My eye for detail picked out a detail that’s needed exploring and has been mentioned: the AI Smiles. Your ability to invent “AI People” with consistently similar smiles is remarkable (well to be honest, “remarkable” as in “just a tad creepy,” and a near-miss of “warning code PG-8.” ) But leaving that aside, it remains sturdy as a masterful feat of word-to-image artistry. However, it’s the sparkle which adorns the writing that keeps people from gazing too closely to notice such awesome spookiness. Such gazing unaided by instrumentation e.g telescope from the wrong end, microscope, electron or conventional, Handyman Protective Goggles, OSHA ref 67312 and/or by those untrained as “Certified ExtraOcularMuscles Pilates Master, Leval 2” risk straining their extraocular eye muscles, especially the superior rectus, inferior oblique, and internal lateral oblique” which thus brings the eyes into “bilaterally strabismal/paralytic focus” on the nose (in simple terms, Cross-Eyed, sub. construct: Paralytic) that lasts from hours up to 2 days. (Try explaining that to the cop pushing your face into a breathalyzer!) But getting back on track to the rarity of smiling AI creations, it’s a feat that I’ve managed only rarely. And those who try be warned: attempts with anything like “upturned labial commissures when afflicted with spiral-geronimo of the blowhole (S-GOB”), will get an “NSFW-Ambiguos and Fanciful Anatomic Referent, error codec 405” (I need to mention, in case you wondered what enumerated code, codec or cocoa [spell check error but is thematically amusant]) follows the well known, but dripping with in its own ambiguity (As in: WHY?) , “error 404.”) I’ve managed, after being on Nightcafe for two years, some near genuine human smiles using a dozen or more prompts like “joyously expressive mouth including lips, facing north to the philtrum (that little “dent”) under the nose, and East and West at the labial commissures of The Vermilion Border (VB), upturned” (VB is medicalese for the red part, lab. com. being the site of Angular Cheilitis, a painful condition with cracks, sores and crust-ugly erosions appearing at lab.comms..) VB is definitely a phrase that needs more consideration by AI artistes and those with quite focused criticality. Caution is required since some “fast twitch gazers” may disastrously confuse the acronym, thinking VD of the mouth…Ewww! One ought think: pile on prompts like “ecstasy at the vermilion border” in conjunction with “gleefully expressive facies,” or for the AI intelligentsia who track my prompts for truly startling prompts and “UltraBratIdeas” like “Strange Rapture just south of the philtrum,” and throw into the mix real words no one’s ever heard anyone surrender breath to like “dystopian eudaimaniac” if your trying for some paradoxical aporetic facial alertness so viewers can critically engage your work with intention, say here a portrait of an enemy cyborg whose “Borg Insurgency Gang, Rapid Support (BIG, RS) ” just conquered an area ‘the size of New Jersey’.” (NJ is a standard referent comparator when you mean “large” on a human scale.) If you tried a prompt that said “a jolly, blithe, pleasurably transfixed cyborg (so far so good!) who just conquered New Jersey, a state the size of New Jersey” (Uh-oh!) you might get blowback not only in the form of a warning from AI moderators who are mostly AI’s:’ “Content that perpetuates anything with a hint of ‘chaosmotic repetitive forms, null set’ puts you close to the Ultima Thule of our tolerance,’ “ is evidence that you may soon be exiled, a fact that gets shared with every other AI Art site except those from rogue locations like the Democratic Republic of North Korea’s site “The Other AI, Pioneer of the Masses and Victorious Protector of the Fatherland.’’ This is an AI art site on TOR whose LFM (“LargeFaceModel”) consists entirely of images that are a melange of childhood photos, portraits painted during adulthood, needlepoint souvenir scarf portraits, portraits on “Grains of Eternal Rice,” hammer and sickle neck tattoo shots that also capture his mouth’s Platonic Ideal of a Mouth of Kim Il Sung, Supreme Eternal Leader that demonstrates his placid delight in the People’s Joyance and Upliftment. BTW, his given name “Il Sung” (cap iLower case L) translates to “Here Comes the Sun,” a riff lifted by The Beatles. Were such an appropriation well known it would surely get flaming remarks with a tone of flummoxed pique and a resulting cyborg with a face where you could easily think you see a drone shot of Newark. This exemplum of erroneous perception of meaningful things in nebulous/amorphous data is a pareidolia. .
lol getting caught up. did you do the finished project ? - a substack was scoped to some activity and now it's done. out of ideas and motivation, now you haunt notes like a ghost.
You forgot the isolated highly delusional visual artist who refuses to accept the fact that in general people don’t respond to that piece you poured your soul into. They just want anime waifus and memes.
May 29·edited May 29Liked by ⚡Thalia The Comedy Muse⚡
Now, the Substack archetype list is complete! I enjoyed the satire, but I can't say I saw myself in the travel writing description since I haven't taken a holiday in five years, nor would I ever call a country "a foreign place," but rather, "a place." I don't have one single reference point to call home and "not foreign." As for the culture writers, we need to split that category in two on Substack because those at the top of the "Culture" section are really "Upper-middle-class American culture war writers regurgitating unoriginal ideas about movies like Barbie or eating Avocado Toast."
