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    Fringe beliefs, pseudoscience, pseudophilosophy, fringe psychology, moral panics, cognitive neuroscience, Dusty Springfield, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, satanic ritual abuse/recovered memory therapy controversy, True Believers, cult dynamics, urban planning, 80s music, urban transportation, Grand Guignol, snarkiness . . . QAnon phenomena, Youtube 'cults,' extremism/radicalism
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    Poet and gadfly, WSS has been:- HR manager of a year-round silviculture company in the great white north- singer. songwriter, frontman- painter- sculptor- reporter- cook- janitor- editor- filmmaker- actor- amateur psychologist- web mavenMay he be all these things

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  1. william.scherk

    Testing raw link from the DALL-E labs at OPENAI.com. [Added: There is something widly inventive and yet creepy about DALL-E's "brains." She or he or They are always learning, always spinning, but they have no freaking idea why the hair is standing up on the back of your neck ... ]

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    favicon-16x16.png William × DALL·E | 2000 Mules the movie, with Dinesh DeSouza, poster Art Nouveau

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    Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

    I have quickly become quasi-addicted to the one-armed-bandit 'payoff' moments that come from spending imaging tokens.

    DALL-E is not expensive, and they don't have to pay "Brainiac" anything but food and shelter expenses, electricity being paramound food. On the other hand, no doubt there are leagues of software engineers in a bristling competition to Be Best. Who all gots to be paid.

    DALL-E's registered site at OpenAI's online ecosystem also gives access to new Beta scrambles for dominance, which are astounding for their ability to churn out non-uncanny items. These are ready to go for web+design purposes -- from logos to draft menus, comic book layouts, cartoons, and on and on.

    Compete incessantly and evolve without mercy; another rolling-beta open-ish source engine is in free-first-bag-of-crack mode on Discord (MidJourney).

    It does such spendid things as taking a 'seed' picture and then applying text-based instructions. Uncanny Valley of excellence in design. Yet, yes,  scary at all points beyond a fifth 'regeneration' ...

    MidJourney has an associated web instance for directly image-sharing links. I'll drop a version or two from Twitter in the blank-out below, given time. 

    A no-co-pay addiction engine comparable to MidJourney is BlueWillow, also on Discord. It has the limitations of censorship for violence, sex and so on, but much tighter than DALL-E. It seems like some of these engine's brains haven't learned any current affairs since 2021, so they are unable to envision who and what are now common meme-fodder.

    Bizarre and freaking instance ... 

    Honourable mention is the brilliant, Caffeine-THC-Dilaudid-Oxytocin lure Deep Dream Generator. I won't link, because you will Spend All Your Tokens and rob grandma's purse to get more.

    The newest thing to me that induces mild freakout is a Dramatic Script Maker, in development and just available for tinkering via GitHub depository. Dramatron. 

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    Economist story featuring MidJourney ... 

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    6554b6be8c0d829a8bf63ae0c82cf121_link.pn Huge “foundation models” are turbo-charging AI progress | The Economist

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    They can have abilities their creators did not foresee

     

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      william.scherk

      The Edge of Creepy, Again

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