Archive for 2022

THE NCLA, WHOSE ADVISORY BOARD I’M ON, is suing to stop the Biden student-loan forgiveness scam. The complaint, filed yesterday, is here.

FROM JACK WYLDER:  An Illustrated Guide to AI Prompt Mastery: for MidJourney, DALL-E, NightCafe, Deep Dream Generator, and More. #CommissionEarned

An Illustrated Guide to AI Prompt Mastery: for MidJourney, DALL-E, NightCafe, Deep Dream Generator, and More by [Jack Wylder]

The history of art is the history of civilization itself. With the rise of computers, it wasn’t long before humans began to explore using them to generate artwork. Using artificial intelligence to generate random artwork within set parameters began back in at least 1973 and has slowly been growing in complexity and ability. Recent breakthroughs have resulted in millions of eager users now racing to create their own art with this new technology. The ability to make anything can be daunting for new users, though. Where do you even start? How do you make stunning images like you see online? What inspirations do you draw from and how do you put them together? This book is intended to serve as a handy reference guide for users, both new and more experienced. Using a unique and whimsical collection of cats and dogs, in Section One author Jack Wylder provides users with visual representations of different artists who can serve as inspiration for their own art. Section Two dives more into the different Artistic Movements and styles possible, while Section Three covers a miscellany of different commands for the AI to interpret, and the final section. Section Four, touches on the basics of composition and how to put together the assets generated into a cohesive whole. Artists interested in the latest developments in Art, as well as fans of cats, dogs, animals, and art history will also find plenty of interesting artwork to peruse. An Illustrated Guide to AI Prompt Mastery is a valuable reference to this fascinating new field that is emerging.

LOOK, CALL ME PARANOID, BUT ARE WE SURE THIS VIRUS EVEN EXISTS?  Supposedly NIAID Unaware Boston University Was Creating New Covid Strain.

I know this sounds insane, but I can’t figure out any reason to brag about doing this. Unless you’re planning an operation to create a panic related to this and close down everything early November, so voting will be highly irregular and….

OPEN THREAD: Turning the mic over to you.

FROG MEETS SCORPION: Former New York Times Editor Claims Colleagues Treated Him Like an ‘Incompetent Fascist’ for Running Cotton Op-Ed.

Bennet left the Times on June 7, 2020, just a few days after the publication of the Cotton op-ed, which recommended that the National Guard be deployed to quell the riots that were plaguing American cities at the time. Social-justice minded Times employees led a public revolt over the publication of the op-ed, publicly accusing the paper’s leadership of endangering the lives of black staffers by giving a sitting U.S. senator a platform to air his views.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, who headed the Times’ 1619 Project, led the public backlash against Bennet.

“I’ll probably get in trouble for this, but to not say something would be immoral. As a black woman, as a journalist, I am deeply ashamed that we ran this,” Hannah-Jones tweeted at the time.

While Bennet had affixed an editor’s note to the column in the wake of the backlash, he now says that he wishes he had not.

“My regret is that editor’s note. My mistake there was trying to mollify people,” Bennet said in an interview with Smith’s new publication Semafor. He went on to accuse publisher A. G. Sulzberger of having blown “the opportunity to make clear that the New York Times doesn’t exist just to tell progressives how progressives should view reality. That was a huge mistake and a missed opportunity for him to show real strength.”

“I never apologized for publishing the piece and still don’t,” said Bennet, who also charged Sulzberger with disloyalty.

“When push came to shove at the end, he set me on fire and threw me in the garbage and used my reverence for the institution against me,” he continued. “This is why I was so bewildered for so long after I had what felt like all my colleagues treating me like an incompetent fascist.”

In 1992, New York magazine quoted ‘Pinch’ Sulzberger, then-publisher of the New York Times, as telling a crowd at the Metropolitan Museum that “alienating older white male readers means ‘we’re doing something right.’”

Pinch’s son is extending dad’s rule to older white Timesmen as well.

DANCHENKO WALKS: Leftwing Alexandria, Virginia Jury Once Again Acquits a Guilty-as-Sin Russiagate Figure. “It’s almost as if leftwing juries want to pay off their allies for having attempted to Rig the 2016 election, and for Rigging the 2020 election.First order of business in ’24: The power of removal of politically-affected cases away from Washington, DC to  non-biased jurisdictions to get fair trials. Both prosecutors and defendants should be permitted to remove trials in this way. No more Home Court Advantage for Democrat Criminals.”