Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org

Picking up tacos at Rusty Taco, there are signs about tacos, natch. The t-shirts worn by employees carry a restaurant slogan: “God. Country. Tacos.” I’m not entirely sure how they square those priorities with repurposing Joshua 24:15 into Salsa 24:7, which seems mildly sacrilegious to me, but the tacos are good.

#photography #RustyTacos

My daughter wants beef tacos for lunch, so I asked MidJourney for help.

The "beef tacos" are almost normal, but the "beef soft tacos" have unusual titles add for no obvious reason, and definitely no benefit.

#AIart #midjourney

Today I tried a few new prompts, no refinements, just simple phrases. These are from MidJourney, and my settings are: MJ version 4, Base quality, Style med, Regular upscale.

The v4 model often seems to add titles where none are needed or wanted, but overall I found all eight images pleasing. The waterfront pics don't look like Hong Kong at all, but they're all nice-looking waterfronts. The night market pics look more like Hong Kong, except all the Chinese writing is broken.

#AIart #midjourney #HongKong

@xine the whole thing does seem very middle-school to me. I say that as a parent to a middle schooler!

Sometimes this game takes my breath away.

#GenshinImpact

I recently returned from a trip to Auckland, New Zealand, to visit my wife's younger son. While driving from the airport, while speaking to his girlfriend in the front seat, he referred to the three of us sitting in the back seat as "three Americans."

I smiled and waited for my wife or daughter to object, but they didn't. Conversation continued, and finally I said that I was still stuck about fifteen minutes before, when he referred to his mother and sister, both born and raised in Hong Kong, as "Americans." They both said they noticed, but since they're permanent residents now, it seemed fair. They both first set foot in the USA in 2019, but now they're Americans.

Sometimes I love the USA.

#personal #thoughts #america

@Glupinickname I had the same thought while listening to the audiobook. He works in so many relatable and even profound thoughts between very strange events about monsters from alternate universes!