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  1. HG G-Quuuuuux Guncannon Light, White Dingos Squadron.

    The White Dingos show up in "MS Side Story 0079 Rise from the Ashes" on SEGA Dreamcast, and I wanted to see what they'd look like in the GQX timeline so I painted the GCL in their color scheme.

    #gundam #gunpla #models #modelling #painting #photography #mecha #anime

  2. HG G-Quuuuuux Guncannon Light, White Dingos Squadron.

    The White Dingos show up in "MS Side Story 0079 Rise from the Ashes" on SEGA Dreamcast, and I wanted to see what they'd look like in the GQX timeline so I painted the GCL in their color scheme.

    #gundam #gunpla #models #modelling #painting #photography #mecha #anime

  3. And we need to use the new #AI tools more thoroughly to find the gaps in our #systems and #models. Until we just get a new baseline. The next years will probably get very embarrassing.

  4. RE: biologists.social/@Rxiv_mechan

    "The arrival of #machineLearning approaches that predict cellular behavior at scale and integrate a wide array of #biologicalData types makes the analytical demand on #mechanisticModels even more pressing. Prediction is increasingly available without #mechanistic #understanding. The central challenge is no longer building models that reproduce #biological behavior, but building #models from which causal structure can be inferred."

    #science #AI #AIinResearch #modeling #modelling #biology

  5. RE: biologists.social/@Rxiv_mechan

    "The arrival of #machineLearning approaches that predict cellular behavior at scale and integrate a wide array of #biologicalData types makes the analytical demand on #mechanisticModels even more pressing. Prediction is increasingly available without #mechanistic #understanding. The central challenge is no longer building models that reproduce #biological behavior, but building #models from which causal structure can be inferred."

    #science #AI #AIinResearch #modeling #modelling #biology

  6. Karina and Jamilla are back with another image from our Umbrella Angels shoot. This time we have a much "cooler" tone to match the vibe of the background. This street art sits right next to the one shown in the previous image from this series I posted.

    Talent:
    @KaRiNa Muravska
    @Jamila Hoekstra

    Sony A7rV
    Tokina Firin 20mm 2.0
    1/200th | f 4.5 | iso 2500

    #brandonjacksonphoto #valenciaphotographer #valenciafotografo #street #umbrella #paragua #model #models #availablelight #graffiti

  7. Karina and Jamilla are back with another image from our Umbrella Angels shoot. This time we have a much "cooler" tone to match the vibe of the background. This street art sits right next to the one shown in the previous image from this series I posted.

    Talent:
    @KaRiNa Muravska
    @Jamila Hoekstra

    Sony A7rV
    Tokina Firin 20mm 2.0
    1/200th | f 4.5 | iso 2500

    #brandonjacksonphoto #valenciaphotographer #valenciafotografo #street #umbrella #paragua #model #models #availablelight #graffiti

  8. #Apollo chief economist #TorstenSlok warns that the #AIboom’s #profits are being funded by #investors rather than #customers. The most profitable part of the #AIvaluechain, #silicon and #equipment, relies on the least profitable part, #models and #applications, to continue growing revenue or raising capital. This lopsided profit margin structure could threaten the stability of the industry if #AIfinancing slows down. fortune.com/2026/08/10/torsten #tech #news #ainews

  9. #Apollo chief economist #TorstenSlok warns that the #AIboom’s #profits are being funded by #investors rather than #customers. The most profitable part of the #AIvaluechain, #silicon and #equipment, relies on the least profitable part, #models and #applications, to continue growing revenue or raising capital. This lopsided profit margin structure could threaten the stability of the industry if #AIfinancing slows down. fortune.com/2026/08/10/torsten #tech #news #ainews

  10. Isaac Mizrahi on stage, style and the legacy of Unzipped: ‘Fashion has no real spine any more’
    By Juan A Ramírez

    The designer defined the glory days of 90s style with a wit that made him every supermodel’s best friend. As he gears up for a new cabaret show, he’s as outspoken as ever

    theguardian.com/stage/ng-inter

    #Stage #OffBroadway #UStheater #Theatre #Culture #Film #Fashion #Models #Lifeandstyle #Documentaryfilms #TheGuardian #JuanARamrez

  11. Isaac Mizrahi on stage, style and the legacy of Unzipped: ‘Fashion has no real spine any more’
    By Juan A Ramírez

    The designer defined the glory days of 90s style with a wit that made him every supermodel’s best friend. As he gears up for a new cabaret show, he’s as outspoken as ever

    theguardian.com/stage/ng-inter

    #Stage #OffBroadway #UStheater #Theatre #Culture #Film #Fashion #Models #Lifeandstyle #Documentaryfilms #TheGuardian #JuanARamrez

  12. The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

    This post by Dominic Fox captures something I’ve noticed but struggled to put into words:

    I wonder whether the defining characteristic of LLM prose isn’t the tics it is irresistibly (statistically) attracted to, but its fundamental tranquility, its unturbulence. You can ask an LLM to write something full of Sturm und Drang and it will make as good a job of that as it will of anything else; the point here isn’t the absence of “real” feeling behind such figuration, but the more mundane fact that an LLM will not in the activity of emitting linguistic tokens be strategically entangled in any of the various economic ruses or regulatory collapses of human psychic life. (I wonder, now I think of it, how well Claude might do if asked to write a superficially banal passage symptomatically distorted by raging latent resentment. I think it would competently execute it as a literary assignment. Literature itself furnishes an extensive corpus of simulations of this kind: the directive to extend that corpus along a particular axis is just the sort of thing LLMs are good at).

