Amy Webster

I hate to be the bearer of more doomsday news during this already dark time, but this seems important.

AG leaders warn of widespread collapse of the American agricultural system.

Now would be a good time to learn how to do container gardening. Start sprouting your seeds now.🫛🌱

ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.

This should concern us all. You cannot speak of freedom and liberty and then support this regime’s actions.

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The money trail is truly abhorrent

This might be the full moon insomnia talking but I’d watch a full season of Meow Meow Theater any day of the week

So much good happened this summer! Presentations! Incorporations! Research! Oh my. Here’s a clip from the UCL presentation trip. I expanded my mug library of course.

V scary!

Bread and circuses. Or rather only circuses.

A black and white poodle running in the green grass

Shasta daisies in a garden

For those local to MN you know we had a pretty major storm event last night, with 5 tornadoes in the county and a couple nearby Ranchette.

But human and beasts alike are good here.

Ted, 🐩, is doing his imitation of a tornado by running in circles around the shrubs in the barnyard.

Cool. I haven’t had a chance to play yet

Fledgling robins in a nest

Robins eggs in a nest

Through it all, the simple joys sustain 🐦 🩵 Peeping the robin’s nest in my eaves. Can’t use my porch light until they fly but who cares, moonlight can sustain me until then.

Oh you absolutely will. Still slashing content to fit into the time slot, but getting closer now. I think there will also need to be a director’s cut (laughing) as there’s just too many good and fertile rabbit holes. Will definitely chat once I come up for air.

You might hear a lot of both @doomtree.bsky.social & the soundtrack to Les Mis playing at volume from my car as I scoot across these prairie highways.

Be safe everyone.

Doing a road trip today to meet up with my prior economics professor at my alma mater to do a walk through for my upcoming academic presentation on embedded bias in text to image AI. Final presi is scheduled for July in London. 🎉

With that timing

a printer with a sticker on it that says it starts with a handshake Alt: a printer with a sticker on it that says it starts with a handshake

Sleeping with one eye open…

Print test page from an inkjet printer showing only the yellow ink printing from a CMYK setup

Mine hates me too 🖨️ 😭

Congrats 🎉
Alea iacta est.

Absolutely 💕

Thank you Anne! Can’t wait to share it with you too.

And Claude completed some sentiment and activity analysis across my prompt content

25% related to animal care (this tracks 🐴 🐴 🐶 🐩 🐈‍⬛ 🐈)

20% related to household tasks including repeat prompts for ‘Person doing laundry’ #LaundryThreads lives on @lucas.meyerperin.org
🤣 🧦 🧦 🤣

Highlights of some project trivia within:

394 measured Diary prompts across 22 months

25174 images in MidJourney

Across 4 versions (progressively) of MidJourney (v5.2 - v7alpha)

Project Milestone Even though not yet published here, I have generated, selected & scored both April & May's Diary entries backstage & compiled the metrics for April, May and Project to Date. Stay tuned for those entr...

I’ve been quieter than usual (here) for a bit as I’ve been heads down in some work for my ‘ Person : An AI Diary’ project on top of an already full schedule.

Here’s a bit of an update backstage :

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I see what you did there 😉

How many of us are now contemplating buying that car? 🤣 I’m hooked.

I’m hooked to this show

Printer test panel showing only yellow ink printing

After running to FedEx for self service printing yesterday, I’m pleased to report the highly useful /s Yellow ink is working flawlessly on my home printer

So far no signs of life from CM or K 🌝🌺🦋🎱

Beauties! 🐑

FedEx bag

Why god why

a man in a purple shirt is standing in a field with two other men . Alt: a man in a purple shirt is standing in a field with two other men . office Space. The scene. the People Rise Up

Which predictably has led to the following questions:

-where is the ream of paper?
-how many times do I need to cycle the print head cleaning before stagnant printer is operational again?

Have entered the stage of deck creation where I now need to print out slides on PAPER and tape them to my research office wall in order to edit and visualize the flow.

I started life analog and it shows.

Notecard methodology lives on.
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