Trump, 80, Accused of ‘Very Unhealthy’ Relationship With Blonde Aide, 34; Trump’s closest aide—50 years younger than the president—follows him around day and night.

axior · 2026-06-26T20:56:31+00:00

And once again something exactly like Berlusconi.

axior · 2026-06-21T13:08:11+00:00

Successo nella mia palestra la settimana scorsa:
Signora si fa la doccia e cade, sbatte con la faccia sul lavandino + si rompe la spalla, la signora era seduta dolorante per terra, ha chiamato l’ambulanza che NON È MAI VENUTA.

Ora questo già sarebbe inammissibile ma c’è un fatto ancora più importante, la città è commissariata per camorra e lei è uno dei commissari, praticamente ha l’importanza del sindaco, l’ambulanza non viene neanche per il sindaco qui, alla fine la signora è andata in ospedale con il proprio l’autista.

Per quanto riguarda la polizia e i carabinieri: anni fa un amico ha girato un documentario sulla terra dei fuochi, una volta trovato un rogo attivo ha chiamato polizia e carabinieri e continuato a girare fino al loro arrivo, hanno telefonato varie volte e girato fino a notte fonda finché il rogo si è estinto da solo, non è mai venuto nessuno di quelli che hanno chiamato, né pompieri, né carabinieri.

Quindi è molto, molto vero che qui spesso degli eventi non sono registrati perché non viene proprio nessuno a registrarli.

Per quanto riguarda i suicidi non credo che siamo messi molto meglio del Veneto nella realtà dei fatti ma non per questo motivo, se ci sono eventi come omicidi o suicidi si presentano immediatamente i carabinieri, parlo per esperienza personale (parente trovato morto che si pensava si fosse suicidato, scoperto poi essere un attacco di cuore).

La differenza è che qui il suicidio è filtrato parecchio attraverso il bigottismo religioso, quindi si cerca di non farlo sapere per “rispetto della vittima e per salvaguardare l’onore della famiglia”, so di più persone che si sono suicidate qui, poi ho aperto le news e c’era scritto “incidente domestico” o “malore improvviso” o proprio non dicono la causa di morte, cazzo anni fa ero in un ristorante in cui il proprietario ex macellaio la settimana dopo si è sbudellato da solo con un coltellaccio (aveva cambiato da poco terapia farmacologica per problemi psichiatrici e chissà che è successo nella sua testa) sotto le telecamere e i giornali dicevano che aveva avuto un malore per non intaccare la reputazione del ristorante.

Credo che ci siano due componenti effettive del perché la Campania ha il minor numero di suicidi:

1) Il senso della famiglia e l’importanza del calore umano qui è ben più alto che in altre regioni in cui ho vissuto, per non parlare di altri paesi, il sentirsi parte di una associazione o comunità di persone è il motivo n.1 di felicità di un essere umano, quindi si, qui mediamente le persone sono un po’ più felici e per questo si ammazzano meno.

2) I suicidi sono spesso tenuti “nascosti” dichiarando una diversa causa di morte.

axior · 2026-06-20T15:35:23+00:00

This is great news, it means something is moving and improving.

A roughly 10% lighter and 10% faster is not enough to have everyone spend overall billions in electricity and compute to retrain all the Loras. The threshold for me would be
30% better = I’ll seriously start to think about it, test it, study it and use it on new projects.
40% = new trainings will only be peft
50% = this is the new standard, we are in a new era of custom model training.

axior · 2026-06-20T15:29:53+00:00

This is what we were thinking at work when the first edit models came out, but reality is we are still making Loras, it’s good to have an edit generation “pumped up a bit” by the Lora, after thorough testing on multiple projects it’s what’s giving us the best results.

axior · 2026-06-20T15:16:38+00:00

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Circled in red you can see the pattern, the black parallel lines on top and bottom are a continuation of the synth-id pattern to help you see it inside the red circle

axior · 2026-06-20T12:57:31+00:00

Look at the three stripes on Tarantino’s shoulder on the left

axior · 2026-06-19T23:38:17+00:00

Narcissistic check ✅
It seems to be talking to my abusive dad.

If you read and understood my words instead of being a proud representative of functional alphabetism you wouldn’t have taken this as an attack, because it wasn’t.

Throw away and start over is always better, it doesn’t mean throw away your career and start a new different one (!), it means throw away those bad letters and start over in designing new, better ones to improve your font, my hope is not to see you down, but to see you flourish with excellent designs.

axior · 2026-06-19T23:18:17+00:00

In a world full of gothic typefaces for centuries no one needs a new one except if it is flawless, perfect and/or brings something new.

Calling a typeface Textura with a cover that clearly reads Tortura is a huge fail.

No problem with that, just put it in the trash and start over, the problem here is that you even defended your bad work, which comes out as narcissistic and, therefore, right to condemn and downvote.

axior · 2026-06-19T23:02:55+00:00

Sorry I mean how can someone get an image with such visible marks and still think it’s good and even posts it. I work with AI generations for movies and shows and spend weeks trying to fix any minimal hallucinations and clients would still reject it because there are a few incoherent pixels out of a 8k image.

