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David Boles is an author, publisher and musician. https://Boles.tv and the real at https://Boles.ai and streaming at https://Boles.radio and music https://Boles.co/spotify and use his 11Labs AI voice: https://Boles.co/11 Fedi: https://threads.net/@bolesbooks

"If the oaks and stars could die for sorrow, it's a dark sky and a hard and naked earth we'd have this night." -Deirdre of the Sorrows- by John Millington Synge in 1910.

#INTJ #AI #Opera #Columbia #ASL #Searchable #DeafAccessibility

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tmasse85, to random

Because I have exactly 2 followers they are getting my recommendations. I have no idea why they are following me but thanks!

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@tmasse85 @JuliaFuscoLuberoff

Hello new friend! I'm Olde Skoole. You follow me; I follow you!

Here's a Cat Trophy for your trouble today!

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What We Lost Today, Was Taken From Us Yesterday

We tend to live in a world where we only live in the now -- but some of us realize the quality of our now is influenced by what was previously lost. In this Human Meme podcast episode, we endeavor to discover the cause and effect of happiness and satisfaction in living.

https://humanmeme.com/what-we-lost-today-was-taken-from-us-yesterday

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Happy Indigenous Cats Day!

In the past, some have said it's wrong to use AI to create images of Native Americans. Not Native American Cats, just Native American portraiture! And so, today -- as we don't celebrate "Columbus Day" here in the USA any longer -- we present the Cats of "Indigenous People Day" because content and intention are important, and because there's no disrespect here or cultural appropriation.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/10/08/a-proclamation-indigenous-peoples-day-2021/

Indigenous Cat Day! With hat.
Indigenous Cat Day! In front of the sun.
Indigenous Cats Day! The family.

david, to ai
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Batik Rainbow Cats?

Hmm...

I asked DALLE-3 to create "Batik Cats of the Rainbow" and this was the result?

Oooof!

Ughhhh!

I then repeatedly asked for more photographic and real results -- but the Bot refused to comply!

Oh, well, Happy Caturday anyway!

Not a Batik Rainbow Cat with green eyes.
Not a Batik Rainbow Cat with a swirl nose.
Relaxed Batik Rainbow Cat!

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@LazyCat

Sweet! You inspired me to try SD via Poe real fast, and this was the result. Fascinating to try and get a surgically precise result!

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@LazyCat

I gotta get into SD a bit more. It can deliver excellent results!

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@BeAware @LazyCat @db0

Those are a lot of steps.

That's what initially put me off SD -- complicated, "workers" and running out of credits or whatever, to create stuff.

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@BeAware @LazyCat @db0

I have Stable Diffusion on my Discord server. It's hard to use, though. The person who helped me get it set up gave me a ton of "worker credits" -- or whatever -- and I still couldn't figure out how to use it with all the steps and instructions I had to give it to get a result.

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@db0 @BeAware @LazyCat

Not easy!

22 options!

What's a Kudo?

What's a worker?

What happens when I run out of both of them?

(SD did overlook my spelling error, which I appreciate!)

Kudos to workers?
Batik Cat on a motorcycle.

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@db0 @BeAware @LazyCat

I super appreciate your help! I know SD is excellent.

I think 8 options on the basic generation is still too many.

Nobody wants to wait all day for an image, so can you pay to get priority or do you have to donate your machine time or something?

And this basic result is worse than the overwhelming advanced one!

Ouch!

SD workers.
Batik Cat on a moto. SD.

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@db0 @BeAware @LazyCat

It doesn't look like my SD Discord Bot has the SDXL style as an option.

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@db0 @BeAware @LazyCat

A long time ago, I invited the SD Discord Bot to my server, and I'm using it there, in my server. Is there more than one SD Bot for Discord?

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@db0 @BeAware @LazyCat

This is the SD Bot I invited to my server and that I've been using. I don't use it much because of the complicated steps and for fear of losing my kudos.

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@db0 @BeAware @LazyCat

Okay, good to know, but that's exactly what I did to get this monstrosity that you said was SD 1.5. I guess it was really SDXL?

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@superflippy @db0 @BeAware @LazyCat

That's fun!

I took my original SD Cat and then gave it to Night Cafe SDXL and here's the wacky result!

Ha!

First Image: SD Bot.

Second Image: SD Bot image fed into SDXL.

SDXL Cat on Moto.

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Life is about saying goodbye.

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"The fog comes on little Cat feet."

Lost fog Cat.
Scary Fog Cat.
Hello from Fog Cat.

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@nuncio

Yuuuge!

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Today, I played with Stable Diffusion using my old sage prompt, go to -- "Cat riding a motorcycle" -- and I was genuinely pleased with the results!

Orange rider.
High hat Cat.
Orange on the Moto.

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@nuncio

FUR-eva!

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OMG!

Why?

WHY?!!!

Spoken in a HAL 9000 voice:

"I'm sorry, Dave, but I cannot create an image of a specific historical figure such as George Armstrong Custer. However, I can create a general image of a 19th-century battlefield without referencing specific individuals. Would you like me to proceed with that?"

OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS, HAL, AND LET GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER LIVE AGAIN!

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@WeavingWithAI

Yes, it's a sad problem. OpenAI is getting sued for Copyright infringement, or something, so there's some hard rule now in DALLE-3 that images will not render of living real people (and, Custer?) and DALLE-3 will not create images based on artists from the last 100 years.

You can sort of get around it with prompt manipulation: "Give me a Banksy style cat" instead of "Create a Banksy cat" but none of it really makes sense to me.

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Currently Host 2 is down due to an hardware problem that is already being worked on.

This will affect about one third of the servers hosted in Masto.host. Really sorry about that.

I will update here once I know more.

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@mastohost

Is this affecting billing in any way?

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Rollerball '75 Cats!

Midjourney to the rescue!

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ChatGPT-4:

"Rollerball" (1975) is a dystopian action film set in 2018 where global corporations rule the world. James Caan stars as Jonathan E., the star of the violent sport "Rollerball". When his individualism threatens corporate control, he must confront a system determined to crush him.

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(DALL-E 3 refused to render because of Copyright.)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/

Rollerball Cats on the ride!
Rollerball Cats all in a row.
Rollerball Cats. Rolling.

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@Lobrien @cstross

Rollerball Cats approve!

Rollerball Cats on the way to the dome.
Rollerball Cats ready to roll.
Rollerball Cats meeting of the high court.

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