@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 comes in Instant and Thinking variants and can generate images of up to 2K resolution and in multiple aspect ratios (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/21/openai-unveiling-chatgpt-images-2…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialAfter getting our new fridge, we packed our cycles and did a nice loop in the neighbourhood. It's been a bit warm but with enough water it went quite well.
Enjoy your Saturday!
#cycling #BikeTooter #tegernsee
@jake4480@c.imNew single 'Spitting Image' by NYC's TARANEH has kind of a Portishead meets Elastica, Breeders, or Veruca Salt kinda feel, so obviously, I love it.
https://taraneh.bandcamp.com/track/spitting-image
Iranian-American singer/songwriter Taraneh Azar is behind this…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSome historical documents from 2009 for #TextureTuesday... A high-res render and some detail crops of the award-winning generative typography & branding system/application I designed & developed for the DECODE exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum London (one of the largest group shows the V&A had organized and curated in a few decades, and which later traveled to other m…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChatGPT Images 2.0 is available globally to ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version for paying subscribers; its knowledge cutoff is December 2025 (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-beefs-up-chatgpts-image-generation-model/
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialThe Deity that Struggles ⛪️
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@simoncox@seocommunity.socialJust on the way to bed and to the South East on the horizon is a spectacular thunder storm. I checked my lightning app and I can see it a huge storm stretching from Amiens to Lille in France - 140 miles away across the Channel!
#weather #lightning
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHey, Zionists! Take a fucking bow. Your latest kills are in. @… https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@gazanotice/116957150028311468
@cdarwin@c.imDavid Sirota:
None of the Bush/Cheney people who stole the 2000 election,
lied America into war
and created conditions for the financial crisis
paid any personal price at all.
On the contrary, Obama's "look forward, not back" policy gave them get-out-of-jail-free cards,
and they were all promptly enriched and rewarded with media platforms, stature and money,
positioning them to then take partial control of the Democratic Party and the …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116603070039160133
Actually trying to find the source for this, it appears to be from one of those “1,000 things to do on the Web” books from the Y2K era.
I have some books coming to see if it’s in any one of them.
If you search online for this (in a real search engine, not Google) you will find a lot of random Reddit threads that all say it’s an “ad” despite it clearly not being an ad and all images of it are always this specific angled image, just with different crops.
Trying to find the truth where it’s from so stay tuned.
@danyork@mastodon.social
@aardrian@toot.cafeOut of curiosity I fired up Twitter to see how GAAD was going over there, and the very first thing I saw was a 7-tweet image thread from BrowserStack with no alt text on the images.
So two lessons learned:
1. BrowserStack chooses to stay on MechaHitler’s CSAM-generating site, and
2. BrowserStack is bad at performative acts.
Oh look, TinyMCE too!
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialcssQuake 👹
A port of id Software's Quake that renders BSP worlds as real HTML/CSS 3D geometry through PolyCSS, without a WebGL or canvas renderer. cssQuake preprocesses original Quake data into browser-ready JSON, image assets, and PolyCSS render bundles, then runs the game in TypeScript.
🕹️ https://cssquake.com
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
5× faster fast_blur in image-rs.
https://apas.tel/blog/optimizing-image-rs-blur
saved 2026-05-15 https://dotat…
@nelson@tech.lgbtA little nostalgia, the image Dennis Hwang drew for my first product launch at Google, the search API
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… I’m trying to include an image in #Cosma 2.6.1, but cosma modelize says:
Building cosmoscope… (source type: directory)
Err. (unknown path) [Line 231, Column 29]
TypeError: The "path" argument must be of type string. Received…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… I’m trying to include an image in #Cosma 2.6.1, but cosma modelize says:
Building cosmoscope… (source type: directory)
Err. (unknown path) [Line 231, Column 29]
TypeError: The "path" argument must be of type string. Received…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… I’m trying to include an image in #Cosma 2.6.1, but cosma modelize says:
Building cosmoscope… (source type: directory)
Err. (unknown path) [Line 231, Column 29]
TypeError: The "path" argument must be of type string. Received…
@frankel@mastodon.topBike to work, low-intensity run at lunch, bike from work, and publish the Java Geek Weekly.
What a cool day 😊
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/137/
@einzigartiger@chaos.socialAs the question arose as to which ferries are allowed:
#tcrno12
@grumpybozo@toad.socialTIL: There’s a town in the U.P. of Michigan named “Felch.”
