Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

AI-designed Mastodon communities

I've been using Mastodon as a social media platform for a few years, and one thing I like is how you can join themed communities. For example, you can join mastodon.gamedev.place if you want to hang out with people who build games, or oslo.town if

Bonus: more of Ada's ideas for Mastodon communities

AI imagines my cat in costumes

I don't dress my cat in costumes because, without even trying, I know she would hate that.

But now I can use text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 to imagine what she would look like in costumes. After all, even if it never saw my cat in a robot costume

Bonus: My cat in weird AI costumes

AI generated halloween candy

One of the things I'm enjoying about text-to-image generators like DALL-E2 is how it has stuff about common brands in its training data, but it still manages to completely garble them.

Please enjoy these DALL-E2 attempts at Halloween candy favorites.

Yellow candy bars with blue lettering on them reading "Burtrfner", "Bungteer", "Bungeferr", and "Buningdeter"
Prompt: "Product photo of a fun-sized butterfinger