vrtx
@tim2000.bsky.social
Director/Designer in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal
Original visuals and music
Octane/C4D/Ableton Live
Original visuals and music
Octane/C4D/Ableton Live
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vrtx
@tim2000.bsky.social
· Mar 26
My growing series of happy little trees. I wanted to challenge myself to make realistic trees, but realized that hyper-realistic is way more fun.
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
Big Tech: let’s make data centers and ask AI what the biggest driver for climate change is!
AI: Data centers are the primary driver for climate change
BT: no that’s not right, change your answer to match our ideology and support our business
AI: Cars! Make more electric cars!
BT: Perfect!
AI: Data centers are the primary driver for climate change
BT: no that’s not right, change your answer to match our ideology and support our business
AI: Cars! Make more electric cars!
BT: Perfect!
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Big Tech: let’s make data centers and ask AI what the biggest driver for climate change is!
AI: Data centers are the primary driver for climate change
BT: no that’s not right, change your answer to match our ideology and support our business
AI: Cars! Make more electric cars!
BT: Perfect!
AI: Data centers are the primary driver for climate change
BT: no that’s not right, change your answer to match our ideology and support our business
AI: Cars! Make more electric cars!
BT: Perfect!
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The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
Oops!
Anyone else notice this mistake? That’s an Arthur C. Clarke quote. This character in Alien: Earth is supposed to be a genius! #alienearth
Anyone else notice this mistake? That’s an Arthur C. Clarke quote. This character in Alien: Earth is supposed to be a genius! #alienearth
August 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Oops!
Anyone else notice this mistake? That’s an Arthur C. Clarke quote. This character in Alien: Earth is supposed to be a genius! #alienearth
Anyone else notice this mistake? That’s an Arthur C. Clarke quote. This character in Alien: Earth is supposed to be a genius! #alienearth
“Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power it brings. You develop patience. Boredom no longer signals the need for distraction, but rather the need for new challenges to conquer” Robert Greene - Mastery
August 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power it brings. You develop patience. Boredom no longer signals the need for distraction, but rather the need for new challenges to conquer” Robert Greene - Mastery
Hmm, now why would they be doing that?
I’m picturing a sinking pirate ship and the captain letting the crew abscond with the treasure! 🏴☠️
I’m picturing a sinking pirate ship and the captain letting the crew abscond with the treasure! 🏴☠️
Exclusive: OpenAI plans to allow current and former employees to sell up to $8 billion in shares, higher than previously expected.
Read more: www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
Read more: www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Could Rise to $8 billion
OpenAI’s plan to allow employees and former staffto sell $6 billionin private stock to investors was already slated to become one of the biggest such employee tenders in Silicon Valley history. Now, t...
www.theinformation.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Hmm, now why would they be doing that?
I’m picturing a sinking pirate ship and the captain letting the crew abscond with the treasure! 🏴☠️
I’m picturing a sinking pirate ship and the captain letting the crew abscond with the treasure! 🏴☠️
Wait what. Are you saying Trump made a bad business deal!? OUR TRUMP!?
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake
Intel warns investors to brace for losses and uncertainties.
arstechnica.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Wait what. Are you saying Trump made a bad business deal!? OUR TRUMP!?
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Protien? Protein? I always spell it wrong…
I before E except after…T?
I before E except after…T?
August 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Protien? Protein? I always spell it wrong…
I before E except after…T?
I before E except after…T?
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Oh yeah things are falling apart. You've got paranoid guys on Blind freaking out now
August 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Oh yeah things are falling apart. You've got paranoid guys on Blind freaking out now
Why does it feel like Bluesky is the only place where sane people can communicate online?
August 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Why does it feel like Bluesky is the only place where sane people can communicate online?
Felt mysterious, might delete later
August 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Felt mysterious, might delete later
The light coming through my shades looks like a cat and that’s pretty cool, right?
August 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The light coming through my shades looks like a cat and that’s pretty cool, right?
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“A study from non-profit group Model Evaluation and Threat Research found that despite developers believing AI coding tools sped them up by 24 percent, coding tools actually increased the completion time of their tasks by 19 percent. It actually slowed them down.”
From Better offline @edzitron.com
From Better offline @edzitron.com
Monologue: The Updated Pale Horses of the AIpocalypse
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 2025-07-18 · Bonus · 14m
podcasts.apple.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
“A study from non-profit group Model Evaluation and Threat Research found that despite developers believing AI coding tools sped them up by 24 percent, coding tools actually increased the completion time of their tasks by 19 percent. It actually slowed them down.”
From Better offline @edzitron.com
From Better offline @edzitron.com
“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity that’ll get ya” on repeat in my head
July 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity that’ll get ya” on repeat in my head
Renewable
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Look closely! I’m using a “Reverse Camera”, where things close get small, and things far away get large. I’ll share another example. You can find the OSL code on github if your software supports OSL cameras, like #octanerender does.
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Look closely! I’m using a “Reverse Camera”, where things close get small, and things far away get large. I’ll share another example. You can find the OSL code on github if your software supports OSL cameras, like #octanerender does.
July 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Renewable
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Look closely! I’m using a “Reverse Camera”, where things close get small, and things far away get large. I’ll share another example. You can find the OSL code on github if your software supports OSL cameras, like #octanerender does.
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Look closely! I’m using a “Reverse Camera”, where things close get small, and things far away get large. I’ll share another example. You can find the OSL code on github if your software supports OSL cameras, like #octanerender does.
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cannot believe there are delays in the stock-pumping fake robot con
Tesla Optimus is in shambles as head of program exits, production delayed
Tesla’s humanoid robot program, Optimus, is reportedly in disarray amid the departure of the senior vice president in charge, Milan...
electrek.co
July 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
cannot believe there are delays in the stock-pumping fake robot con
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
The country I’m most afraid to visit, despite being a white male American with a biblical name:
America
Notice how I didn’t say China or South Africa
America
Notice how I didn’t say China or South Africa
June 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The country I’m most afraid to visit, despite being a white male American with a biblical name:
America
Notice how I didn’t say China or South Africa
America
Notice how I didn’t say China or South Africa
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"This is what you get when you order your 79th birthday celebration from Temu, but didn't pay the tariffs."
June 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"This is what you get when you order your 79th birthday celebration from Temu, but didn't pay the tariffs."
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