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    From Midjourney

    I’m fascinated by how the AI models get better extremely fast once they are exposed to a few thousand users frantically working at them.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 20, 2022
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
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    My Last Week

    My poor brain keeps getting whacked by stuff. I suppose this is “getting old.”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 20, 2022
    • Administrivia
    • 13 Comments

    Hey Texas Republicans!

    Time to bring back lawn-darts, you stupid gomers!

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 18, 2022
    • Art, Bad Products, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
    • 11 Comments

    An Explanation For Inflation

    CounterPunch Radio has an excellent rant/explanation of the current “supply chain” crisis and inflation.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 9, 2022
    • rant, Reviews of Things, We are Fucked
    • 6 Comments

    Let’s Spotify, Shall We? (2)

    Share links to favorite or fascinating performances!

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 9, 2022
    • Art, Music
    • 9 Comments

    Midjourney

    By now you have probably heard of Dall-E and Midjourney, etc.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 8, 2022
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 22 Comments

    Under the Gonne

    By now you’ve heard that Shinzo Abe was murdered yesterday; he was shot in the back and died more or less instantly.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 8, 2022
    • War is a Racket, We are Fucked, WTF
    • 10 Comments

    We Only See the Slight Echoes

    So far, it seems to me that every US presidency has a pile of secrets that are closely guarded when they happen, but eventually leak out. Obviously, that just speaks to what a sham “US democracy” is – the people’s representative (alleged) ought not to hide anything from the people, at all. Yet, they always seem to.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 7, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
    • 8 Comments

    Things That Happened – 2

    Once the forge body is all assembled, the next problem is to see if it can get hot enough to weld in. The whole exercise is completely pointless if you can’t use the thing for its intended purpose.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 6, 2022
    • Art, Badger Forge
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    Things That Happened

    I’ve had my blade-making operation shut down for the last 2 years, because my old forge began developing awkward melted holes in the shell, which allowed long burning jets of propane to go shooting out all over the place.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 5, 2022
    • Art, Badger Forge
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