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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

What LLM boosters promise: a future where AI takes care of menial chores, and you can spend more time with loved ones What the product actually does: talk to your loved ones for you so that you can focus on your menial chores

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

GenAI? In my open source database tool? (Arguably, this is one case where it may be of use - business users wanting to analyze their data without having to study SQL or the DB schema - but there's a big chance of creating unoptimized queries. Not to mention the whole resource usage of LLMs thing.)

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

It's time (to look for a new job)

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tante @tante.cc · 16/04/2025

Spent 3 days at a workshop with basically only academic computer scientists and it is scary how many fundamental democratic rules and concepts are put up for debate constantly. CS won't save us. Not one bit.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

First time using Cheat Engine to change values in a game. Also thinking about how the game logic works as I play it. Good mental exercise!

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I used to play this free game more than 15 years ago. Picked it up again a few days ago, and now running it at a proper speed. Still fun and surprisingly holds a ton of replay value. The dev also made a Battle of Yavin game www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZNx...

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Star Wars: The Battle of Endor Playthrough

YouTube video by Daisy23

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Lee Harvey Oswald: ima shoot the president Mrs. Oswald: you better be just fucken kidding Lee Harvey Oswald: haha yeah JFK

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Please recommend me books on cults of personality! Seeing so much of it nowadays.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Feels nice when people in an online group, who live all over the world, meet up. Sadly I probably won't be one of them, since most live in the US, and why would I want to go there?

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I don't know what recent technology has actually impressed me. Of course there's a lot of things coming out, but all with terrible social costs

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ever think about how Facebook convinced all the news outlets to pivot to video and then it turned out they were juicing the metrics so it didn't actually work but by that point lots of the media had cut all the resources for text-based news and we're still dealing with the fallout from that now?

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I was obsessed with Star Wars when I was 15. I remember seeing The Phantom Menace as a child, but it was an airing of Return of the Jedi on TV that completely sucked me in. With a pirated copy of After Effects, I learned how to create lightsaber effects and recreated the famous opening crawl.

A recreation of the Star Wars opening crawl, with the following text:

Experiment LXIX

THE SOLAR MENACE

An energy crisis looms over
planet Earth. The oil fields
that were once thought to
be unlimited have finally
buckled to intense demand.

Two boys standing on two columns under a roofed walkway, each holding a baston, also known as a yantok or arnis stick. The image has been edited so that the bastons resemble lightsabers, one red and one blue.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Went back home to have dinner and the recent BINI concert was streaming on the TV. I'm not really a fan, but my ears perked up when the backing band was being introduced and they were playing Overture 1928 by Dream Theater. You can hear it on the fancam below. youtu.be/f08AVv0gRnU?...

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BINIVERSE 2025

YouTube video by LENZ VLOGZ

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Made some bad decisions last week. 1. Biked to dinner and then to my friend's house with my trifold, reasoning that I could fold it and bring it inside places. While true, the roads in the area were awful and I couldn't see too well in the dark. Then I decided to ride home at 3AM, on empty streets.

The author's trifold bicycle outside an Indian restaurant.

Inside a house, the same bicycle has been folded and parked in the living room. In the foreground, there is a slatted coffee table built by the author's friend, who is into woodworking.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟧🟧🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟥🟩🟧🟧 Percentile: 95.10 datcreativity.com

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Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test

A quick and objective measure of verbal creativity.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Passed through the massive expanse of concrete that is the Bocaue Toll Plaza and noticed the billboards facing in different directions, as if to make sure that at least one of them catches a passerby's eye.

Billboards along the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) at the Bocaue Toll Plaza

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2025

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is so well made. I want to document future rides like this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_aE...

