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    Well the problem with the term missing is how the bible was determined in the first place. First, why did Christians need a bible when a bible was not a mandatory part of christian life from the time of jesus, who never used a bible to the Nicean creed? Notice I used the word mandatory. Chrsitian groups used books but none were deemed officials outside the group. In the same way, Mohammed didn't have a quran initially. It was the persians that made the quran mandatory. So when you say missing, I argue no book is missing and any christian is free to use whatever texts they want, including derived from themselves, based on the fact that no literature was deemed associated to all christians initially. One of the tragedies of human history is how so often when a culture grows its genesis doesn't get interpreted in its growth. Jesus at his death was not a jew , if for no other reason, the jewish community had exiled him and his movement. So the old testament which is a variation of the jewish torah, emphasized by jews who became early christian or influenced early christian communities is I argue invalid. Now, the new testament in my view is valid christian literature. It has gospels,[not the gospels because the gospels selected by nicea were few of a much larger set] which as a form of literature is the oldest christian literature, various epistles or letters from early christian groups and lastly the book of revelation, which in my mind is the most fanciful book. But, are any of these books mandatory even though all are christian? no. So I conclude with a simple argument. If anyone who is christian, which I am not, wants to use any literature, including one they wrote themselves, as a basis something to base their religion, to read again, on then do so. The myth is the idea that a book is official in the first place.
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    @Troy fair enough, what about my solution being starting off outside the usa you don't concur with or like or see ?
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    good lluck!:) @Milton please add your coming event and any others to the following calendar https://aalbc.com/tc/events/5-calendar/?view=month
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    mlkjr said

     

    https://www.tumblr.com/mdblackbear/733788907752357888

     

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    @Troy which is your favorite jeffrey wright performance on camera?
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    Dark Academia

     

    Element collage
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Dark-Academia-2024-Elements-Collage-1016036178
    Photomanipulation
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/DArk-Academia-photomanipulation-inspired-by-dark-s-1016036682

     

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    Dark Soul

    element collage
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Dark-Soul-Elements-collage-1015935277
    photomanipulation
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Darksoul-2024-Invitational-1015937068

     

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    weird fashion 
    coloring page
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Wierd-Fashion-2024-Coloring-page-1015925720
    colored
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Wierd-Fashion-2024-Invitation-1015925234
    textured
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Wierd-Fashion-2024-Invitation-textured-1015924317
    compare gif
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/weird-fashion-Compare-Gif-1015919837

     

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    Jiausiku  series.

    1-the hotel
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/THE-HOTEL-image-for-daring-jan-3-to-9-1015887385
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1015897500

     

    2-dawanga
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/DAWANGA-image-for-everlasting-jan-10-to-16-1015900126
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1015908954

     

    3-the former employee
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/THE-FORMER-EMPLOYEE-image-for-quitting-jan-18-to-1015912182
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1015914022

     

    shadowworld

    1-the new chapter
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/New-Chapter-image-1015927848
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1015930061
     

     

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    primal from lisa tillman pritchard.jpg

    Title:    Primal
    Artist: Lisa Tillman Pritchard  < https://www.etsy.com/shop/ltpartllc1/ , https://www.tiktok.com/@ltpartllc>     

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    phone booth from gdbee.jpg

    Unofficial Title: Phone Booth
    Artist: GDbee < https://gdbee.store/ >   aka Prinnay    
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    love from lisa tillman pritchard.jpg

    Title:   Love
    Artist: Lisa Tillman Pritchard  < https://www.etsy.com/shop/ltpartllc1/ , https://www.tiktok.com/@ltpartllc>     

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    hunters from gdbee.jpg

    Unofficial Title: Hunters
    Artist: GDbee < https://gdbee.store/ >   aka Prinnay    
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    hela st august aka aizan from shawn alleyne.jpg

    Title:  hela st august aka aizan from shawn alleyne
    Artist: shawn alleyne < Pyroglyphics Studio > OR < https://www.deviantart.com/pyroglyphics1 >   

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    bee sting by lisa tillman pritchard.jpg

    Title:   Bee Sting
    Artist: Lisa Tillman Pritchard  < https://www.etsy.com/shop/ltpartllc1/ , https://www.tiktok.com/@ltpartllc>     

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    I concur @Troy but I want to say, like many industries the problem is the usa itself. The usa doesn't have a history of managing inudstries well. They let industries fly as long as they make money and can pay for government protection. Googe is part of the digital six. I argue the only answer is alternative networks outside the usa that will free populaces outside the usa. China shows the way as at least china has its own ecosystem.
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    topic Thirty-sixth of the Cento poetry series If You Made It This Far : AI films, Empire State building photos through time, Robert Forte alps photos, TheWiz multiverse URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/09/01/28/2024-rmnewsletter.html The largest non food industry black owned business in harlem is Amsterdam news the most well known black designed building in harlem for me is the Renaissance Ballroom, destroyed now, but financed and designed by black people, a black architecture firm and black money.
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    https://www.tumblr.com/blackexcellence/740595272723333120 lovely
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    oh no @Pioneer1
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    Google has a new software called Lumiere that does text to video, what are your thoughts? you can read more about it here https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2582&type=status
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    Google's New AI Text-to-Video Tool Is Fun to Look At. But What Next?

