🧵I'm using the new #midjourneyAi update (version 4) to re-run old prompts I did when I first started using an earlier version last summer. What a difference. (Prompt: "alfons mucha cyberpunk geisha assassin")
For all coparisons, Left image = old version, right = new:
Prompt: "pope francis is a demon"
"a useless robot who nobody loves"
"Bouguereau cyberpunk geisha ninja"
Sometimes the old version gave a better result. When you want more impressionistic versions, anyway.
"a giant alien swarm preparing to eat the earth red mist"
"Peach McGee" (a nickname for someone I know)
"astronaut lost in space dead skull inside helmet mouth open beautiful nebula reflecting in the glass of his visor"
"agony"
Again, the creepier the result you want, the more the raw, early version of midjourney seems to give you something nightmarish.
"skeletons of old dead robots covered in rust lying about in a crowded junk yard with one humanoid robot smelling a flower"
(Old version is better)
"norman rockwell cyberpunk"
"the monster under the bed hd 8k"
I want to play more but I have other things to do. Perhaps later.
🧵THREAD: Why are "FAA-Approved Drones" Disrupting Restricted Airspace? Why can't anyone tell us who is controlling them, and for what purpose?
The White House, via @PressSec, wants us to believe the video below is the truth. It isn't. Keep reading and I'll show you why 👇
1st, it was actually the FAA that SHUT DOWN NJ airspace to drones.
In Dec., FAA imposed drone flight restriction across of NJ due to persistent mystery drone reports over civilian & military areas. It lasted from Dec 18, 2024 to January 17, 2025.
For "FAA-approved" drones??
Military bases have been on high alert: It's strange that "FAA-approved" drones would spook US military bases. It's even stranger that they'd cause problems at bases overseas, since the FAA has no jurisdiction there. But a number of sensitive sites are having drone issues👇
I'm supposed to be leaving to finish Christmas shopping for the kids, but I can't stop thinking about what is going on in our skies. At 4:41AM, my 15yo son woke up to a drone hovering in our yard, level with his window.
He said it "looked at him." Let me explain:🧵👇
My son is a bit of an insomniac. He was trying to sleep, but couldn't, and then noticed light and noise coming in from outside. Not airplane noise. "Like a car" he said. So he got up to look and he sees a drone. He said it was large, but hard to estimate the size of. 👇
On first seeing it, he didn't even think to grab his phone, he was just trying to figure out what he was looking at. He said it was hovering over our yard, about level with his window on the second floor. Maybe a little higher. It flew to the side and around the house, then...
🚨 BIG DRONE/UAP THREAD WITH LATEST BREAKING UPDATES/VIDEO:
A month into the drone debacle, the geographic area and significance of the sightings has only increased. Let's break it down so you can be up to date on all the latest! 🧵👇
The White House has been assuring us that the drones were a non-issue. "Lawful and legal" drone flights was how White House National Security Communications Advisor Admiral John Kirby described it to @BretBaier just a few days ago:
So a funny thing has been happening with the drone story.
None of the official stories make sense.
Local elected officials and law enforcement are saying it’s a real, serious problem. Police say the drones don’t emit heat signatures & easily evade them. 🧵👇
Multiple sensitive military sights have gotten overflights. Picatinny Arsenal has confirmed at least 11 sightings. Naval Weapons Station Earle had to activate their de-droning equipment. But that's not all. An even bigger event happened last night...
Wright-Patterson is the latest to report overflights (which has its own special significance in UAP lore). Last night, they had to close their airspace because of the amount of “UAS activity” (UAS = “unmanned aerial system”) over the base. Listen:
All you fans of the 1938 Orson Welles broadcast of the War of the Worlds, as well as the 1953 film that followed, know this: the town of Grover’s Mill, New Jersey, will forever be etched in our minds as the location where the Martians began their reign of terror. 🧵👇
When news reports of the real-life anomalous drones over New Jersey first broke a week or two ago, my mind immediately returned to the War of the Worlds broadcast. It was almost too perfect. Too on the nose. The part of my brain that’s always...
...trying to write science fiction stories pinged my consciousness with the thought that perhaps there were non-human intelligences behind these drones, and that maybe they were hoping to trigger a cultural memory that many humans have already forgotten.