Alex Coulombe 🔜 SXSW

oof

Holy cow my Empower rideshare from my office to Brooklyn is HALF the price of Lyft and Uber.

This service is awesome and the drivers make MORE MONEY.

You can use my promo code for some extra discounts:

driveempower.com
4K7EMH

Do I know anyone who has watched Grave of the Fireflies more than once?

Just submitted to The Shed's open call-- hoping to blow some minds with a new mixed reality piece. Wish me luck !

At the Epic Games New York office and we’re all ready for Unreal NYC, starting in just a few hours!

I hope I can make it! will be getting back from SXSW that afternoon haha

NYC Immersive Industry Meetup Connect with other producers, performers, and experience designers across the breadth of immersive arts & entertainment.

I'm co-hosting an @immersiveexperience.org gathering for NYC immersive creators on March 17. Excited to meet creative folks in my new home city, and contribute in a small way to all @noahjnelson.com and @kathrynyu.com have been doing to cultivate a wider community of practice. Please come hang out!

The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid.

Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion.

Priorities.

They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

This is such an indictment of ... just... so many things in our society.

(Also another component of the decades-long right-wing plan to destroy public education so that they can rule an ignorant populace.)

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Also love the follow up!!

“Eat real food, not too much, mostly plants.” 🥳

Federal government halts $260M Medicaid funds to Minnesota over fraud Vice President JD Vance announced a $260 million funding pause on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on health care fraud. A Minnesota mom whose 14-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy and epilepsy re...

This isn’t a deferral, it’s a ransom note. The Trump Administration is using kids as pawns in their campaign of retribution against our state.

kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Thanks as always to all the awesome folks at Epic Games who support us.

RSVP: (don't forget to sign the office NDA)

Unreal Communities: lnkd.in/gnDA6yNU
Meetup: lnkd.in/gajFAXRZ

See you there!!

Next Wednesday March 4th, Unreal NYC is back at Epic Games' New York office! Come one, come all-- we'll have some excellent speakers:

Jason Cuadrado:
"Cameras to Code: How Indie Filmmakers Can Direct Inside Unreal"

Michael Peters:
"Markerless Motion Capture and The Future of Content Creation"

"Based on what you know about me, fill out the attached D&D character sheet."

Results from ChatGPT vs Nano Banana vs Claude.

Claude is the only one that actually filled out the PDF I attached, the other two are raster.

And btw this isn't just for fun; we're working on a D&D thing so this is R&D.

A happy magic frog that says poof. You are now untired and very happy.

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

Great feedback ! Will use ;)

These Sleek Smart Glasses Get So Much Right. Why Am I So Disappointed? The Even Realities G2 glasses have a spectacular design. I just wish they actually felt useful.

I’ve worn Even G2 glasses off and on since CES…I love a lot of their form and prescription support, but the actual function is extremely limited. Will they improve fast enough? Thoughts from trying them in Germany at a talk I gave, and Vegas and home www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

One of Trump’s cruelest policies yet has received almost zero attention — Vox Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a strikingly cruel policy, even for this administration: speeding up the kill lines at America’s chicken, turkey, and pig slaughterhouses.

“Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a strikingly cruel policy, even for this administration: speeding up the kill lines at America’s chicken, turkey, and pig slaughterhouses. The plan will make one of the country’s most dangerous jobs —“

At Caveat, Laibson’s tech-heavy Chekhov adaptation The HARMNF examines digital-age alienation • Brooklyn Paper To Laibson, 44, who is staging an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "The Harmfulness of Tobacco," the theater's next frontier is best navigated with gewgaws and

NYC!! Amazing show at 2p today from @kevinasarobot.bsky.social at @caveatnyc.bsky.social — be there or be assumed to be an AI.

Awesome write-up: www.brooklynpaper.com/laibson-chek...

Tickets: caveat.nyc/events/the-h...

Feedly Classic App - App Store Download Feedly Classic by Feedly Inc. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Feedly Classic.

Similarly I still use “classic” Feedly ! No frills

apps.apple.com/us/app/feedl...

Nah it’s real

GitHub - AgileLens/HalcyonVR Contribute to AgileLens/HalcyonVR development by creating an account on GitHub.

Yea there’s an older desktop download on the GitHub:

github.com/agilelens/ha...

It only took a few hours to teach my OpenClaw Clawbot, Sam, to install Unreal Engine, create an empty project, build and light a scene, then make a short film in it.

Unreal Engine on GitHub Find out how to access Unreal Engine source code on GitHub

No, if you’ve never built Unreal from source before you need to do this:

www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue-on-...

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

UE5 grooms in Vision Pro now looking way sharper than all other headsets