    Story by Lisa Lacy • 38m

     

    Google has teased an AI-based video generation tool, but it's not clear when — or if — anyone outside the search giant will be able to kick the tires. It's certainly fun to look at, though.

    On Wednesday, Google's Research arm released a video highlighting this new text-to-video model, which is called Lumiere.

     

    In a LinkedIn post, team leader Inbar Mosseri said the tool "generates coherent, high-quality videos using simple text prompts" that New Atlas says run up to five seconds. Sample inputs include, "A fluffy baby sloth with an orange knitted hat trying to figure out a laptop" and "An escaped panda eating popcorn in the park."

    In the year or so that generative AI has been the hottest technology going, much of the attention has been focused on tools like ChatGPT that produce text answers to prompts, or those like Dall-E that create still images. Video creation from text prompts is arguably the next frontier, so if Lumiere really can "demonstrate state-of-the-art text-to-video generation results" as Google says, we may already be evolving beyond the "grotesque abominations" of the AI-generated images of 2023.

    As the video illustrates, Lumiere's capabilities include text-to-video and image-to-video generation, as well as stylized generation — that is, using an image to create videos in a similar style. Other tricks include the ability to fill in any missing visuals within a video clip.

    That includes the ability to animate famous paintings, like Van Gogh's Starry Night ("A timelapse oil painting of a starry night with clouds moving") or Da Vinci's Mona Lisa ("A woman looking tired and yawning"). While the Starry Night example works almost flawlessly, Mona Lisa looks far more like she's laughing than yawning.

    And while many of the animals — such as "a muskox grazing on beautiful wildflowers" and "a happy elephant wearing a birthday hat walking under the sea" — look realistic, there's something off about some of the dogs. Both a toy poodle riding a skateboard and a golden retriever puppy running in the park are close to passing as real, but their faces — and perhaps their eyes specifically—betray the fact that they're CGI.

    Nevertheless, the video editing tools hold a lot of promise. Using a source video and prompts like "made of colorful toy bricks" or "made of flowers," users can purportedly change the style of the subject completely. And with inputs like "wearing a bathrobe," "wearing a party hat" and "wearing rain boots" to add said items to an image of, say, a baby chick, Lumiere may very well make fiddling with videos more accessible to those of us who didn't major in graphic design.

    Though the assets shared so far certainly make Lumiere seem like it's user-friendly, the description of how it works isn't. (Google didn't respond to a request for additional comment.)

    A project page < https://lumiere-video.github.io/  > describes Lumiere as "a space-time diffusion model," which sounds like something Doc Brown was working on in Back to the Future. Google Research said this means the text-to-image model learns to generate a video by processing it in multiple space-time scales, which helps create videos that "portray realistic, diverse and coherent motion."

    According to Google, this is superior to existing models, which "synthesize distant keyframes followed by temporal super-resolution." 

    Jason Alan Snyder, global chief technology officer at ad agency Momentum Worldwide, explained it this way: "It's like the difference between watching a puppet show and experiencing a ballet at Lincoln Center."

    That's because Lumiere "doesn't just focus on snapshots, it crafts smooth, flowing motion for every frame," he added.

    In other words, if you think about the traditional method of making a movie, you'd have to build key scenes and fill in the gaps later.

    "Lumiere is different. It sees the whole movie in its mind, understanding how characters move, objects interact and everything changes over time," Snyder said. "It's like drawing the entire flip book simultaneously, ensuring every page flows perfectly."

    So this "space-time thinking" helps Lumiere create videos that feel real, which, he added, means no more jumpy transitions or robotic movements. (Except maybe for puppy eyes.)

    Time will tell.

    In the meantime, as fans of Beauty and Beast will know, Lumiere is French for "light."  

    Editors' note: CNET is using an AI engine to help create some stories. For more, see this post. < https://www.cnet.com/ai-policy/#ftag=MSF491fea7 >

     

    URL

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/googles-new-ai-text-to-video-tool-is-fun-to-look-at-but-what-next/ar-BB1hgBUi

  22. richardmurray
    good I used edelweiss for other reviews and for reviews I am working on so if you still need when the time comes this will be simple:)
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    @Troy change the link to the following https://ourtimepress.com/viola-plummer-last-of-original-december-12th-movement-transitions/
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    @DeeSiwisa is your book on edelweiss?
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    @Pioneer1 a black man who when a teenager was accused of murdering the man who stole from his sister, is now out of prison. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2579&type=status
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