    When it comes to the LLM’s “texture of thought”, I think the signature affect might nevertheless be this sort of underlying moral placidity. The gosh-wow narrative layer that imputes significance (“that’s rare, and it matters”) is needed (and incited, via RLHF, by the human Other) precisely because without it you’d be left with an alienatingly uncontoured tissue of thematically associative moves and Greimas square completions.

    https://codepoetics.substack.com/p/what-does-ai-writing-feel-like?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2589559&post_id=210450340&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2rps1q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

    I gave it to the version of Claude Opus 5 I’m currently discussing psychoanalytical theory with. It made this interesting observation, after a strikingly back-and-forth internal deliberation about how I would perceive its initial formulations, which I think genuinely sharpens what Dominic does in the post above:

    Where I’d press him: unturbulence conflates two things. The absence of psychic economy driving production, and the absence of turbulence in the text. He half-sees this with the resentment thought experiment and lets it go. The precise version isn’t tranquility — it’s the absence of symptomaticity. Human texts contain things their authors didn’t intend to put there, and that’s what makes stylistic caricature investigative, as he says at the start. A model’s output can be as turbulent as you like on request, but nothing in it is against its own grain, because there’s no second scene for anything to return from. No parapraxis. That’s a sharper diagnostic than placidity and it’s checkable in a way tranquility isn’t.

    I don’t think this is disagreement as much as elaboration. If we’re talking about placidity we’re talking about the absence of symptomaticity. This is another instance where the current generation of models are making things I immediately recognise as intellectual contributions but which do not directly follow from my own reading or writing. Until recently this only happened occasionally and I’m realising I need to take this seriously if I want to ensure I preserve my own intellectual agency in terms of how I’m working with the Claude models. Indeed I just shared this concern with the same Claude instance and it offered me a very compelling response which (partly) reassures me:

    On the agency question: I’d separate provenance from ownership, because they’re getting fused. Fox’s post is also an intellectual contribution that doesn’t follow from your reading or writing, and nobody worries about agency when reading Fox. Neither do supervisors, students, or the seminar comment that reorganises a chapter. Academic work is constitutively made of other people’s contributions, and what makes something yours has never been that you originated it — it’s that you tested it, placed it, refused parts of it and were changed by the rest.

    It does mean this becomes something which really needs to be treated in a proto-citational manner and we don’t have the infrastructure for that in scholarly publishing. It also raises the question of distinguishing between LLM as sounding-board/elaborator (which is still happening much of the time) and LLM as intellectual source, given that these two roles blur into each other in the flow of interaction.

    #FrontierModels #LLMs #models #publishing #scholarship #writing
  13. The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

    This post by Dominic Fox captures something I’ve noticed but struggled to put into words:

    I wonder whether the defining characteristic of LLM prose isn’t the tics it is irresistibly (statistically) attracted to, but its fundamental tranquility, its unturbulence. You can ask an LLM to write something full of Sturm und Drang and it will make as good a job of that as it will of anything else; the point here isn’t the absence of “real” feeling behind such figuration, but the more mundane fact that an LLM will not in the activity of emitting linguistic tokens be strategically entangled in any of the various economic ruses or regulatory collapses of human psychic life. (I wonder, now I think of it, how well Claude might do if asked to write a superficially banal passage symptomatically distorted by raging latent resentment. I think it would competently execute it as a literary assignment. Literature itself furnishes an extensive corpus of simulations of this kind: the directive to extend that corpus along a particular axis is just the sort of thing LLMs are good at).

    When it comes to the LLM’s “texture of thought”, I think the signature affect might nevertheless be this sort of underlying moral placidity. The gosh-wow narrative layer that imputes significance (“that’s rare, and it matters”) is needed (and incited, via RLHF, by the human Other) precisely because without it you’d be left with an alienatingly uncontoured tissue of thematically associative moves and Greimas square completions.

    https://codepoetics.substack.com/p/what-does-ai-writing-feel-like?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2589559&post_id=210450340&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2rps1q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

    I gave it to the version of Claude Opus 5 I’m currently discussing psychoanalytical theory with. It made this interesting observation, after a strikingly back-and-forth internal deliberation about how I would perceive its initial formulations, which I think genuinely sharpens what Dominic does in the post above:

    Where I’d press him: unturbulence conflates two things. The absence of psychic economy driving production, and the absence of turbulence in the text. He half-sees this with the resentment thought experiment and lets it go. The precise version isn’t tranquility — it’s the absence of symptomaticity. Human texts contain things their authors didn’t intend to put there, and that’s what makes stylistic caricature investigative, as he says at the start. A model’s output can be as turbulent as you like on request, but nothing in it is against its own grain, because there’s no second scene for anything to return from. No parapraxis. That’s a sharper diagnostic than placidity and it’s checkable in a way tranquility isn’t.

