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most people will agree that it's good to play long games, but in the short run people do often get flustered or critical when you seem to don't have much to show for it. this is understandable. it's part of why so few people persist all the way through. the dip is disheartening pic.twitter.com/UUJi4fvnUC— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) May 28, 2023

“Try making images 3D with the click of a button by using the scene creator 🌄 #threejs #ai”

More than 95% of all stories you read in the mass media start as a press release. I don't know if this is a dirty little secret of the media industry or widely known by people, but it's how it goes. Which is like this:— Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic) May 24, 2023

Streaming platforms are actively making themselves worse because they have hit the max amount of customers they'll get and their shareholders want infinite growth which isn't possible so in the short term they are gutting themselves to save money by removing shows to avoid— Fletcher (@marshonstupi) May 24, 2023

people were still buying music and the mp3 ecosystem that apple’s ipod marketing was driving millions of people to embrace was an incredible promo platform for indie stuff. everyone was going for it because success meant something: you could do 33k first week on warp. not anymore https://t.co/rE1pS46TP3— jaime brooks ☭ (@elite_gz) May 23, 2023

a family desperate for power, money, and influence destroy their own bonds and ultimately make the entire world a worse place to live for everyone but the elite.— Hit Factory Podcast (@HitFactoryPod) May 23, 2023

What happened with Dark Universe is so fascinating to me because we've never seen anything like it. This wasn't even the first attempt. Far from! Universal kept making monster reboots that were meant to start something. None of them ever did. Let's go over the history (thread) https://t.co/sW5Z1Z42t6— Nat Brehmer (@NatBrehmer) May 22, 2023

This line is thought is terrifying. education becoming debt-exploding prep for a job that likely won’t use your degree anyway is one of the worst things to ever happen. The liberal arts expand the mind, deepen our appreciation of culture, and train us for how to see and live life https://t.co/PWvbE5Zmec— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) May 21, 2023

My favourite effects/techniques in After Effects:- CC Composite- CC Starburst/Light Burst- Extrusion for Morphing- Gaussian Blur & Matte Choker- Animated Brush Strokes- Fractal Noise & Colorama- Difference ModeI've made a mini-tutorial for each one under this tweet. 🧵— Will Taylor (@visualsbywlroo) May 19, 2023

“Some people have been asking how the top section for this page was built. It was a ton of fun to make so here's a breakdown of how it was made… 🧵”

the eccentricity of a brand should map to how often people interact with itif often: calmer and more conventional, if less often: eccentric and uniquee.g. boutique hotels and restaurants can/should have highly memorable design language because you don't spend much time there— kepano (@kepano) May 18, 2023

I really value the kind of all-purpose intelligence where you can ask someone to do literally anything and they might not be a 10/10 but they’ll def be 8/10 good at it— Ava (@noampomsky) May 18, 2023

those are the straightforward, common sense ends of the pro-life position if you take it at face value, but they’re also really unpopular so you’re supposed to have this entire euphemistic superstructure around it that he just ignores— William B. Fuckley (@opinonhaver) May 17, 2023

My life has significantly improved since I stopped giving away my expertise for free in group chats, panels and 1:1’s with people who have more access to capital than me.— Daisy Alioto (@daisandconfused) May 17, 2023

“@clhubes I've converted several cat haters into cat lovers by simply introducing them to cats”

“Ever wondered how grass is made in video games? Making grass may seem simple, but theres actually a lof of history and technology behind this surprisingly complex topic. Another big thread 🧵”

The root of so many American problems is first, refusing to accept that it is a problem at all and second, refusing to accept that everyone else is doing a vastly better job and that you could learn from that. Denial + Not-invented-here https://t.co/5gfEWAR5Ac— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) May 14, 2023

Gotta love the folks flexing moral superiority in the quotes. 🤣😭 The whole point of the show is that these damaged, “bad” people possess “good” qualities, and the show helps you understand what would make someone so vile. Your feelings shouldn’t be binary, one way or the other.— Johnny Sobczak (@JohnnySobczak) May 15, 2023

What is your favorite piece of graphic design history? Share it with us in the comments and use the hashtag #designreviewed https://t.co/0S95QBZE9T pic.twitter.com/BbCABG36a0— Graphic Design History (@DesignReviewed) May 14, 2023

The handdrawn lines on the characters' faces in Spiderverse? An internally developed bespoke ML tool for the purposes of the production to make artists' lives easier animating expressions.It didn't need to rip off the entire internet and steal private sensitive data to do it pic.twitter.com/MZh42Iohdd— Jessie Lam _(:3 」∠ ) (@axl99) May 14, 2023

“our entire system of expert authority is built on circular references where the strength of the network determines the strength of the argument this is the basis of citation numbers, impact factor, etc. it's also the basis of the original google pagerank algorithm”

= new paper w/yuliy baryshnikov

(Artist GERARD DUBOIS)Moby Dick pic.twitter.com/NnD78jwB33— Charles Miller (@Monkey7771) May 11, 2023

“celebrity game apps”

“broken country" Video from the FBI on what to do if a shooting breaks out where you are

Feedback effects: Google initially relied on the (human-curated) link structure of the internet to derive "importance" signals from the internet graph. As people started using Google instead of links, Google accidentally destroyed the fabric that provided the value.— Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) December 5, 2022

so now, the goal is to get as many people as possible supporting me instead of agreeing with the underlying premise of my argumentand so we all became politicians instead of scientistsand quality lost out.— James Rosen-Birch @provisionalidea@bsky.social (@provisionalidea) November 5, 2021

the metric replaced the thing we wanted to measure, and instead of recognizing this fact and changing the metric to match what we *actually* wanted to measure,we ended up in an arms-race between those tweaking the metric and those gameing it— James Rosen-Birch @provisionalidea@bsky.social (@provisionalidea) November 5, 2021