Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
The AI authors’ writing often sounds like it was written by an alien; one Ortiz article, for instance, warns that volleyball “can be a little tricky to get into, especially without an actual ball to practice with.” According to a second person involved in the creation of the Sports Illustrated content who also asked to be kept anonymous,…
Broken Link #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 26) Odo gets drippy, must visit Changeling homeworld
Rewatching ST:DS9 In Garak’s shop, the enigmatic proprietor tries to play matchmaker between Odo and an attractive Bajoran woman. Odo is characteristically formal and polite to her, but as a shape-shifter who is liquid in his resting state, he just isn’t interested in “these convoluted mating rituals.” He reluctantly admits she’s lovely, but has a…
Steampunk officer uniforms — test #Blender3D #Unity3D
The video clip shows uniforms I’ve created lately, for a personal project based on the steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children. I start with the standard human models that are part of the Unity Game Engine’s UMA system, and in Blender3D I shape each piece of clothing as 3D geometry, down…
Jumpsuit for a female mechanic in my #neovictorian #steampunk project. #blender3d #unity3d
Body Parts #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 25) Quark announces he’s dying; Kira becomes “Aunt Nerys”
Rewatching ST:DS9 In Ops, O’Brien frets to Dax about his very pregnant, very active wife’s latest outing to the Gamma Quadrant. Quark, having just returned from a visit to Ferenginar, seems unusually happy to be back, but blurts out just before the opening credits that he’s dying. While on Ferenginar, Quark was diagnosed with the…
Happy ice cream turkey cake day.
Finished the female officers for my neovictorian steampunk personal project. #blender3d, #unity3D
Chess with my son. As usual, it didn’t go well for me.
Opening night. Support local artists in your community!
MLA in-text citations: avoid these common errors
The daughter (giving the piggyback ride in pic 2) doing a thing that starts tomorrow.
Tribune Review
A big day for our first year writing students! So much energy in the room!
The Quickening #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 24) Bashir visits a planet where plague victims “worship death”
Rewatching ST:DS9 After a comic opening on the station (featuring Quark working an advertising jingle into the cups served up by the food replicators), we join Kira, Dax and a starry-eyed Bashir (“Is it my imagination or are the stars a little brighter in the Gamma Quadrant?”) on a runabout, following a distress beacon to…
My Shakespeare students are off peer reviewing their term paper rough drafts. I’m officially guarding their water bottles and key rings.
I’ve finally started to create female uniforms for the #neovictorian fantasy #steampunk æthership from the bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children.
First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Go
I check into Musk’s X every few days, but I no longer *use* it as I once did, as a way of learning from credible experts responding to breaking news, and as a way of connecting with colleagues in my field, mostly just listening quietly while they shared their wisdom with each other. I first…