AI is not a magic box that immediately gives you the “perfect” image you’re after. Instead, good images come about as the result of a long dialogue between a human and AI. The human must also have a good understanding of art style and a bit of creative vision. Source: Midjourney vs. human illustrators: has AI already won?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’…
Masks are back, and, this time, they’re not just for COVID-19. A “tripledemic” of the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, sweeping through the United States has prompted several cities and counties, including New York City and Los Angeles County, to encourage people to wear a mask in indoor public spaces once…
Infectious-diseases physician Krutika Kuppalli had been in her new job for barely a week in September 2020, when someone phoned her at home and threatened to kill her.Kuppalli, who had just moved from California to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, had been dealing with online abuse for months after she’d given high-profile…
[sc name="voicefemlower" ][/sc] Click the image to enlarge. For this drawing, I fed Dawn prompts for what representations of Neith look like. Usually when describing a Goddess one gets very “ideal” figures. However, for some unknown reason, more than once, the figures were not what someone with an ableist eye would view as “ideal” or…
This is a drawing in honor of Sarraounia Mangou, a Hausa queen who resisted French colonization. She is the original Black Panther about whom stories were told long before the Marvel movies. Click the image to enlarge it. This is a digital collage and drawing using Dawn AI for some assistance with colors and layout.
Enter DouxMatok, a small Israeli startup with aims of shaking up the global sugar market. The name is a combination of the French word doux, for “sweet” and matok, Hebrew for “sweet.” Together, the pair of words are “double sweet,” as the company describes. It’s an apt moniker for the company, which was founded in…