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My First AI Art Workflow Breakdown

A deep dive into my creative process using MidJourney and ComfyUI.

Mozi, our new (actually!) social appAnnouncing MoziEv Williams, Twitter and Medium Founder, Unveils New Social AppI think it’s tough to appreciate how much relationships determine the course of our lives — and how randomly many of them come to be. A chance conversation turns i…

Can I assume when you’re in the zoneYou’re not distracted by your phoneShould I hold my textsAnd take time to reflectOr fire away Because you have it at bayI don’t knowIt’s hard to sayI turn on Do Not Disturb every dayI keep it that wayWhat’s the alternativeDisturb me, pleaseY…

Last week, Brazil’s Congress shocked the world by suddenly fast-tracking and passing PL2903, the Marco Temporal bill. This bill paves the way for the unprecedented destruction of the Amazon Rainforest by stripping Brazil’s Indigenous people of their legal rights to the land.Ho…

Here are 40 images I generated with Distropic, an interface to Stable Diffusion, a deep-learning, text-to-image AI.These are rather prosaic in the world of AI imagery these days, but I wanted to get a sense of what it was like to use these engines. And, well, it’s mind-blowing…

Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. As we gear up for the next decade, I’ve decided to hand over the CEO reins.Back in 2012, I wrote:Now that we’ve made sharing information virtually effortless, how do we increase depth of understanding, while als…

I found an old file called taglines. For context, Odeo was a podcasting product, and these were likely thought of as being delivered in audio.Keep listening at Odeo dot com.Odeo: We put the O in podcasts and still have an extra O.Do you hear what we hear? Odeo dot com.Listen t…

Today, I’m happy to announce that Medium has acquired Knowable, an audio-first learning company, to bring audio capabilities to our readers, members, and creators.Having started a podcasting company in 2005, I’ve always thought that audio was a natural way to enrich Medium’s v…

I’m excited to announce today that we’ve acquired Projector, a collaborative, multimedia design platform, whose talented team has joined Medium to innovate on the core Medium experience and build amazing tools for creators.Projector launched in the summer of 2020 and is used f…

Say you need to move a pile of small rocks from point A to point B. The simplest thing would be to pick them up and move them by hand.An easier (but slightly less simple) method would be to use a wheelbarrow.But what if there was a robot that could do the job for you at the pu…

My mom sent me this poem, which I apparently wrote when I was 17. She asked if I was really unhappy at the time. I don’t know. I remember listening to a lot of Violent Femmes and The Cure and painting pictures that involved blood and gore and also desperately wishing I had a g…