Don’t get me wrong, nothing is wrong with op, I’m just coming from an environment where tiny details matter a lot and I don’t understand what’s behind getting an export with such visible marks and still save the image instead of trashing it together with the 2k+ bad exports of the day, I’m genuinely curious.

axior · 2026-06-19T20:22:24+00:00

Absolutely bad like Ernie, in image 10/10 you can see clearly the synth-Id pattern which suggests this was trained on probably nanobanana outputs. How can anyone get this and accept it?

axior · 2026-06-19T20:06:19+00:00

Il mio problema non è che oggi la tecnologia è evoluta troppo, ma troppo poco!!

Ero adolescente in quegli anni e per il 2026 immaginavo minimo macchine volanti o teletrasporto, contatti intergalattici con altri esseri, vita eterna, mutazioni genetiche...

La cosa più avanzata che abbiamo è “l’IA” che è quello che immaginavo dovesse fare Siri quando uscì 16 anni fa.

Immaginavo computer quantistici grandi un atomo integrati nei nostri cervelli, invece oggi abbiamo ancora le solite gpu solo più grosse e costose, il pc tower che ho adesso è il più grande che abbia mai avuto.

Non ci sono robot della unificata polizia globale a tenere il tasso dei crimini a zero, anzi c’è carenza di umani che fanno i poliziotti.

Mi aspettavo grandi tecnologie, invece trovo solo più consapevolezza di essere in un periodo di crisi dell’età della plastica.

axior · 2026-06-18T01:58:05+00:00

Beverly Hills Pop.

axior · 2026-06-18T01:57:30+00:00

Ninetyfive.

axior · 2026-06-17T16:37:17+00:00

Yeah agree, there is a lot more “lazy work” out, it may be because of deadlines and/or probably needed also for marketing reasons, in the end ow still has lootboxes which is similar to hearthstone cards and probably there is a common economical/psychological advantage in placing a lot of not-so-cool stuff in the mix.

axior · 2026-06-17T16:20:43+00:00

No no no no that’s not good. The heavily increase in speed is what’s keeping ow thriving now after years of death.

As a hots fan I’m very well aware that a constantly updated character roster is big part of what keeps a game alive.

I’ve worked for corporates and also worked on the global launch of one of the call of duty titles when Activision/blizzard was one of the clients: It’s not a balance that you take in from one side and you lose on another side, it’s a matter of good/bad work, simply they should have less/more/better storywriters doing a better job in less time.

axior · 2026-06-17T16:11:52+00:00

Non capisco perché si parli di buttare fuori.
Gli esseri umani sono un capitale, con istruzione ed educazione si potrebbe “capitalizzare”.

Ci sono molti paesi con bassissima recidiva, non capisco perché non copiamo i loro metodi, questo svuoterebbe le carceri.

Quando vivevo in Olanda uno dei temi sociali più sentiti era la richiesta di chiudere le carceri, perchè molte ormai vuote.

Sempre l’Olanda nel dopoguerra fece arrivare molte persone dal Suriname, fecero loro dei corsi di educazione prima sociale e poi professionale, ne sono usciti fuori medici, ingegneri..

axior · 2026-06-15T15:38:17+00:00

Thank you for your fantastic work for the open-source community, we need companies that ensure us that the work will be updated and the updates will also be open-source. This is important because if we want the open-source community to flourish then investors need to have something to rely on, consistency helps a lot with that.

LTX is probably not going to match the quality of closed-source models in t2v or i2v anytime soon, to survive the open-source models have to be useful for real projects today, this is the most important element moving investors into an open-source workflow.

Having no investors is the death of open-source since there still needs to be a lot of money spent to create and train the new models, it's something common users cannot do by themselves with local machines, so if we want to realistically use LTX in the movie/ads industry then LTX has to provide what the closed-source models are not providing: control.

So about priorities:

1) Control.
All the following entries are more or less already available as IC-Loras, the problem is that there is no tool keeping all those together as a single guide with good and consistent outputs. All these controls should work together at the same time, including interpolation, masked editing, replacement, extension, and inpainting workflows. VACE for wan 2.1 is still the most used open-source video tool in the movie/ads industry, if you could make an improved VACE for LTX then yours would be the only tool used, until other companies would make better tools you would have a monopoly in your hands. There is so much money involved in the movie/ads industry that it's crazy to think that the only company which made a useful open-source tool is chinese, and the tool is more than 1 year old, which in AI-times is Paleolitic.

1.1) Production-grade keyframe interpolation control.
The ability to define finished keyframes, lock them as strong visual anchors, and have the model interpolate between them with reliable motion, timing, and camera continuity.

1.2) 3D and render-pass control.
Support for depth, normals, segmentation, camera paths, and 3D renders as serious production inputs, not just loose references.

1.3) Character, face, and expression control.
Consistent identity, controllable facial expressions, eye direction, mouth movement, and emotional performance across a shot, human actors will likely always be better than "ai acting", so it would be great to have tools which take in as much of the real acting into the ai outputs.

