CEO & co-founder at Avatour, @500Startups B27. Digital media entrepreneur and XR evangelist. Dad x3 and occasional accordionist. Corporations are not people.
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Devon Copley retweeted
Trump is just the trigger.
There are deep historical forces:
The dismantling of the FCC fairness doctrine by Reagan, the resulting emergence of Fox News, conservative talk radio, and other propaganda outlets, the removal of guardrails for the influence of money in politics (e.g. Citizen United), the continuous reduction of taxes on high incomes, the ever-increasing wealth and income inequalities enabled by the above, the stagnation of working class income despite continued increase in productivity (and corporate profits), the total lack of social protection and benefits compared to other developed countries.
People in the middle class and below have been screwed for 40 years and are angry.
They should be angry at Republicans.
But the Republican party has managed to deflect their anger towards immigrants, non-Christians, non-whites, liberals, LGBT, China, academia, intellectual "elites", scientists, journalists, and non-existent scarecrows like Antifa.
Devon Copley retweeted
🚨🚨🚨 Watch Jeffrey Epstein plead his Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights when asked if he and Donald Trump socialized with females under the age of 18 during a 2010 deposition:
Q: Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?
A. What do you mean by "personal relationship," sir?
Q. Have you socialized with him?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Yes?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of
18?
A: Though l'd like to answer that question, at least today l'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.
1/2 Had a great time at the Hack on VisionOS Event
@SpatialCut yesterday! Met great people and worked together on a fun idea. Our app DoodleVision is a party game with shared 3D drawing for SharePlay. We won the Showcase award and hopefully will get on the App Store soon…
2/2 Shout out to a great team: @irangareddy, @huyqle, @aidenKV1, Gloria Wei and Ribon - and huge thanks to the organizers and sponsors: @uribegosselin, @SpatialCut, @treasury_space and @official_AdXR. Looking forward to the next one!
Devon Copley retweeted
Happening today at 2 PM PST / 5 PM EST, @jacobcollier is going live on his YT channel to make music with our latest AI-music tool, #MusicFXDJ youtube.com/live/IUQW5LgBZvQ
ALT Happening today at 2 PM PST / 5 PM EST, @jacobcollier is going live on our YT channel to make music with Google's latest AI-music tool, #MusicFXDJ.
Devon Copley retweeted
An introduction to Hard Bop in 25 albums - a thread🧵
Hard bop, from the mid-1950s, expanded bebop with elements of R&B, gospel, and blues, enhancing jazz's emotional depth and texture, especially in saxophone and piano play...
1. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Devon Copley retweeted
This past weekend, we celebrated 20 years of Old Skool Café transforming the lives of San Francisco’s at-risk youth through jobs, community, and purpose. From its start in Teresa Goines’ home in 2004 to its current home at Mendell Plaza, Old Skool Café has become a beacon of hope for the Bayview community. Through this youth-run supper club, young people gain crucial employment skills, life lessons, and the confidence to thrive.
Here’s to the next 20 years of impact and opportunity for San Francisco’s youth!
Devon Copley retweeted
I know the aviation buffs are going to appreciate this one: the first flight of the XB-70 Valkyrie – 60 years ago yesterday! Despite its limited service-life and troubled development history, the Valkyrie stands as one of the great and awe-inducing planes of all time. It was marvel of innovation and boundary-pushing aeronautical engineering. Only two Valkyries were built; one exists today @AFMuseum in Dayton, Ohio – the other was lost in a mid-air collision that tragically resulted in the deaths of NASA Chief Test Pilot Joe Walker and Carl Cross. The Valkyrie represents a truly amazing aviation story!
Devon Copley retweeted
I think you either need to go Focals By North light weight glanceable info , or do a quest3/vision pro high performance large device
Or spend ten years and X billion trying to make something in a rayban form factor with a bit more functionality than Focals by north,
Halfway between a Focals by north and a quest3 is a graveyard of bad ideas
Devon Copley retweeted
I’d love to humbly introduce you to something we believe is going to be a game changer for both VR and VFX.
When I first tried it I couldn’t take a headset off for like 10 mins. The hair, the dress, the movements — your brain just can’t stop being mesmerized.
Tech thread 🔽
Devon Copley retweeted
LayerPano3D: Layered 3D Panorama for Hyper-Immersive Scene Generation
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2408.13252
Project: ys-imtech.github.io/projects…
Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=dXvoFRbH…
Make sure to visit the project page. It is beautiful!
Metho ⬇️ 1 | 2
Devon Copley retweeted
What's really going on in machine learning? Just finished a deep dive using (new) minimal models. Seems like ML is basically about fitting together lumps of computational irreducibility ... with important potential implications for science of ML, and future tech...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/…
