I’ve had enough. Over the last year, I have finally decided that all the attention manipulation, the never ending ‘signals’, and the 3500 interrupters that my phone and other devices create each day is too much to bear. I find I no longer casually or carefully read articles – let alone books! My days have become filled with a blend or oscillations between some variant of ‘doom scrolling’ on pop-news sites and trying to do 100 things at once while 1000 other things beg me to give them my attention for just a moment....

We’ve all been there. You had an incredible race and want to share it. You record your incredible pass or save on a single cam, watch it, and imagine what it could be. You look at the keyboard shortcuts and envision yourself as a live-event-director, smashing buttons to switch cameras at the perfect time while the recording runs. Perhaps you even tried to record like this, and realized doing that well would require a time investment on par with your sim racing addiction....

Animating Stable Diffusion txt2img Outputs with Deforum and Vision of Chaos If the newness and wow factor of A.I. image generators and Stable Diffusion has worn off for you, deforum animations may be just what you need – While we may not yet be at the point we can scare audiences like the Lumières did with their train video and are probably more in the Magic Lantern stage of development, I had a ton of fun generating the animations for this article....

Image Refinement with Cross Attention Control If you’ve been keeping up with the latest Stable Diffusion forks, you may have seen prompt editing get merged to the master branch of the Automatic111 repo a few days ago. There’s not a lot of information on how to use this other than a comment in the commit. I believe the repo this originated from is Cross Attention Control. The README here describes more uses than the AUTOMATIC111 commit comment talks about....

Easy Stable Diffusion + Textual Inversion! Wow – The pace at which the AI Image generation space has changed is something I have seldom seen in my life as a nerd. It reminds me of early Bitcoin tools or the Apple app store when it seemed like every day there was some new amazing app/tool/offering. I think SD is even more engaging for the community than these since it’s both open source and produces something tangible and fun (looking at blockchain ledgers takes some imagination to see why it’s ‘cool’)...