I have no comment on this novel (to me) fact. @… https://m.ai6yr.org/@nwstornado_bot/11
@wraithe@mastodon.social
@wydamn@social.linux.pizzaAI misinfo and propaganda is just endemic now and nobody will apologize or make it right if it confirms their beliefs.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz50 years ago #OTD NASA's #Viking1 landed on #Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_1 - here is part of the first image sent from the surface. The camera was a horizontally rotating scanner moving left to right: the early vertical columns are brighter because dust from touch-down hadn't settled yet.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"In Pope Leo’s world, what ultimately matters is not power but love. ... In Pope Leo’s world, each human is created as God’s image, and each is unconditionally loved by God. That divine love is the root of our inestimable worth, not the reach of our power, not the greatness of our wealth, not rank on any superiority scale."
—YDS Professor Miroslav Volf in his new piece for Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper.
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@doktrock@toad.socialTo better "see" Precambrian basement geology, an airborne geophysical survey is currently being carried out over eastern North Dakota! USGS with North Dakota Geological Survey NDGS.
Part of the national Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI)
https://www.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toCompare publications on PubMed referring to The vOICe vision BCI (An experimental system for auditory image representations) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?timeline=expanded&sort=pubdate&linkname=pubmed_pubmed_ci…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialApparently today is #ShowYourStripes day.
If there are still people unaware that #ClimateChange is happening... maybe we can get them up to speed by sharing our stripes.
If some who are aware it's happening think it's already "too late"... maybe we can tell them that ac…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 with new "thinking capabilities", allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/916166/openai-chatg…
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@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaI may be unemployed, but I also had a Superstation One delivered today which was a very nice surprise. Gotta say it's absolutely beautiful and has about every analog output imaginable. Setup wasn't too horrible, but definitely had to grab the microSD card image and reflash the card before I got things working properly.
Overall though I like the device. I might stream a game later and see what this thing can do overall.
@edintone@mastodon.greenOrdnance Survey is 235 years old today, 21 June.
These stamps were produced in 1991 and show snippets of a map of the village of Hamstreet in Kent from 1816, 1906, 1959 and 1991. Chosen because the very first map produced by Ordnance Survey was of the county of Kent. Text and image from https://postalmuseum.org …
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaImage is a bit blurry, but from starting up the new #linux laptop, check for software, install updates (includes kernel update) it was under three and a quarter minutes and includes time waiting for me to respond.
Work Win11 machine can take hours for simple updates to my installed apps and don't get me started on how long it takes for it to update system software.
I keep tellin…
@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Fustuk" by Robert Mgrdich Apelian. Without exaggeration, it is a true masterpiece, an absolutely stunning graphic novel about food, family, and magical contracts that reminds me of both Witch Hat Atelier and Young Bride's Stories. The truly impressive part is that Apelian is every bit as good an illustrator and storyteller as both Kamome Shirahama and Kaoru Mori.
In the author's note, Apelian says "So I asked to make the story I always craved growing up: a tale of Middle Eastern joy and magic that speaks to diasporic culture and how those of us within it relate to our two worlds." He succeeded at that goal abundantly, as far as I can tell, and has produced a truly impressive work.
Images are rough pictures of a few example pages showing very cool panel construction, lots of detail, and both dynamic action and expressive faces. I'm not going to spoil anything, but the second image here is one of the most powerful pages I've read in a while and the way it uses gutters demonstrates a beautiful mastery of the comics medium.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@gray17@mastodon.socialgemini 3.5 flash "extended thinking" gets the geometry correctt in 4 of 4 tries, but the controls still have weird labels. what baffles me is the "thinking steps" all have weird hallucinations
- one claims I requested a chrome toaster with crumbs; no I didn't.
- one claims the image will include a dish towel and a spice rack; no it doesn't.
the image generator in both standard and extended thinking is nano banana 2. I'm unclear how the "th…
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.deImo every company that neither has an account in the Fediverse nor the Atmosphere is missing a huge opportunity, ngl.
Even if it might not mean a lot of reach, at first, it probably improves your image to be here.
Just saying 😁
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaThe vibrant landscape. I can't give it up. So many exciting things happening:
- RakuOS: immutable bootc image, but with a normal package manager. And Cosmic.
- Project Bluefin: the Dakota alpha is out, which is based on Gnome OS. So no more distro involved, pure Gnome as the basis.
- Butterknife: as mentioned yesterday Debian Stable, btrfs snapshots and a number of window managers to choose from (Qtile, Awesome, dwm, Sway, SwayFX, i3). Plus good looks and many, many script…
@keen456@infosec.exchange
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI can't get over how bad the docker ecosystem is.
"we provide a docker image, just use that!"
