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  Three Years Ago (summer, 2022) I posted: Blogging With Dall-E... Bizarre    ...and it was. Wrong number of fingers, strange eyes, inconsistent physics. But have things ever changed for the better! Multi-level prompts get amazing results. Body parts are under control for sure. You know how fast AI is moving.  All the chatbots are getting smarter, having fewer hallucinations and becoming specialists in hundreds of fields. Stills and video generation are becoming mind bogglingly good.  I thought I'd revisit Chat-GPT's graphics generator (not called Dall-E much any more) again to see if it's as good as I've read it is.  I fired off a moderately detailed prompt: PROMPT: Create an image of an old man (totally bald, with a short full beard that is all white) wearing a parachute type harness which holds an anti-gravity device on his back. he is cruising along at 20 feet above a wide, empty field of grasses and wildflowers. The perspective must be from slightly ab...

  I'm surounded by people very upset by what's going on in Washington. Most of them say "What can we do about it? What can I do?" A data wizard I know has built a complete set of handbooks to show you the way. It's very powerful, with specific targeting of each of the "hits" in the exploding chaos in D.C. Whichever huge challenge grabs you the most, there's a "handbook" of what you can do about it. (For instance: I'm grinding my teeth over the defunding of NPR and PBS,  I think the attack on science is tragic, and I am sick over the destruction of USAID.) You can pick your topic and there is a customized set of aids, suggestions, and gems of facts ready for you to use.  https://constitutionaldefenders.org/index.html The site is also motivating, which all of us need a bit. It clearly shows what you can do "right now," then it makes it easy to do. And it's all free.  I urge you to check it out, spend a few minutes clicking ...