Raul Gutierrez

@mariuswatz This is cool. The output can then be run through PictureStudio (app.picture.studio) to endlessly iterate on an idea.

Updated stl-to-svg to make it more usable, probably last edit for a while. It now supports OBJ, basic axis corrections and a quick hack to get rid of smallest faces in the mesh. github.com/mariuswatz/stl… Camera navigation still clunky and specific to my use case, sorry. 😅

@MTA Any word on the color temperature of the new lights?

New LED lighting is already illuminating Lafayette Av on the C, Bergen St, and Carroll St on the F/G, and you can expect to see additional brighter stations near you soon!

Our subway stations are getting a glow-up 💡✨ Today, we announced that we're committed to converting all 150k fluorescent light fixtures across the subway system to LED lighting by mid-2026. LED lighting will make stations brighter, safer, and improve energy efficiency ⚡️

@MParakhin sidenote: the policy of not representing historical figures is limiting.

@MParakhin and prompts with multiple ideas like "an etched illustration of Leonardo da Vinci surrounded by items that represent his artistic and scientific achievements in the style of Ernst Haeckel" still produce somewhat nutty results.

We shipped a new version of DALL-E 3 - lucky internal number PR13. 100% in prod - please try, tell us what you think.

@alainastruc I loved your photoblog and always enjoyed the redesigns... it felt like it was evolving.

I remember the rise of photoblogs, emerging from the wave of personal websites. The social aspect was managed through RSS. Even if you had your own personal website, you still knew instantly when the sites you were following updated their feeds. I had a link page to my friends' sites that were linking back to me. I think social media was just a way for big platforms to centralize this kind of interaction and turn it into an addictive panopticon, now ruled by algorithms. The personal website and RSS feed were good models, better in my opinion than newsletters because you don't send three newsletters a day. Is there something to learn from this? It was a good model. Because I don't think there is such a thing as truly decentralized generalist social media. Below, my site in early 2007, horizontal and black and white, before I moved to Montréal. I changed the design so often, it was crazy.

@LinusEkenstam I kept waiting for that thing to clip his head off.

In the future we will have AI powered Robotic Kids They will never grow old, always keep you company… because they are robots. Disney will sell them to you 😱 🧵 A Thread

@bgalbs @billwscott But that never happened. @bgalbs, if you don't mind I'd love to connect w/ you to hear a little more about his life. I might be able to dig up some things that would be meaningful to his family.

@bgalbs @billwscott I became friends with @billwscott when he was working at a local Mac store & decided to build a Mac version of Gato (I lent him my xeroxed copy of Inside Macintosh). He was an inspiration. I briefly touched based w/ him a few years ago and had been meaning to properly catch up.

I really miss my old bud @billwscott. Love you man. I think about you every day.

@unity "more than 90% of our customers will not be affected by this change" - translation "We're penalizing our most successful developers."

We want to acknowledge the confusion and frustration we heard after we announced our new runtime fee policy. We’d like to clarify some of your top questions and concerns: Who is impacted by this price increase: The price increase is very targeted. In fact, more than 90% of our customers will not be affected by this change. Customers who will be impacted are generally those who have found a substantial scale in downloads and revenue and have reached both our install and revenue thresholds. This means a low (or no) fee for creators who have not found scale success yet and a modest one-time fee for those who have. Fee on new installs only: Once you meet the two install and revenue thresholds, you only pay the runtime fee on new installs after Jan 1, 2024. It’s not perpetual: You only pay once for an install, not an ongoing perpetual license royalty like a revenue share model. How we define and count installs: Assuming the install and revenue thresholds are met, we will only count net new installs on any device starting Jan 1, 2024. Additionally, developers are not responsible for paying a runtime fee on: - Re-install charges - we are not going to charge a fee for re-installs. - Fraudulent installs charges - we are not going to charge a fee for fraudulent installs. We will work directly with you on cases where fraud or botnets are suspected of malicious intent. - Trials, partial play demos, and automation installs (devops) charges - we are not going to count these toward your install count. Early access games are not considered demos. - Web and streaming games - we are not going to count web and streaming games toward your install count either. - Charity-related installs - the pricing change and install count will not be applied to your charity bundles/initiatives. For additional questions, we have updated our blog and FAQ resources. ⬇️ Blog: on.unity.com/3ZiIwlB FAQ: on.unity.com/44NMZ0R Forums: on.unity.com/45RgrnV

@unity We've developed 20 apps with Unity over a decade and I've preached the gospel of Unity, but my companies will not develop new apps with Unity under this system.

@unity This is a huge tax on developers on top of substantial subscription fees. It arbitrarily rewrites the implicit agreement we've had with @unity over the last decade. New installs—even of products that made significant income in the past— do not automatically mean new revenue.

@cloneofsimo @replicatehq @allnoteson @daannelson @anotherjesse Are we able to take the tuned models and put them into an Automatic1111 pipeline? (had problems w/ previous Replicate tunings)

Had such fun time putting this on @replicatehq via Cog with @allnoteson, @daannelson, @anotherjesse ! Fine tuning supports for all Dreambooth, Textual inversion, and LoRA. CLIPSeg masking, BLIP-captioning, SwinIR upscaling preprocessing! + entire thing open sourced.

@friedberg Planet Money did a great podcast on this a few years ago: npr.org/sections/money…

I dreamt I could query @googlemaps AI-style: “make me a 32 day backpacking itinerary for Japan featuring small villages with hot springs” or “show me cities in Texas with higher than average dog populations.” I want this to be real.

This might be a good reason to take a side trip up to Amherst: carlemuseum.org/explore-art/ex…

@ericaheinz @carolynz Yes indeed. Happy to talk. raul@picturestudio.Ai

@carolynz @themexican ?

who’s working on letting artists and designers train their own generative AI models? would love to chat

@opensea Cough: 1985 Fantavision 1984 MacPaint 1982 Magic Paintbrush 1980 Alpha Plot by the Beagle Brothers 1978 3D Art Graphics by Kazumasa Mitazawa etc

digital art started here

@swissmiss Yup. themexican.bsky.social.

Are we doing this?

@Alex_Bartsch @AndyFelthamArt Ultimately, I see myself as an image maker. I love analog tools. I still shoot on film. I even make my own box cameras! I see AI as another way for people to express themselves. I'm excited to see what artists will imagine as we build new toolboxes.

@Alex_Bartsch @AndyFelthamArt I think so too, though some people will blur the line. The funny thing about the questioning of an image made on film w a Nikon FM2 is that I discussed this very phenomenon of AI leading us to doubt reality a few months ago: mirror.xyz/baukunst.eth/r…

Love this photograph 📷 @themexican