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Developer Launches Site Streaming 90s Bollywood Barbershop Hits

Developer Launches Site Streaming 90s Bollywood Barbershop Hits▶

Yash Bhardwaj shares a website, Deluxe Saloon, that plays 90s Bollywood songs of the kind heard at Indian barbershops. The post is a nostalgic personal project with a short video demo.

Original post · 1 min read
I made a website that plays bangers from indian barbershops

before you became fancy and started visiting salons. you once went to a 'saloon'. ₹20 haircuts. simple hairstyles with music that could fix your soul.

saloon.wtf
saloon.wtfDeluxe Saloon90s Bollywood bangers that play at Indian barber shops.
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Friends Surprise Groom With AI-Generated Video of Couple's Love Story

Friends Surprise Groom With AI-Generated Video of Couple's Love Story▶

Justine Moore shares a clip of a wedding surprise in which the groom's friends used AI video to present a timeline of the couple's relationship, ending with how they met.

Original post · 1 min read
Imagine getting surprised at your wedding with a video of your love story across eras 🥹

It ends with how they actually met.

Insanely cool use case for AI video - the groom's friends made it for him (he's on IG at pure.sagyna).
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Ganga Dip Videos Service Reportedly Earns Lakhs Daily From Requests

Ganga Dip Videos Service Reportedly Earns Lakhs Daily From Requests

Khush Mahajan highlights a man who records videos of people taking digital dips in the Ganga for a fee, reportedly receiving 1,000 to 1,500 requests a day at 400 rupees per video.

Original post · 1 min read
You must have seen this guy doing Ganga digital snan with your photo.

Just found out he gets 1000-1500 requests a day.

Charges ₹400 for the video, and ₹50-100 extra if you want him to post it on his page.

That’s ₹4-5L/day from taking dips in the Ganga.
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Luka Modrić Criticizes VAR After Croatia's Disallowed Late Goal

Luka Modrić Criticizes VAR After Croatia's Disallowed Late Goal

Croatian midfielder Luka Modrić said a last-minute equaliser against Portugal was wrongly disallowed by VAR over a marginal touch earlier in the move, arguing the technology is changing the game's character.

Original post · 2 min read
🚨 Luka Modrić on Croatia’s controversial last-minute disallowed goal against Portugal:

🗣️ “This is football. Not a courtroom, not a lab where we freeze every frame and argue over centimetres.
Tonight we gave everything against a very good Portugal team. We were still fighting deep into stoppage time. The boys kept believing, kept pushing, and when that ball went in through Josko we thought we had it — equaliser, extra time, everything still possible.
Then VAR comes in and takes it away because of a touch earlier in the move. I respect the officials, I really do. But the rule is clear and obvious error. Was this one? These little things, these marginal calls where players are fighting for every inch… that’s football. That’s what defenders and attackers do every single day.
If we start ruling out goals like that in the last seconds because of a split-second touch or a shoulder or a toe, then what are we left with? The game loses its soul. The emotion, the chaos, the moments that make people fall in love with football — they get taken away by technology that was only supposed to fix the obvious mistakes.
We accept that sometimes the ball doesn’t go your way. We’ve done it our whole careers. But when the decision feels like it rewrites the last chapter of the match instead of just correcting something clear, it hurts. Not just us in the dressing room, but everyone who was watching and living every second with us.
Portugal deserved to go through, they’re a strong side and they showed it. But nights like this make you wonder where the game is heading. We play with our hearts, we fight until the whistle, and then one review decides everything.
That’s not protecting football anymore. That’s changing it into something else.”
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Florida Woman Arrested After Impersonating Costco Employee Serving Tequila

Florida Woman Arrested After Impersonating Costco Employee Serving Tequila

A post shares a news story about a 32-year-old Tampa woman accused of posing as a Costco beverage employee and serving tequila shots to shoppers as samples. The text is a lightly satirical recounting of a local incident.

Original post · 3 min read
They should make her VP of marketing A Florida woman was arrested after allegedly impersonating a Costco employee and turning an ordinary shopping trip into what witnesses described as a full-blown “warehouse happy hour.”

According to authorities, 32-year-old Brianna Keller walked into a Costco location in Tampa dressed convincingly enough to fool both shoppers and employees. Wearing black pants, a red polo shirt, and a fake name badge that read “Crystal — Beverage Team,” Keller reportedly stationed herself near the frozen food section and began offering customers tiny cups of tequila disguised as free product samples.

Investigators say the scene escalated quickly.

Using miniature ketchup cups typically reserved for condiments, Keller allegedly poured tequila shots for shoppers while pairing them with frozen appetizers and snack foods. Witnesses claimed she confidently explained that Costco was “testing a new customer experience initiative” and referred to the alcohol as part of a “weekend tasting event.”

Several shoppers reportedly believed the setup was legitimate.

“She was so confident that nobody questioned it,” one customer told local reporters. “She kept talking about flavor profiles like she actually worked there.”

Authorities say Keller became increasingly theatrical as the crowd grew larger. Witnesses described her leading chants of “Weekend mode activated!” while customers laughed, cheered, and continued lining up for more samples. At one point, shoppers were allegedly dancing near the mattress displays while holding condiment cups filled with liquor.

