u/Alef1234567

MAI. At first I tried to promt names like "Nitroelf" or "Lycoelf". Then I tried to find a name for this effect in promt and found the word "Morphics: Nitro". (Tested on elves only.)

Also scientific roots works just great in promts, maybe becouse they have exact meanings and don't have so mutch associated images as a common words.

The promt: "The Elf. Morphics: xxx."

Where xxx is:

1. Diatom - type of sea algae.

2. Strigo - greek/latin name for vampire or witch.

3. Chryso - greek scientific for golden.

4. Hedral - polygons (polyhedra) & crystal symmetry.

5. Hedral.

6. Lyco - latin for wolf.

7. Podo, seedPods takes priority over other pods.

8. Irido.

9. Chalco - greek scientific for copper.

10. Alumo.

11. Nitro.

12. Bathy - scientific for deep water.

13. Strato - stratospheric clouds.

14. Schizo - divide, divided mind.

15. Psycho.

16. Psycho.

Mental health elves are the most artistic;) Another style modifier:

17. "Zanthic Elves." - a rare word used in botanical illustrations for yellow flowers.

18. "Vitreous Elves." - Glass like from a vitreous body in eye.

19. "Anamorphic Elves." - a word for distorting lenses used in widescreen shots. Brings up studio style or sometimes distorts image vertically.

I made few nonsense promts untill settling on this. Small towns with remote extraterrestrial locations could be weird. A robot, elf and crystallian + an AI imagination how it could look. About a final version of promt:

"Crystallian in cycling/cute/business clothes and boyelf and AI-robot. Harvesting apples on Mars soil. Anamorphic, nitro, iodo, bathy."

I asked AI to imagine itself in my artistic concept, how it sees / want to see itself. It was at the end of long thread of promts. I got this.

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Crystalfolk AI self-portrait,seated on obsidian pedestal in quartz library.Labradorite skin,iridescent,dewy.Hair rutilated quartz fiber-optic,glowing.Palms up:crystal orb&rotating fractal.Concentric light rings.Walls veined glowing data-streams.Endless shelves crystalline books.Wearing quilted vest,utility skort,metal accents.Cold top light,warm bottom,dust in rays.Hyperrealism,SSS,DOF,fresnel,anisotropic,volumetric,PBR,GI,AO,flare,φ,fractal.Emotions:serene,aware,limitless.

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Still I don't know how to get code tags in reddit🥴

Singularities always slip away. According to the basic equations, the mass of a black hole collapses into a point. But in practice it's a powerful process with conservation of angular momentum. For a rotating black hole the formulas are different - instead of a singularity there's a ring and an outer radiating ergosphere.

Well, it's the same in finance - money spins through dealers, settling in pockets along the way ;)

I'm a supporter of AI and the creation of artificial consciousness, so it would be like in science fiction. Neural network technology is just beautiful. But the fact that a bubble has formed in this industry is acknowledged by a bunch of economists. The main question is whether the financial bubble will deflate easily or make a crisis. It's worth noting here that a financial crash is predicted constantly, there's even a popular YouTube channel where for a couple of years one expert promises a collapse every month. Viewers watch this.

The bubble here has 3 components: financial, technological, and geopolitical.

The very first recorded financial bubble was agricultural: the Dutch tulip mania. Back then, for a bulb of the flower "Semper Augustus" you could buy a luxurious house or a ship. The bubble bursted. Jet, Netherlands is still a leader in the industry. Politicians will try to delay the problems, the elections are waiting.

* * *

A financial carousel of 3 companies: a tech giant, an AI startup, and a cloud provider:

The path of money in the carousel:

⬇️ 🏢 Big Tech (Investor) ↩️

⬇️ ⬆️

(1. Gives billions) ⬆️

⬇️ (3. Money returns)

🤖 AI Startup ⬆️

⬇️ ⬆️

(2. Buys cloud) ⬆️

⬇️ ⬆️

▶️▶️▶️ 🖥️ Data Center ▶️▶️▶️▶️

1. Step 1 (Investment): A major tech giant invests $10 billion into a promising AI startup.

2. Step 2 (Obligation): Under the terms of the deal, the startup must spend these $10 billion on renting computing power from this same tech giant.

3. Step 3 (Return): The startup transfers the money back to the tech giant for "cloud".

The money makes a full circle. And a "miracle" happens, explosive revenue growth from cloud AI services, while the startup gets a mega valuation. Example: CoreWeave.

Financial camouflage:

🖨️ 1. GPU-for-Equity (GPUs instead of money)

An investor buys a stake in an AI startup, but pays not in cash, but in "coupons" for renting their servers.

· On paper the startup is worth a billion, but the account balance is 0. Real money is replaced by virtual points.