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Car-Free Ride - Ayala Ave to Tomas Morato

YouTube video by Padyak Exploration

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Most software doesn't need this level of urgency. I can tell that this is a terrible boss. I checked out his business and it's... analytics for fantasy sports lmao

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Caught up with my BS CS blockmates. Some things I noticed: 1. The ones who are still doing software, including myself, aren't really thinking about moving up in their careers At this point it's just a means to make money.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Want to tag someone so hard in this

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"Mars as the disaster recovery site for civilization" sure is one hell of a take

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

That AZ-104 was one hell of an exam. Can't imagine having to do this without an open MS Learn Halfway through, I really had to use the bathroom. You can take a break, but you won't be able to go back to questions you've already seen. So I had to review 30+ answers while struggling to hold it in

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

In terms of being the "final" Beatles song, Real Love > Free As A Bird > Now and Then I feel like Real Love just brings everything to a close beautifully. Now and Then kinda doesn't really go anywhere, it would have been more suited as the second one

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This is such a satisfying @austincarr.bsky.social story about a niche disaster that has fascinated me for years: The Walgreens video cooler door fiasco. A true retail cautionary tale. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco

A startup promised the pharmacy chain its high-tech coolers would track shoppers and spark an in-store ad revolution.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

100 years old, still walking unassisted /and/ making music! Meanwhile I don't think I'll make it to 60 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-X...

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Marshall Allen feat. Neneh Cherry - New Dawn (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Marshall Belford Allen

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Sexual abusers are terrible, of course. Those taking advantage of positions of power, even more so. But the type of abuser that is especially insidious, to me, is the one that has the facade of softness, vulnerability, even progressivism. The feeling of betrayal is much stronger.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Watching this performance of Persona Ideal and thinking, "Wow, these people must be so rich to have Los Adolescentes at their wedding. I wonder if they're still together..." I found out that these were actress Gabriela Spanic and actor Miguel de Leon, married in 1997. They divorced in 2002.

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LOS ADOLECENTES PERSONA IDEAL

YouTube video by LaredoTV

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I was looking for one additional dystopian layer to top off all the apocalyptica, thanks

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Clayton Hove @adtothebone.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Wait for it and you’ll be transported back to 2007.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I've been using REAPER for more than a decade, but I only learned today that you can use it not only for audio, but video editing as well! Truly GOATed software, from the guy who also made WinAMP and Gnutella. www.reaper.fm/index.php

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REAPER | Audio Production Without Limits

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

How do you lose yourself to someone And never lose your way? music.youtube.com/watch?v=6pN2...

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How Do You Keep The Music Playing

YouTube video by James Ingram - Topic

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I've overextended myself. And now I'm paying dearly for it. From the highest of highs, to lying on the ground, broken. Time to pull back. Reflection, rediscovery. Summer has ended. youtu.be/5cOQk6aE6wY

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The Summer Ends

YouTube video by American Football - Topic

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Finally getting to experience a quiet New Year's Eve. Maybe a quieter 2025 wouldn't be bad, either.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Seeing lots of people travel at the end of the year had me thinking. Of course there's the slight jealousy you get being bombarded with pictures on social media. But also, good on them for actually planning, budgeting, and following through!

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liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...

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The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly

Spotify’s plot against musicians

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off. He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.

Alex Volko @altryne
On the topic of our kids having AI friends (long)
I got my 6 yo daughter an AI toy for her b-day that arrived for Xmas instead. She unpacked it all excited, I explained that this isnt like the other toys, that this one has AI in it (she of course knows what AI is, seen the things Ive built and interacted with them, chatted with ChatGPT and Santa mode, knows that daddy is "doing AI" etc). So a very interesting experiment happaned after @magicaltoys reached out and fixed the issue referenced below (very quick turnaround thank you) So...she played with this Dino, chatted with it, and the..learned to turn it off, and doesnt want it to talk anymore. She still loves playing with it, dressed it up, it now has paper shoes and a top that we made together, but every time I ask her if shed like to chat with it, she says no.

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🐺🌕 Wolfgang (by WMatt) @wm4tt.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Yamamuro has a curious obsession with storyboarding that same exact shot over and over again lol

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

This might actually be one of my favorite moments this year. Cycling in a small town, no pressure to get to the next destination, drinks at night. With the usual bike friends, but everyone is fresh and clean, unlike when you go out on rides.

A bicycle, standing on a beach, as the sun rises.

A group of more than 10 people hanging out in a small house.

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Conrad @confiets.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

No cycling goals for 2025, just living in the moment. I'll do a ride every now and then just to keep what little fitness I have. Not quitting, it's my primary mode of transport. But the willingness to go on long, epic rides, especially by myself, is gone.

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ósanwë 🦭 @isilanor.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

the foundational myth of the tech industry is that smart people can't be evil

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