Tag: Awesome

MidJourney: this week, redheads

I think it’s just about legitimately usable by normies, now, too. Prompts can be pretty straightforward, and it can mostly return the requested requested angles/viewpoints.

  • OMG yes. (although a little less stubbly would be great.)
  • Ye gods, I love it.
  • Yes. These are the men of the Dead Legion that guard the dog-road through the Journada del Muerte.
  • Well, the wolf is supposed to be the hero here, but yep.
  • Need an image for your evil shaman? I gotchu, fam.
  • “Who goes beyond the Cape must go beyond sorrow”

MidJourney: Dragons are a girl’s best friend

  • HOLY CATS THIS IS AWESOME
  • IDK why MidJourney thought that girls + dragons = books, but IT IS COMPLETELY CORRECT.
  • GUYS GUESS WHAT, I JUST READ AN EPIC FANTASY NOVEL RECOMMENDED TO ME BY LARRY CORREIA AND–
  • Obviously a funny one. Probably by Pratchett.
  • TURN THE PAGE ALREADY SARAH.
  • CONNIE I DONT NEED TO SEE THE PICTURES JUST KEEP READING
  • WHAT DID YOU THINK BROWN GIRLS COULDNT READ TO DRAGONS? KEEP ON TURNING THEM PAGES DEENORA! (Kudos to MidJourney there, I was genuinely surprised to see this one.) BOOYA.
  • Tina hasnt finished her homework on her own for WEEKS.
  • Amelia: We are never going to get the Spell of UnDerpiness right if you keep blowing the book out of my hands.

Way Cool News: Fires at Rising Star

Researchers reveal that Homo naledi probably made and used fire.

Homo naledi are the ones that were discovered in an extremely-difficult-to-get-to cave system in Africa….how difficult? The original team was made of petite women selected on basis of size and caving ability, since they needed to be able to squeeze through a seven-inch-wide gap and climb over and down cave features such as The Dragon’s Back. Head archaeologist Lee Berger needed to lose fifty pounds to be able to get in there himself. And, as seen in the diagram below….there was at least one significant hangup for Prof. Berger in 2014.

Last August, Berger climbed down a narrow shaft and examined two underground chambers where H. naledi fossils had been found. He noticed stalactites and thin rock sheets that had partly grown over older ceiling surfaces. Those surfaces displayed blackened, burned areas and were also dotted by what appeared to be soot particles, Berger said.

Meanwhile, expedition codirector and Wits paleoanthropologist Keneiloe Molopyane led excavations of a nearby cave chamber. There, the researchers uncovered two small fireplaces containing charred bits of wood, and burned bones of antelopes and other animals. Remains of a fireplace and nearby burned animal bones were then discovered in a more remote cave chamber where H. naledi fossils have been found, Berger said.

Isn’t that just Way Cool?

Berger has hinted that there are even more groundshaking announcements to be made, and I’m all in for it.

[Even though I thought The Science Was Settled, TM, but w/e.]

Poetry Corner – Ishmael

AND Ishmael crouched beside a crackling briar 
Blinded with sand, and maddened by his thirst, 
A derelict, though he know not why accursed. 
And lo! One saw, and strung the dissonant lyre, 
Made firm his bow unto the arrow's spire, 
And gave him dates and wine. Then at the first 
Flushings of dawn Ishmael arose, and burst 
To triumphing freedom, ran, and eased desire.

His domain was the desert. None tamed him. 
None bought or sold his spirit, though his hand 
Dripped red against the dawn and sunset stain.

Thrones melted, kingdoms passed to the world's rim. 
But Ishmael scourged the lion in Paran land, 
And kept his faith with God. And he will reign.

- Herbert Edward Palmer