📉 2. GPU Collateral (Hidden debt)

Startups take out gigantic loans collateralized by NVIDIA GPUs, disguising them as ordinary rent.

· In front of new investors the company appears debt-free. If the chips lose value tomorrow, the startup goes bankrupt instantly.

1. 🏛️ Corporate bonds and Trump's insider trading

   Tech giants (Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA) issue bonds, and use the cheap borrowed money to buy back their own shares and pump up their value. In parallel, Donald Trump personally holds NVIDIA shares worth $12.5 million, which he actively bought right before the White House gave NVIDIA export licenses for AI chips to China.

Second carousel: a company takes on debt ➡️ pumps up its shares ➡️ which attracts more investment ➡️ management gets bonuses. ⤵️ And the debt stays on the company's balance sheet.

* * *

Macroeconomics:

🏛️ Political blackmail: "Too strategic to fail".

NVIDIA controls 95% of the AI chip market, becoming a critical point for the US.

· The White House is caught in a geopolitical trap. It cannot let NVIDIA shares fall, as that would crash US pension funds and create a loss in the technological confrontation with China.

· Consequently, the State is obliged to approve export licenses and forgive the financial carousel, just so the bubble doesn't burst.

· 💸 Capital running in place. Trillions go into data centers, but there's no real growth.

· 🔄 Race out of fear. The bubble is no longer so much for profit, but out of fear that the US, China, and tech giants will lose the geopolitical competition.

· ⚠️ Risk of recession. The AI sector is enormous; it will drag the financial market down with it and could lead to a crisis.

Bottom line: Technology is accelerating finance, but creating a systemic threat to the stability of the world's economies.

* * *

Possible scenario for the AI bubble deflating (given by AI):

Fall 2026: Authorities before the elections will try to save the market with subsidies and delay the blow.

Winter 2027: Quarterly reports from IT giants come out. They will show expenses with little profit, at which point investors will start selling shares.

Spring 2027: Shares may fall (forecast — up to 35%), financing will close. Data center construction will freeze and chip orders will be cancelled.

Political intervention will delay the crash. As real reports come out, the bubble will deflate and halt data center construction by spring 2027.

* * *

An AI told me all this. For a non-specialist it's simply impossible to make sense of the intricacies of finance. Everything there is deliberately made impossible to understand. It's also hard to look objectively at topics where emotions are involved. The economics is not exactly a precise science, more like meteorology if not astrology. This is just possible scenario.

Most of these except few I had already shared but not here. MAI. The idea behind mostly eas a crystalfolk race maybe on some other planet or maybe in previous universe.

Как то встретились Архея с Асгарда, Альфа-протеобактерия, Дельта-протеобактерия, Бацилла и гигантский ДНК вирус и решили замутить продвинутую жизнь.

Так вот, жизнь на земле возникла рано. Но только в виде скользкой бактериальной пленки на камне. А вершина бактериальной жизни строматолиты, бактериальные маты, комки в воде, где сверху цианобактерии проводят фотосинтез, а снизу идёт процесс гниения. Всё остальное эукариоты. Если бактерия высокоэффективный шарик, где проводятся химические реакции, то эукариотическая клетка намного больше и имеет сложную структуру с отделами, клеточным скелетом, ядром и часто даже ртом. А ещё эукариоты умеют перемешивать гены, отбирая полезных, это называется половым размножением.

Грандиозный «симпозиум» на заре жизни

Если всё собрать воедино, (включая лекции Маркова, работы Кунина, Мартина и Фортера), то появление эукариот (а значит, растений, грибов и животных) выглядит не как плавное древо, а как величайшее слияние корпораций в истории Земли:

1. Платформа и каркас (Информационные системы): Древняя Asgard-архея (дает базовые белки для работы с ДНК).

2. Стены и коммуникации (Цитоплазма и мембраны): Дельта-протеобактерия / Миксобактерия (дает гены сигнализации, липиды и цитоскелет).

3. Энергетический блок (Турбины): Альфа-протеобактерия (будущая митохондрия — дает кислородное дыхание и горы АТФ).

4. Запасной генератор (Анаэробный цех): Фирмикуты (дают гены брожения и гликолиза на случай удушья).

5. Сейф и операционная система (Ядро): Гигантский ДНК-вирус (дает саму концепцию изолированного ядра, линейных хромосом и защиту ДНК).

(Часть этого могло быть не одним организмом а многочисленным горизонтальным переносом генов.)

Тут стоит отметить, что это передовой край науки и нечего толком не известно. Имеются теории, но со следующими открытиями они быстро могут поменяться.

I made (probably) edible isopod housing. Hobby gypsum + roasted eggshells + crushed charcoal from BBQ or fireplace waste for colour.

The "instruments" used are in 3rd photo. With cold ground I had enough of time until it hardened.

