This was just with the camera phone and no adjustments, but film photography has had plenty of ways to alter photos on its own well before computers got involved. If I’d had tweaked the saturation, you’d see it in the grass. The clouds are being lit by the setting sun, which is out of view pretty much beneath me on the horizon as I’m at 7k ft and the mtns in the background range from 8-12k ft, plus it had rained all day up until that point and the ground had a thin fog rising.

Thanks! I’ve considered doing a photo calendar for friends this year, if I do then this one will definitely make the cut!

I used to love playing mvmm, but the userbase could get pretty toxic. Closest I’ve ever come to a gambling problem lol. That’s the only criticism of Valve that I think has any merit, their lootboxes are definitely predatory.

Unfortunately, it needs an even longer version that changes it to for now, as Oklahoma is doing everything they can to remove tribal sovereignty.

Someone on bluesky reposted this image from user @yeetkunedo that I find describes (one aspect of) my disdain for AI.

Text reads: Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they’ve handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it’s done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You’re just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.