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johnnyB retweeted
Kling 4.0 (Edit Video) vs Seedance 2.5 (omni edit)
I think I prefer the overall quality of SD 2.5, but I never could get the tattoos removed from the hands.
Kling is also significantly cheaper.
MORE BELOW 🧵
Source: Samy Elbanna 🐐
johnnyB retweeted
Filmation FLASH GORDON 1979 was by far the sexiest Saturday morning animated TV show ever made!
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I'm pleased to reveal my 150 megapixel photo of the Lagoon nebula, captured with a 17' telescope over several weeks this past summer.
Presented here in 4k- Load the full image to see thousands of stars!
The fine art print is also now available here: cosmicbackground.io/pages/nu…
Because I am known for living Star Wars and stereo3D
Here is Carrie Fisher.
HT All Things CarrieFisher on FB
johnnyB retweeted
My thoughts of late have returned to this amazing scene by @WilliamShatner, made decades ago.
As a young person, I found it tremendously inspiring. A code to live by.
But it didn’t play out quite like we expected.
The “fantastically advanced” life that we actually ended up encountering is right here, on Earth. All around us now.
The key issue of our time is becoming this:
Not everyone signed up for this mission, or the risk. And what we do about that, ultimately, is where the debate about AI will end up.
johnnyB retweeted
All of this research into turning Gaussian splats into meshes and this guy just has Claude figure it out flawlessly.
Not sure how much direction was given, but it just shows the incredible capabilities we are unlocking with AI.
Right across from the Academy Museum!
Roadster will be on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA starting tomorrow
Oct 24-27, Main Lobby
petersen.org/pages/petersen-…
johnnyB retweeted
Spacing Guild Navigator concept art and modeling for David Lynch's Dune (Cinefantastique, Vol. 14, No. 4-5, September 1984)
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Paul Hogan says Crocodile Dundee did 300 million at the box office.. Australia's tax office came after him over the money.. and in 2010 it stopped him from leaving the country.
Figures in the Australian press put the bill at around $100 million.
He calls it being "held prisoner in paradise."
Before the movie, he worked on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The last tax return he filled out himself, he says, claimed a tool allowance and a weather gear allowance from that job.
After the fame, he hired people to count the money. He says he never asked them where it went.
The court record:
2010: the tax office barred him from leaving Australia.
$300 million: what he says the movie took at the box office.
About 70%: what he says theater owners in Australia keep.
$150 million: the half he says was "gone straight away, before it even goes to Paramount."
Around $37 million: the original bill, according to figures in the paper.
Around $100 million: the same bill with interest and penalties, per those reports.
$3 million to $150 million: the range he says he has seen printed. He says tax secrecy law keeps him from naming the real number.
The case for the tax office: the allegation is that he kept money in offshore tax havens to minimize or avoid tax.
The case for Paul: "I've paid too much," he says. "I've paid more than a wise businessman would have."
His offshore account, he says, is "called Bank of America."
Then the twist.
He did not run to a tax haven. He moved to the United States, where the IRS audited him at Australia's request.
Its answer, as he tells it: "No, he's clean."
If you have ever handed your money to experts and never asked a single question, this is how far that trust can go.
In the video below, asked about the bill, Paul Hogan says: "I can't pay it. I can't pay 10% of it."
Should a star answer for money decisions he says he left to the experts?
























