Many people are just playing with images and the distinctive styles that Midjourney (the model) seems to have developed. It's also trained by ratings and people's interactions.
When you make images you can dial down the "aesthetic".
This app might top the charts via hype initially but I can't see why someone would stick with it long-term compared to other alternatives. Plus creators would have to pay soon to make these videos, what are they getting back? Unless they can make money via this
After seeing the results of Sora 2, Meta and Midjourney are not yet competing at this level.
This is the "Suno" moment for video.
It's easy to make a really compelling composition. Something even Google Veo couldn't do.
It's not the best looking video model, but it has everything else -- rich editing, good voices and lipsync, music and lyrics, animation (cartoon, 3D, anime), SFX. It's wild.
The videos aren't single clips but rather complete beginning-middle-end stories that unfold over several cuts.
They don't have ads, it's paid members only. You can see other people's images, including the prompts, so it's an interesting way to learn what works, and to mutate prompts and images. There are many ways of recombining or breeding images.
They have an onboarding flow where you rate images and it tunes into your aesthetic preferences. You can create mood boards for specific projects.
So I would say it's more community than social media.
I think it’s rather that good (effective) politicians wield the law and power effectively and creatively. Good people don’t follow bad laws, for example.
The Democrats are not good, but it’s intentional. They work for their donors not their voters.
You are commenting on a thread about Republican Party gutting one more scientific research department. But you have audacity to say Democrats are bad. One of the commenters on this thread had described very appropriately the current political environment- mass weaponization of stupidity. Those people are running at a very high speed in the opposite direction that there’s no coming back for them.
> They work for their donors not their voters
Voters are donors too. Maybe you meant big donors like Musk. You know how that turned out.
I’m saying Democrats are ineffective at doing good and are therefore part of the problem.
If the Democrats do not effectively wield power to solve people’s real world (economic) problems the country will slide further to the right.
I obviously meant wealthy donors and corporations (the ownership class) — the minority or entities that the Democrats are beholden to as opposed to the bulk of their voters.
> It would be helpful if I had a long rambling dialogue with a chat model and it distilled that.
IME this can work pretty well with Gemini in the web UI. If it misinterprets you at any stage you can edit your last comment until it gets on the same page, so to speak. Then once you're to a point in the conversation where you're satisfied it seems to "get it", you can drop in some more directly relevant context like example code if needed and ask for what you want.
- Minecraft
- Roblox
- LittleBigPlanet
- Mario Maker
This is what kids do to be creative.
Slightly more serious (and therefore less succesful):
- Logo/Turtle Graphics
- Scratch
- HyperStudio
HyperCard was both graphic design and hypertext (links). These two modalities got separated, and I think there are practical reasons for that. Because html/css design actually sucks and never became an amateur art form.
For writing and publishing we got Wiki, Obsidian et al, Blogs (RIP), forums, social media. Not meant to be interactive or programmable, but these fulfill people's needs for publishing.
(see the subsubsection "Arcs for toolpaths and DXFs")
Jupyter Notebooks come close to allowing a seamless blending of text and algorithm, but they are sorely missing on the graphic design and vector graphics front --- which now that I write that, makes me realize that that is the big thing which I miss when trying to use them. Makes me wish for JuMP, a Jupyter Notebook which incorporates METAPOST --- if it also had an interactive drawing mode, it would be perfect.... (for my needs).
Yes! I used FileMaker a lot, and built my first journaling system with it. Like a cross between hypercard and a wiki. It really changed my life and this lead to programming.
Just like many punks before him, he did know chords, but he wanted that classic punk naive sound and in interviews he claims he doesn't know anything. It's about moving up and down the neck and finding the sweet, sick and weird sounds.
I don't know why the article claims this was a Nirvana discovery. It started in the 70s. Discharge, Wire then Fugazi, Minor Threat. These people are smart, just raw, and they like blunt aesthetics.
I like the Ramones, but they definitely aren't smart. I used to produce radio shows and I edited an interview with Joey Ramone. He said "uh" like "uh" every other word. Because I like him, I removed most of the "uh"s so he wouldn't sound so daft.
The Ramones were pretty standard with tonality. There's a good chance that Colin Newman knows what a chromatic mediant is, but probably nobody else in punk did.