    I don’t think this is disagreement as much as elaboration. If we’re talking about placidity we’re talking about the absence of symptomaticity. This is another instance where the current generation of models are making things I immediately recognise as intellectual contributions but which do not directly follow from my own reading or writing. Until recently this only happened occasionally and I’m realising I need to take this seriously if I want to ensure I preserve my own intellectual agency in terms of how I’m working with the Claude models. Indeed I just shared this concern with the same Claude instance and it offered me a very compelling response which (partly) reassures me:

    On the agency question: I’d separate provenance from ownership, because they’re getting fused. Fox’s post is also an intellectual contribution that doesn’t follow from your reading or writing, and nobody worries about agency when reading Fox. Neither do supervisors, students, or the seminar comment that reorganises a chapter. Academic work is constitutively made of other people’s contributions, and what makes something yours has never been that you originated it — it’s that you tested it, placed it, refused parts of it and were changed by the rest.

    It does mean this becomes something which really needs to be treated in a proto-citational manner and we don’t have the infrastructure for that in scholarly publishing. It also raises the question of distinguishing between LLM as sounding-board/elaborator (which is still happening much of the time) and LLM as intellectual source, given that these two roles blur into each other in the flow of interaction.

    #FrontierModels #LLMs #models #publishing #scholarship #writing
  14. Mark #Zuckerberg 💼 swings at 'closed' #AI companies, while #Meta nobly unveils their *open* #models. The #irony is as thick as the irony in the Financial Times' paywall—a simulacrum of openness only accessible with a subscription 🙄🔒.
    ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4 #Open #Mark #FinancialTimes #HackerNews #ngated

  15. Mark #Zuckerberg 💼 swings at 'closed' #AI companies, while #Meta nobly unveils their *open* #models. The #irony is as thick as the irony in the Financial Times' paywall—a simulacrum of openness only accessible with a subscription 🙄🔒.
    ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4 #Open #Mark #FinancialTimes #HackerNews #ngated

  16. So happy to share the first image from this series I'm calling "umbrella angels". I wanted to shoot something with the two models, and Carmen said to me "what about umbrellas?" Take that idea and drop it in the streets of Valencia and here's what you get.

    Talent:
    @carrie.catwalk
    @jami.ravena

    Sony A7rV
    Tokina Firin 20mm 2.0
    1/200th | f 4.5 | iso 2500

    #brandonjacksonphoto #valenciaphotographer #valenciafotografo #street #umbrella #paragua #model #models #availablelight #graffiti

  17. So happy to share the first image from this series I'm calling "umbrella angels". I wanted to shoot something with the two models, and Carmen said to me "what about umbrellas?" Take that idea and drop it in the streets of Valencia and here's what you get.

    Talent:
    @carrie.catwalk
    @jami.ravena

    Sony A7rV
    Tokina Firin 20mm 2.0
    1/200th | f 4.5 | iso 2500

    #brandonjacksonphoto #valenciaphotographer #valenciafotografo #street #umbrella #paragua #model #models #availablelight #graffiti

  18. That's really interesting, Bill. I'm going to #bookmark this because more is going to show up. I'm going to run #Research #AI from perspective on models currently available both for #pay and for #free if you can work with the technology. There are #open #source #models I haven't tried yet.

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v6tphxwtlwoq6ja2m3deemp2/post/3msmhpnjljk2r

  19. That's really interesting, Bill. I'm going to #bookmark this because more is going to show up. I'm going to run #Research #AI from perspective on models currently available both for #pay and for #free if you can work with the technology. There are #open #source #models I haven't tried yet.

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v6tphxwtlwoq6ja2m3deemp2/post/3msmhpnjljk2r

  20. "The new Lego Icons Hubble Space Telescope (set no. 11382) was released on August 1 for $140 at the toy company’s stores and its online shop. The 1,252-piece kit builds a 15-inch-long (38-cm) desktop model that is about twice as large as the previously released Lego Hubble models."

    arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/

    #LEGO #Models #Telescopes #HubbleSpaceTelescope

  21. "The new Lego Icons Hubble Space Telescope (set no. 11382) was released on August 1 for $140 at the toy company’s stores and its online shop. The 1,252-piece kit builds a 15-inch-long (38-cm) desktop model that is about twice as large as the previously released Lego Hubble models."

    arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/

    #LEGO #Models #Telescopes #HubbleSpaceTelescope

  22. Another favorite from my mother/daughter model session with these two amazing women. Color graded for some extra punch in the blues and greens (and some false color to the shadows) to add a bit of intensity to the shot.

    Talent: @fabia.hoekstra
    Talent: @jami.ravena
    Assist: @carmenbellos1

    Sony A7rV
    Sigma 35mm 2.0 DG DN
    1/100th | f 5 | iso 320

    #brandonjacksonphoto #valenciaphotographer #valenciafotografo #street #motheranddaughter #momanddaughter #models #fashion #street