Wojtek Materka

This 👇 🧵. I was born in a communist country, and witnessed it change to a free market democracy. And since then it has always been a balancing act. Democracy is a process, not static... and you can really appreciate it once you experience authoritarianism. 1/10

History rhymes.

"I have forgotten how quickly it was like to live through the pandemic. I remember how we realized the fragility of it all and yet that feels like a distant memory, buried beneath ambition and busyness." @wmaterka/in-the-shadow-of-crisis-ambition-and-the-fear-of-vulnerability-cd965ace9130" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@wmaterka/in-t…

#BREAKING: Australians have rejected recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the nation's first people in the constitution through the establishment of a Voice to Parliament advisory body. ab.co/46Ogf99

I asked @gpetriglieri to help me understand the mindset of CEOs who simply don't believe in remote work. He asked me to imagine how a priest would feel, staring at a half-empty church. The priest, of course, would assume people were losing their faith. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@rovingchloe Oath. I sob on Tuesdays and Thursdays according to my perfectly scheduled diary. Oh wait. My diary just went to sh*t the last few months.

Thanks @wmaterka ❤️

Today has been A LOT. Crazy things happening with family and friends. Some awful, some awesome. Just a lot and have been having a bit of a sob at the wildness of life.

So I’ve been out of here for a while but is Elon the new Trump now? And this is actually a virtual Mar-a-Lago?

@gordic_aleksa And yeah this is also vscode and conda env. 😂

@gordic_aleksa But I messed up the latents somewhere I think because I was still patching the lib whilst doing this. So it’s weird as in at some point after 6 iterations the generated images just changed completely. Don’t have the file at hand now but will play with it more and share.

Nice! What's your HW setup? Do you have the file with the prompts/settings you've used?

@gordic_aleksa I also noticed that the npy files stopped generating in the dir from time to time.

Played with #stablediffusion this evening (thanks to @gordic_aleksa for the awesome tutorial and git repo). Here's a first go at interpolation

Wouldn’t it be better if political conflicts got settled through viral dance-offs rather than tanks and bombs? Just sayin.

@fbongiornoanu It’s how populists actually behave these days. Shortcuts over established norms and institutions to have access to direct power.

1/3 An observation about the Morrison scandal. There was a time, not all that long ago, when phrases such as 'individual ministerial responsibility' and 'collective ministerial responsibility' were meaningful. They were textbook concepts in HSC Australian Politics.

@PatsKarvelas This tactics is an amateurish version of what populists in Eastern Europe did when elected (Hungary w/ Orban, Poland under Kaczynski) - they see existing structures as obstacles - they want to remove “friction” and are impatient to be able to shape policy without open process

I have watched thousands of press conferences and the lack of contrition here is quite extraordinary. #auspol

We rely on art to help us make sense of edges of our world. But what if that art is made by machines as well? How to make meaning and lead well in such a world? a short exploration 👇 link.medium.com/N8iiPhHbnsb #dalle2 #midjourney #design #leadership #art

Is authenticity a scam? I loved this week's column from @adwooldridge, with a cameo by @HerminiaIbarra bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…