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Carl Franzen
@carlfranzen.bsky.social
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late 30s, executive editor @venturebeat.com, fiction writer, AI video creator
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Farewell, chemtrails. I’ll miss you when RFK Jr. banishes you from the realm.
August 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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The America worth celebrating
July 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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How it's gonna feel when @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wins NYC in the fall
July 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Post Egrets
A tall white bird, likely a great egret, stands in a marshy area near the edge of a calm body of water. The bird is surrounded by lush green grasses and reeds, with patches of water and aquatic plants in the background. The scene is serene and natural, suggesting a wetland or coastal habitat.
June 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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June 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Washy wash
June 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Sup
A life-size, translucent humanoid robot suit stands in a dark void, its clear plastic limbs and torso illuminated by vivid green internal LEDs, revealing faint circuitry and mechanical joints; the figure’s head tilts slightly down, and slipper-like white shoes cover its feet.
June 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Logging on in the 21st century...

Made with Midjourney Video V1 #ai #aigenerated
June 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Fly further

Midjourney + Google Veo 2
June 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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“The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls”
A weathered movie poster—originally promoting a film with large stylized letters—is defaced with handwritten black marker graffiti forming an acrostic from the word “DREAM.” The vertical letters spell: D – “Don’t” R – “Rank” E – “Eric or” A – “Andrew” M – “Mayor” Additional overlapping scribbles, red tags, and faded lettering obscure parts of the original poster, which includes a Dolby Cinema and IMAX logo at the bottom right.
May 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Google's new AI video creation platform Flow is 🤯! Made this in seconds:

“Medium shot centered of two age 20 something young Hispanic men, one with long curly hair and the other a buzzed haircut, wear drab rags while driving a battered flying hovercraft through a dystopian future desert town”.
May 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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These lines lol
April 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Love how Silicon Valley bigwigs went all in this election for the candidate who directly threatened and is now decimating science and basic research (which powered their entire industry). Brilliant stuff, guys! /s
Blue quote card from letter signed by 2,000 scientists stating: We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise js being decimated. … We call on the administration to cease its wholesale assault on U.S. science.
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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April 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Don’t mind me, just spending my morning reading about Yahoo Plus Plus cyber scammer spiritual ritual killings in Nigeria, where they harvest body parts for portions (to improve scam success rates) 🤯😬 enactafrica.org/enact-observ...
March 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Happy holiday
March 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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They’ve been messing with us from the pilot! 🤯

S1E1 / S2E9 #Severance
Screenshot of Severance showing a speaker grill and subtitled text “Question four, what is Mr. Eagan’s favorite breakfast?” Screenshot of Helly R from severance looking confused in conference room with subtitled text underneath “I didn’t — that one makes no sense.” Screenshot of Jame Eagan an old creepy man with medium long white hair and eyebrows and clean shaven face seated in front of a window, a vase with odd chaotic twisting stems and bulbs in front of him, addressing partially visible silhouetted of Helena Eagen with red hair and blue dress, as subtitles appear reading “I wish you’d take them raw” Close-up of a female finger holding the end of a blue handled copper fork in front of a plate of sliced hard boiled eggs
March 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Hard not to see us entering a Neo-Dark Age due to Trump 2.0…
March 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Evening
Pink and gray sunset clouds over row of brownstone homes and sparse tree branches
March 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Rose gold? www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
March 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Passing time
A mosaic artwork depicting a large, ornate clock hanging in front of a window, with streaks of white and blue tiles creating the effect of rain falling outside. The intricate tilework gives the scene a textured, impressionistic feel. A young woman in a dark jacket and scarf walks past the mural, holding a coffee cup, with a neutral expression. The floor is made of dark tiles, and the lighting casts a soft glow on the artwork.
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Crossing from Brooklyn to Manhattan
A view of the Manhattan skyline, including One World Trade Center, framed by the discolored faded beige steel beams of a bridge. The image is taken from inside a moving train, looking out over the East River through the structure of the Manhattan Bridge, which has visible graffiti on it reading “News” in black. The bridge’s metal framework and train tracks dominate the foreground, while the city skyline stands against a hazy blue sky in the background.
February 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Brooklyn
February 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Blue skies in NYC yesterday
A portrait oriented photo looking down an empty city street with a traffic light dangling from an overheard pole coming from the right and small puff of white smoke and the One World Trade building rising in the distance
February 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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“We are accountable to the American people, not a billionaire.”
February 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM