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Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfalOct 7
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Einstein from the afterlife watching this:
Told you relative motion was nuts.
Also, I want those Red Bull cans.
Writer: Daniyal
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Claude Opus 5.5 Medium 25 minutes:
- Prompt in comments, I let Claude just rip in one go.
- No questions asked.
- HTML animation file and exported an MP4
- Artifact page is live with a countdown to the show.
Thanks for inspiration @Ror_Fly
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Concerning wildfire risk trends in Central Texas on Monday: A level 5/5 EXTREME risk has been issued for several counties!
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From Rikki Schlott: College professor busted 32 out of 35 students using AI on a final — after they all made the same lazy mistake trib.al/LSv0YJd
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If you’re a filmmaker, you already know how important previz is – it's literally the difference between a crew that’s working like a well-oiled machine and a crew that’s just burning through cash and not shooting anything meaningful because everyone in the crew is seeing a different film in their head. It used to cost tens of thousands and take weeks, but we’re finally living in a time and age where we can actually have that privilege for our own projects and films.
Our creative directors Hridaye and Richa tested 5 different previz workflows on a Godzilla-inspired creature feature, ranging from ~$50 to ~$2,000 per minute.
Every workflow rated on speed, accuracy, and cost - so you can pick the one that fits your project. Full breakdown in the video and the thread.
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J-Cal: Nvidia is taking the gloves off with its open source model. They will own the whole stack.
“You will not be able to tell the difference between Jensen Huang's open source LLM and Claude for 95% of your searches, I guarantee you.
Now, why has Nvidia and Jensen downplayed their open source model until this moment?
Why would he do that? Why would he never bring it up in the All-In interview, never bring it up?
Because his top customers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) were very concerned, from what I understand, about the fact that Nvidia had made so much progress on their open source model.
But suddenly, after OpenAI announced their Jalapeno chips, after Anthropic started making chips, after AMD did successful projects with both of these companies, after Elon said he's going to do his own fab, Nvidia's taking the gloves off.
They are going to own the whole stack. You get the hardware from them, and you're going to get a model that's competitive with OpenAI's for free.”
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In February I published a full documented account of Higgsfield's behavior. Non-consensual sexual deepfakes of real actors. Sexualized children's content. Bigoted deepfakes. A feature they literally named "Steal." Documented scam behavior. All of it with receipts.
I assumed that would be enough for people to draw their own conclusions.
Since then I have learned what is happening on the inside. And it is worse.
Here is the new layer.
When they launched "A WHOLE MONTH of UNLIMITED SEEDANCE" and called it "real unlimited Seedance," users took that at face value. What they were actually running was a purpose-built Seedance 2 family variant with a confidential model name, capped at 480/720p, that their own internal documentation describes as a lower tier than full Seedance 2.0. Their mod team was scripted in advance on how to deflect user questions about it. The word "real" in that advertising was doing a lot of work. All the while, advertising and showing off Seedance 2 in 4k ad naseum giving the impression the two are one in the same... they are not.
That alone would have been enough to walk away a second time.
But the internal culture is what I need you to understand.
Private mod channels were/are being used to mock and pathologize users. A staff member made an inappropriate public comment about a moderator. Moderation standards collapsed to the point that longtime mods described the team as unrecognizable. And the CEO, by multiple accounts, was being kept in the dark about all of it by the admin layer beneath him.
That admin layer is the part I take most seriously.
At least one person in a position of significant platform power has a publicly documented, multi-year history of targeted harassment, cyberstalking, and impersonation across multiple platforms. That person has access to user data, private channels, and controls what information reaches leadership. The CEO being uninformed is not dysfunction. It is a structural vulnerability that appears to be working exactly as someone intended.
This is not a company making mistakes. This is a company whose public behavior was documented in February, and has been over and over since then, whose internal behavior is now documented here, and whose governance structure appears designed to insulate the people causing harm from any accountability.
My work, my community, and my reputation are things I protect. I will not run my pipeline through a platform where the governance layer poses a direct risk to creators.
If you promoted them in February without knowing, you had an excuse.
You do not have one now.
I'll attach one of the screenshot in the comments...






















