Color Edit.

Amazones by Paco Rabanne. Photographed by Thierry Le Goues. 2001.

'Amazones'. Nikolai Kalmakov. 1928.

Dino Rex (Taito, 1992)

from Taito Memories II: 1st Volume (aka Taito Memories II: Joukan) (PS2)

AMAZONES

'INTERLUDIO XLVII'. AI 🤖 hmm..

Just played with one of the AI image generators out of curiosity attempting to recreate some ethnological / historical reconstruction of an ancient amazon warrior: My 'AI experience' - at this stage it's next to impossible to make these generators understand historical context and produce authentic historically accurate armour, props or costumes. It looks like AI refers to available and easily searchable pop-culture 'fantasy' reference images [like phony Wonder Woman "amazons" or other spoofy interpretations], disregarding description criteria used such as "classical antiquity", "historical accuracy", "nomadic culture", "pelta shield", "phrygian cap", etc. Nevertheless, being somewhat skeptical I find this experiment curious [and hope the AI image generating technology is yet at its initial stage of development having a whole lot of cultural and civilizational matters to learn, requiring more training] - what do you think? Am keen to hear your opinion..

Amazon is being sued by the FTC and 17 states for being an illegal monopoly

okey dokey 👍

We need everyone's help right now to protect the rainforest and Indigenous People

The Amazon Rainforest is under a massive threat. I know you've heard this a million times, but this is different. There is a piece of legislation that will decimate the rights of Indigenous people of Brazil, who have been protecting the rainforest. It's unfathomably bad. It has majority support. And they're voting tomorrow. As reported here, the Bill allows "the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples."

The thing you can do—and I know this sounds overly simple—is sign this petition—and tell your friends to do the same: SIGN HERE.

As reported here, the Bill allows "the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples."

Again, this bill has majority support. You may be wondering, why will a petition signed by people who don't live in Brazil make any difference? Because it will give those opposing it political air cover. It will show the world is with them.

But we need a LOT of signatures.

Please do this simple act and spread the word.

The Fallout show is pretty fun so far. I still have 3 episodes to go. Everytime Lucy said "Okey dokey", this was all I could picture.

Imagine being such a pathetic incel loser you are being roasted in multiple languages.

they should make shopping for cables easier i think. there should be a service where you pick the ends, you pick the length of cable, you pick the like. color and texture of the cable (shitty plastic, nicely woven, bare metal, whatever) and then they make it and ship it to you for a reasonable fee

PSA: *Beware* AI-generated fungi guidebooks!!

…Not a phrase I imagined myself typing today. But, via @heyMAKWA on Twitter:

“i'm not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i've ever heard of:

“plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you.”

…So PLEASE be careful if you run across anything of this kind.

(ETA: Corrected egregious typo in the title. Apologies, as I was [a] in bed [b] typing hurriedly and one-handed on the iPad, and [c] I think its native keyboard may need recalibration, but also [d] I was upset about what I was having to post, because seriously, WTF?!!)

#Me

Partial nudity or full, depends on my mood

[ link of this mat on amazon...]

This is what Radaway was made for