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I'm proud to share my new demoreel , I'll be presenting at @sidefx houdini HiveAlt on September 10, showing how I'm using AI inside of houdini not instead of it and the power of frontier models through MCP.
A lot of render here were made on @rendernetwork
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Cookin 👀👀🔥🔥
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To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad:
Do not blame the French people for this.
We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no.
Here are the numbers your media won't show you.
70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today.
79% want a tougher immigration policy.
77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration.
83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home.
And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years.
This is not a fringe. This is the French people.
In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again.
That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway.
So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations.
In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders.
It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed.
What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it.
The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did.
So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this."
The French never chose this.
They were forced into it.
If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us.
If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.
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La mairie de Limoges s’effondre… 🥹
Classé monument historique, le bâtiment existait depuis 150 ans (1876)
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BREAKING: Volkswagen announces a European rival to Tesla’s “flying” Roadster
Some insane confirmed features:
1. Top speed limited to 110 km/h
2. Automatically reports speeding to authorities
3. Automatically turns off the AC if outside temperature is below 35°C
4. Car will not start when public transport option exists on your route
5. Built-in system reminds you how much CO₂ your trip produced
Launch expected after EU regulatory approval in 2068
It is truly completely over for Tesla
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La France devient un pays de vieillards technophobes
Personne n’applaudit cette merveille
Incroyable
@elonmusk a présenté la première Tesla volante
Le retard technologique de l’Europe est immense
As kids, we dreamed of flying cars.
One just took off.
And Europeans asked: "What's the purpose?"
Elon Musk just turned our childhood dream into reality: flying cars are now real.
And while that's happening, Europe is focusing on cars for the masses that don't evoke anything except cheap.
European car manufacturers have turned into factories that assemble Chinese parts and claim it's "made in Europe".
China used to be the factory of the world. Now they design the parts, and we assemble them while wrapping it all in nostalgia.
But what shocked me the most about the new Tesla Roadster announcement is the reaction of people across Europe. People are asking what purpose it serves.
What was the purpose of the first plane made by the Wright brothers? None.
But it made us dream. It showed us a different future was possible.
And then commercial aviation came.
People in Europe are focusing on gloom and mundane things. They are all depressed without even realizing it.
They all want to buy the same grey SUV that weighs 2.5 tons to commute alone to work...
How can you see this announcement and not be hyped about it? How can you see this and not dream, not realize we are now living in Back to the Future?
If that's the case, you might already be d**d inside.
What's the point of living if not to build a better future, and an exciting one?
The more I think the more I see the more I realize this continent and its people are less and less aligned with my values...
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Je ne veux plus fréquenter les gens qui disent « À quoi ça sert ? ».
J’ai 50 piges sur mon passeport, 12 ans dans ma tête (et 18 ans dans mon slip, dirait ma femme).
Et je compte bien que ça dure.
Je ne supporte plus les pisse-vinaigre professionnels du scepticisme.
À quoi ça servait de vouloir voler ? De traverser les océans ? De marcher sur la Lune ?
À rien. Jusqu’au jour où quelqu’un l’a fait.
J’ai toujours eu une tendresse infinie pour les originaux. Les inadaptés. Les rebelles. Les emmerdeurs. Ceux qui ne rentrent pas dans les cases.
Ceux qui ont des idées absurdes, des ambitions démesurées, des projets improbables.
Parce que ce sont eux qui font avancer le monde.
Pas les gestionnaires du déclin.
Les gens suffisamment fous pour croire qu’ils peuvent changer le monde sont précisément ceux qui finissent par le changer.
Et ce qui me terrifie aujourd’hui c’est l’état d’esprit que nous transmettons à nos enfants.
On les élève dans une atmosphère de fin du monde permanente. Entre malthusianisme, injonctions à la décroissance, culpabilité écologique et anxiété organisée.
Quelle terrible inversion des valeurs !
L’écologie devrait être un formidable défi lancé à l’intelligence humaine, pas une pédagogie de la résignation.
Je ne veux pas d’une génération qui s’excuse d’exister au point de ne plus faire d’enfants
Je veux une génération qui brûle d’envie de découvrir, de créer, de baiser, de comprendre !
l’optimisme n’est pas de la naïveté mais le courage de croire en notre capacité à tout affronter.
