Stephen Young

[Exit King.]

It was hard to get good results from the old diffusion models. But when you struck gold it was so compelling! You can't replicate this aesthetic with modern models. I've tried, but they're told coherent.

in conversation

One of my favorite diffusion gens from the early days of AI art. When everything was abstract surrealism.

touch moss (˶ᵔᵕᵔ˶)

You first.

Pope Francis is dead even in his race with other cardinals to have breakfast in his armchair.

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

I’m glad aliens don’t have privileged access to *my* self-deceptive reasoning processes, because they would definitely be laughing at them on alien social media

Nothing says alpha like leaving your multimillion dollar island compound to fly 8+ hours to have dinner with the guy who said he wants to put you in jail, and then fly straight back.

We didn't get Data. Instead we created Lore.

Many of my favorite works are still from Disco Diffusion

alternate timeline where instead of reading to children on 9/11, george bush was in the middle of filming hot ones

Amazing new error message at ATL

Happy Saturday, please enjoy this moth. I found them just for you.

I love combining BigGAN gens with more modern tools. Leonardo AI makes this very easy. Without further ado I present transcendental cat in HD technicolor! Fully remastered! Fully restored!

Clouds ☁️ made of glsl (shader) and a touch of javascript #genart #abstractart

‘Hay bales’ #DebraGangale #Landscape #Painting #OilPainting #Art #Artist #Artsy #Autumn #ContemporaryPainting #Countryside #Design #BlueSkyArt #pleinair #Peaceful #dailypainting

oldschoool gens with BigGAN+CLIP. This one is "transcendental cat" I'm no expert on transcendental beings or cats. But this looks scientifically accurate to me

"Birch Tree: Unwrapped" This is a bit of accidental art that really delighted me. It's a 3D model of a birch tree, deconstructed so that I could 'bake' the lighting and texture into a single image. The effect is a kind of 'knolling' where the pieces are arrayed just so. Made in #Houdini

Reupping my and @andykroll.bsky.social story on Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, on the news he is joining the next Trump administration. We got private videos of Vought's plans for "traumatically" razing the civil service, siccing military on protestors… 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/vide...

I'll always remember how, right from the beginning of the pandemic, all the public announcements emphasised how many of the people killed had pre-existing conditions. As if people with pre-existing conditions weren't full people, weren't just as full of life, just as loved as anyone else.

more users are joining and the hog grows longer

Hank Green is so ambitious. It's exhausting. My life is like being the co-author of the Federalist Papers. I'm all like, "John Jay got sick after writing five." And Hank's like, "HAMILTON WROTE THE OTHER FIFTY ONE."

well... shit

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For planets, life is a communicable Oxygen Catastrophe.

oldschool BigGAN+CLIP "descent to hell"

Going oldschool with bigsleep. Prompt is "a dog". Result is *chef kiss*

"photo of a geometric gridlike dog" doing some oldschool BigGAN + Clip generations

Reskeet if ur so so sleepy

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

Best system architecture I ever architected

NASA’s new rendering of the Christmas Tree Nebula

"a horse in space" created with bigsleep in 2021. How far things have come in 3 years. Feels like a decade ago. Even still I love these early gens. It's like the world viewed through the eyes of an alien intelligence.

very hot tip: if you see this shit in the store buy it. it’s peak refreshment. mixes perfectly with gin if you’re into that kind of thing. i get it at aldi but imagine it’s elsewhere this isnt a sponsored post but it was made out of personal self interest, because if they stop making it i will kms

one thing i do miss about twitter is how i would see a post i’m interested in and then it immediately disappeared like im a raccoon washing his cotton candy

I asked what bad-sounding combinations are actually good and most people were like “prosciutto on cantaloupe” but Jesse understood the assignment. I need the unhinged shit.

Floating some ideas for OpenAI since we reached the end of scaling: + MattGPT, where it’s just like the original but it only replies in the tone of this guy you went to third grade with + CatGPT, self/explanatory, internet is made of cats anyway, people will always pay for cats + BatGPT—

Bluesky is currently the #1 free app on the Top charts 🔵 Twitter (X) is no longer in the top 25

Did one last pass with Sky Follower Bridge; now I'll unfollow everyone on X and leave the locked acct as an empty husk to hold the handle. I don't mind my posts being scraped for training; that's how a starship in orbit around Antares ends up wondering where it got a preference for Keemun tea

Two days ago I deleted my Twitter handle. 🥲🫡

This is cool

Pairing Elon and Vivek is like a buddy comedy written by someone who doesn’t understand buddies or comedy

Here’s the source code by the way github.com/bluesky-soci...

What a time to be alive 😵‍💫