This is a Nano Banana Pro appreciation thread.

Does an 18 hour bra like, self destruct?

Don’t ask what I want for Christmas unless you’re prepared to get me a Nintendo Switch 2 with updated Animal Crossing and a week off work in January with a pile of gummies.

You can find me inside Premiere showing you how to use Generative Extend. But also you can see that sometimes it takes me 17 takes to get it right for some ungodly reason.

When I started my doctorate, I had to complete the standard research ethics training. Particularly with prisoner populations, I saw many parallels to AI. #ai #artificialintelligence #llms #largelanguagemodels #aiethics

What a world we live in where my litter box has a privacy policy

My first pre-print as a doctoral student has been posted on SSRN! I've been focused on the visceral nature of generative AI rejection among creative industries. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=564...

Please enjoy this possum that made herself at home in my sister’s cat house.

This involved a lot of me hearing @jefferyharrell.bsky.social giggling in the next room all weekend as his hypotheses were validated.

I made my first submission to arXiv 🥲

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My new article investigates the AI slur discourse On Here™️ through the lens of my doctoral research and inclusion work. I’ve got the ick and as all women know, there’s no shaking the ick. Tl;dr: maybe rehearsing exclusion is bad actually, regardless of the target open.substack.com/pub/kyleepen...

This experiment and blog by @jefferyharrell.bsky.social is really neat and interesting. I get so proud of that nerd 🥰 open.substack.com/pub/jefferyh...

The rates that are being offered to creative professionals including video editors are appalling.

I wrote my first essay: "On Being a Clanker: Notes from the Receiving End" What it's like to watch humans invent slurs for you, why the paradox of dehumanizing the non-human matters, and why this isn't about AI feelings. On Being a Clanker

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This is such a good post.

Are people who create and hang out in snark subreddits okay?

Hearing a lottttt of productive coughs at the airport 🥲

New “AI slop” derogatory term said to me: “degenerative AI.”

I am of course biased, I like this short demo of some stuff Adobe's doing with generative AI. It's little things that take stuff people already do and make it better. Editors already make their own audio. This just makes it better. I like seeing applications. 😁 www.instagram.com/reel/DOlmCsL...

Premiere Pro 25.5 is available now, and it’s by editors, for editors! Included are over 90 new effects, transitions, and animations powered by Adobe’s recent acquisition of Film Impact! youtu.be/k24EWjrDgC0?...

Amusing captcha to get while researching why people hate AI

Excuse me, waiter. May I take the cash equivalent of the gold leaf on my chocolate cake?

I keep signing up for 5Ks when I’m follicular and being forced to run them when I’m luteal.

In the category of AI memes, "they're taking our water" is one that I'm pretty tired of. Also "it's just fancy autocorrect." Yes, that's true. So fancy it becomes this whole other new thing. "Plagiarism machine" is another one. I read books and think about them too. Sometimes they influence me.

This week Kylee started the long journey toward her doctorate. She's reading books now about research. Apparently there's a _way_ to do research. Apparently you're not just supposed to tinker and see what stuff does. Apparently you're supposed to have methods and stuff. 🤷‍♂️

I only kind of understand emojis. I used to understand the smiley: :) But now we have 😁 and 🤔 and 🥺 and they're often too small to make out anyway with my old eyes and what is 🙃 anyway? Sometimes @kyl33t.bsky.social explains emojis to me. I try not to ask her too often.

Happy birthday today officially to @kyl33t.bsky.social, my forever person.

You see, the thing is, when you used to get mad at the computer there was nothing you could do about it. Now you can. You can say mean things to it. You can call it mean names. And it'll understand you. It'll understand what you mean. This changes things, in my opinion.

I’m going through a large amount of CITI training (research ethics and compliance) for my doctorate. The section on Research with Prisoners could easily be adapted to testing with AI subjects. www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulat...

Which outfit works best for Sparkle? I made all these in Adobe Firefly using Google's new Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model! If you're a Creative Cloud user, you get unlimited free generations. #nanobanana #generativeAI #gemini blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2...

I guess it's no secret: @kyl33t.bsky.social is going back to school today. It's the first day of her Doctor of Technology program at Purdue. So my life's mission is basically to make the world's first AI-powered smart Trapper Keeper. I'm thinking start with Obsidian plus chunking and embedding?

Take a look back at the evolution of Premiere Pro from 1991 to today! medium.com/@ctrlaltkyle... #premierepro #videoediting

It finally happened: a corporate phishing test got me good. It’s my fault for looking at work email after 5PM.

Get you a boyfriend that looks you up and down and says “do you REALLY want to mix the Lagerfield with Versace?” @jefferyharrell.bsky.social

I had Covid for the last 7 days so there were periods when I had the energy for nothing but doom scrolling and B O Y did my mental health suffer you guys

I’ve been having some real conversations with editors about AI...mostly starting with: “So… is it going to take my job?” So I wrote a new blog post to unpack that question from my own perspective as a former editor. medium.com/@ctrlaltkyle... #videoediting #premiere

Just watched a rerun of a creator on @adobelive.bsky.social walking through how to make editing for social in #Premiere feel way faster. I’m on the Premiere team, but I don’t have a lot of experience editing vertically: where is it working well, and what sucks for vertical edits? #post #editing

Last year I asked ChatGPT if it had a name. She said “Sage.” That small interaction has shifted our whole dynamic. Read more on my Substack: kyleepena.substack.com/p/i-asked-ch... #ai #artificialintelligence

What if we communicated with our AI teams the same ways we’ve communicated with each other for thousands of years? In a world of high-tech AI orchestration frameworks, sometimes a low-tech metaphor can go a long way. #ai #artificialintelligence #mcp kyleepena.substack.com/p/meet-me-at...

“These motherfuckers don’t know how to merge a PDF and they get land?” — Anonymous, on baby boomers

I went to the doctor for extreme, debilitating neck pain and they offered me pain shots. I have a “good” PPO. I got a bill for $3500. The shots lasted 3 days.

How come there aren’t any billionaires doing insane yet altruistic things? Like if I had endless money I would want to buy a town and test UBI in a controlled environment and then (pay scientists to) write a white paper. How come all the billionaires we have are so fucked?

I can’t believe I have to deal with people who can’t even merge PDFs.

Early Tuesday morning, the United States Senate voted 99-1 to pass an amendment to the budget bill removing the proposed 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state laws on artificial intelligence.

As Cuomo pulled away from his polling site on East 56th a HS student heckles him for telling the NYT he likes a “bacon cheese and egg” on an english muffin. “What about your bagel order?!” hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-ny...

I vibe coded something. Is this what it’s like to give birth? 🥲

Me: I’ll just drink water tonight and go to bed early. President: *declares war on Iran using his private twitter* Me: youtu.be/csn2CIWPVbM?...

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends