jacksonville. Has for 23 years. $54,000 a year. Never complained. Never asked for more. Last Tuesday his son called from a BMW dealership in Miami. $48,000. Paid cash. The kid built a Shopify store with AI. Six prompts in a chat window. Nine weeks ago he had nothing. He FaceTimed his dad — showed him the Shopify dashboard on his phone, then walked outside and pointed the camera at the BMW. $31,000 last month. $12,537 the month before. All from his bedroom. His son made in 9 weeks what he makes in 14 months. He asked one question. "How much did this cost you?" "Twenty-one dollars, dad." He sent me the six prompts that night. They're in the article below. You'll either paste them or scroll past them.

Raytar

2,699,520 views • 3 months ago

Konate trips over his own feet and lands on his head in this situation. This Nduwke is going to be a serious player. A year on loan and he won't be far off starting for Liverpool. The kid looks quality.

Konate trips over his own feet and lands on his head in this situation. This Nduwke is going to be a serious player. A year on loan and he won't be far off starting for Liverpool. The kid looks quality.

LB

197,784 views • 29 days ago

A 19-YEAR-OLD BET $1,000 THAT TRUMP WOULD SAY TWO WORDS ON LIVE TV. IT PAID $95,000 not a stock. not a coin. one prediction: that Trump would say "fake news" during a single speech he found the market on his laptop, put in $1,000 on YES, and the screen told him it could pay out $95k if he was right then comes the part that makes the whole clip: he can't sit still. he's pacing outside, visibly nervous. then he's glued to the livestream, staring at Trump like his life depends on it Trump opens his mouth. says "fake news" the kid jumps out of his chair here's the part most people miss: he wasn't gambling. he was pricing something everyone else treated as a joke "Trump says fake news" sounds random - but if you've watched him speak, it's about as certain as the sun rising the market priced it like a coinflip. he saw a lock that's the whole edge on Polymarket: find what the crowd underprices because it sounds silly, and trade it like the sure thing it actually is the wallet running plays like this is up $693,011 - $23,273 in the last week alone: save this. the biggest edges hide inside the bets everyone else laughs at

A 19-YEAR-OLD BET $1,000 THAT TRUMP WOULD SAY TWO WORDS ON LIVE TV. IT PAID $95,000 not a stock. not a coin. one prediction: that Trump would say "fake news" during a single speech he found the market on his laptop, put in $1,000 on YES, and the screen told him it could pay out $95k if he was right then comes the part that makes the whole clip: he can't sit still. he's pacing outside, visibly nervous. then he's glued to the livestream, staring at Trump like his life depends on it Trump opens his mouth. says "fake news" the kid jumps out of his chair here's the part most people miss: he wasn't gambling. he was pricing something everyone else treated as a joke "Trump says fake news" sounds random - but if you've watched him speak, it's about as certain as the sun rising the market priced it like a coinflip. he saw a lock that's the whole edge on Polymarket: find what the crowd underprices because it sounds silly, and trade it like the sure thing it actually is the wallet running plays like this is up $693,011 - $23,273 in the last week alone: save this. the biggest edges hide inside the bets everyone else laughs at

Paone

75,047 views • 1 month ago

In 1499, Michelangelo overheard people crediting his greatest work to someone else. He snuck into St. Peter's at night and carved his name on the sculpture. He regretted it immediately and never signed anything again for the rest of his life... He was 24 years old. The year before, a French cardinal had paid him 450 gold ducats to sculpt a statue for his own tomb. The contract had one strange clause: it had to be "the most beautiful work of marble in Rome, one that no living artist could better." Michelangelo had never completed a major public commission. He accepted anyway... He carved for two years from a single block of Carrara marble that he later called the most perfect stone he ever worked. What he produced was the Pietà: the body of Christ, lifeless, across the lap of his mother. When it was unveiled, visitors refused to believe a 24-year-old Florentine had made it. They credited the work to a more famous Lombard sculptor. So according to Vasari, Michelangelo slipped into the basilica with a chisel and carved his name in Latin across the sash running between Mary's breasts: MICHAELANGELUS BONAROTUS FLORENTINUS FACIEBAT. "Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Florentine, made this." Then he vowed never to sign another work. He kept that vow. Through the David. Through the Sistine Chapel. Through the dome of St. Peter's. Through 65 more years of work, until he died at 88. Not one of them bears his name. What I can never quite get over is that he was only 23 when he started. A young man who believed he could carve the most beautiful object on earth. And then he did... If you enjoyed this, I write a newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the wonder and beauty of the past, one story at a time. You can join us here: History is more beautiful than we remember.