*install container image & run it - it doesn't work*
"oops, we didn't test it"
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🚀 #MoonshotAI releases #KimiK26 — #opensource 1T-param MoE model, 32B active params, 262K context & native multimodal (image video) input
🧠 15% over K2.5 on benchmarks: bette…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioImage 1 is the satirical image from Obama’s White House Correspondents Dinner comedy set that reportedly angered Trump so much it goaded him into running for office.
Image 2 is what the White House actually looks like under Trump now.
(ht Parker Malloy for making this point & sharing the images)
@cdarwin@c.imThe Crab Nebula sits some 6,500 light years from us in Taurus.
It’s what remains after a massive star exploded as a supernova in 1054 CE
— an event people on Earth actually saw and recorded.
Today, it’s known as a pulsar wind nebula, driven by the powerful winds of a fast-spinning pulsar at its center.
https://
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialThat’ll work fine.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotBee having the time of its life on our hibiscus tree. There are two of them drunk on pollen, absolutely coated with the stuff #wildlife #bloomscrolling
@hikingdude@mastodon.social#mountainMonday ! Unfortunately not a recent photo but one that's quite a while ago. Before my wife had 2 knee issues. But maybe we can go there again soon.
As you can see, the landscape there is A BLAST! I totally love the area
#mountains
@mia@hcommons.socialHow has the Museum Data Service helped Art UK break new records? Through the MDS, record and image ingestion is now at least 20 times faster than at any other time during @artukdotorg.bsky.social 's history.
David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social explains in https://museumdata.uk/blog/h…
@ruari@velocipederider.comI have spies everywhere @…
I can't tell you who but I will just quietly CC @…
#UnicycleLife
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOpenAI adds support for Google's SynthID watermarks in AI images, and previews a public portal to let users verify if an image was generated by OpenAI's tools (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngJust got confirmation that I will be documenting and helping with some maintenance works at Breslauer Hütte, before the main season starts. This hut, built in 1882, is one of the oldest high-alpine mountain huts in the eastern Alps, and located just below Wildspitze (3768m), Tyrol's highest mountain.
The hut belongs to the Breslau section of the Alpenverein (now based in Stuttgart) and it's their upcoming 150th anniversary next year. Aside from the repair work, for me it's a long await…
@raysofred@discordian.social
@DamonHD@mastodon.socialSomeone got giggles from writing the headline and hero image caption...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2531117-gas-from-uranus-reveals-it-has-an-icy-centre/
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI was looking for an image of a tapped autotransformer for making an unun, instead of the more common bifilar windings for the primary, and a search turned this image up.
Of course it's a Facebook post and I'm not on Facebook so I'm shocked that Facebook let me see anything in their walled garden.
We're not going to make this exactly because we're…
@jake4480@c.imLast.fm users, give this one a vote (upper left) - https://support.last.fm/t/limit-the-number-of-artist-photo-uploads/118521
@…@…
@wraithe@mastodon.social
@dotproto@toot.cafe@… I'm a little surprised how different some parts of the PICO images are. In the sample image of the lady with a red hat (kodak_kodim04), the eyebrow on the right side of the image is slightly higher than in the reference image. Flipping back and forth between them makes it look like she's subtly hinting something
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialFinding assets in Xogot’s filesystem browser was a pain, we baked in a always-on Asset Browser:
https://blog.xogot.com/introducing-the-asset-browser-finding-your-stuff-faster/
@marcel@waldvogel.family«Mit Opt-out setzen Meta und andere Techkonzerne auf die Trägheit der Masse. Die wenigsten Nutzenden ändern die oft versteckten Standardeinstellungen, während neue KI-Funktionen laufend automatisch aktiviert werden. Selbst kritische User geben irgendwann auf.»
@… bei #Watson
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineMemorial Day sale features $13 Tees and up to 40% off everything else in my Threadless shop.
Starts today and runs through May 26 at 5 PM CT.
(A bonus round is also included with extended deals through June 2 at 5 PM CT.)
Get stuff here: https://
@Hans5958@mastodon.socialOh, here's something that I can say after what I've been working on:
Omae Wa Mou samples a bossa nova Touhou song without crediting. Well, sure, it got credited after years.
It went to be the most viewed (official upload of a) Touhou Project song on YouTube (at least what's on TouhouDB).
![Savant, @UnshadowedBones
Disgusting filth, I hope the guy that stole the song and profit from it burns in hell
[*Description of images, if any.*]
> WAV Archive, @WAVArchive
>
> Omae Wa Mou – Deadman 死人 (2017)
>
> [Still image of anime girl dancing]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/787/623/273/712/521/original/acb68c92468499da.png)
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialI sooo often don't have photos of the summit cross when I go to the #mountains . Don't ask me why. Maybe because I usually have people in the photo?
