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photo of medieval book open with right page that folds out, covered with various drawings of plants and long rows of handwritten script

"Everyone's favorite mystery text, the Voynich Manuscript, is finally getting careful attention from leading medievalists": Pleasant_confusion posted A new approach to the Voynich Manuscript.

08/12/24
by taz

Plate of Beans in the Style of HR Giger

AI illustrated art that looks a lot like pile of black beansocschwar's A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors

This stuff is crazy, it's like someone found a alien spaceship in the desert and hooked the warp engine to its own tailpipe to answer questions about the universe. RobotVoodooPower

Cash4Lead has posted Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene about AI generated art based on text prompts, and mefites have been dipping a toe in.

08/07/21
by taz

At last my love has come along 🎶

valentine4valentine4 by Emmaline (cc by-nc-nd)

RobotVoodooPower solves the weird delayed Valentine’s day text messages mystery.

Okay, not really, but we want to believe

11/08/19
by taz

Alt Better

Refreshable braille display by Sebastien.delorme from wikimedia.orgRefreshable braille display by Sebastien.delorme - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 from wikimedia.org

Hippybear posted a very helpful link on how to write image descriptions in Twitter for people with vision impairment or low vision!

10/15/19
by taz

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