20230710 Newsletter. Thai Rivera videos, Uncensored AI Gay art, science reporting on possible anti-aging drug, weight loss.
Looking to start reporting on photography for Gays, and also Gay cartoons.
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Uncensored AI and generating Gay art. Doesn’t appear to be ready for use.
Sometime ago I tried to used the ChatGPT to find Thai Gay artists and I got a lot of moralistic lecturing about homophobia, though my inquiries were to find Thai Gay artists to report on. The corporate types who manage the leading A.I. programs, are basically the same corporate types that crushed Tumblr.
I will be looking to find what A.I. tools don’t censor. These are earlier reports I did on censorious A.I.
The following are uncensored tools, though they are varying quality. I am looking at what is available.
The online tools where you can run your inquiry can be a little or a lot slow. You are submitting an inquiry with lots of other people. You can try Dezgo online.
I asked for frontal nude Thai gay gods and got two Thai gods uncensored. Looked like typical A.I. art. Excepting two penis, one hanging off the inside of the thigh.
Live 3D generates manga cartoons. Straight guys want anime women with really big breasts.
Stable diffusion online version still censors. I keep reading that there is an uncensored version, but I don’t know where it is.
I tracked down WizardLM-Uncensored, but it seems to be overloaded and doesn’t generate an output.
I did find www.mage.space that had an uncensored AI image generator, but you paid a fee, and I am not going to join just to test it out and find it lacking.
I did find out how to generate with Unstable diffusion.
You need a discord account and you go to this Website.
You will get some models with anatomically incorrect features such as two penises. It isn’t very smart, but you might get some acceptable images also. I generated four images and all of them had some anatomical issues. They at least understood that people don’t have more packs than six packs.
However, even with this input, “group of uncircumcised nude Thai Gay male gods with only one penis” I got strange penises, and sometimes the figure had more than one.
Perhaps the upgraded version is better.
A.I. for generating Gay art has a long ways to go.
Another possible treatment for ageing.
Nature magazine is one of the two most prestigious science magazines in the English-speaking world.
This article is titled, “Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02214-3
This article is Ars Technica and is less technical.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/one-shot-of-a-kidney-protein-gave-monkeys-a-brain-boost/
From the article:
“Cognitive decline from aging is one of our most pressing biomedical problems without truly effective medicines,” says Dena Dubal, a professor of neurology at UCSF and the study’s senior author. After discovering—accidentally—in previous work that klotho boosts cognition in mice, she says, “it became important to test this in a brain like ours.”
Produced by the kidney, klotho circulates in the blood and has been linked to health and lifespan. Orson Moe, a kidney specialist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, describes it as a housekeeper that helps regulate the kidneys and metabolism. “It protects us and keeps us healthy,” he says.
The protein was first discovered in 1997 by pathologist Makoto Kuro-o at the National Institute of Neuroscience in Tokyo. He demonstrated that mice lacking klotho suffered from what he called a “syndrome that resembles human aging.”
Monkeys are fairly close to humans so a treatment that works with them and is safe is very likely to work on humans and safe. For new methods of treating diseases monkeys or other primates are used for testing efficacy and safety before a Phase I trial to test for initial safety and signs of efficacy.
This testing showed improvements for two weeks and it was modest. This is just an initial test to see if further investigation should be done. From the results, scientists will be very motivated to do further research.
Besides this being an encouraging development in the science of retarding aging, there are other things to learn from this development.
Aging isn’t mystical or beyond science. It is a physical phenomenon that can be understood scientifically and dealt with scientifically. This isn’t the first time I have reported on a scientific breakthrough regarding aging.
In the article they don’t know why it works. That isn’t a bad thing. The fact that it does work is a guidepost that there is something to be discovered about aging. That is there is more to learn about aging.
Once it is understood how it works, likely some other drug will be found to do the same thing and something that doesn’t require injections. Science and technology just keep going.
All the posts with information or news about anti-ageing research have been collected in this post. This information will be added to it, and what reporting the weekly newsletters might have in the future will be added to it.
https://edwardhsebesta.substack.com/p/scientific-reporting-on-treatments
Facebook has launched Threads, a Twitter look alike.
There are two reasons not to get too invested in Threads.
1. Facebook might decide to shut it down in a year or two. The Facebook newsletter product, Bulletin was shutdown.
2. Threads will censor just like Instagram and Facebook.
Except for Twitter, all the social media platforms are very censorious of Gay art.
Moral scolds attack Gays who are having fun. (Circuit Gays.)
The Alphabet Soup (LGBTQXYZ) loves to target groups of Gay men as being morally fallen. This “No Circuit Gay” rule is just jealousy being self-righteousness for virtue self-aggrandizement.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/adonis-london-no-circuit-gays-rule/
Different Gays choose different lives. It may not be for you, but it isn’t a moral failing.
Looking for artists to showcase.
Looking for artists to showcase. I have run out. Will be contacting artists.
Book of Gay oriented art.
You can page through the book online.
https://www.albelli.nl/onlinefotoboek-bekijken
Website is in Dutch.
Vimeo doesn’t seem to be as censorious as YouTube.
This person has a whole channel on Vimeo, “Naked Art Forever.” You might want to turn the sound off or turn it down.
Sempre a priori has a Gay channel on Vimeo also.
