John West @jsbw@internaut.club

~...now presenting...~
SONG OF MYSELF
By Walt Whitman
Illustrations by Stable Diffusion, prompted by each stanza, in the style of John Singer Sargent.

I'm contemplating a #project in which I have Stable Diffusion illustrate Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" from LEAVES OF GRASS (probably in the style of John Singer Sargent or something similar) and I have a #bot "perform" the poem by posting one stanza + image, one a day, till the poem is done.

Here's the twelfth section of the poem. Does this look interesting to you?

@simon I’ll drop ya a line!

@simon It turns out that the Library of Congress has a super easy API to use, and they helpfully tagged all the ones Stryker destroyed.

Thanks for starting this #project tag! (Also I'm a huge fan of Datasette, so thanks for that, too!)

I'm just loving following @simon's #projects hashtag, so here's a #project of mine.

@stryker posts an image from the Library of Congress's archive of the old FSA photos, but the catch is that it only posts the ones that were "destroyed" (literally hole-punched through) by the the mercurial head of the FSA photo project, Roy Stryker.

It looks like this.

@robbarry thank god there isn't a quote-toot feature here, because i'd definitely mock you mercilessly.

@deuley @stryker that's great advice, thank you!

I made my first #bot here on Mastodon. It's called "Bot Stryker," and it posts pictures from the Library of Congress's FSA collection—but only the ones that Roy Stryker, the head of the photo division back then, "destroyed" by punching a hole in it.

@stryker

I have a question though: how often would you like to see something like this post?

@boojit Ooo very interesting. Yeah, I think it's gonna be touch and go/trial and error for a while while I figure out what this server can handle...

A very funny headline—and a good piece—from @joannastern
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-have-44-billion-for-your-own-social-media-network-try-mastodon-11668002451

@boojit not much at all! like 2 GB, single CPU, on Digital Ocean (like $14/mo).

I'm trying something again: hosting my own Mastodon server!

This is internaut.club.