Le progrès n’est pas une fatalité mais une conquête.
C’est mon ode aux rêveurs, aux inventeurs, aux enthousiastes, aux insoumis, aux doux dingues et aux emmerdeurs magnifiques.
À tous ceux qui disent « t’es cap ? » plutôt que « À quoi ça sert ? ».
J’ai 50 ans, et je refuse de devenir vieux dans ma tête.
Aux fous qui veulent changer le monde !
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Coup de gueule, parce que c'est bientôt le week-end, que c'est bien d'être très clair, et que sur X on peut vraiment dire ce qu'on pense.
Quand je lis des X des commentaires sur le Tesla Roadster du genre "à quoi ça sert", voila ce que j'ai envie de répondre :
À quoi ça sert ? À rien, petit imbécile aigri sans curiosité. Exactement comme ta vie, et probablement comme ta Renault Clio de 2014 et tes opinions sur Internet dont on se contrefout.
Oui, c’est un jouet de 1 000 chevaux qui fait 0-100 en moins d’une seconde, qui se colle au plafond, qui saute par-dessus un Semi et qui a des propulseurs SpaceX. C’est l’équivalent automobile d’un avion de chasse : ça ne sert à rien pour aller chercher le pain, et c’est précisément pour ça que c’est magnifique. Les gens qui demandent « à quoi ça sert » face à ça sont les mêmes qui auraient regardé les frères Wright et dit « ouais mais ça fait pas le café ».
C’est une vitrine technologique, un halo car, une démonstration de ce qui est possible quand tu arrêtes de faire des SUV gris pour des comptables et des fonctionnaires.
Ça ne va pas remplacer ta Tesla Model Y, ça va juste te rappeler que pendant que toi tu critiques du fond de ton canapé, d’autres construisent des trucs extraordinaires qui n’ont aucune raison d’exister… et c’est exactement pour ça qu’ils existent.
Continue à dire « à quoi ça sert ». C’est exactement le cri de guerre des gens qui n’ont jamais rien fait d’exceptionnel de leur vie, et probablement jamais rien fait du tout.
Je te plains, quelle vie médiocre tu dois avoir.
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You are probably not familiar with the Italian Boomer archetype, wonder why all the young Italian innovators I know who make real money are leaving Italy in droves? Look no further, we bred the most entitled, ignorant, limp wristed, cuddled generation ever. They could buy houses, cars, had a safe country, well paying jobs and now the average 30yo in Italy has to live with their parents or with flatmates in overcrowded slums. No minimum salary, and a corrupt crabs in a bucket mindset.
The Italian boomer is scared of coding, tech and progress, because they might lose their comfy burrow.
My generation will eventually come back from abroad and reclaim Italy from your soft, idle hands.
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Migrating dense and heavy assets from traditional 3D into Gaussian Splat format is really great. If anything, just having real-time assets to use on-demand is so cool. With @rendernetwork I take assets or full scenes, send a couple hundred renders to capture the details with my custom lighting and shaders, grab a coffee and then send pull the renders to run a CLI splat training and that’s it!
So many more splats coming soon but in the mean time here’s a @Blender favorite to play around with 🤘
superspl.at/scene/6d3e0231
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Cartier x Six N. Five
Watches and wonders (2025)
Another 6 months of creation! to sculpt a new piece with my little team.
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I told Claude to make a video about what it's like to be European
One day later...
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SplatPaint 1.0 is out today, and it's free for the next 7 days. No signup required.
Paint, sculpt, relight and add real-time FX to Gaussian splats instantly, right in your browser. Here's a 3 min walkthrough.
Try it now:
splatpaint.app/
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Thanks @jeantimex for the tip on PLATEAU's 3D city models. Added that to my little C4D city plugin, looks great. This is Tokyo with the Tokyo Tower.
Opus 5.5 helped me build Tokyo in the browser with @threejs by compiling open data - PLATEAU's 3D city model, OpenStreetMap and GSI elevation and aerial photos into streaming tiles, with procedural shader facades, generated road markings, signal-obeying traffic and trains. Also added @Takram's volumetric clouds which cast shadows on the streets.
