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Atlanta, GA
Joined August 2009
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Translation: simply put, you're too stupid to read simple instructions, so have AI simplify an already simple task for you. Simple as that!
"Something's are challenging that's the appeal" - "It's OK to Make Mistakes" by Blake Rules & @netherfriends
Screenshot of my old @runwayml ML Lab custom image training feels like a different era, everything works so differently now.
Working with my homie to make a portrait generator with character consistency was a huge achievement in early 2023, but now in late 2026 it feels like the standard.
Looking back, I was so early in my GAN education I thought I was actually training the AttnGAN model, but I was using the COCO-pretrained weights, and the model was frozen. I was playing inside the Runway experiment UI.
Hand steered, not hand trained. It wasn't until Feb 2023 that I trained a custom image generator using AI training in @runwayml's old ML Lab.
"HIPPIEFLOWER" by jl
This piece was generated by hand training an open source AI to paint a picture in real time as I enter words and phrases.
The resulting art is unique and can never be reproduced.
Dispenser open on @CounterpartyNFT
xchain.io/asset/HIPPIEFLOWER
#counterparty🧵
"HIPPIEFLOWER" by jl
This piece was generated by hand training an open source AI to paint a picture in real time as I enter words and phrases.
The resulting art is unique and can never be reproduced.
Dispenser open on @CounterpartyNFT
xchain.io/asset/HIPPIEFLOWER
#counterparty🧵
Feeling nostalgic. If you're wondering how I made this back in 2021. I used AttnGAN, and coded a really simple UI for input and output on localhost. I also experimented with the @runwayml hosted experiment.
I literally followed this exact tutorial video: youtu.be/EkEr-55AKJ8?is=uWgo…
Simple Cat's Cats and Friends Season 1. xitter.cf/simplecatnft/status/20…
We love the Cats, but we love @cloncast the most. Also, Atlanta Influences E'rything
Today marks my final day at Cool Cats.
I’ve been drawing Blue Cat since 2013, starting as a doodle, to The Catoonist, to Cool Cats: a digital art collection, a Macy’s Parade balloon, and an animated series. Since I was little, all I ever wanted was to create a character of my own. Blue Cat is how that dream came true.
The Board has decided to take Cool Cats in a new direction, one that no longer includes me. I respect their decision, and I’ll always want the best for Blue Cat.
The closest thing I can compare this feeling to is raising a kid and watching them leave for college. I gave him everything I had over these 13 years, and now it’s time to wish him well.
Thank you to everyone who believed in me, to every employee who poured their heart into this, and to the fans who stood by me through every high and low.
I’m sad to move on, but excited for whatever I create next.
I love you, Blue Cat. Thank you for everything.
Excited to support @simplecatnft, an amazingly kind artist who is both prolific and instantly recognizable.
These 3 are mine!
Cats and Friends Season 1.
This is NEXT LEVEL!!
Retro Diffusion all the way.
And it will actually be pixel art instead of moosh 🙏
Oh and it can make those isometric rotations you were trying to do in this post xitter.cf/chongdashu/status/2037…
Can even use *multiple* reference images
JL ⚙️ 🎨 retweeted
Seedance 2.0 is now in the **OPEN SOURCE** ArtCraft. Yours to use today and forever. You can make videos just like this. Stop RENTING from Higgizfud who treats everybody like a little b and OWN ArtCraft today. Please help us REpoST so people see. (We love youuu!)
JL ⚙️ 🎨 retweeted
Wished there was a community version of google scholar?
Now there's scholar.archive.org.
For me personally, the most exciting @internetarchive advancement in the last 10 years.
Congrats bnewbold & team for creating fatcat.wiki #fatcat.
Did you know you can now search scholarly materials preserved in the @InternetArchive? Meet Internet Archive Scholar, a search engine for 25M research articles from 18th C journals to #OpenAccess conf. proceedings to #Preprint publications.
blog.archive.org/2021/03/09/…
