'White Flag', by Maxeen. Broadway cover.

'White Flag', by Maxeen. Emo-pop cover.

'White Flag', by Maxeen. Classic country cover.

The clear turning point was this text completion, way back in 2020 (credit 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫). Science fiction never predicted that poetry and visual art would be the low-hanging fruit.

A tightly-designed labor of love from my close friend Casey Clyde:

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'Yoda at the dentist'

When your airline logo looks like an explosion...

Hilarious example from Steam API. Like a clever puzzle or an IQ test, in a public-facing API that everyone is supposed to use. Check out the typedef right after public, and then try to figure out what calling Set might actually look like. All for simple callback registration.

Update the Rainbow Bridge explosion based on eye-witness testimony---other sources seem to miss this:

The car started ON THE US SIDE of the border and was headed INTO CANADA. It was also going very fast and crashed/flipped before exploding.

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Because people actually want to look at this document 21 years later, we decided to take it down. Journalism! Nicely done, The Guardian

Wired doom bait in 2023, vs. actual ski resort in 2022.

Ideogram.ai is definitely coming closer to solving the text problem (left) vs Midjourney, which looks way cooler but bungles the text (right). Same prompt for both: politician with skull face and the text 'hollow promise', typography