I stand corrected – just ship bones. Maybe when I’m ready to test desert flock. How hard can palm tress be? The mast looks fun too. Still, whale bones could be cool. The whale and the ship locked in mutually assured destruction and left to rot on the same sand. Also pelican.
Minimized the shack to environment gap as much as possible without creating huge bald spots. Still not sure how I managed that.
I decided not to go nuts marrying the shack into the lawn. More tufts to disguise the bottom of the support poles, clump bushes and flowers in corners.
Scale build tests were aborted once I sketched out the baseline comparisons. I don’t think I can build less than 1:43 and still call it terrain. Anything smaller is a diorama.
I should probably do something about the path between the door and pier, or lack thereof. The pier could use a ladder as well.
I’m an AI reporter for Ars Technica, and I often write about generative AI tools that could potentially pollute our online spaces (and our historical records) with very convincing fake information. Some people think these tools may destabilize society. At best, they may merely decrease the signal-to-noise ratio of online information. Years ago, The Guardian and BuzzFeed called this presumed coming age, where true and false information are almost impossible to distinguish, “the Information apocalypse.” Never one to shy away from the chance to coin a term, I’ve called it the “cultural singularity.”
Although I’ve warned about AI-generated misinformation on Ars Technica as well, I’m still optimistic that people who are cognizant of these issues can get through the coming decade with factual electronic knowledge at hand. But just in case I’m wrong, a little voice in the back of my head reasoned that it would be nice to have a good summary of human knowledge in print, vetted by professionals and fixed in a form where it can’t be tampered with after the fact—whether by humans, AI, or mere link rot. That’s appealing to me.
Benj Edwards, “I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing“