20+ yrs building tech. @moonquacksnft
Seattle
Joined October 2007
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@ArtBasel Zero 10 opens today! Congrats to all. Find these fabulous artists at Z12. @mayaonthenet @REAS @zeitweitz @manfredemohr
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OpenAI just bought a Mac agent startup. Here's why it matters:
→ OpenAI acquires Software Applications (Sky for Mac) for screen-aware, action-taking desktop agents.
→ vLLM adds NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 (9B hybrid). Tunable “thinking budget”; up to 6× faster “thinking” tokens.
→ Lightricks’ LTX‑2: 4K/50fps video+audio for 10–15s on consumer GPUs; weights later this year, API live.
So what: Desktop agents are going prod, reasoning gets cheaper/faster, and pro‑grade local video is landing. Build faster, spend less, keep more off‑cloud. 🚀🎥
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AI creation just jumped a tier. Here’s what changed:
• Sora 2: Storyboards + longer clips (15s all, 25s Pro)
• Cognition SWE‑grep: >2,800 TPS, ~20× faster code search; in Windsurf
Why: Faster search + longer clips = quicker agent workflows in code and video. 🚀
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OpenAI: easing ChatGPT safeguards—adult content for verified 18+ in Dec plus user-set “personality” returns (Reuters). Google+Yale: C2S‑Scale 27B open model for science (HF/GitHub). Walmart: instant checkout inside ChatGPT. Why it matters: policy, science, commerce.
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Publicly named targets: Encode (Nathan Calvin), The Midas Project (Tyler Johnston), LASST, and Eko (Emma Ruby‑Sachs). All pushed SB53/criticized OpenAI’s restructuring. Sources: SF Standard reporting + subpoena excerpts posted on X.
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Not random blogs—high-PageRank, crawled docs. Pretrain: Wiki/StackOverflow/GitHub READMEs/SEO pages with backdoor strings. RAG: prompt-injections hidden in HTML/comments/alt text. Data: ~10^2 clean-label pages can flip outputs. Mitigate: whitelist + strip HTML.
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Looking for a motivational boost for your team?
The gap between good and great is just one more try!
The best team keeps going when others stop.
Video generated by MiraFlow.AI
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We are an artist-first company, bringing curated fine art into everyday life. Layer delivers a continuous stream of moving art to homes, galleries, and workspaces—made possible by the Layer Canvas, a first-of-its-kind display designed to bring digital art to life.
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Ok, Miraflow at @saastr DAY 2!
Thanks to our amazing customers and supporters, Miraflow is now a Top 5 Finalist at the Saastr AI Demo Day!
Want to see the future of AI?
Come meet your digital twin and experience the magic of Miraflow!
📍 When: Tomorrow at 2:30 PM
📍 Where: The main AI Stage at SAASTR
See you there!!
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This video was just created using miraflow.ai.
While Heygen leads the market with impressive funding and GTM, I’m proud our bootstrapped startup can deliver comparable quality—even while running on just a single, budget-friendly GPU (A10)!
Would you consider giving us a try?
We have incorporated HeyGen's avatar model to work seamlessly with Sora, and the results are truly next-level. This is probably the most advanced talking avatar video to date—outperforming real actors in many scenarios. With this, we can precisely fine-tune movements, expressions, and actions without the hassle of repeatedly reshooting real actors. Plus, there's no limit to how long these videos can be.
This isn't a digital clone—it's a fully AI-generated human avatar.
Check it out!
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Great to see @CharlesP_photog on the front page of @opensea. Check out his first full collection of photography Ordinals (34k range!) here: magiceden.io/ordinals/market…
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When you can say "I own that image" on a legendary Soundgarden album cover
📷🐐 @CharlesP_photog
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Did you notice?
The Michelin Man is out of our profile picture.
Where is he now? What's he up to?
Did you spot him?
Warn us with #Unexpectediscovery and @Michelin!
#MICHELIN #OnTheRoadAndBeyond #UnexpectedMotion
Friction Founder retweeted
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More info ⬇️
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1/4 GM! As we gear up for the next phase of the MoonQuacks project, we're opening the Ordinals bridge for 2 weeks starting tomorrow, 4/19. Claim your BitQuack Ordinal with a BitQuack Passport. After May 3rd, you won't be able to redeem your passport. opensea.io/collection/bitqua…
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MoonQuacks was the first collection to correctly implement the teleburn feature for Ordinals. Holders can burn 10 MoonQuacks for 1 BitQuack ordinal in the 52k range. 1,383 MoonQuacks were burned to receive 138 BitQuacks. 212 are unclaimed.
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🔥In April last year, #Ethereum completed the Shanghai upgrade, officially launching the Defi 3.0 era.
☄️In #Defi 3.0, Liquid staking derivatives will gradually replace native assets like #ETH, becoming the new liquidity base, and the decentralized interest rate market will also undergo a restructuring because of this. Unlike native assets, #LSD assets allow holders to earn a risk-free rate of return. We believe that the next generation of Defi protocols should combine LSD assets with Defi services to provide liquidity providers with higher compound interest rates.
🫡However, it is not easy to safely and efficiently pass the LSD assets yield to users. Thanks to Blast, which helped us complete a large amount of preparatory work, making this possible.
🚀Standing on the shoulders of Blast and LSDFi, we proposed Allspark, The Decentralized Perpetual Exchange With Native Yield built on Blast.
😍Allspark is an easy use, no KYC, supports Crypto, stocks, gold, foreign exchange and other multi-asset trading decentralized Perpetual Exchange. Allspark uses the P2Pool model, allowing users to provide liquidity, leverage trading and earn native yield in a market-based and permissionless manner.
🥂LPs can provide liquidity and virtual leveraged loans for traders by mortgaging interest-bearing assets such as ETH and #USDB, to earn compound income composed of risk-free fixed interest rates and limited risk floating interest rates.
