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Style Statements: This Week’s AI Images
Can the bot play fashion designer? Last week’s fantasy figures sported some snazzy looks, raising the question of whether the bot, as designer, could do custom orders. My first request was for a business suit, for a Supreme Court Justice, who uses a wheelchair. The bot did put faces on these […]
Magical Beings: This week’s AI images
Fairy Queens, Shamans, and maybe goddesses? I began with a request for a magical being who lives in a house made of butterflies. It doesn’t seem there’s much concept of butterfly construction for the bot to draw on, so it gave me houses adorned with butterflies. The light of the first image has […]
Catastrophe (part forty-three)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-three) “The differences in burns are explained by the explosive action of fire on the muscles. The most powerful are contracted, which puts the limbs in flexion; the weakest are by force extended; the most exposed […]
Catastrophe (part forty-two)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-two) Warning! Today’s Catastrophe contains a graphic photo that may disturb some readers. XXYII Interview with Doctor Lherminier The wounded and their care. Their burns. The state […]
Catastrophe (part forty-one)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-one) Among the Experts XXVI A Guardian of Sanitary Regulations Protests All Down the Line A man truly no longer content, not at all, with the government and administrative […]
Catastrophe (part forty)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty) XXV A conversation with former deputy M. Duquesnay An explanation of the phenomenon. And again, politics… M. Duquesnay is the deputy not reelected from Fort-de-France. He could not […]
Catastrophe (part thirty-nine)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part thirty-nine) They even itemized their facts: They said that for the common man, meaning the factory owner pressured by the weekly wage, the Bank’s new management did not accept his documentation, his receipts of deposit; the […]
Catastrophe (part thirty-eight)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part thirty-eight) XXIV Interview with M. Peyrouton The Treasury. The Bank. Our former colleague, Peyrouton, who was director of l’Estafette, is treasurer of Saint-Pierre. Returning from leave, on the […]
Catastrophe (part thirty-seven)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part thirty-seven) I have counted. Forty whites at least, of all classes and ranks, creoles, officials, soldiers and officers, have affirmed to me with indignation, that in his writings (read between the lines), the editor of l’Opinion […]
Catastrophe (part thirty-six)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part thirty-six) The chiefs carried big sticks. The priest, having seen this, and heard the policeman tell his story, added: “What was most amusing were the wives of the thieves, who prepared their meals.” He did not […]