My eye for detail picked out a detail that’s needed exploring and has been mentioned: the AI Smiles. Your ability to invent “AI People” with consistently similar smiles is remarkable (well to be honest, “remarkable” as in “just a tad creepy,” and a near-miss of “warning code PG-8.” ) But leaving that aside, it remains sturdy as a masterful feat of word-to-image artistry. However, it’s the sparkle which adorns the writing that keeps people from gazing too closely to notice such awesome spookiness. Such gazing unaided by instrumentation e.g telescope from the wrong end, microscope, electron or conventional, Handyman Protective Goggles, OSHA ref 67312 and/or by those untrained as “Certified ExtraOcularMuscles Pilates Master, Leval 2” risk straining their extraocular eye muscles, especially the superior rectus, inferior oblique, and internal lateral oblique” which thus brings the eyes into “bilaterally strabismal/paralytic focus” on the nose (in simple terms, Cross-Eyed, sub. construct: Paralytic) that lasts from hours up to 2 days. (Try explaining that to the cop pushing your face into a breathalyzer!) But getting back on track to the rarity of smiling AI creations, it’s a feat that I’ve managed only rarely. And those who try be warned: attempts with anything like “upturned labial commissures when afflicted with spiral-geronimo of the blowhole (S-GOB”), will get an “NSFW-Ambiguos and Fanciful Anatomic Referent, error codec 405” (I need to mention, in case you wondered what enumerated code, codec or cocoa [spell check error but is thematically amusant]) follows the well known, but dripping with in its own ambiguity (As in: WHY?) , “error 404.”) I’ve managed, after being on Nightcafe for two years, some near genuine human smiles using a dozen or more prompts like “joyously expressive mouth including lips, facing north to the philtrum (that little “dent”) under the nose, and East and West at the labial commissures of The Vermilion Border (VB), upturned” (VB is medicalese for the red part, lab. com. being the site of Angular Cheilitis, a painful condition with cracks, sores and crust-ugly erosions appearing at lab.comms..) VB is definitely a phrase that needs more consideration by AI artistes and those with quite focused criticality. Caution is required since some “fast twitch gazers” may disastrously confuse the acronym, thinking VD of the mouth…Ewww! One ought think: pile on prompts like “ecstasy at the vermilion border” in conjunction with “gleefully expressive facies,” or for the AI intelligentsia who track my prompts for truly startling prompts and “UltraBratIdeas” like “Strange Rapture just south of the philtrum,” and throw into the mix real words no one’s ever heard anyone surrender breath to like “dystopian eudaimaniac” if your trying for some paradoxical aporetic facial alertness so viewers can critically engage your work with intention, say here a portrait of an enemy cyborg whose “Borg Insurgency Gang, Rapid Support (BIG, RS) ” just conquered an area ‘the size of New Jersey’.” (NJ is a standard referent comparator when you mean “large” on a human scale.) If you tried a prompt that said “a jolly, blithe, pleasurably transfixed cyborg (so far so good!) who just conquered New Jersey, a state the size of New Jersey” (Uh-oh!) you might get blowback not only in the form of a warning from AI moderators who are mostly AI’s:’ “Content that perpetuates anything with a hint of ‘chaosmotic repetitive forms, null set’ puts you close to the Ultima Thule of our tolerance,’ “ is evidence that you may soon be exiled, a fact that gets shared with every other AI Art site except those from rogue locations like the Democratic Republic of North Korea’s site “The Other AI, Pioneer of the Masses and Victorious Protector of the Fatherland.’’ This is an AI art site on TOR whose LFM (“LargeFaceModel”) consists entirely of images that are a melange of childhood photos, portraits painted during adulthood, needlepoint souvenir scarf portraits, portraits on “Grains of Eternal Rice,” hammer and sickle neck tattoo shots that also capture his mouth’s Platonic Ideal of a Mouth of Kim Il Sung, Supreme Eternal Leader that demonstrates his placid delight in the People’s Joyance and Upliftment. BTW, his given name “Il Sung” (cap iLower case L) translates to “Here Comes the Sun,” a riff lifted by The Beatles. Were such an appropriation well known it would surely get flaming remarks with a tone of flummoxed pique and a resulting cyborg with a face where you could easily think you see a drone shot of Newark. This exemplum of erroneous perception of meaningful things in nebulous/amorphous data is a pareidolia. .
It’s funny seeing other people through your listing but of course I would never belong to one of your shallow symptoms. Lol
But something occurred to me last night and now again.
We need more goddamn laughter. We need to make fun of people and ourselves.
I think being a comedian is harder these days with cancel culture and people being offended.
But seeing humor in life will increase our longevity.
Thanks for the read!
Yup! I started this because I thought there was a lack of it!
lol getting caught up. did you do the finished project ? - a substack was scoped to some activity and now it's done. out of ideas and motivation, now you haunt notes like a ghost.
Um… can I get in on that Stacky Coin ico? plz thx and thank you
Just savage, awesome.
Haha! I survived round 1, but "The Substack Supremacist" got me...
Too funny.
I'm definitely the life coach and not ashamed to admit it! Hahaha, hilarious.
Look, let me help you fix your life... 😂🤣
That was fun. 🎊
Don't mind me. I'll be sitting over here now, contemplating my basic-ass life choices ...
You forgot the isolated highly delusional visual artist who refuses to accept the fact that in general people don’t respond to that piece you poured your soul into. They just want anime waifus and memes.
You may be the greatest writer I've ever read
#6 is the best. It literally made me laugh out loud. Which rarely happens when I read stuff and was also just what I needed this morning.
Thank you for this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Midlife crisis/endless self exploration 🙋♀️
Now, the Substack archetype list is complete! I enjoyed the satire, but I can't say I saw myself in the travel writing description since I haven't taken a holiday in five years, nor would I ever call a country "a foreign place," but rather, "a place." I don't have one single reference point to call home and "not foreign." As for the culture writers, we need to split that category in two on Substack because those at the top of the "Culture" section are really "Upper-middle-class American culture war writers regurgitating unoriginal ideas about movies like Barbie or eating Avocado Toast."
Thalia, I survived but I'm barely hanging on. It's touch and go. Could go either way at this point.