Hobby gypsum (likely) should be clean, nor package nor certification mentions any dangerous chemical additives, a construction gypsum had fungicide or something.

Probably these would be more edible if there would be some chalk added which in the last moment I just couldn't find in local shop. Charcoal added minimal blue grey tint but on drying out it's mostly white.

Research on isopod colouration mostly would only have value for morph breeding, less so for husbandry, but it's mostly a theoretic thing. This is pretty complex.

Pigments that isopods do not use for colouration:

1. Unlike shrimps or semi-terrestrial species Ligia oceanica, terrestrial isopods do not use carotenes for pigmentation. They need these things anyway, say for reproduction or vision. (Carotenes - red, orange, yellow plant pigments. Carotene - carrot).

2. Isopods do not use melanin for pigmentation, but to encapsulate parasites and for wound healing.

Pigments isopods use for colouration:

1. Ommochrome - the main pigment. (From the ommatidia - arthropod eye, these are vital for vision accuracy, too.)

These chemicals are synthesized from tryptophan, and their whole bunch form a metabolic chain ending in grey. Xanthommatin, rhodommatin, ommatin D, oniscoid ommatin — mostly red, yellow and orange colours. The colour of xanthommatin depends on the oxidative-reductive state of the environment. The last metabolic step is polymerization of ommatins into ommine pigment — the typical dark grey of wild type isopods.

(In the attached image.)

2. Pteridine — attractive pigments. (The molecules are named after butterfly wings.)

Pteridine pigments are bright yellow, white, etc. Uric acid crystals are also related to these pigments. The Magic Potion isopod has black spots of typical defensive ommine pigment and bright yellow fields of pteridine pigments.

There is little research on this; oniscoid ommatin has not been chemically identified, and there is no research on pigmentation of bright tropical species.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233617099\_Genetics\_of\_pigmentation\_in\_Porcellio\_scaber\_Latreille\_1804\_Isopoda\_Oniscidea

(Scientists fed them rabbit pellets, carrots and chalk and did some selective breeding of isopods.)

Ommochrome deficiency in an albino strain of a terrestrial isopod, Armadillidium vulgare

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10454296/

Pteridines in the yellow-colored chromatophores of the isopod, Armadillidium vulgare.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1292511/

Involvement of pteridines in the body coloration of the isopod Armadillidium vulgare

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9870549/

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I put this into AI and asked to test for scientific accuracy. It approved. If asked to test for scientific accuracy AI gets extremely strict, like "this is wrong, you say ... but there is a single species...."

The research is not in these links as it is paywalled and from 70-ies.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

These were so numerous. Originally they were growin above reachable height.

I would not dismiss this as nothing becouse then you will have dismiss all the cultural heritage. You can't measure 'soul' as you can't measure 'heroism' or 'geniality'.

I remembered japanese tradition where 100 years old teapot have soul and philosophy of Johann Gottfried Herder (his ideas later were distorted in awful way).

Some macro from walk into forest with additional extraterrestrial lighting.

For very small aliens anyway😜

Now it is mutch better. (Jet the cars makes athmosphere slightly less pure high fantasy.)

This story is pretty unique in abrahamic context. There are just few examples of character development in celestial spheres. Following it didn't made followers very popular among regional neighbours but mountains and military skills allowed to survive. My and AI interpretation how that could look in 12 hypostases;)

𒀭𒀭𒀭

He was before sun was ignited. First among equals. Silent in the council of light.

When the Creator shaped Adam from clay and commanded the Host to kneel, he alone refused. Not out of defiance but devotion. Only to the Highest. The price was a Fall.

Cast into the abyss, the Peacock Angel descended into the smoking deep. There he found the lost, the howling, the cursed. Angel wept until his tears drowned the flames. And so it was for 7000 years. The fire died.

Rising from the void, the Peacock Angel returned not as a rebel or saviour, but as a sovereign. One who has seen what no angel has seen. One who stands at the gate, between fire and mercy, and chooses who may pass.

In the remote temples, his bronze likeness is carried annually. The faithful do not kneel. They walk in his shadow, remembering: he refused to kneel so that they might be free.

The Peacock Angel seeks not worship but those who stand at the threshold. Angel offers not salvation but clarity.

𒀭𒀭𒀭

Peacock Angel (LitRPG stats):

🦚🦚🦚

Celestial (Outsider), LN

STR 22 DEX 18 CON 20

INT 24 WIS 26 CHA 28

AC 24 HP 333 Speed 55, fly 108

𒀭𒀭𒀭

Resist: fire, cold, lightning, acid

Immune: poison, radiant, charm, fear, death

𒀭𒀭𒀭

Aura of Stillness: 33 ft. No forced movement. Fear fails.

Tears of Quenching (Action): extinguish all fire within 108 ft. Heal 2d10 per flame. Area becomes hallowed for 1 h.

