Post your dam AI art here and keep it out of the other threads, it's GROSS 🤮

[habib]

Sorry FrogMan, but most of us don’t speak your English?

I have no idea what you’re trying to say.

I love you but I don’t understand you!? Not sure if I am below your intellectual standards but I am at lost.

[Crease]

Odd, yeah. I kinda think this is dropping some William S. Burroughs and maybe also saying something like, “What do you have to say about that, AI?!”

That’s one of the groovy things about actual human-produced art, though: It’s open to interpretation.

[Antonius]

@habib

I have no idea what you’re trying to say.

The Frog ingested to much pond water again.

[peepeep]

@habib @Antonius

And yet you both love Pink Floyd. They’re not exactly writing essays.

Burroughs was heir to a fortune founded on this:

And nephew to a ‘founder of modern public relations.’

And then he had a life.

There’s a line in a Neil Young song from the early 70s (people were dropping like flies)

He tried to do his best but he could not…

I mashed it together in memory with another Young song about his guitar roadie who died on tour of an overdose.

I don’t know enough about Burroughs to say it applies particularly to him but I’ll hazard the guess. It’s a good epitaph and applies to many.

[peepeep]

Breathe, like the Crease. The Crease is breathing.

[ssummerlin]

@peepeep

Burroughs was heir to a fortune founded on this:

He invented the first microwave?

Hand crankable, non-electric.

[peepeep]

There’s a tough guy writer who wrote on an old smack-a-key typewriter saying the violence of it was essential to his work. As an older man he used a computer which most thought he’d never do.

[ssummerlin]

Luckily, I only used the manual typewriter as a youngster. In highschool we had a selectric typewriter. The joys of yesteryear.

[Antonius]

@peepeep

Burroughs was heir to a fortune founded on this:

Who needs a Calculating Machine when you have ten fingers and ten toes. Even the (s) have five fingers on each of their hands and feet so they multiply x 2 or 4.

[habib]

@ssummerlin

manual typewriter

I had one at home as a youngster, my father bought it for my sister. Never learned to type, still use two fingers only.

[Crease]

@peepeep

Breathe, like the Crease.

Breathe, like the Floyd?

Pink Floyd - Breathe (In The Air) [Live in HD]

@peepeep

And yet you both love Pink Floyd.

I also dig 'em.

@habib

Never learned to type, still use two fingers only.

If you’ve got more fingers to use, then you should learn Dvorak. That’s what I taught myself in college (after being disappointed with performance and wrist fatigue from the QWERTY layout I learned in a high school typing class [using IBM Wheelwriters]).

[ssummerlin]

Speaking of old technology …
[Exploding pagers](Lebanon explosions: Hezbollah apparently targeted as pagers detonate, several dead, thousands hurt Hundreds of handheld pagers explode across Lebanon, deaths and injuries reported | Fox News)

I haven’t used one since last century.

[ssummerlin]

Was going to stop by Home Depot to look at their selection of Wyze cams but the place is too crowded.

Maybe tomorrow or the next rainy day.

[habib]

@Crease

If you’ve got more fingers to use, then you should learn Dvorak. That’s what I taught myself in college (after being disappointed with performance and wrist fatigue from the QWERTY layout I learned in a high school typing class [using IBM Wheelwriters]).

Nah, I’v got all ten fingers but can’t be bothered to learn now. I’ve gotten very good with two finger typing

[Crease]

I dig. One of the things that I think is cool about Dvorak is that versions exist for people who don’t have all their fingers to use. There are single-hand (right and left) versions for people who’ve had injuries or otherwise can’t make full use of a hand.

[ssummerlin]

@Crease

Dvorak

I just didn’t have a reason to try learning something the equivalent of what already works.

[Crease]

It’s not for everyone, and for someone who likes to use keyboard shortcuts (as I do), it requires relearning the positions of some of those. (Going back to a discussion in another topic, the “classic” WordStar keystroke sequences probably make a ton more intuitive sense with a QWERTY layout, for instance.) For me, though, the benefits outweigh the pain points, including in a literal sense, plus there’s an unanticipated but potential (minor) security benefit because of the ways the key positions are remapped: It’s difficult for others to use my PCs unless they know how to change the layout.

Getting back on topic, though: AI’s interpretation/rendering of the Home Depot logo lettering is teh sux0rz.

That’s just the beginning of the problem with that image. The more I look at it, the more flaws become evident, and the whole thing seems genuinely creepy.

[ssummerlin]

@Crease

Getting back on topic, though: AI’s interpretation/rendering of the Home Depot logo lettering is teh sux0rz.

That’s just the beginning of the problem with that image. The more I look at it, the more flaws become evident, and the whole thing seems genuinely creepy.

How’s this one…

I guess it was “wear a snorkel for 5% off day”.

For some reason, getting the text right is a challenge.

[TomG]

@ssummerlin

Who

Who is on first.

[Antonius]

@TomG

Who is on first.

Probably MFP, he’s always first at the low class diner, overstays his reservation and never pays his bill.