Why I haven’t done much on Gay photography
I am not quite sure what I might do. First, where does artistic photography begin and pornography end, or is that distinction not meaningful.
I am afraid I will end up sharing photography that is artistic in cliché ways and not show photography that really is innovative because it doesn’t fit the usual ideas of being artistic.
I might do a few and just accept that I have poor judgment, but it is better to do some, than no photography.
However, I think I need to figure out how to do it. I need to be encouraging photographers who are creating for the Gay market.
Why I haven’t done much on Gay cartoons.
In failing to look at cartoonists, I worry that it is because I am not with current times. Cartoons are now a much bigger part of cultural life than when I was younger, and they are taken much more seriously. Cartoons are technically much more advanced, thanks to the Japanese cartoonists. (I think.)
I am not sure I know which are the cartoonists to report on. I am probably judging cartoonists relative to paining.
I think though, I need to just start doing it, and learn by doing.
Thai Rivera
I am not saying I agree with everything he says, but I think he is worth listening to. Also, for some of you his tattoos and piercings is going to make you not give him the time of day. We have a wide spectrum of Gays and we need to look past the superficial to pull the Gay community together.
Weight Loss
The weight loss saboteurs
In many different cases where you are trying to do something, others will try to pull yourself down to their level. These people criticizing your effort feel that you making an effort is a judgement on them. They aren’t making the effort and they have rationalized not doing this or that and the fact you are doing this or that is an invalidation of them.
Weight loss and eating healthy is no different. There will be those who make comments when you watch what you eat and watch your weight. You will be castigated as a puritan. You will be told that your weight is fine. You will be told what you eat is unappetizing. You will be told that your life must be suffering, etc. etc. You will be told you are too skinny. There will be fat liberationists who will try to characterize your efforts at eating healthy as you having some type of mental health issue.
They are eating garbage food and not exercising and living an unhealthy lifestyle. Your eating healthy and getting exercise will be seen by them as a judgement on them. They have assembled a variety of excuses to not do anything about their situation. Your eating healthy and getting exercise will invalidate their excuses. Being that they are lazy or self-indulgent or both, they won’t be asking for advice, or considering they could follow your example, they will instead try to get you to stop pursuing a healthy lifestyle.
People who are like this in one aspect of life and living are likely this way in other spheres of life, whether in pursuing a career, getting education, fixing a home, learning skills, etc. You might consider just dropping them from your life if they aren’t that important.
You might also just say, “Stop trying to bring me down.” Or directly state, that what their comments are really about. Of course, this might lead to conflict. You might phrase it more positively as, “I am pursuing a new lifestyle and I hope my friends support me.”
Some things saboteurs say:
“One piece of cake isn’t going to hurt.”
One portion of anything in itself isn’t going to make you over weight. It is all the portions together of whatever you are eating that is going to make you over weight. No one particle of saw dust makes a pile of sawdust.
If your sister won the state fair baking contest, yes go ahead, have a portion, but otherwise it usually is some stuff someone bought, probably not that good, and you can pass.
“Rabbit food.”
There are terms that people use to disparage what you are eating to be healthy. Often you will be tempted respond, “Then what you eat must be hippo food.” Probably not a good idea. People who are overweight see healthy eating as an implied criticism of what they eat, which it is, and instead of stop stuffing themselves with garbage, they will denigrate your eating habits.
Make sure what you eat is good food.
Since you are eating less, make sure what you eat is better food. If you are going to have one serving, instead of three servings, make sure that one serving is as tasty and good as possible. Get a loaf of the bakery bread and ask that it be sliced. Pick a sausage with venison added in for more flavor. Purchase the Spring mix box of salad.
Also, if you are eating less, you can afford higher price items and likely will still be saving money.
The stuff with a famous chef on the cover of the container isn’t going to be really that good.
When a health food has become a dessert in disguise.
I am thinking of yogurt. It used to be unsweetened and somewhat a low-calorie food, but then it became this watery stuff with flavors and sugar added. They came out with Greek yogurt as a yogurt which isn’t watery. Then they made that a dessert also.
Years ago, in the 1980s we made our own yogurt and it was good. We added in some powdered milk to make it thicker. It is really delicious and much better than any store yogurt. We made a lot of it for about two months and lost interest. So I am not saying all yogurt is bad. The yogurt in the store however can be a dessert in disguise.
Oatmeal is another example. Look at the boxes which are peach cream flavor and such like.
Sneaking in calories.
I add in some dried cranberries into my morning oatmeal. I watch how many I am putting in.
When I am having chicken salad, I watch how much chicken I put in. I also watch carefully how much salad dressing goes in. Salad dressing is emulsified fat along with flavors.
Fat Free Foods
If they are foods which normally have fat, usually the fat free version is horrible. Checking them out is a waste of time. Also, do you want to make fat-free foods a permanent part of your diet?
Post dieting
If you are dreaming of the cake and cookies and pizza that you will have when you have reached your weight goals, you are going to just gain it all back.
You won’t be deficient of so many calories a day, but that is going to be a limited amount to apply what you are going to eat when you aren’t dieting. Maybe, there is just 700 calories more you can consume. You will want that 700 calories to keep you from being hungry. You are still going to have to plan what you eat and monitor your weight.