Phillip Winn @pwinn@qoto.org

Genshin Impact is almost always beautiful, often stunningly so. Still, every now and then I’m struck by a particularly breath-taking scene like this one, above the clouds.

As I glided down from here, the clouds thinned and eventually I was through them completely.

And this is a mobile game! Just amazing.

#GenshinImpact

#inspirational

#inspirational

Discoverability remains a terrible experience on #mastodon. I can give a real example of this from today:

I was texting with a friend, and they mentioned that they were on mastodon, so I said I’m @pwinn and their response was to say it is difficult to find people on mastodon. First they tried searching the web generally for me, but that didn’t seem to give the result they needed.

I told them that I had learned recently that you can paste a person’s URL into your mastodon search box and it automatically does the right thing, but when they tried, they didn’t have my URL, so that didn’t work either.

What they needed was to paste the url https://qoto.org/@pwinn into their mastodon search box, because mastodon knows what to do with that, but not what to do with a fully-qualified username.

This is, of course, ridiculous. I’d bring it up on HackerNews, but I have already gotten one “submit a pull request then” response there when talking about mastodon, so I’ll just kvetch about it for now.

Two more from the Midjourney v4 model:

“37-year-old man in a Hawaiian shirt, photograph, 32k”

and

“37-year-old bald man in a Hawaiian shirt, photograph, 32k”

Perhaps not as egregiously off-target as my previous runs at 50, 40, and 72, but they still make my brother look pretty good.

#AIart

Midjourney v1.4 results for:

“72-year-old man wearing a sweater, photograph, 32k”

“47-year-old Hong Kong woman wearing a t-shirt, photograph, 32k”

“47-year-old Chinese woman wearing a t-shirt, photograph, 32k”

My father and wife both look younger and more attractive than these images, so if flattery is part of the latest model, it’s working.

#AIart

#texasstatefair #photography

#tacos #photography

The thing I would most hate to lose at this point from a Twitter implosion is this:

This is what Midjourney v1.4 thinks a "40-year-old man wearing a dr pepper t-shirt" looks like.

This is what Midjourney v1.4 thinks a "50-year-old man wearing a dr pepper t-shirt" looks like.