Diane Tucker

Indeed, AI loves to scrape Reddit.

"It helps AI understand context, slang, and user preferences, essentially teaching AI how humans really talk and what they find useful," said Google AI, when I asked it just now.

What could possibly go wrong? 😂

Yikes. I'm here if you need anything. 😂

You'll love this one, Jane. AI couldn't correctly identify Ryan Lizza last week, of all weeks.

I'm around kids that age A LOT. They love that stuff. 👏

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I like it, too.

Here's another one. It's softer and a little more lyrical . . .

Joan Miró, "Woman and Birds" (1940)

"The whole nation was silent," says Kiefer. "They failed to grasp the unimaginable."

Indeed, and a fair amount of conflict, too, I think.

The story goes, Miró was inspired to paint this series when told to cover all his windows so no light would escape that might aid enemy aircraft. He painted his windows dark blue and filled them with celestial designs.

Joan Miró “The Nightingale’s Song and Morning Rain” (1940) • To make this painting, the artist painted fanciful black lines and vibrant flat shapes that change color whenever they cross over a line. Red switches to black…black switches to blue…blue switches to red. This picture pulses, like a universe with music in its soul. • “I felt a deep desire to flee,” said Miró. “I shut myself within myself. Music and the stars began to play a major role in suggesting my paintings."

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #painting

Happy Sunday, Blueskiis

Miró painted the moon and the stars as a coping mechanism to escape from the cruelty and devastation of World War II into the comfort of a fantasy world.

Joan Miró “Nightingale’s Song & Morning Rain” (1940) • More in ALT

I really enjoy doing the research, somehow manage to slog my way through a first draft, and bliss out during the editing process.

Today on NPR, during an interview with Chris Thile, they referred to "productivity music" by which I think they meant music w/o a vocal track. I like that, too :)

#Writers on #Writing

"When you get deep into a flow state, it’s really nice. But before you get to that point, it’s harder. Still, I always feel a bit unsettled if I’m not writing regularly — it’s like I haven’t got my handbag or something," said journalist/novelist Helen Fielding last Monday.

I bought the most wonderfully fake candle that truly looks like a pillar candle with a real flame. (The candle look without any worry about me burning the house down :)

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I know, right? The texture is almost impossible to describe to someone who has never seen Kiefer's work

Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea will be the first comprehensive survey of renowned German artist Anselm Kiefer’s work in the United States in more than 20 years and will present works from the 1960s t...

I'll drop this into the timeline for anyone reading along....

⬇️ The St Louis Museum's intro to Kiefer's "Becoming the Sea"

I would love to see it.

I saw the Kiefer show in Amsterdam earlier this year and it was breathtaking.

Bluesky uses an algorithm. The phrasing the developers like to use is that Bluesky offers "algorithmic choice."

It's funny because I didn't "choose" for my Bluesky experience to suddenly become soooo quiet.

YouTube video by Janus Films Anselm - Official US Trailer

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 🎨

This documentary about artist Anselm Kiefer by Wim Wenders is something I truly loved watching.

There’s less narration than usual because the stunning cinematography lets viewers connect with the art on a more intimate level.

(now available on streaming)

Sending warm thoughts and tire tracks your way

Meanwhile, I get the impression Trump has been defunding many of the U.S. "soft power" networks.

I know, right? "Pete's Wilson" isn't the orthopedic surgeon he claims to be 😂

Georgia O’Keeffe, “Autumn Leaves” (1924) • A close-up illustration of overlapping leaves painted in shades of red, orange, yellow, and green. • In 1924, O’Keeffe was living primarily in the Shelton Hotel on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan with her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. However, they spent the autumn months at Stieglitz’s family home on Lake George in upstate New York, where O’Keeffe converted a barn into a studio. "I wish you could see the place here," said O'Keeffe. "There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees, sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces, it seems so perfect. But it is really lovely."

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡

Happy Sunday, Blueskiis

Modern artist Georgia O’Keeffe painted magnified leaves and flowers "to force viewers to slow down and truly see their unexplainable beauty.”

Georgia O’Keeffe, “Autumn Leaves” (1924) • More in the ALT

Social media users probably won’t read beyond this headline, researchers say | Penn State University In an analysis of more than 35 million public posts containing links that were shared billions of times on the social media platform between 2017 and 2020, the researchers at Penn State found that aro...

You're absolutely right.

#Writing #WritingOpportunities

The Paris Review is hiring....

Even with relatively successful posts of mine, readership drops off the map on Day Two. No legs at all. (Except for people with super-large bandwidth.)

Also, I rarely see the posts of people I'd like to see. It's weird.

Happy Thanksgiving, Marc 🦃

Happy Thanksgiving, Nathaniel. (Go Lions!)

Happy Thanksgiving, Carolannie 🦃

Are you sure? Two days ago AI told me that I'm "the CEO of various corporations." 😂

Is it us? Or is it the algorithm?