Drake University professor. Likes: Hawkeyes, tech, bbq, fantasy football. Teaches: social media, web design, multimedia. Weekly newsletter on social media.

Des Moines, IA
Joined September 2007
Testing the ability for Nano Banana Pro to make Instagram-style sports graphics. The results were impressive.
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Fireplace videos leveled up this year. A Very AI Yule Log 2 is one hour and 45 minutes of AI videos of strange things happening around a fireplace. Videos made with Kling AI. youtube.com/watch?v=OfxZOL5X…
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Don't fall behind on what's happening in generative AI! Join @inno_profs at noon central TODAY for our HOLID-AI generative AI update. . eventbrite.com/e/holid-ai-3-…
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Kling Omni Launch Week Day 1: Introducing Kling O1 — Brand-New Creative Engine for Endless Possibilities! Input anything. Understand everything. Generate any vision. With true multimodal understanding, Kling O1 unifies your input across texts, images, and videos — making creation faster, smarter, and more effortless. Limited-Time offer available for subscribers. And stay tuned for more surprises! For the next 12 hours ONLY Follow, Like & Retweet to get 200 Credits — for everyone who participates! PLUS, 200 lucky winners will snag a *1-Month Standard Plan* All sent straight to your DM
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We think you're going to like these updates a bunch 🍌 Introducing six new visual styles for Video Overviews (powered by Nano Banana) and a shorter "Brief" option for quick insights. These will start rolling out to Pro users this week and to all users in the upcoming weeks.
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Ideogram has been one of my favorite text-to-image tools since it's launch in August of last year. It just released version 2.0 - and you can try it for free. about.ideogram.ai/2.0
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Loving all the Tweets about the #WhiteDudesForHarris call last night. This white dude was out talking to voters about my wife's campaign for the Iowa House last night. If you're in Iowa and want to help, send me a message.
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Want to help at the local level? Donate to my wife's campaign for the Iowa House of Representatives. secure.actblue.com/donate/re…
This morning, more than 1.5 million women in Iowa woke up with fewer rights than they had last night because of another Trump Abortion Ban. In November, we will stop Trump’s extreme abortion bans at the ballot box.
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ElevenLabs launches free AI voice isolator to take on Adobe buff.ly/3WeltII
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Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips buff.ly/4b6ozTl
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A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch buff.ly/4c7mzLJ
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Stability AI, the startup behind the AI-powered art generator Stable Diffusion, has released an open AI model for generating sounds and songs that it claims was trained exclusively on royalty-free recordings. buff.ly/4bKrG4x
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ELECTION DAY! 🗳️More women in Congress! (now 29%) 🗳️Strongest candidate to take on anti-choice Zach Nunn (leading by 6% in polls against Nunn while opponent is only 3%) 🗳️Protect abortion & IVF rights, lower costs, protect our seniors! (1/2) #IA03 #IApolitics
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OpenAI announced ChatGPT Edu - An affordable offering for universities to responsibly bring AI to campus. buff.ly/4c0rA8U
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Amazon ruined the name Alexa for parents. buff.ly/4dWurS5
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'All Eyes on Rafah.' A viral post uses AI in the service of activism. Is it ethical? buff.ly/3V65RVU
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Still posting links on Facebook? Meta's released its most widely viewed Facebook content report for Q4 2023. Only 4.8% of views are on posts with links, down from 7.5% a year earlier and 14.6% the year before. transparency.meta.com/data/w…
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