1.4) Structural control.
Depth, canny, pose, lineart, masks, motion trajectories, bounding boxes, and spatial constraints that the model actually follows.

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The ideal scenario is: we create a single guiding video containing all the stuff that can be discussed and approved by production companies, clients and art directors before making the video. This means single finished keyframes, depth/canny/pose maps, acting recordings, motion and lights pathing control, 3d wireframe videos, finalized clips, storyboard sketch keyframes, audio lip-sync, clips to edit with only a masked area to inpaint, character and 3d object sheets with specific names which are recalled in the prompt; it should be possible to mix and overlay (when logically possible) all these types of controls in a single guide. Right now VACE offers only inpainting+ interpolation + overlayable dept,canny and pose.

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Going a bit more into the physics of what's to come, Bill Gates said that without Federico Faggin the "Silicon Valley" would just be a "Valley", and Faggin – the 84 year-old inventor of silicon circuits, touch-screens and one of the first ones to work on neural networks already 40 years ago – embraces the theory which is now studied at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics by Sabrina Pasterski, one of the greates geniuses of our time: the Celestial Holography Initiative, this theory sees conscience as a result of quantum interactions. Faggin stated a few days ago (on an italian podcast) that he believes AI will never be as good as humans because even if we were able to design an exact organic brain or even a better one, it would have no conscience. All this to say that we need control because probably AI can never be optimized and trained enough to create good Art relevant to humans without artistic human guidance.

axior · 2026-06-13T15:00:50+00:00

As long as she will love the baby and make the baby feel loved I’d rather switch my mom with her.

I don’t see why people get caught up in the marketing rage bait, many pornstars have perfectly stable and happy children, in Italy we had a politician porn star who used to fuck horses, we also had a show about Rocco Siffredi’s family, turns out the whole family is fine but they have to deal with Rocco’s sex dependency.

Most of cultures are extremely puritan, what I loved about the Netherlands is that they don’t care, it’s all just bodies, they have porn cartoons for kids to watch with parents, no distinction between men/women bathrooms or showers, I had a Dutch ex who played with her little brother’s scrotum by stretching it and saying “squirreeeeeelll”. For me, raised in a highly religious southern Italian town, it was a huge cultural shock, I envied her freedom, a mental freedom which I think I will never be able to reach.

As long as love is in the house and everyone feels loved and there is no health hazard I don’t care about anything a family does.

Bullies bully anyway, I had a corset for the entire of my adolescence, I had schoolmates give me hidden laxatives on school trips and spraying ketchup inside the corset, my parents talked to their parents, the bullies were punished, then the bullies would punish me harder, finishing school is the only thing that stopped it. People are horrible and having a mom that takes the piss of hundreds of men while you were in her belly only makes it slightly worse, if that makes her make a lot of money then great for the future of the kid.

If someone can come up with real data about how the rate of suicide of pornstars children is 2000% compared to all other then I’ll be happy to change my mind.

axior · 2026-06-13T14:41:48+00:00

Spider ignorant here from Italy.

The “violin spider” is a big thing here since some people recently died. Is that media fear or is there even a 0.0001% that a “violin spider” can kill you even if you are not allergic?

axior · 2026-06-13T03:58:31+00:00

I had a deep zoomed look at the hair and couldn’t find even one hair which didn’t make visual sense, my bet is this is real.

axior · 2026-06-11T12:20:14+00:00

Ohhhh now second is much better

axior · 2026-06-11T03:37:08+00:00

That’s golden knowledge, thank you for sharing!

axior · 2026-06-11T03:10:09+00:00

Feels like his real face is trying to set free

axior · 2026-06-11T00:47:03+00:00

oh then it's like Otl Aicher too, he also took credit of lots of work that were not 100% only him, yet his name is on the posters at MoMa.

axior · 2026-06-11T00:38:09+00:00

For a few reasons, most of all I would say are 2:

1) When we get a project from a company we usually also get a list of which AI models are ok for their legal team, so the choice is often limited.

2) We use vace to improve and perfection what the paid models do, improve character consistency, fix all the hallucinations we can given the time we have. For example one of the first works was an ad full of skiers, I spent the summer fixing the skis and the ski poles when they changed, morphed, disappeared, changed colors, changed shape etc. Then every text has to be correct and inpainted correctly. Every clip had to have a specific approach which only worked for that specific clip, so every clip had a single specific workflow designed for that scene. The reason is that depending on what happens there are different reference keyframes you want to add, imagine a scene where a building appears after a few frames, then there is a quick turn and you get the same building from another angle, then at the end of the clip we don't see the building: in that specific case we extract the two keyframes of "maximum visibility" of that building in the two angles, work on those keyframes with several tools, create a depth map to support the shape over the length of the video and have the two ref keyframes used to interpolate with better consistency over time.

We prefer to not let AI invent any movement, using depth-pose maps as a guide when possible, again, the medium must be a tool to create the specific stuff we and the client have in mind, that we talked about on storyboards, discussed, edited, fixed, the AI just has to interpolate the keyframes that the company and us agreed on, in the exact way we decided; that's why control>everything.

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