Changes with my server has my main site offline, hopefully that will be fixed at some point soon. The rest of my sites seem to be working well. Hopefully, I will get back to posting more regularly soon.

It’s been a while, trying to set up a workflow to add proper alt text and publish widely. Still working on it.

Winter at Mad Beaver

House Sitting in the New Year

Still trying to get some kind of posting workflow happening, very much a work in progress.

I’ve been down the AI rabbit hole with Stable Diffusion, using the AUTOMATIC1111 script- keeps things relatively easy to set up and update. What’s fascinated me most is the animation extension, Deforum. I’ve created a new Youtube channel for the experiments-
https://www.youtube.com/@webmadmansstablediffusionexper

There’s also some folders in my Junk Drawer-
https://sketchbin.webmadman.net/2022/stablediffusion/
https://sketchbin.webmadman.net/2023/stablediffusion/

I just finished this video for my main Youtube channel-

In putting the video together, and other exploring, I generated large number of images. I wanted to share a few here. The captions are the artists I prompted.

I’ll. hopefully, be posting more. Maybe dive into the workflow of these things.


AUTOMATIC1111 getting started- https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series The Dream

The people that communicated with me in the Dream were from the future. It was difficult for them to pull off affecting all the people in the world at the same time, but they also let me know that they would not be contacting people of the past again because it was making the future… complicated.

For a long time, they were only able to observe the past, without being able to affect it. What they discovered, was that people from our time period in particular, had little to no psychic defences. Part of it seemed due to individuals being psychically isolated from each other, our environment and even to ourselves internally- we “live in our heads”, relating to everything through constructed abstractions. This allowed the people from the future to influence us without us realizing we were being affected by something outside of ourselves- our obsession with being autonomous rational actors preventing us from examining, and questioning, the roots of our ration, giving them the opportunity to implant ideas that we assumed were our own. This, however, lead to unintended consequences.

Those consequences were not initially apparent. At first, it seemed like their actions had no real affect whatsoever, but they slowly started to realize what they had done. What they did didn’t affect their timeline, but rather, it created new timelines that started to grow in parallel to their own. Some of those timelines developed the ability to influence, and compete, with their own, a complicated turn, to say the least.

So the Dream was an attempt to nip the problem in the bud. To give us the heads up on how we may be being influenced and maybe develop some psychic defences against such influences.

As the Dream was ending, however, I got another impression entirely. I got the sense that the Dream was actually coming from one of the parallel timelines as an attempt to weaken the original one, so who knows where we’ll end up.