This is the same area where monkeys were freed during a truck crash a year ago.
This time dangerous minks are on the loose. Seven thousand to be exact…
7,000…
“Just stay away. Don’t touch it, don’t try to trap it, and don’t try to catch it. They will bite you, and they can potentially hurt you. We want to make sure the public is safe.”
These mink could also pose a threat to other animals. The nearby Sunbury Animal Hospital talked about ways to keep your pets safe.
“Don’t let (pets) out unattended. Take your dogs out on a leash. Mink might not be big enough to go after a big dog, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get injured by one. I would suspect cats and kittens, kittens especially, could be at risk,” said Dr. Beverly
Any animals you keep outdoors could be at risk.
“People with koi ponds, with backyard poultry and rabbits outside should talk to the Game Commission or check the internet for ways to discourage the mink from getting into those areas.”
— Read on www.wnep.com/article/news/local/northumberland-county/thousands-of-minks-on-the-loose-in-northumberland-county-mink-fur-farm-upper-augusta-township/523-2147586f-cd50-475d-a8ee-2ae8c805b178
The “attacks” began in mid-July. News started to circulate that flying aliens, or humanoids, began to attack villagers in Peru..
The news seemed far fetched, but this summer with Congressional hearings and earlier shootdowns of UAPs by the United States, anything seemed possible.
Members of the Peruvian Navy and Police traveled to the isolated community, which is located 10 hours by boat from the Maynas provincial capital of Iquitos, to investigate the strange disturbances in early August.
Last week, authorities said publicly that they believed the perpetrators were members of illegal gold mining gangs from Colombia and Brazil using advanced flying technology to terrorize the community, according to RPP Noticias.
Carlos Castro Quintanilla, the lead investigator in the case, said that 80 percent of illegal gold dredging in the region is located in the Nanay river basin, where the Ikitu community is located.
Cristian Caleb Pacaya, a local teacher who witnessed the attack, said that they “were using state of the art technology, like thrusters that allow people to fly.” He said that after looking the devices up on Google, he believed that they were “jetpacks.”
Authorities have not made any arrests related to the attacks, nor named the alleged assailants or their organization directly. However, the prosecutors office claimed that they had destroyed 110 dredging operations and 10 illegal mining camps in the area already in 2023.
Despite these police assurances that it just human terrorizers, others are keeping the faith:
James Fox comments on the Peru "aliens" situation:
– He reached out to Marco Leal in Brazil (worked with Fox on Moment of Contact). Leal believes there is some substance to the story, and wants to go on site to investigate. – Fox doesn't have more info on it at this time to be… pic.twitter.com/3fTOqHw93a
Police say two rare Tamarin monkeys from the DallasZoo were stolen after finding their enclosure had been cut open. This comes weeks after a clouded leopard escaped from an enclosure that had also been tampered with..
This is an unpredecented string of events at the zoo.. missing animals. Deaths. Closures torn..
On January 13 there was a day of social media game for a leopard after the animal escaped from the enclosure.. but it turns out the leopard’s enclosure had been cut!
Flashback Jan 24: A rare vulture was killed at the Dallas zoo. Someone cut cages open to two other animals. Now there is a $10,000 reward for any information who is doing this. Police force is now protecting the zoo.
And now..
Two monkeys were taken from the DallasZoo on Monday, police said. It was the latest in a string of odd zoo incidents being investigated over the past few weeks— including fences cut and the suspicious death of an endangered vulture..
The habitat has been ‘intentionally compromised’..
If you have been paying attention to pop culture and the Internet(s) lately, you’ll understand that there has been a flourishing new series of weird content .. There are various sources out there providing us some amazing artificial intelligence artwork. The type of art that enters your brain and is so vivid you wince, you look perplexed.. you get creeped out.
So let’s explain..
It is everywhere!! AI art! It is abundant.. it is booming fast. And so often it is dark, creepy.. obscure and weird..
People have embraced the weirdness..
John Oliver got fun and self-deprecating about AI art on his show..
We also got into the act several weeks ago and made our own AI art by asking a computer to create “Coal Speaker.” It was pretty odd, as evidenced by our favorite picture:
YOU HAVE OPTIONS..
