Artist and author by trade. Loves dinosaurs, ancient history, and strong action heroines. He/him/his. #ArtistOnTwitter #AuthorsOnTwitter 🇵🇸🇺🇦
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Tomorrow's article is about the ancient origin of Africa's mancala board games
This woman from Ice Age Europe came out looking almost regal when I painted her. #prehistoric #paleolithic #painting #art
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#Frazettafriday
Fire and Ice: Teegra and the Reptile
#fireandice #teegra #fantasyart #illustration #digitalart #frazetta @frazettagirls @ralphbakshi
A portrait of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex that I painted in acrylics. RAWR! #tyrannosaurusrex #dinosaur #paleoart #art
A prehistoric lady I doodled in Pyxel Edit as another exercise in making pixel art. It's always fun to play with a new artistic medium. #pixelart #prehistoric #african #art
So does this mean a decline in the AI slop polluting the Internet? Because that would be a good thing.
A very sad day. ChatGPT is officially on death row.
The beautiful, blissful experience of interacting with a frontier-ish reasoning model without worrying about a usage meter will soon be a thing of the past.
I am weirdly significantly impacted by this. It feels like it shouldn’t matter…I could reserve all current usage for Codex and buy a $20 plan just for ChatGPT and it would be more than enough. But it’s not about the money…it’s about the psychological impact of The Meter.
The idea of having to think about optimizing for a meter is just so exhausting that it ruins the whimsy of free-flowing exploratory thought.
That is what ChatGPT was. A whimsical, magical all-you-can-think buffet of experimentation and exploration where you were limited only by your imagination and your ability to come up with $20 once a month.
You didn’t have to think about “using all of your usage” or scheduling your thinking time around someone else’s arbitrary schedule…you just had a portal to endless information and research capability in your pocket to tap into guilt-free at any time the moment struck you.
But either because OpenAI thinks adding the meter will stimulate additional usage (it probably will), generate additional revenue (it probably will), or just because too many people took undue advantage of ChatGPT’s generous allowances (they definitely did)…that amazing, weightless experience is now coming to an end.
It was awesome while it lasted. RIP ChatGPT.
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"Every adult Tyrannosaurus Rex is a battle-hardened warrior."
Take this young male, for example. Even though it hasn't reached its biggest size, its scarred yet robust physique is enough to show that it is a seasoned hunter.
I really don't care for all those memes portraying Spanish and Portuguese colonialism as basically getting romantic with indigenous women. There's no way all that "intimacy" was consensual.
Kinda hard not to have a blue wave when Team Red's crowning achievement this year was attacking Iran.
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The idea that North Koreans entirely built and gifted the African Renaissance monument is just slop.
The project was entirely financed by president Abdoulaye Wade, the concept also was by Wade. The architect & designer was Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, and it also involved collaboration with Senegalese artisan Ousmane Sow.
It came from Senegalese pockets (sparked outrage), with the idea in mind to have something like the Tour Eiffel or Statue of liberty, and boost tourism. It costed 12B FCFA (27M USD)
Just learned that that kicking dance the Russians do is called "prisiadki". I have no idea how to pronounce that properly.
This is one of the Anakin memes that's been going around lately, and labeling him the Zoomer and Luke the Boomer is...well, a bit ironic when you think about it.
An acrylic painting showing off the different shades of African beauty. #painting #african #blackwomen #womenofcolor #art
In this acrylic painting, a gallant horseman from ancient Wagadu (aka the Ghana Empire) in West Africa tests his mettle against a man-eating crocodile out in the marshes along the Niger River! #westafrican #african #knight #medieval #crocodile #painting #art
Line sketch of a warrior on horseback fighting a crocodile in ancient West Africa. I drew this on a sheet of 8.5x11'' acrylic paper and plan to paint it in during my spare time.
#westafrican #african #knight #crocodile #art
