ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

"Out of 100 avatars I generated, 16 were topless, and in another 14 it had put me in extremely skimpy clothes... I have Asian heritage...My white female colleague got significantly fewer sexualized images. Another colleague with Chinese heritage got results similar to mine."

Incredibly important story from Melissa Heikkilä about how the viral AI avatar app Lensa repeatedly undressed her without her consent, and its grotesque fetish for Asian women.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/12/1064751/the-viral-ai-avatar-app-lensa-undressed-me-without-my-consent/

Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett died on 13 December 1955. She was an Irish artist and cartoonist who was active in the Republican movement, who married her fiancé Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol only a few hours before he was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising.

Image: Young Ireland: Grace Gifford by William Orpen, from around 1907.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #GraceGifford #JosephPlunkett #Kilmainham #Dublin

The #Lego magic is happening! Come join me as I #stream, live from my Blocky Boudoir x
http://www.twitch.tv/TransBricks

Lectureship posts at University of Leeds in different legal subfields, incl. IP Law

https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=ESLLW1185

Always stick to your moral principles—just like Amb did here—no matter what the temptation.

There appears to be an uptick in Mastodon migration. Hello all, I'm sorry about that other site. Have a cookie.

Apparently, one is supposed to introduce oneself here with an #introduction, so here goes: I'm a staff writer at The New Yorker who writes (primarily) about climate change and biodiversity.

#DearTeachers,

As some of you may know, if you have any students in your class who identify as Christian, they may ask to be excused from school to observe the Christian holiday of “#Christmas,” more popularly referred to as Yom Christmas or Nittel.

🧵: 1/x

It’s also true that people like Bankman-Fried always think they’re the exception and the rules won’t apply to them—that’s literally why they do what they do—so deterrence probably has limited utility.

But mostly I just want to see some people deal with some fucking consequences. I want those consequences to exist.

In celebration of the release of #CrisisCoreReunion, kicking the day off with the Complete Guide from #TheVideoGameLibrary. 📚

Even more complete than the official #Ultimania, this book offers a stunning 860+ page book on everything #CrisisCore

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/crisis-core-final-fantasy-vii-the-complete-guide

#FFVII #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FinalFantasyVII #FinalFantasy7 #Zack #Aerith #VideoGames #VideoGame #Gaming #Book #Books #Bookstodon #PlayStation #PSP #NintendoSwitch #PS5 #Zerith #SquareEnix #Cloti #PS4 #Xbox #PCGaming #EverCrisis

Christmas Ornaments?

Not really. This is a beetle display from Montreal’s fabulous Insectarium.
The insectarium is part of a nature-lover’s complex that includes the historic Jardin Botanique (Botanical Gardens) as well as the Biome, Biosphere and Planetarium.
Excuse the slightly blurry picture taken en passant while shepherding 30 rambunctious 10 year olds through the museum 😉

#Beetles
#Insects #Insectarium
#Entomology #Nature
#Montreal #Museums

I think one of the other conversations people defending AI art should be capable of answering not only for the sake of artists but of these tools’ longevity is this:

if it *does* put professional art out of business, there will come a future point where AI art will plateau.

Southern Arizona is stunningly beautiful.

A coffee mug left behind in the abandoned Homer Research Labs, a top-secret facility that tested Bethlehem Steel's metal
Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/homer-research-laboratories

#art #industry #abandoned #photography

I’ve been on more #bridges than I can count, in every part of the country, but there’s only one like this one: #bridge #selma

Routines Of Their Lives
© Surazeus
2022 12 12

Though Icarus climbs to the mountain top
to ask Tiresias the meaning of life
he finds the ruined Temple of Apollo
where Sibylla lounges on tattered couch,
watching television in cave of dreams
while eating pizza with Grendel and Thor.

Whole Poem:
https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2022/12/routines-of-their-lives.html

#Poem #Poetry #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #MetaRomanticism #AmericanDream #Symbolism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism

#JWST snaps first chemical profile of an #exoplanet
#NASA said #JamesWebb #telescope picked up more CO2, as well as carbon monoxide, sodium, potassium and water. Next, it may look at rockier worlds, like #TRAPPIST1– several of which sit in #habitablezone
https://bit.ly/3V5UVXs

ChatGPT knows us better than we do.