Starryai.. Wombo.. Dall-E.. DreamStudio.. Midjourney.. You have options. AI is creating art for people on multiple platforms. As we have seen, the art normally gets dark and macabre quickly.. It is changing the world of art as well. Big time..
Think of it.. your imagination is contained to what it can conjure, what your brain can create.. but AI art can take it all in.. create something from nothing, or collect images and thoughts from various ‘Internets’ to bring a strange and bizarre sentence to life.
Search for “lima beans hunting aliens on the planet Poptart” .. and AI art will create it for you. Just for fun, we did that exact thing, and we came up with this (DreamStudio didn’t know quite what to do with it)
It all started with DALL·E … it made major waves since it was first revealed back in April 2022 because it was the most advanced AI art generator that we has been introduced..
Some artists are concerned. Other artists are just going hog wild creating images that are made in rapid fire by computers, based on random sentences.. random thoughts..
There is a huge new trend on TikTok of people search for each line of song lyrics to create an array of beautiful videos to famous songs..
All created in seconds.. All created with AI–no humans painting or drawing.. just artificial intelligence quickly changing our world…
BUT AI GETS CREEPY
So often, it appears that AI art goes down a rabbit hole of high strangeness.. For example, we asked for a series of images of “Pope Francis” and eventually AI art created what appears to be the Pope fighting off a double-demon version of himself..
Thought AI art was weird? Here is where things get … really strange.
Meet Loab. The woman, or creation from AI art, of your nightmare..
Let’s try to unpack ..
It all started back in September as we entered into the autumnal season.
An artist on Twitter under the handle @supercomposite used a technique called “negative prompt weights.” That means the user attempts to force an artificial intelligence system to generate the opposite of what they enter in the prompt.
Different terms can be “weighted” in a data set to determine how likely they are to appear in the results. You are simply telling AI to “Generate what you think is the opposite of this prompt.”
There is actually some coding that goes into this procedure..
So using this negative-weight prompt on the word Brando–with supercomposite referring to Marlon Brando–it created a logo image with a city panorama and the words “DIGITA PNTICS”.
At this point, supercomposite figured using using negative weights for the words DIGITA PNTICS it may see Marlon Brando..
No. Wrong. Instead, Loab was born.
MEET LOAB
The AI generator has not been named, but some have speculated that due to its quality it MidJourney or Stable Diffusion.
From the Tweet back in September:
I'll explain negative prompt weights, in case you don't know. With these, instead of creating an image of the text prompt, the AI tries to make the image look as different from the prompt as possible. This logo was the result of the negatively weighted prompt "Brando::-1". pic.twitter.com/c1XfkN23hu
This is what supercomposite went on to say about Loab, in a series of Tweets:
Since Loab was discovered using negative prompt weights, her gestalt is made from a collection of traits that are equally far away from something. But her combined traits are still a cohesive concept for the AI, and almost all descendent images contain a recognizable Loab.
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The angel hallway + Loab also produced art with such copious gore that probably very few people want to see them, but here are two. I don’t feel comfortable posting the most disturbing ones, borderline snuff images of dismembered, screaming children.
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There is something moving to me about these grotesque scenes and the desperation, panic, and sadness that they convey. Again, these are produced with other images as inputs, and no text. They are the result of “cross-breeding” images of Loab with images of other things.
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The images that result from crossing Loab with other images can in turn be crossbred with other images. The AI can latch onto the idea of Loab so well that she can persist through generations of this type of crossbreeding, without using the original image.
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Even when her red cheeks or other important features disappear, the “Loabness” of the images she has a hand in making is undeniable. She haunts the images, persists through generations, and overpowers other bits of the prompt because the AI so easily optimizes toward her face.
AND MUCH MORE..
So it can go from Loab:
To these other versions:
And this..
At this point, as she gets more famous, Loab could be potentially new “creepypasta” of the internet, but in the other side it could be a grotesque source of inspiration for making horror movies..
One of our favorite YouTube accounts, NEXPO, featured Loab in a recent video, and it is worth the viewing:
Matthew Skala, a computer scientist, tried to explain how Loab was created..
Okay: yes the pictures are freaky but the phenomenon is not really as surprising as it may first seem. When you think of it in high-dimensional geometric terms it's understandable why there would be *some* image that tends to soak up negative-prompt queries. https://t.co/dr2VA8uoNT
But why so dark.. Why does AI keep taking us to the abyss?
