J Dakota Powell
@jdakotapowell.bsky.social
Writer/director, 3D artist, creative technologist | Founder TimeWave Studio, Prev: XR Lab (US), TimeWave (UK), Velocity Lab (UK), Yale * timewavestudio.com, jdakotapowell.com 🧪 The Golden Toad (VR), The Red Flute (VR), Atom Smashers (MR) on Quest
RT WSJ: Trump Fatigue Starts to Rattle Republicans While the president prepares to rally voters at the midterm convention, some lawmakers say resentment and worries are building Note - People are just tired of daily Trump drama and his tantrums. They're moving on. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Trump Fatigue Starts to Rattle Republicans
While the president readies to rally voters at next week’s midterm convention, some GOP lawmakers say resentment and worries are building.
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Nothing like a 3 mile long queue at passport control for non EU passports to get the old rage about Brexit resurfacing #StillNotOverIt #Rejoin
Glee's Quinn Fabray Reacts: This Is Insane
Alt: Glee's Quinn Fabray Reacts: This Is Insane
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“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.
USPS Whistleblower Warns New Rule Could Keep Voters From Getting Ballots—What To Know
“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.
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I understand decrying "old people now get all their information from ChatGPT", but this is definitely an improvement on "old people now get all their information from Facebook and TikTok".
Google is a traitor to democracy Remember that Gulf of America? Lake America? BULLSHIT
Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.
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'Locked to the Sun and Moon': The startling 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer
In August 1966, a US astronomy professor shared his astonishing findings with the BBC. He believed that the Neolithic stone circle was built to predict eclipses.
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Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs Note - Sony & Warner claim they're the "victims of 'one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history'." #AI #Anthropic www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs
AI company faces multibillion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models
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Dearest Canada Thank you thank you thank you Canada is making sure the trade war hits swing states hardest. Doing its part to secure a successful mid terms for all. Thank you Canada Thank you thank you thank you www.yahoo.com/finance/econ...
The US-Canada trade war is being felt on both sides of the border — what comes next?
The US-Canada trade war is being felt on both sides of the border.
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Virtual reality reveals glassfish synchronize through split-second copying of single neighbors Note: fascinating that flocking behaviour is not about a group heeding a general direction. Each individual copies its neighbour. Direction of aggregate emerges. #xr #vr #science phys.org/news/2026-08...
Virtual reality reveals glassfish synchronize through split-second copying of single neighbors
For centuries, scientists have been fascinated by the remarkable coordinated movements of flocking birds, swarming insects and schooling fish. Researchers have studied these natural phenomena to under...
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After 2 years of historical research (marine archives at Cité de la Mer and NOAA), "Titanic: Echoes from the Past" – an immersive exhibition in #VR is opening in NYC. It's more than wreckage, the exhibit features stories of passengers. #xr #immersivestorytelling secretnyc.co/titanic-echo...
Dive 12,000 feet underwater and step inside history: NYC’s new Titanic VR experience is open
Step back in time and witness history unfold with Titanic: Echoes From The Past, an immersive virtual reality (VR) exhibition taking New Yorkers on an emotional, state-of-the-art journey to the deck o...
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Guernsey Arts and The International Stock Exchange launch virtual reality gallery #xr #vr #art #exhibition channeleye.media/guernsey-art...
Guernsey Arts and The International Stock Exchange launch virtual reality gallery
A new sponsored virtual gallery is giving Guernsey Arts a dedicated platform to showcase the work of local artists while
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On August 23, 1991, the world wide web was officially opened to the public. Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave it to us... for free. A short history of the Web – Home | CERN home.cern/science/comp...
A short history of the Web – Home | CERN
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Powerhouse Arts Brings the Prado’s Masterpieces to New York in Immersive VR #xr #vr #immersivestorytelling #art #museums Link: artplugged.co.uk/powerhouse-a...
When the order came to abandon ship, Doris Miller didn't. He stayed and pulled men out of burning water. He was 24 when he was killed. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
Ancient Welsh poetry, psychedelic noise and a few bones – welcome to the strange and wonderful world of MWSOG ✍️Amelia Jones wp.me/p8Mk4U-1rrT
Building a #Quantum Computer, One Fragile #Qubit at a Time No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already produced some of science’s most intricate machinery. www.quantamagazine.org/building-a-q...
Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time | Quanta Magazine
No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already produced some of science’s most intricate machinery.
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Ukraine’s 35th Independence year brings War Up Close VR to Kelowna #xr #vr #immersivestorytelling summerlandreview.com/2026/08/19/u...
Ukraine’s 35th Independence year brings War Up Close VR to Kelowna - Summerland Review
Photographing Ukraine’s Raw Reality: Kelowna welcomes ‘’War Up Close’’ initiative
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Opening the “black box” with explainable #AI – a conversation with Menna El-Assady (Menna El-Assady, computer science professor and head of the Interactive Visualization & Intelligence Augmentation Lab of ETH Zurich) lab.imedd.org/en/opening-t...
Opening the "black box" with explainable AI – a conversation with Menna El-Assady - iMEdD Lab
With artificial intelligence tools having overwhelmed work routines and even our daily lives, Menna El-Assady, computer science professor and head of the Interactive Visualization & Intelligence Augme...
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Our second Flock scoop this week: We got the code for a powerful AI tool Flock built for police. It goes much further than tracking license plates. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license…
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Moderna Shares Double on Success of mRNA Cancer Vaccine Result from Merck-Moderna partnership validates years of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines Note: a vaccine for cancer, it's extraordinary! www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
Moderna Shares Double on Success of mRNA Cancer Vaccine
Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.
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Shared Spatial Understanding: The Next Evolution of Industrial Operations www.automation.com/article/shar... #industry #spatialcomputing #spatialai #immersion
Shared Spatial Understanding: The Next Evolution of Industrial Operations
The information teams use to inspect, diagnose and repair industrial machines is flat. Gains in uptime and efficiency will come not from collecting more data, but from giving field and office teams a ...
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Some great work from @cybereality.bsky.social implementing global illumination. www.patreon.com/cybereality/...
Global Illumination Degine Update | cybereality
Past few days decided to add a better global illumination solution for Degine, my in-house OpenGL 3D engine. This particular method is calle
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