Employees reportedly became suspicious after noticing unusually large crowds gathering around the snack aisle and customers behaving noticeably louder than normal. Managers approached Keller after hearing her pitch what she called “Bottomless Sample Fridays” to confused supervisors.

The situation came to an end when store management contacted police.

Officers say Keller continued attempting to rally customers even as she was being escorted from the building, shouting, “WHO’S READY FOR ROUND TWO?” while several shoppers applauded the spectacle.

She was arrested on charges related to impersonation, disorderly conduct, and unauthorized distribution of alcohol.

No injuries were reported during the incident, though authorities confirmed the store temporarily shut down the sampling area while employees cleaned up the scene.

One shopper summed up the bizarre event by saying, “Honestly, for a minute I thought Costco was just evolving.”
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Moog Shares Personal Update on Creating a Custom GIF

Moog Shares Personal Update on Creating a Custom GIF▶

Moog thanks a Croatian supporter for an opportunity to create a GIF they plan to use often. The post is a personal note with no technical or news content.

Original post · 1 min read
Huge thanks to this Croatian supporter for giving me the opportunity to create a GIF that I will use on here almost daily.
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Engineer Pairs Whoop Heart-Rate Data With Calendar to Rank Coworker Stress

Engineer Pairs Whoop Heart-Rate Data With Calendar to Rank Coworker Stress

Pankaj describes using Fable to reverse engineer Whoop's per-minute heart rate data and matching spikes to calendar events and attendees, creating a stress leaderboard of coworkers, with some details masked in the shared images.

Original post · 1 min read
i hooked my whoop to my work calendar to find which coworker gives me the most stress 🚨

thanks to fable, I reverse engineered whoop to pull per minute heart rate. nd matched spikes with cal events and attendees

I now have a leaderboard and I think about it daily.

few info masked for obvious reasons ;)
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NRI Shares Step-By-Step Guide to Selling Bangalore Property

An NRI describes selling a Bangalore property and begins a multi-part guide, starting with obtaining a power of attorney to avoid traveling to India for registration.

Original post · 1 min read
Finally we sold our Bangalore property. Being an NRI the process is tedious. I will give all the steps here so that it might be useful. Below are the main steps

1. Power of Attorney - this is first step if you don’t want to go to India for registration. Take 2 witnesses 1/7
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Creator Showcases Seedance 2.0 and GPT Image 2 Sports Broadcast Still

Creator Showcases Seedance 2.0 and GPT Image 2 Sports Broadcast Still▶

Ciri shares a photorealistic sports broadcast image made with Seedance 2.0 and GPT Image 2, with the full generation prompt included. The post is primarily a showcase of AI image and video generation.

Original post · 1 min read
Made with seedance 2.0 + GPT Image 2

Prompt: Ultra-realistic sports broadcast still of a glamorous woman sitting in a packed football stadium crowd during a night match, wearing a dark brown sleeveless high-neck satin top and black square earrings, shoulder-length light brown/blonde hair styled in soft waves. She is casually drinking from a tall blue aluminum can while holding a half-eaten cheeseburger in the other hand. Around her are fans in bright yellow and blue football jerseys and scarves, creating strong team-color contrast. The scene feels candid and cinematic, captured mid-game from a TV broadcast camera angle with shallow depth of field. Include realistic stadium seating, crowded audience atmosphere, broadcast overlay graphics in the top-left corner showing a live football score and match timer, and a sports network watermark in the top-right. Natural arena lighting, detailed skin texture, sharp focus on the woman, slightly blurred background crowd, authentic live sports broadcast aesthetic, 16:9 composition.
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Creator Demonstrates AI-Generated Wimbledon Broadcast Screenshot

Creator Demonstrates AI-Generated Wimbledon Broadcast Screenshot▶

Ege shares a fabricated live Wimbledon TV broadcast still made with GPT Image 2 and Kling 3.0, including the full prompt. The post shows a trend of realistic AI-generated broadcast imagery.

Original post · 1 min read
Recently these super realistic live TV broadcast shots have been going viral everywhere

Tried making one myself using GPT Image 2 + Kling 3.0

Prompt: A screenshot from a live Wimbledon TV broadcast during a packed Centre Court match. The camera cuts to the audience, an unbelievably attractive woman in her 20s with long black hair, flawless skin, elegant makeup, and a luxurious aura, seated in the VIP section wearing a sophisticated cream-white low-cut summer outfit with subtle jewelry. She smiles naturally while reacting to the match, unaware she's on camera. Wealthy spectators and champagne glasses around her, old-money tennis atmosphere, shallow depth of field. Full live tennis broadcast overlay: scoreboard, network watermark, broadcast graphics, 16:9 aspect ratio. The image looks exactly like a real TV screenshot, telephoto broadcast lens, realistic live color grading, slight compression artifacts, interlacing grain, subtle motion blur, imperfect live-camera framing.
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Viral Clip Shows Man Making Clothes Try Him On

Viral Clip Shows Man Making Clothes Try Him On▶

Sovey shares a short video with a joke caption saying men avoid trying on clothes, and that this man made the clothes try him on. The post is light entertainment with no substantive content.

Original post · 1 min read
Men will do anything to avoid trying on clothes.
He made the clothes try him on.
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