stories & sound for a more beautiful world. ( circle ) studios @_circle_studios + ( ritual ) creative. taos → ojai.
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Benjamin Henretig retweeted
This was fun. I was able to process most of the 900 words per minute sentences too, which i didn’t expect at ALL.
Benjamin Henretig retweeted
holy sh*t. this is hands down the coolest website i have ever found in my life. it's a live feed of the freaking Hubble Telescope AND James Webb Space Telescope. and the resolution is honestly so incredible i didn't think it was real.
unbelievable.
spacetelescopelive.org/
Benjamin Henretig retweeted
AI video will be unrecognizable in maybe two years from its current form.
Think silent films and today's Hollywood. A night and day difference. What the Daily Program artists are doing is taking these tools and going for it. Storytelling, form, sound design, editing, all experiments to discover what else can be done in the coming one or two years.
Below, we highlight some of the pieces launching as part of the September Edition of the Daily Program ↓
→ Suburban Defragmentation by @NomadsVagabonds
Benjamin Henretig retweeted
The creative industry is not ready for what is coming.
I just spent a few days at a design and tech gathering, and I need to say this out loud.
Most of the people leading this industry are far behind. I heard the same tired lines again and again. “AI cannot do this.” “We only use AI for ideation.” “AI will never understand beauty.”
This is not an insult to peers. It is simply the truth of where we are.
Meanwhile a different group is emerging. The creative early adopters. People like us who have thrown ourselves into the technology, pouring in countless hours, becoming surgical in how we use the tools. We are pushing boundaries. Yet even here something is missing. Mastery. Craft. Taste. Storytelling. Editing beyond text documents.
That is why projects like Neural Viz stand out so clearly. Depth. Creativity. Precision. Taste.
And remember this: what was created in a single week today would have been impossible only a year ago. The technology did not exist.
This is not about Hollywood being “cooked.” Hollywood was already cooked long before AI. What we are witnessing is the evolution of rich media creation itself. It is the same magnitude of change as when traveling portrait painters gave way to cameras and photography.
Back then, a portrait could take twenty sittings. Lighting would shift. Time would distort the subject. Painters welcomed cameras, using photographs in their studios as reference points. The art form did not die. It transformed.
That is exactly where we are with AI. Except this time the pace is violent. We are already seeing one person create ten-minute stories in a single week. Soon it will take half that time. Then a single day. Then minutes.
The next horizon is full-length films, complete with trilogies, franchises, and all the cinematic bells and whistles.
The gatekeepers are gone. The barriers are gone. Storytelling itself is being rewritten in real time.
We are standing at the edge of a creative shift unlike anything we have ever seen.
And most of the industry still thinks AI cannot understand beauty.
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Linus
ps. had to re-post to get video included.
I’ve had a few days in Austin this week, and it’s had me reflecting.
Why does Austin feel more vibrant than LA or SF?
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Barton Springs. Lady Bird Lake. Sunrise trails and outdoor shows.
Austin blends nature and city effortlessly.
SF = fog.
LA = freeways.
Austin = barefoot on a paddleboard.
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Benjamin Henretig retweeted
what if you could actually own your music library and earn streaming payouts on the songs you've collected?
Benjamin Henretig retweeted
You know how image generation went from blurry 32x32 texture patches to high-resolution images that are difficult to distinguish from real in roughly a snap of a finger? The same is now happening along the time axis (extending to video) and the repercussions boggle the mind just a bit. Every human becomes a director of multi-modal dreams, like the architect in Inception.
Coming back to Earth for a second, image/video generation is a perfect match for data-hungry neural nets because data is plentiful, and the pixels of each image or video are a huge source of bits (soft constraints) on the parameters of the network. When you're training giant neural nets in supervision-rich settings, your train loss = validation loss, and life is so good.
My favorite place to keep an eye on the AI video space unfold atm is probably reddit.com/r/aivideo/ , or the individual Discords.
Introducing Pika 1.0, the idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to life.
Create and edit your videos with AI.
Rolling out to new users on web and discord, starting today. Sign up at pika.art
Benjamin Henretig retweeted
THE DIGITAL IRON CURTAIN
I don’t think enough people see this for what it is. A Digital Iron Curtain is gradually descending over the West.
- It’s the FedNow quasi-CBDC
- It’s the 87000 agents
- It’s stepped up financial surveillance
- It’s attacks on every exchange
- It’s expanded civil forfeiture
All of this is against the backdrop of sovereign debt crisis, commercial real estate collapse, and a historical crash in bond prices. Basically, the US is bankrupt many times over, Western central banks themselves need bailouts, and DC is making it ever harder to exit to crypto.
So if you’re caught on the blue side when the music stops, there’s a scenario where everything you own will be seized to pay the state’s unpayable debts. Just like the countless examples of financial repression and communist wealth seizure that happened in the 20th century, which Dalio among others has tabulated.
Yeah, I know, many don’t think it can happen. Despite massive fires burning down freeways, mobs surrounding cars, open air drug dealing, soaring prices and feces, rampant looting and criminality…somehow it doesn’t register with them and they still think it’s the 1950s or something.
They’re caught in the illusion of Barbie rather than the reality of BLM. They haven’t thought through how nasty these mobs will get when the money runs out. They don’t know what the early Soviet era was like, the combination of anarchy and tyranny, of total lawlessness and lawless seizure.
For everyone else who has some inkling of what may come, they’ll need to choose which side of that Digital Iron Curtain they land up on. Red states are probably better than blue. And foreign states are probably safer than red. A good rule of thumb is to be as far away financially, physically, and socially from bankrupt Blue America as possible.
Because if 2008 was about bank bailouts, soon we’re going to see central bank bailouts. Reverse bailouts, where your currency is debased to bail out the government. QE wasn’t free.
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I’m going to @zoratopia’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? xitter.cf/i/spaces/1yoKMwderPeJQ