Fastest. Tsunaround. Ever. Also, that wasn’t a turtle.

(unrelated horn-y gal will have to do until the fan-artists get to work on Alna)

Maomao: The Movie trailer

Here. TL/DR: it’s a new story by the original author that doesn’t conflict with the continuity in the upcoming Fall and Spring seasons.

The only thing worse than woke dubs…

…is Youtube’s AI trailer dubs. At least, I hope they’re AI, because the alternative is that non-Disney dub actors are even less talented than I remember from the last time I was exposed to their product.

(and yes, fuck-you-youtube for turning them on by default; that and auto-continue-to-unrelated-video are almost as annoying as your ads that I block)

Season’s Greetings ’Splodies

There seems to be some noise outside…

Project Hail Mary

Now on Prime Video. I didn’t think the book was as good as The Martian, but I guess I’ll find out how the movie is.

Based on the ‘Recommended For You’ page…

…Amazon thinks I have a six-year-old autistic daughter who only eats sustainable organic vegan snacks and drinks alkaline water, and who demands a constant supply of new fidget toys. Yeah, no. Well, not that I know of, which is the same thing when it comes to shopping.

Quality Control

“I’ve got 106,000 problems, and a 1girl is almost every one of them.”

I’m currently generating small (256x256) images for every one of the JSON prompts I’ve extracted from photos on my laptop and NAS, to see which ones should be removed from the final dataset. It takes about 1.5 seconds to generate each one with Krea2, so it will run for a while:

split -l 500 current.jsonl
start=1;
for i in x??; do
    echo $i
    mkdir -p out/$i;
    jq -r -s '.[]|.json' $i |
        sui -j -a 1:1 --pre out/$i/krea2 --set wctest \
            --seq $start --pad 6 gen -r krea2small -c 500
    start=$(($start + 500));
done

Thanks to the miracle of sorting, the output starts out with pics from the old late-Eighties/early-Nineties mail-order fashion/lingerie catalog Mello Mail. The vision model really captured the style, to the point that you not only can identify the era by the clothes and hairstyles, but I can even tell which pictures were based on my friend Carmen.

I’ve already found a few places where I can strip out more text from the generated prompts. I’m just opening up each batch of 500 in the MacOS Preview app and setting it to “contact sheet” mode, so I can quickly scan through the batch for things that either have text or don’t have women. It will also be obvious when I trip over anime cheesecake and GenAI fails, both of which will be removed.

I’ve only found one actual non-1girl prompt so far, and it’s because the LLM analysis was spectacularly wrong. Original: pair of large breasts viewed from above, with bra pulled out to show the nipples. LLM analysis: “a baby’s torso, viewed from above; adult hand with visible fingernails, gently holding the fabric at the sides of the baby’s torso; camera slightly elevated, looking down at the subject”.

Dear Apple,

Please add back the whitespace that used to be at the edges of your windows. It’s really annoying to try to find the “drag” and “resize” areas when the content starts three pixels from the edge of the window. Either I end up resizing a window when I’m trying to select text, or selecting text when I’m trying to resize the window.

Seriously, I understand that you hate the entire concept of having multiple windows on screen, between the aggressive push for full-screen mode, the aggressive push for tabs, and the complete removal of window management options other than crude iPad “tiling” like Windows 1.1 is once again the height of fashion, but give the content room to fucking breathe. Make Whitespace Great Again!

(this public service announcement brought to you by everyone old enough to remember when Apple had evidence-based standards)

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