Explainers
Animated finance & tech explainer films. Free to watch — no login, no payment.
Kol Nidre: The Melody That Beat the Lawyers (Mixed-Style Test Cut)
An experimental ~48s test reshoot of the Kol Nidre explainer, mixing two visual styles shot-by-shot on the same flux+kling pipeline: flat-vector Lessin Boy animation for the abstract/mythic beats (the oldest song, Ha'azinu, the melody triumphant) and photoreal costume-drama reenactment for the concrete historical beats (the 1950s Dead Sea Scroll discovery, the Baghdad geonim, Rabbeinu Tam). Same Sam-voice narration, burned captions. Not a replacement for the full explainer -- a style test.
The History of AI Safety (Reenactment Cut)
An experimental photoreal reenactment-style pass at the AI safety origin story -- Wiener's 1960 warning, Asimov's Three Laws, the paperclip maximizer, Bostrom, OpenAI/DeepMind's founding, and the Bletchley Park summit -- shot like a costume-drama documentary instead of the usual flat-vector explainer style. A ~48s style test, not the full 5-minute version.
Kol Nidre: The Melody That Beat the Lawyers
A Torah & History explainer for the week of Yom Kippur. Ha'azinu — the oldest song in the Bible — contains a verse where you can literally watch ancient scribes editing the theology (the Dead Sea Scrolls' 'sons of God'). And Kol Nidre, the most attended moment of the Jewish year, is a legal formula the greatest rabbis in history tried to kill twice — and lost twice, to its own melody. A story about how a people that lost its land survived inside a text, and why some of the portable homeland's load-bearing walls are tunes, not laws.
The Case for Data Centers
Why data centers deserve a fair hearing, not a knee-jerk NIMBY reflex: the every-app-you-love infrastructure argument, the clean-energy investment they're funding, the trades jobs they create without a college degree, and the towns they're reviving. An animated explainer arguing that the real choice isn't building AI infrastructure or not — it's building it here, on our terms, or watching it get built somewhere else without any say at all.
The History of AI Safety
How did worrying that your invention might kill everyone become part of the job of building it? An animated explainer tracing AI safety from Norbert Wiener's 1960 warning and Asimov's fictional Three Laws, through Bostrom and the 'paperclip maximizer,' the founding of OpenAI and DeepMind's safety team, RLHF, and the post-ChatGPT rush of AI Safety Institutes and the Bletchley Park summit.
The Repo Machine: Why Bessent Can't Stop Talking About Repo Markets
Why is the Treasury Secretary obsessed with repo markets? Because the marginal buyer of the two-trillion-dollar-a-year US deficit is now a hedge fund running 20-50x leverage through a pawn-shop loop — and the buybacks, the eSLR reform, the TGA story, even the Japan FX operation are all maintenance on that machine. A 6-minute animated explainer based on Andreas Steno Larsen's article.