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Toni Mikkola 🏴‍☠️

@virtaava

IT Troubleshooter, Dad, Reservist. Interested in defense and geopolitics. Likes to play with AI, RTs ≠ endorsement ᚾᚨᚠᚢ #RealBarbarians #NAFOMoominDivision

Korvatunturi Katılım Mart 2009
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So, you asked me to write this small introduction to AI and generating images using AI. Well, here it goes. First of all, fair warning: I am not an artist. If you give me a pen and paper and ask me to draw something, you would die of laughter seeing those stick figures. The true artists are users like @NelltheWeaver and @JuliaPod_art; they have real talent. This is something else; I consider this a bit of cheating. No, let's make it clear: this is cheating, using tools that real artists don't need. I will concentrate just on the free tools; let's skip the paid versions of AI tools. You can get them yourself after you have tried the free versions. The first tool is Bings AI copilot chat: bing.com/search?q=Bing%… The second tool is ChatGPT: chat.openai.com/auth/login ChatGPT is a free-to-use chat-based AI that does not have the capability to generate images. However, it has tremendous capabilities to analyze, edit, rewrite, and expand your ideas into a format that Bing or any other AI understands. Prompts play a crucial role in your journey with image-generating AI. A good prompt makes it easier to create the image you have in mind, whether it's something you've envisioned or imagined. On the other hand, a bad prompt can result in an image that lacks accuracy or is entirely incorrect. Think of prompts as akin to blueprints in a construction project. Just as blueprints provide precise instructions and specifications for building a structure, prompts provide guidance and descriptions for AI to craft a specific image. Architects and builders rely on detailed blueprints to bring their vision to life, and in the same way, users depend on well-crafted prompts to help AI generate images that align with their ideas or concepts. The more detailed and accurate the prompt, the better the final image will be. So, how do you write a good prompt? Well, first, you need an idea. Let's try to create a metal-loving Moomin. What does that look like in your mind? For me, and the sake of this example, let's keep it quite simple. I imagine a Moomin with ripped jeans, dark purple mohawk hair, leather combat boots, and a band t-shirt that's faded. That is enough for now you could expand that prompt yourself or you can cheat a bit. Let's go with the cheating part. Open ChatGPT. Just ask the AI to do this: Write me a prompt for image-generative AI using this description: a Moomin with ripped jeans, dark purple mohawk hair, leather combat boots, and a band t-shirt that's faded. *** the answer will be quite simple: "Generate an image of a Moomin character sporting ripped jeans, dark purple mohawk hair, leather combat boots, and wearing a faded band t-shirt." But now comes the fun part: ask it to add to that prompt The echoing music coming from a stereo player on the ground. The silent swaying of the Moomin in tune with the music. What does the prompt look like now? "Generate an image of a Moomin character with ripped jeans, dark purple mohawk hair, leather combat boots, and wearing a faded band t-shirt. Surround the Moomin with an atmosphere of echoing music coming from a stereo player on the ground, capturing the silent swaying of the Moomin in tune with the music." It added more to the prompt than you asked for; it expanded your idea. This is the power that ChatGPT grants you when crafting prompts. It is, in itself, an AI capable of composing effective prompts for AI. Utilize vivid, detailed language, incorporate emotions and moods, employ metaphorical expressions, and remember, the sky is the limit. Let's see what this prompt will generate... Open the Bing AI and input the prompt into the chat to see something quite wondrous happening. Pretty good for this prompt. We left out the sky and the background; we did not describe them to the AI at all. So, it's mostly just black or grey. Hopefully, this starts a wonderful journey for you. It certainly did for me. Only your imagination and the prompts you weave, Set the boundaries for your creations. Hopefully, this starts a wonderful journey to AI and its capabilities for you. It certainly did for me
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Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦@petite_michelle·
A matter of trust. Every year, Finland tops the World Happiness Report. Economists point to welfare systems. Sociologists cite education. But having visited Finland — and eventually bought an apartment in Vantaa — I think the real answer is something harder to measure. It's trust. Not as a value on a poster. As the actual foundation of how society works. From the very first trip, it struck me. People trust strangers. Institutions trust citizens. The state trusts its people to make good decisions, and people trust the state not to abuse that. It sounds simple. It is anything but. When I went through the process of buying property in Finland, the contrast with other places I know was almost surreal. The system assumed good faith — at every step. No one treated me like a potential problem to be managed. That trust wasn't naive. It was structural, built over generations into laws, culture, and everyday habits. And here's the thing about trust: it's self-reinforcing. When people trust each other, they cooperate. When they cooperate, things work. When things work, trust deepens. Finland isn't happy despite its challenges — it's resilient through them because the social fabric holds. Happiness reports measure outcomes. Trust is the mechanism. That's what Finland quietly taught me. 🇫🇮
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auonsson@auonsson·
A French officer exercised on deck of carrier Charles de Gaulle with his watch recording and uploading the training to web, hereby outing the position for the world to see. Not the first uniformed professional to do this, likely not the last.
Mediavenir@Mediavenir