It was the same that day: I almost left without that photo when I stepped over the flowers and thought that they might be a cool foreground for the summit. And by focusing on the flowers and blurring the people, I also don't hav…
@frankel@mastodon.top @leftsidestory@mstdn.socialCivic Museums III - Relics🏛️
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange @cdarwin@c.imUnder acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the pace of investigations against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies has accelerated
— most strikingly, the indictment of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, for posting on social media an image of seashells that prosecutors cast as threatening.
Blanche has used his new perch to boost debunked election conspiracy theories promoted by the president.
But the moves that most starkly illustrated Blanche’s evolving approach came th…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO on his own terms, seemingly picking the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come
@wraithe@mastodon.social @cjust@infosec.exchange @cdarwin@c.imSurvey after survey has shown that the United States’ international popularity has steadily declined in recent years.
That trend now appears appears to be accelerating during U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term.
The American chattering classes tend to discuss the dangers of the country’s worsening image in terms of geopolitics and waning “soft power”
—and they’re not wrong.
Washington’s globe-spanning alliances have long been one of its major strengths.
If …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says that ChatGPT Images 2.0 has a stronger understanding of non-Latin text rendering in languages like Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/21/chatgpts-new-images-2-…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaA new home for the work laptop. Introducing asterix-danang, my own bootc image, based on Fedora Kinoite. to be found here: https://github.com/danangineer/asterix-danang
KDE 6.7, distrobox, homebrew, all fluff removed.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngTwo small new prints from this afternoon, this time not Kallitype but contact printing on silver chloride FB paper, developed with Adox MCC. The increase in depth and detail is just wonderful and the feel of the final results an instant throwback to my early darkroom adventures ~40 years ago... 😍
The pictures are of two of my favorite places in recent years. Larger prints will be available for purchase in September.
@gray17@mastodon.socialSaw a photo of a doctor office with this image on a screen, and had to track it down.
( Image of someone in a orange/black/yellow leather pup mask, sunglasses, chain collar, with text "We're not a vet... but we treat pups!" )
This is by Equitas Health, a nonprofit lgbtq healthcare provider in Ohio
https://www.…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMeta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs (Meta)
https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialQuartet 👁️🗨️
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic started requiring government-issued photo IDs and selfies from some users to prevent access from US adversaries like China, Russia, and North Korea (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropics-id-verifi…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeI must go, my people* need me!
*cats
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@gray17@mastodon.socialok "extended thinking" appears to repeatedly generate the image with additional context generated by the "thinking" steps.
I tried "renaissance painting of a cuisinart toaster lying on its side on the hood of a kia soul", and the last three "thinking steps" are some version of: oops, the toaster is upright, lemme try again. in one session it gives up and says, sorry the toaster is upright, I hope you still like the result anyway.
this is ve…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOne of the views of a recent hike. After quite a while I reached the ridge and finally got the south bound views.
I took some photos while having a little rest and then went on to the summit ...
That day I really noticed how great the rests work together with making photos. And also one of the things that I can hardly do when hiking in a group.
some more of the story:
@cdarwin@c.im @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMeta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta rolls out Muse Image, the first image generation model from its Superintelligence Labs, in Meta AI; it will also power new tools in Instagram and WhatsApp (Meta Newsroom)
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/introducing-muse-image-meta-ai/
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialUrban Fallacies ❌
城市谬误 ❌
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@gray17@mastodon.social@… I think this image is probably AI generated. I can't find a photographer credit, it only appears on random social media accounts. The poster in the back that says "Jimmy Show" is weird. The guys are all wearing their typical on-screen clothes, which is odd for a casual photo. The lettering on the sign feels like AI, not organically written: look …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPrivacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/meta-ai-image-consent
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@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOne more photo from the trail that I posted about recently. The blooming heather always make sme smile. Especially when there aren't too many flowers around.
In such spost I'm always traying a bit what looks more interesting: a great vista, a plain trail shot, the heather in the foreground or a blurred foreground.
The advantage is: I always have little rests along the way :)
#hiking
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSony and TSMC announce a new JV to build next-gen image sensors for robots and cars, as Sony moves from in-house manufacturing to a more asset-light approach (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-08/tsmc-and-sony-t…
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialPrivacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/meta-ai-image-consent
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image, which involves trademarking video and audio clips of him (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple announces new parental controls, letting kids ask to browse specific websites or contact specific people, adding automatic image filtering, and more (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2189728/apple-expands-parental-c…