In 1499, Michelangelo overheard people crediting his greatest work to someone else. He snuck into St. Peter's at night and carved his name on the sculpture. He regretted it immediately and never signed anything again for the rest of his life... He was 24 years old. The year before, a French cardinal had paid him 450 gold ducats to sculpt a statue for his own tomb. The contract had one strange clause: it had to be "the most beautiful work of marble in Rome, one that no living artist could better." Michelangelo had never completed a major public commission. He accepted anyway... He carved for two years from a single block of Carrara marble that he later called the most perfect stone he ever worked. What he produced was the Pietà: the body of Christ, lifeless, across the lap of his mother. When it was unveiled, visitors refused to believe a 24-year-old Florentine had made it. They credited the work to a more famous Lombard sculptor. So according to Vasari, Michelangelo slipped into the basilica with a chisel and carved his name in Latin across the sash running between Mary's breasts: MICHAELANGELUS BONAROTUS FLORENTINUS FACIEBAT. "Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Florentine, made this." Then he vowed never to sign another work. He kept that vow. Through the David. Through the Sistine Chapel. Through the dome of St. Peter's. Through 65 more years of work, until he died at 88. Not one of them bears his name. What I can never quite get over is that he was only 23 when he started. A young man who believed he could carve the most beautiful object on earth. And then he did... If you enjoyed this, I write a newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the wonder and beauty of the past, one story at a time. You can join us here: History is more beautiful than we remember.

James Lucas

752,252 views • 4 months ago

🚨 TWO FOSTER TEENS STABBED A 13-YEAR-OLD THEN HELD HIM UNDERWATER UNTIL HE DIED Darryl Martinez Lowry, 13, was stabbed during a fight and then held underwater until he drowned at a lake home in South Carolina. The two suspects were also foster teens living in the same house. 17-year-old Landen Austin Moore has been charged with murder. The other is 16. The home belonged to the McCormick County Council Chairman. He was asleep inside while a 13-year-old was being stabbed and drowned on his property. This wasn’t a fight that got out of hand. This was two teenagers deciding to kill a child and making sure he stayed under the water until he was dead. The system put these kids together. A 13-year-old ended up stabbed and drowned because of it. How many more children have to die like this before someone admits the foster system is failing the kids it’s supposed to protect? Source: The Augusta Press

🚨 TWO FOSTER TEENS STABBED A 13-YEAR-OLD THEN HELD HIM UNDERWATER UNTIL HE DIED Darryl Martinez Lowry, 13, was stabbed during a fight and then held underwater until he drowned at a lake home in South Carolina. The two suspects were also foster teens living in the same house. 17-year-old Landen Austin Moore has been charged with murder. The other is 16. The home belonged to the McCormick County Council Chairman. He was asleep inside while a 13-year-old was being stabbed and drowned on his property. This wasn’t a fight that got out of hand. This was two teenagers deciding to kill a child and making sure he stayed under the water until he was dead. The system put these kids together. A 13-year-old ended up stabbed and drowned because of it. How many more children have to die like this before someone admits the foster system is failing the kids it’s supposed to protect? Source: The Augusta Press

Exposing Violent Criminals

42,045 views • 1 month ago