Thomas E Fleming

@thomasefleming
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Toronto, Canada
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An AI image I created with https://chat.qwen.ai which today I tried animating with https://app.runwayml.com/. Not exactly what I had envisioned, but that's what I get for being cheap using the free version. Once the free video generation version of https://sora.chatgpt.com/ is available I'll try again.
๐ŸŽถ ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—น by Dadju
ft. Annita https://youtu.be/mmc2sCXrTws

#TIL

I like the meaning of โ€œvertical mosaicโ€ way more than - the full of baggage 20th Century phrase - โ€œmelting potโ€.

But Iโ€™m not sure Iโ€™ll read the book of the same name. Iโ€™d rather read about Faraday, Maxwell and the Field.

My iOS AI folder is now three screens, including three Chinese models that were new to me, Kimi K2 (https://www.kimi.com), Minimax (https://agent.minimax.io) and Z.ai (https://chat.z.ai). Supposedly they were impacted by the chip bans and run a little slower than their North American counterparts, but for the stuff I do, I donโ€™t see a big performance difference.

If youโ€™ve seen Zero Day it wonโ€™t seem out of context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus?wprov=sfti1#

No, itโ€™s not the same limited series De Niro recently starred in with the McKenna character focused on neurology that had nothing to do with the McKenna that wrote โ€œThe Invisible Landscapeโ€ (although the two do oddly kinda look alike):

https://economist.com/culture/2025/07/31/blockades-blackouts-and-bullets-china-invades-taiwan-on-screen

โ€œ๐“๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐›๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž, ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐›๐ž ๐š ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐œ๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ.โ€

โ€” ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด-๐˜“๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ต, ๐˜‰๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜“๐˜ข ๐˜‰๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜”๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ถ, ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜“๐˜ข๐˜ธ๐˜ด (๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฉ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿช)

When at war with a fake democracy run by corrupt Putinists, a fledgling democracy must be careful not to take actions that could appear to mirror Putinist tactics and create an obstacle on its path to EU membership.

One promising sign is that there are protestors in Kyiv freely expressing their opposition to these troubling actions. Something you donโ€™t see much of anymore in Putinist Russia; never underestimate the power of fear to silence dissent.

5% of GDP for Canadian defence!!!!! Um, yeah, look at a map. Whatโ€™s on top of the globe? A huge pretend democracy with its eyes on the same things we are.

Whatโ€™s that? Lots of stuff to drill and mine (in an environmentally conscious way) that will add way more to Canadian GDP than the 5% invested in defence.

All ice you say? Canโ€™t drill any way? Um, not for long. Check out this video to learn more (just wish the host had shown a little more pizzazz) https://youtu.be/rWFWYr9qAWo.

As if!