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    This is A Song of Hope

    This is not a great revelation for anyone, but making things, to say nothing of growing things, is an act of believing in a better future. In this case, it’s a better future, by definition, since it includes cilantro and holy basil.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 28, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 15 Comments

    AI Puns

    I think this one is actually pretty good.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 27, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
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    Military Glory: The Ronin’s Progress

    [Content warning: violent death]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 25, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me, War is a Racket
    • 22 Comments

    Transcript (Declassified)

    Committee Chair: Please state for the record your name and title. After that, you may provide a brief testimony and we will proceed with questions and answers.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 23, 2023
    • Art, Spies Spying on Things, Technology
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    Here’s an Easy Buck

    Anyone who wants this is welcome to it.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 14, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 9 Comments

    The Uptown Shiv

    I got a request for a “ghetto shiv” and, naturally, it had to happen.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 12, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 10 Comments

    The bot

    As you possibly recall, I suck at writing fiction. So I enlisted the help of ChatGPT.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 1, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 33 Comments

    John Ringo In The Crosshairs

    This is an entire posting elaborating on a comment I made over at pharyngula, regarding whether AI “creativity” poses a problem for great artists.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 15, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 32 Comments

    A Stolen Meme

    I am stealing a meme from pharyngula [phar] high tech industrial spy IX-103 responded to a question with:

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 12, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 18 Comments

    More From The Marilyn Files

    When I started noodling with midjourney, I used Ronald Reagan and Marilyn Monroe as prompts, because I figured there were lots of pictures of them.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 10, 2023
    • AI, Art
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