The AI generated images, derived from the original Loab image, go straight away into the realm of horror, graphic violence, and gore. But no matter how many variations have been made, the images all seem to depict the same horrifying woman.
They don’t change.. Loab stays.. She continues persisting through that weird and dark tunnel of AI art..
In the end, AI programs generate images using models that are trained on billions of images and are too complex to understand why a certain result is achieved.. So you will not really know why or how Loab, or any other oddity, was created. It just was..
Loab is haunting.
Will she replace Momo and Huggy Wuggy? She sure could..
….yes….AI art continues to be just be glum and dire.. distraught and dark.
Until you ask AI itself to create “Happy AI creating AI Art” … and we get this:
But before you get overjoyed by the colorful and happy image of AI showcasing itself, don’t forget what else it creates. Images of the vast unknown.. the sad. The tired. The horror.
And Loab…
Yes indeed… remember that before you embrace AI art..
By now you have seen the Tiktok and other social media videos: People joyously beginning their slide down a massive creation until they get into it, and bounce around like sacks of potatoes.. neck and back alignments at local doctors could very well be taking place today.
A local news report about the popular Giant Slide in Belle Isle from this weekend:
But was it just all user error!? There seemed to be a certain way to conduct your body on the slide to prevent it from the shocking convulsions so many seemed to face?
Just lean forward. Don’t stop leaning forward. And of course, hold on tight.
One user on Tiktok filmed the slide gone awry.. from the perspective of the slider.
Did he hold on tight or just let go with all his might?
This slide looks like the real life version of what Phinneas and Ferb would make during summer vacation.
And despite the videos showing bouncing bodies, don’t tell me you wouldn’t try it!
Kind of like those who attended Woodstock 99 and were interviewed by Netflix for TRAINWRECK: It was body and chaotic.. but they all say they’d do it again.
Calling our lawyers. Personal injury attorneys’ phones may be busy tomorrow.
York Pennsylvania has made some news recently.. an after school “Satanic Club” was set to be introduced …
Until the Northern Elementary school board placed it into fiery damnation..
The Satanic club was shot down with an 8-1 vote. There are currently four similar clubs operating in U.S. schools across the country, with regular attempts to expand.
Samantha Groome, a parent in the district, was the advocate for introducing the club to the district.
“I never thought anything like this would come to the district… I don’t want my son to be exposed to anything of the sort,” parent Amy Wintermyer told local Fox 43.
MORE..
The Satanic Temple which runs the program and said students would be offered activities such as science and crafts projects, puzzles and games — and that they would learn about benevolence, empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving and creative expression…
Some odd developments at the White House today as it appeared the Easter Bunny had to herd President Joe Biden away from a path he was on near spectators at the Easter Egg Roll..A Biden press aide posted a picture of the Easter Bunny sitting at her desk on Monday morning, fueling speculation that she was wearing the suit
Biden was filmed speaking with reporters and guests at the cheerful holiday event when he began discussing Afghanistan, eight months after he presided over the US military’s chaotic withdrawal from Kabul that ended 20 years of American boots on the ground there.
But we had no idea that Disney was like the Vatican, unto itself..??
Stop the presses! Disney has its own government ?!
Forgive me, masters and oracles of knowledge across the Internet land, but as a lonely peasant from up in the Ukrainian/Irish coal region of Pennsylvania, I had no idea that Disney was a government unto itself..
I, along with many others perhaps, have just now become aware of it because Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is threatening to strip Disney up itself government authority. This all in the heels of the battle over the quote ‘don’t say gay’ in his state.
So basically Disney is the equivalent of the Vatican?
From CNN:
DeSantis’ remarks follow a revelation that some Republican state lawmakers are considering repealing a 1967 state law that established the Reedy Creek Improvement District, giving Disney the power to establish its own government in central Florida.
“Yesterday was the 2nd meeting in a week [with] fellow legislators to discuss a repeal of the 1967 Reedy Creek Improvement Act, which allows Disney to act as its own government,” state Rep. Spencer Roach, a Republican, wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “If Disney wants to embrace woke ideology, it seems fitting that they should be regulated by Orange County.”
Lawmakers recently concluded their legislative business for the year and would not be able to repeal the act until they meet again next year, unless DeSantis or legislative leaders convene a special session to address it.