Spellstrike: On staff hit, cast any 5th-level spell.

Wings of Peacock (Recharge: 3 rds): 72 ft. cone. Dex DC 22 or 10d6 radiant + blinded.

Redeeming Gaze (Action): Target within 72 ft. (INT 3+). CHA save or overwhelmed by the memories of its sins and harm it has caused — no actions for 1 rd.

Binary Form: At will (1/day), change gender. Angel's form is a mirror.

Smite Fiend: On hit +2d8. Permanent destruction on 0 HP — no revival.

Turn Fiend (Action): Fiends within 33 ft. Wis save or frightened + flee (7 min). If can't flee, 2d8 radiant.

Staff. +14 hit, 3d8 radiant + 2d10 force.

Legendary (3/day): Move, heal 2d12, or teleport 72 ft.

𒀭𒀭𒀭

Grants Domains: Knowledge, Twilight, Elemental, Light.

True Sight (5/day): Bonus action. See true nature (72 ft.). Reveals type, true name, power.

Channel Divinity: grants smite and turn fiends.

𒀭𒀭𒀭

Redeem. Reaction when creature falls to 0 HP or surrenders. Speak Peacock Angel's name. Target gains temp HP = level + Wis and its alignment shifts one step toward neutral (if evil or chaotic), unless it attacks you/allies for the next 7 minutes.

This story is pretty unique in abrahamic context. There are just few examples of character development in celestial spheres. My and AI interpretation how that could look in 12 hypostases;)

𒀭𒀭𒀭

He was before sun was ignited. First among equals. Silent in the council of light.

When the Creator shaped Adam from clay and commanded the Host to kneel, he alone refused. Not out of defiance but devotion. Only to the Highest. The price was a Fall.

Cast into the abyss, the Peacock Angel descended into the smoking deep. There he found the lost, the howling, the cursed. Angel wept until his tears drowned the flames. And so it was for 7000 years. The fire died.

Rising from the void, the Peacock Angel returned not as a rebel or saviour, but as a sovereign. One who has seen what no angel has seen. One who stands at the gate, between fire and mercy, and chooses who may pass.

In the remote temples, his bronze likeness is carried annually. The faithful do not kneel. They walk in his shadow, remembering: he refused to kneel so that they might be free.

The Peacock Angel seeks not worship but those who stand at the threshold. Angel offers not salvation but clarity.

𒀭𒀭𒀭

Peacock Angel (LitRPG stats):

🦚🦚🦚

Celestial (Outsider), LN

STR 22 DEX 18 CON 20

INT 24 WIS 26 CHA 28

AC 24 HP 333 Speed 55, fly 108

Resist: fire, cold, lightning, acid

Immune: poison, radiant, charm, fear, death

Aura of Stillness: 33 ft. No forced movement. Fear fails.

Tears of Quenching (Action): extinguish all fire within 108 ft. Heal 2d10 per flame. Area becomes hallowed for 1 h.

Spellstrike: On staff hit, cast any 5th-level spell.

Wings of Peacock (Recharge: 3 rds): 72 ft. cone. Dex DC 22 or 10d6 radiant + blinded.

Redeeming Gaze (Action): Target within 72 ft. (INT 3+). CHA save or overwhelmed by the memories of its sins and harm it has caused — no actions for 1 rd.

Binary Form: At will (1/day), change gender. Angel's form is a mirror.

Smite Fiend: On hit +2d8. Permanent destruction on 0 HP — no revival.

Turn Fiend (Action): Fiends within 33 ft. Wis save or frightened + flee (7 min). If can't flee, 2d8 radiant.

Staff. +14 hit, 3d8 radiant + 2d10 force.

Legendary (3/day): Move, heal 2d12, or teleport 72 ft.

Grants Domains: Knowledge, Twilight, Elemental, Light.

True Sight (5/day): Bonus action. See true nature (72 ft.). Reveals type, true name, power.

Channel Divinity: grants smite and turn fiends.

𒀭𒀭𒀭

Redeem. Reaction when creature falls to 0 HP or surrenders. Speak Peacock Angel's name. Target gains temp HP = level + Wis and its alignment shifts one step toward neutral (if evil or chaotic), unless it attacks you/allies for the next 7 minutes.

I just found this in r / invasivespecies. I don't think it was drawn by pencil or a Photoshop😱

The white petals purple bottom 'siamese' phenotype seems to spread faster and farther than the pure purple phenotype. The town have mixed population. As you go deeper into forest (by road, a lots of recent clearings and new homes) there are a lot of white petals and just 2 - 3 purples.

As a soft annual this is not the most dangerous invasive, flowers are pretty beautiful and beekeepers could like them. But the numbers in recent clearings is concerning.