Mark McElroy

YouTube video by Mark McElroy Demo Reel - One Hour with Midjourney Video Generation

Midjourney’s ability to let me imagine and animate anything is absolutely, totally bonkers.

I made this demo reel in less than an hour, using art projects from the past few months.

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I miss presidential Presidents.

#FountainOfYouth (#AppleTV) should have been titled “Indiana Jones and The Movie Doppelgänger Lacking Any of the Heart, Empathy, or Engagement that Made Raiders a Great Franchise.”

Wow, Medium seems to have become little more than a host for thousands of AI-generated articles that all sound just alike.

Season 2, Episode 8 - Who Are You - of #Andor is near-perfect television. The machinery of that story, grinding relentlessly forward, the chanting, the soundtrack moaning like a dark thing in labor … OMG. I can’t even. I’m wrecked.

A table laid with rainbow cake and pride donuts set up in a church sanctuary in Mississippi.

So proud of the little church I attend in Mississippi, that welcomed folks to rainbow cakes and donuts this past Sunday.

Thanks! Ah, the Oasis. I'd be reading on one right now if they would release a new version. I love the page-turn buttons!

Read this before trying to switch away from the Kindle!

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Here’s the thing about spotlight-loving, big idea, ketamine-fueled change-makers:

They get bored fast, and they move on, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake for you and me to clean up and pay for.

My Failed Effort to Abandon the Kindle Happy Years in the Walled Garden

I tried to escape the Amazon Kindle.

I failed.

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Every YouTube tech review ever, in eight seconds. (Actually, the first high-quality video clip with sound I've used Veo to generate. I made this in less than one minute with five lines of text. This is insane.

Kinda charming how, in Nemesis Games, Holden wants to solve a data mining problem by hiring programmers instead of using his century’s ChatGPT. #TheExpanse

There’s a great dissertation waiting to be written on how Methodist ministers are represented in science fiction.

I wish my #Kindle #ColorSoft looked this vibrant all the time — and not just when I place it directly under a halogen lamp.

A great addition to the New Albany food scene.

Protestin’

#HandsOff

#Tupelo #Mississippi

2 of 2 What's under reported is that when asked to spew tariff nonsense, many AIs followed these formulas up with comments like "But this might be disastrous," which users disregarded.

Ask for nonsense, you'll get it. Follow that nonsense, and it's not really an IA's fault.

1 of 2 The media wants to blame the tariff nonsense on #ChatGPT.

If I ask, "How can I lose 45 pounds in 10 seconds," an AI might say, "Cut off your leg" -- and then explain why this might not be a good idea.

Ask, "How to compute emergency reciprocal tariffs," it will dream up a way to do it.

What's your favorite Constitutional Amendment?

Mine's the 25th.

Today's stock market performance, according to certain relatives of mine:

YouTube video by Mark McElroy Come to New Albany

I used Sora and Suno to create a promotional video for my ultra-conservative small southern town. 😜

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Fun in the sun with the great monsters of yesteryear.

Hope Drac's got sunblock 10,000.

#AI #OpenAI #swimwear #beefcake #monsters #fashion

A quote from John Scalzi's OLD MAN'S WAR: "If you could go back, why would you make the same choices? You already lived that life."

Years ago, I had a vague idea of a novel in which a man confronts versions altered by different past choices. Today, I stumbled on this quote from @scalzi.com that became one of my touchstones when writing PARALLEL LINES in 2022. #PKM #Readwise #Obsidian

Guard your "slipbox." It's valuable.

I visited Greenland on a cruise ship, and I've been there longer, seen more of actual Greenland, and met more native Greenlanders than VP Vance.

Please, y'all. Don't think we're all like this.

I liked the juxtaposition of this photo from a "Unique Photos" Reddit community and the ad inserted beneath it.

Reaches for audiobook ...

#audiobooks #Audible #ReadingIsFundamental

A happy dog, with a blue plastic football, in a winter yard.

Newest member of the family: a quiet shelter dog who is slowly coming out of her shell to become the Fastest Dog in the World. Here's a shot from today's 5:530 a.m. football game, because who doesn't want to play football at 5:30 a.m.?

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.