Founder of LDS marketplace @NauvooSupply and indie publisher @40NorthPress. Husband. Dad. Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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This book cover is a personal favorite. The hidden second headline emerged while I was designing it. The kind of thing a craftsman discovers while exercising creative muscle.
Guys won’t have a chance. When AI drives the internet
- the content + the traffic
- the likes + shares
- writes the comments
- drives the searches + the results
- defines what’s news + what’s buried
- shapes the safe opinions
Guys won’t have a chance. Unless they’re weird.
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Dear X algo, show me only the best General Conference content this weekend and connect me to the real ones.
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On conference eve I’m praying for peace for the family of my older brother. He died unexpectedly and too young.
A dad, a brother, a son, a husband, and a grandfather. He taught me how to shoot, how to ride a bike, how to tell stories, and how to dance. Showed me how to study the scriptures and consecrate his time by serving a mission. Introduced me to good music, and the joy of running. We spent countless hours skateboarding and building battle scenes from lead figures, cardboard, and foam.
He cannot be replaced, but we will meet again.
Miss you man.
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Who has the tokens and access to the source material to make this happen? Thinking @themormonr for the compute and networking and @sigilante for the technical chops.
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Imagine the implications for family history
I used GPT-6 Astra to break an unsolved cipher to one of Napoleon's generals that had gone unread for 217 years.
What makes this impressive isn't actually the codebreaking, but that Astra completed the entire multi-modal workflow in ~6 hours from a single image and goal.
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God can amplify action.
Below is the principle restated neatly by gentiles, “Action produces information.”
This has never been more true. The opportunity cost of endless planning and contemplation just went way up. Agents allow you to just try vastly more stuff, so let them, and you'll learn way more, way faster.
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Liberals: Be offended on behalf of victims
ExMos: get offended on behalf of believers
A command backed by a punishment is a threat by definition, whether it comes from a burning bush or a pulpit in Rexburg.
What do you think of this one?
“Whoever disobeys God and His Messenger and oversteps His limits, He will put him in a Fire to remain there forever.”
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I don’t think Cardon (posting as the @WardRadioShow brand) is ready for a beef with Hardman. 😂
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Watching Alexander the Great (1952) and they’re demonstrating the correct way to show your child to your ward.
Made with AI
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Gospel study idea: What was the percentage of the world population during each of the 6 prior dispensations, and what was the relative size of the covenant people during those periods?
Is the final dispensation expected to look different, in terms of population or scale impact?
What is my individual role?
How would a visualization capture this idea and how would it account for the unknowns.
Unknowns like, populations who had the gospel but whose records aren’t revealed yet?
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As the world gets nastier, the ability of the worldwide church to operate from North American soil relies on religious freedom. We will be asked to stand our ground and be peacemakers while we do it.
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When he’s older he’s going to love The Village
We broke the news to 9 yo about Santa and the tooth fairy earlier this year (he was already suspicious but just wanted to be clear) and one day a few weeks later he said he had a really important question for me and he needed to speak to me alone. I was a little concerned so we
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Story is king, the rest is style
TALES OF GRIMWICKE — Chapter I is 22 minutes of AI fantasy animation inspired by the many anthropomorphic animal stories I read as a kid, with a dark twist:
The model: Seedance 2.5 (@ByteDanceSeed_ ) via @Segmind_ai. 847 takes generated, mostly 30-second multi-shot prompts, over 5 hours of footage. 127 clips made the cut. About $4.5k in generation, four weeks from first take to publish.
Characters and locations came out of @midjourney. Using MJ for the location plates was a revelation: the cinematography and art direction are a level above, and it renders far better as a plate than Nano Banana or GPT Image. Nano Banana (@GoogleDeepMind run on @fal) did the heavy lifting editing those plates, building anchor frames and turning MJ characters into turnaround sheets. Then I let Seedance do as much of the framing and camera operating as possible. That gave the best results.
A lot of what I do in my Unreal Engine films came with me: a handheld, imperfect camera operator instead of smooth moves, focus hunting, and above all weather and atmospherics. The model does water, snow, smoke and rain really well, and leaning into that is what keeps it from looking like a Temu Pixar film.
The tools I built: a portal (Node on @flydotio) that holds the bible, the refs, every prompt and every take, with a Claude agent (@claudeai) that writes the prompts to the house rules. A Premiere Pro (@AdobeVideo) panel that browses the archive, drops selects on the timeline, versions the project, strips music, and sends fixes back to Seedance. Everything is done in 720p with no upscaling, because it looks terrible. Narration is my own voice through @ElevenLabs speech-to-speech. Music from @Artlist_io.
None of this would exist without @PJaccetturo and @Kavanthekid. Their narrative work, Nexus and Chronicles of Bone, proved long-form AI film was possible, and their podcasts, newsletters and X posts, updated constantly as the workflow changes under everyone's feet, showed how to actually do it.
Chapter II is currently in the works and I will release it initially on my YouTube channel, The Darkest Age (@CharlieDriscollAI). Consider subscribing there to see it as soon as it drops!
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