I recently discovered the existence of “reality shifting”. In brief, thousands of people – mostly teenagers – claim to be able to jump to (and live in) alternative realities, in some kind of lucid dream, after having carefully scripted it all. There are different suggested methods for shifting, which sometimes are simple and sometimes very complex. The most popular alternative reality (DR – desired reality) is Hogwarts, the Harry Potter school of magic, where some people claim to have spent weeks. TikTok and YouTube are full of these videos and I literally can’t stop watching them.
Dear imaginary audience
Sea shanties are trending on TikTok
More amazing collaborative content to enjoy:
“TikTok’s unique ability to plumb the depths of obscure genres and hoist them to the forefront of popular culture has landed another viral sensation: the sea shanty.”
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DALL·E. An AI that creates images from text

Ok, this looks super fun: “we’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language“.
Everybody’s streaming, even when no one is watching
“Nobody.live presents random Twitch streams with nobody watching — until you are”.
Turning random internet drama into songs
Tree.fm

Tree.fm
lets you tune into the sounds of different forests from around the world.From #witchtok to #mushroomtok
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The Monolith Tracker
Best site (and best story) of 2020. Hands down.
Windows 95 ugly Christmas sweater
Microsoft has released a line of ugly Christmas sweaters with retro Windows themes. Along with Windows 95 graphics, there are also Windows XP and MS Paint designs.
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