Burning Man as a mental health treatment… What say you? A new short by Jason Silva and Brad Necyk Psychedelic Puppet Show

This was a blast to make in Amsterdam with Jason!

Art is a distant early warning system that is here to warn the culture what is about to happen to it. —McLuhan

🚨BREAKING: A new open-source voice model just dropped and it’s better than ElevenLabs. This open-source voice AI is ultra-expressive, high quality, and fully free with no paywalls, no limits. Here’s how it works (with real examples):👇

This might be one of the most sophisticated artistic investigations into the nature of AI image and possibility. Total Pixel Space youtu.be/zpAeygE4d1A?si… via YouTube

Our Psychedelic Puppet Show × Paul Stamets collaboration has officially sprouted! We’ve created a fresh collection of merch and digital collectibles inspired by the Stamets Stack episode. Learn more about the drop at the link in bio. Follow us for more surreal spores and psychedelic

Anthropic dropped the best free masterclass on prompt engineering

When photography was being born, people didn’t have the right words to describe what they were seeing, so they referred to daguerreotypes as “a mirror with a memory.” We still have no adequate words to describe the kind of media and art that will emerge from the next generation

“The artist is the distant early warning system of culture,” McLuhan once wrote—decades before algorithms dreamed. Today, as AI reshapes the fabric of reality, the artist listens at the edge. We are not here to tame the machine, but to feel it, question it, and speak the

Lowering the Latency of Imagination // AI collapses the gap between inspiration and creation. What once took months to paint or years to film now emerges almost at the speed of thought—like surfing the wave of imagination itself. Not imitation, but a new tempo of creation: fluid,

Per Mark Newton CMT Ethereum undergoing a minor correction - pullback to $4,075-$4,150 by midweek Pullbacks are healthy 👨‍⚕️

I often get asked: “What was the one-sentence prompt that made your 300-shot AI film?” It’s a misconception. Each clip is painstakingly crafted—curated, deliberated, and aligned with my vision. AI doesn’t replace artistic labor; it demands even more choices, taste, and craft.

Well said!

Art doesn’t mirror reality. It discloses it. The poet isn’t an entertainer— but the place where truth comes into being.

Wednesday, let’s goo “City Living”

Sounds sensible.

500 dimensional latent hyperspace

What a crazy week in AI 🤯 - Runway Game Worlds - Grok 2.5 Open Source - ChatGPT-5 Beats Doctors - Qwen Image Editing Model - ElevenLabs Video to Music - Highsfield Product to Video - NanoBanana debuts LMArena - Google AI Mode Agentic Release Here’s EVERYTHING you need to know:

We’ll get there with this (publication), it’s been gate kept by reviewers for years but we’ll get there. So pleased it’s in public domain though as pre-print. Findings are potentially massive.