Favorites July 29th 2023

David Watson

Jul 30, 2023

Basic Apple Guy @BasicAppleGuy Tim Cook & Craig Federighi in the style of GTA:V characters. — (src)

He kept iterating and made a whole poster for GTA Cupertino. He posted the prompt he was using, so I went ahead and made a few myself.

It’s interesting how Midjourney knows what some very famous people look like, but you don’t have to get too obscure before it really has trouble. This Sundar looks plausible but I had to go through many iterations to get this close. It had no idea who Vogt was so I had to give it a reference image to work with.

No evidence that anyone has tried making the recipe, but reading through it makes sense at least.

carnage4life 16h The reason student debt exists today but didn’t for Boomers is that one of Ronald Reagan’s advisors believed having an overabundance of college educated and unemployed people is what led to fascism in Germany. So Reagan attacked state funding of universities and the rest is history. Many structural problems in modern America can be traced to Ronald Reagan’s policies and a tinge of racism. theintercept.com The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 22 replies · — (src)

The article doesn't directly prove that this was Reagan's thinking, but the quote from his education advisor is pretty wild:

‘idiosyncratic’ indeed.