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daveporteruk.bsky.social
Just zis guy, you know? Music (jazz, fusion, prog, ambient, classic rock, classical) loving geek & nerd - sci-fi/fantasy, PC gamer, F1 & NFL (go Lando Norris / McLaren, 49ers), mild foodie. Enjoy photography (see alt texts for details). 🚫 AI ā€œartā€.
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Cool - yours? You must get around a lot!!!
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Try Steve Hillage - ā€œRainbow Dome Musicā€ works well.
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Laura getting ready to run in typical Scottish temperatures…
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Nice picture - is it a drone shot?
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The Atlantic Ocean 🌊 Erm not planning to do so, no!!! 🤣
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ā€œFor sureā€? The only people who might be able to say that are the Mango Mussolini or his sidekick Todd Lyon’s. Neither of whom could be relied upon to remember what they said this morning. Seems to me, watching as I do from across the pond, that not even elected officials are entirely safe…
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That’s being an ā€œartistā€ in your view, is it - using text prompts which cause a bunch of computer hardware to spew out an image plagiarised from thousands of genuine pieces of art? Sharing that text is your ā€œart school ā€œ? AI is not ā€œcreativeā€. AI has no soul, no heart. AI is a thief and plagiarist.
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Mindless, soulless, derivative tat. The kind you find in a thousand tacky Etsy stores.
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Can you GUARANTEE that at no point was this AI engine trained using art from artists who were not fully consulted and compensated for that use - and preferably credited too? Or is it the usual case of the auto-plagiarism device being a thief too?
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See, you began with ā€œAsk ChatGPTā€. And therein lies the problem. No, no, no and a thousand times no. Do not engage with the resource-sucking tripe generator.
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To be fair - any yelling is irritating if one is trying to sleep, not-fun yelling is alarming…
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Very likely - copious imbibing of canned lager throughout the evening, after cro-magnon man had incinerated a variety of proteins on the barbecue…
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Will you also hot our buttons? šŸ”˜šŸ”„
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Sorry you’re hurting…
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Do you play on hard mode? That does make it orders of magnitude harder and even more of an exercise in probability when trying to match the last one or two letters of there are many possibilities…
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Needs some Terry Pratchett. ā€œJingoā€ maybe…
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Is that editing your description here, to remove the repeated ā€œwho prefersā€ - or is that a little editor’s joke?! šŸ¤”
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A sunny smile in the sun! Hola šŸ‘‹
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Getting Oblivion flashbacks from the guy in the centre…
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Please read ā€œThe Other Windā€ too. Adore her writing and her characters.
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Jazz band and a library? Add wine and cheese / nibbles, recipe for delight šŸ·šŸ§€šŸ£šŸ„ŸšŸ¤
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Also, in comparison with other tube lines, gloriously quiet šŸ‘
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If you want to write something, let it out and write - don’t put it out there if you don’t want to share it for whatever reason, but get it down. Create.
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Hawk the Slayer with the legendary Elven Mindsword
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Far has she travelled, to bring you those fine goods - if you have the coin… šŸŖ™šŸŖ™šŸŖ™
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Brazil (1985)
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Feeling more serene just looking at this, sensing a gentle breeze and imagining the rustling of the leaves šŸ’ššŸ¤
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Ditto this, especially the Elizabeth Line which, now it’s finally open, is excellent - fast and quiet, with a frequent service.
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Rome can be stupidly, oppressively hot. Gelato is the perfect antidote šŸ‘šŸ¦
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#MusicChallenge #MusicByNumbers open.spotify.com/track/2E5Pjf...
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So sorry for your loss. Take care and be gentle with yourself - do what’s best for you. šŸ«‚
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Magical. I love when there’s a sea of mist and the odd small island of trees poking up into the sunlight. 🧔
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Nice - is there any post-processing on this image?
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…and be prepared to have to read a stupidly long screed to avoid being eliminated and having the phone locked for the next hour…
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Can you imagine that phone unlock thing when you NEED to use it but didn’t read the task carefully and are heading off WAYYYY in the wrong direction….