Utah government makes it illegal to hang a pride flag in schools then wonders why the biggest indie film festival in the world decides to leave. Awful idiots lol

FlexTok is pretty novel dynamic length image tokenizer, I will be speedrunning training one today (8:30 AM EST) at twitch.tv/cloneofsimo, which is roughly in 3 hours

HiDream Text Encoder Dependency test. HiDream has 4 text encoders. Having more than 1 will always lead to one text encoder carrying all the weight so I tested dropping them all but one at a time. It is 100% dependent on the llama 8B encoder. The rest can be removed.

Kirsty May Hall - Swallows, 2020

Currently sorting ~9000 frames of ai collage images. First 1000 took a week 😅 (X compression gonna make this a little gnarly)

"If you believe the newspapers, you would be led to suppose that the craft of painting was knocked in the head by [the daguerrotype], and we have nothing to do but give up the ghost . But painting is in no danger of being superseded by any mechanical contrivance." —Thomas Cole

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow

I find it very depressing that Google now lets an AI assistant just make things up in response to people's questions. For example: I'm in the band Matmos and Google just made up a fake concert that doesn't exist in response to the query "When will Matmos play in Seattle?":

ristretto

whatever you think of the interpretation, "uh-oh moments" riffing on "aha moments" is very good

I'm so worried that LLM propa/influence campaigns may work that I'm again mulling over starting one.

interface designers as magicians that live in a duality

It's kinda funny that people still think firing most Twitter staff didn't hurt site functionality considering that the second page of the For You feed hasn't loaded on the Android app in over a year.

why does the white house ai czar sound like a 5th grader describing robots from movies

it actually matters that the machine and not a human is making the errors, for very many reasons

Sending this to my intern with a slack message "have you tried the dystopian future prompt?"