⚓️🇫🇷 FLASH - Le porte-avions français Charles de Gaulle a été localisé par des journalistes du Monde grâce à… l'application de sport Strava d'un officier qui fait son jogging sur le pont du navire.

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Your SillyTavern characters forget everything between sessions. Mine don't. Just shipped woven-imprint v0.4.1 + a SillyTavern extension — persistent memory, relationship tracking, cross-session recall. Your character remembers what you told them last week. All local. SQLite. No cloud. github.com/virtaava/silly… #SillyTavern #AI #LLM
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Jiang Li
Jiang Li@jianggli·
Just published / open-sourced a skill that imports SillyTavern character cards (TavernAI V2/V3) into OpenClaw. Search Chub.ai and CharaVault directly from chat, or import any PNG/JSON card file. Three modes: /character play - full immersive roleplay, pure RP /character soul - character personality + all OpenClaw features still work (the AI boyfriend/girlfriend mode) /character chat - temporary tryout, no persistence Soul mode is the interesting one: the Claw has the character's personality and talks like themselves, but can still check your calendar, run code, manage files. And they remember you across sessions via SOUL.md + MEMORY.md. clawhub install sillytavern-cards-skill GitHub: github.com/pearyj/sillyta…
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Your SillyTavern characters forget everything between sessions. Mine don't. Just shipped woven-imprint v0.4.1 + a SillyTavern extension — persistent memory, relationship tracking, cross-session recall. Your character remembers what you told them last week. All local. SQLite. No cloud. github.com/virtaava/silly… #SillyTavern #AI #LLM
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Markus Mattsson 🇺🇦🇫🇮
🇪🇺Calling all European friends 🇪🇺 Let us stop funding russia's illegal war against Ukraine. While our countries support Ukraine, we import goods worth of tens of billions from the aggressor state. This must stop! Goal: 1 000 000 signatures. Let's go! citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/de…
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Woven Imprint is infrastructure for building AI characters that persist. Characters accumulate memories across sessions, maintain consistent personalities, and develop relationships that evolve over weeks and months of interaction. github.com/virtaava/woven…
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦
Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦@Oksii33·
I think that their level of happiness has suddenly increased too much in the last years because the number of “good Russians” has grown exponentially so fast thanks to Ukrainians😁
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Beefeater@Beefeater_Fella·
Finland has again topped the ranking of the happiest countries in the world - for the ninth consecutive year. The top three also include Iceland and Denmark. Russia this year ranked 79th - between Bolivia and Venezuela. Afghanistan was again recognized as the most unhappy country, occupying the last, 147th place.
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Joni Askola@joni_askola·
The real reasons Finland has topped the World Happiness Report for nine consecutive years
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World of Statistics@stats_feed·
🇫🇮 Finland is the happiest country in the world for the 9th time!
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Ville Cantell@villecantell·
All 5 Nordic countries in the top 6 in the World Happiness Report. We do something right in the Nordics so that it is possible for people to live good lives here. Three key ingredients are that we are inclusive, secure and functioning societies. #Nordics #happiness
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Jenni 🏴‍☠️🇫🇮🇺🇦
Everyone else: self-help books, routines, productivity Finland: Sauna + lake + 🪣 🥇Finland 🇫🇮 (9x champion) 🥈Iceland 🇮🇸 🥉Denmark 🇩🇰 This feels illegal 💀 #HappiestCountry2026
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Henri Vanhanen
Henri Vanhanen@HenriVanhanen·
Enemmistö ahvenanmaalaisista haluaa Venäjän konsulaatista eroon. Näkemys on hyvin perusteltu. On vaikea nähdä, miksi tällaiselle läsnäololle olisi enää tässä turvallisuustilanteessa todellista tarvetta. iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/1e1c…
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