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Photo story: The beauty and majesty of the engineering of wind turbines

https://interestingengineering.com/photo-story/engineering-wind-turbines-from-scratch-overview

It's not the economic side of twitter that matters, but the informational aspects of the network which are now lost, that is the sad thing. It was used by many journalists and other important peer groups as a live news source for which there is currently no equivalent replacement.

So it's allowed to harass people who want to vote, but not allowed to hand out water to people who are in line waiting to vote?

Slow in comparison to the possible upscaling of renewable energy sources. We need to get off fossil energies quickly to tackle climate issues.

Nuclear power still is too slow, too resource-intensive, too unmanageable in the long term. There's better ways.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/first-planned-small-nuclear-reactor-plant-in-the-us-has-been-canceled/

More scientific source on space.com:

https://www.space.com/aurora-alert-solar-flare-eruption-cannibal-cme-november-30-december-1

Yule: Pagan celebration of the winter solstice

Dall-E Prompt: A young woman secretly celebrates winter solctice festivities together with small forest animals: a squirrel, a marmot and a rabbit are sitting around a small spruce tree that is decorated with natural materials found in the woods: nuts, pears, mushrooms. It is a snowy fullmoon winter night, stars twinkle in the sky and snow is on the mossy ground. The image style is acrylic painting.

I found Waldo.

The prompt was:

"create an image of a deer skeleton sitting in a pond and leaning against a white stone with some green moss on it. In the deer's antlers there is a golden glowing string of lights. In the skeleton's hand it holds a golden glowing ball. Around the pond there are some bare trees and it is foggy. In front of the pond there is a blackbird looking at the deer. There is more green moss on the stones around."

I simply described the main aspects of your image to play around a bit. Bing gave me several other pictures that looked quite different - these two were the only ones where the elements were at the right position and the perspective was similar to the original. It the first pic I didn't have the moss in the prompt so I added that with the second generation.

My attempts of a recreation:

In the Bing Chat, there is a clock symbol with an arrow. There you can find your complete prompt history.

Alternative version:

Seth as the God of Social Media who controls the matrix of the web.

Dall-E / Prompt: an image of the menacing deathgod Seth depicted as the god of social media. In the background are server racks to both sides that build an endless corridor. In the foreground of the image is a U-shaped work table with an arcuate keyboard. The god Seth stands at the table and looks like a crazy manic guy who controls several switches and cables and keyboards and smartphones with many arms simultaneously at once. There are cables looking like nerves everywhere, some are leading into the body of the god, so that the god is completely connected with the computer systems. The Style of the image is like an acrylic painting.

That's not how cats work 🤔

Maybe aligning a large portion of the state budget to the perpetual growth of the arms industry may not have been such a good idea.

This was generated by Dall-E via a simple prompt in Bing: "Create a mascot for the International Space Station ISS please" :-)

Michael Jackson if he danced in the 15th century.

Neo as if he were in ancient Greece.