Slack integrated new generative AI features into the platform, including enhanced search, channel recaps, thread summaries, and more. Very excited to try this.

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. openai.com/sora Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”

Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro He's still got fire in him, love to see it

Bare your fucking soul. This is the advice I'd give @filter8_tez after seeing them express doubts about Opepen Set 030 making it to a reveal. I wrote a long message to them, but I've decided to share it publicly. While this is written for @filter8_tez specifically, the more general takeaways may prove helpful for an Opepen artist who is facing a failure to reach consensus. Here's what I wrote: Bare your fucking soul. Tell us what the images are…I’ll be honest, I don’t know or recognize what some of them represent or depict. Tell us how you relate to the images. Tell us why the Windows 95 aesthetic is meaningful to you. Tell us your first experience with a computer. I find this set harder to connect with because I used Macs when I was young, so I have a deep sense of nostalgia for @drrrrck's recent work, but I’m sure people will have this feeling for set 030 too. Talk us through the process. Invite us in to the thinking and consideration that went into the editions. What's the common theme between editions? What separates them from each other? How does the set connect to the rest of your work? What other layers of meaning are in the set? Idk if English is your first language, but if you need help communicating I’d be happy to help, or I’m sure there are people in the Opepen community that speak your language and would love to help too. If it doesn’t reach consensus, don’t sweat it. That’s part of the game. Failing was the best thing that could have happened to me and my art. If it fails, put yourself into a hyperbaric chamber training at 100x gravity and come out as an unstoppable fucking art force. Let that shit ignite a Falcon 9 rocket under your ass that fuels you to grow and adapt as an artist. I wasn’t familiar with your work until this set was announced, and Jack’s thread definitely helped, but if people are opting into the art, they're opting in to YOU. There’s a reason people blind opted VVD...they have an intense familiarity with him and his work. His set was not my favorite (subjective ofc, I just felt the thinking was lazy, nothing personal), but there were people also who love him as an artist that didn't love his set. Connection with the artist matters. If Opepen opters don’t have that connection with you as a smaller artist, this is your opportunity to establish yourself in the network. I faced a similar uphill battle as a small artist, but I had strong relationships in the VV community to rely on, and I still didn't get Set 016 pushed through. At least I know that the people opting out of 016 did so because they didn't connect with the art, not because I hadn't given them the opportunity. That's my advice. Bare your fucking soul.

I listen to antisemites screaming and yelling and calling for my death and the death of my people on a daily basis, but nothing breaks my heart more than seeing a young child loudly and proudly take part in such hate. He doesn’t know any better. He has been indoctrinated and brainwashed into a culture of pure malice, antisemitism, and ignorance. They are failing him and every child of this world on an unfathomable and deeply disturbing scale.

Today is the first birthday of the youngest hostage still held in Gaza. It’s another day of anxiety for his safety and well-being. Children continue to pay the biggest price for a war they didn’t start. The hostages must be freed. And every single child in Gaza must be protected. The violence and suffering must stop.

No Joke: the U.N. just announced the Islamic Republic of Iran will take the Presidency of the Conference on Disarmament, starting March 18th. Having Ayatollah Khamenei preside over global nuclear weapons disarmament is like putting a serial rapist in charge of a women’s shelter.

Not a good look as pro-Palestinian protestors target a cancer hospital on New York’s Upper East Side. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center also houses a paediatric day hospital… “Make sure they hear you, they’re in the windows”.

WATCH: A San Francisco Jewish man bravely shares his experiences with antisemitism after losing five family members at Kibbutz Be'eri, including two kidnapped by Hamas, only to be met with boos and jeers from anti-Israel activists.