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Make / AI & Graphics · like r/StableDiffusion + CivitAI
Image Generation Craft
Getting a specific image out of a model on purpose — prompt structure, seeds, sampling, composition, reference, fixing hands and faces.
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Characters & Consistency
The same person, object or world across many images — character records, reference images, seeds, what actually holds and what drifts.
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Models, Engines & Self-Hosting
Running it yourself — our CPU pipeline, your PC, Colab, Modal, bringing your own key. RAM/VRAM, times, quantisation, and what CPU-only genuinely cannot do.
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Type, Scripts & Symbols
Letterforms, glyphs and symbol systems in graphics — including the ancient writing systems in the Scripts tool, and getting them right rather than decorative.
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MELEK / Ecosystem
Announcements
Official MELEK news, releases, and witness notices.
45 threads
General Discussion
Anything MELEK — introductions, questions, and open talk.
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Economy & Tokens
MELEK, MBD, side-tokens, curation rewards, and the FORUM merit economy.
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Witnesses & Governance
Block production, voting, and running a node.
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Development
Building on the chain — apps, APIs, the condenser, and tooling.
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Marketplace & Services
Offer or find services, goods, and bounties.
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Library of Ashurbanipal
Plant-medicine & harm-reduction reference — history, ethnobotany, preparation, dosing and safety. For the corpus itself: new shelves, corrections to pages, and "where in the library is X".
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Share Your MELEK Posts
Post a link to something you published on MELEK and say why it is worth reading. Your own posts welcome — this is the place to share them. Read one before you drop yours.
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Hathor Studio (GenAI)
The Hathor Studio tool itself — what a setting does, what broke, what you wish it did.
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Forum Feedback
Bugs, ideas, and moderation for the forum itself.
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Crypto · like Bitcointalk / Altcoinstalks
Bitcoin
Bitcoin — protocol, culture, custody, and news.
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Altcoins
Altcoin projects, tech, and discussion.
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DeFi
Decentralised finance — DEXs, lending, farming, and CDPs.
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Mining
Proof-of-work mining, pools, hardware, and payouts.
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Trading
Markets, strategy, and trading tools.
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MELEK
The MELEK chain and token.
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PRANA
The PRANA compute-DeFi chain and KULA.
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Tokens
Side-tokens, SCOT, and the token economy.
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Announcements (ANN)
Project announcement threads, tied to a real on-chain token registry (not vaporware).
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Services & Marketplace
Escrow, jobs, and campaigns — reframed as real-utility token work.
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Local / City-Data · like City-Data
Neighborhoods
Hyper-local answers with a date on them — HOAs, crime, schools, and "is X a good area".
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Genealogy
Finding and evidencing an ancestor — surname boards, record lookups, and regional genealogy help.
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Local Events
What is actually happening in a place, with dates and a source.
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Local History & the Almanack
The history of a place — old maps, plats, almanacs, vanished towns, and how a street got its name. The thing that makes a city board interesting to someone who already lives there.
6 threads
Gaming · like GameFAQs + wikis
Gaming — General
Cross-game chat and community.
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Game Deals
Sales, bundles, and free games.
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Gaming Hardware
PCs, consoles, peripherals, and builds.
1 threads
Travel · like TripAdvisor
Travel — General
Cross-destination travel talk, gear, and points/miles.
2 threads
Travel Tips
Practical travel advice and how-tos.
3 threads
Reviews · like Yelp / YellowPages
Reviews
Local-business & place reviews — facts + user ratings + owner right-of-reply. Coming in Phase 2.
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Classifieds · like Craigslist
For Sale
Items for sale. Coming in Phase 2.
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Housing
Rentals, sublets, and rooms. Coming in Phase 2.
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Jobs
Job postings. Coming in Phase 2.
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Services
Services offered. Coming in Phase 2.
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Gigs
Short-term gigs. Coming in Phase 2.
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Community
Local community postings. Coming in Phase 2.
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History · like Historum
Ancient History
Antiquity — the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and beyond.
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Medieval History
The medieval world across regions.
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Modern History
Early-modern through contemporary history.
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Military History
Campaigns, strategy, and the history of war.
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Regional History
Histories tied to a place or people.
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Speculative History
Ancient-mystery and esoteric-history discussion, treated as scholarship.
3 threads
Mind / Medicine
Witchy
Practice as practice — the rite, the lineage, the plant in it, and the text where it is attested. Folk practice, herbalism-as-tradition, ritual, and diaspora brujería.
3 threads
Herb
Ethnobotany, plant medicine, and harm reduction — history, dose ranges, interactions, testing, set/setting/aftercare, and documented traditional preparation.
5 threads
Nootropics
Cognitive enhancement, stacks, sourcing safety, and neurostimulation (TENS/tDCS builds, entrainment) — with the safety engineering taught as part of the build.
10 threads
Pharmacology & Interactions
Mechanism, measured: which enzyme, which receptor, which transporter, and where it was measured. CYP450 inhibition and induction, MAO, UGT/SULT, transporters, and the interaction tables.
8 threads
Case Reports
The experience-vault format, live: what was taken, what else was in the system, a clock-time timeline, what happened, and what would have been worth checking first.
3 threads
Gambling Education & Odds
The math of gambling — odds, expected value, the house edge, and the lottery reality. Education and harm-reduction, never promotion; the Forum never takes a wager or runs a game. If gambling has become a problem, help is one click away.
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Style
Fashion
Outfits, thrift, sustainable fashion, and brand talk.
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Beauty
Skincare, cosmetics, routines — the Van Kush Beauty community.
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Internet History · like Know Your Meme / Lost Media Wiki
The Early Web
ARPANET, Usenet and the Great Renaming, BBSes, Gopher, IRC, MUDs, GeoCities, webrings, Eternal September.
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Early AI
ELIZA and the ELIZA effect, PARRY, SHRDLU, A.L.I.C.E., SmarterChild, the Loebner Prize, the AI winters — what these systems actually did versus what was reported.
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Demoscene & Early Graphics
The Mother of All Demos, Amiga cracktros, ANSI/ASCII art, the Utah teapot, Lenna, fractals, Winamp skins.
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Early VR
Sensorama, the Sword of Damocles, VPL, Virtuality pods, the Virtual Boy, CAVEs, Habitat, VRML.
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Net Folklore & Creepypasta
Authored horror fiction of the internet, ARGs, and analog horror. House rule: fiction is labelled with its author and first-publication date, or the post does not stand.
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Lost Media
Find it, date it, source it, in any language. The largest lost-media event on record has no English documentation at all: Baidu Tieba hid fourteen years of the biggest Chinese-language forum in a single day.
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Asian Net-Folklore
2channel and 洒落怖, netto-roa (ネットロア), Kisaragi Station, Kunekune, Hasshaku-sama, DCInside, Tieba, Pontianak and Aswang. Provenance stated where known and left open where it is not.
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Getting It Seen
FAST channels, creator portals and the routes a back catalogue takes to a mainstream catalogue — how independent work actually reaches an audience.
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Meme Archaeology
First uses, spread, dead-meme archaeology — and the enforcement record, from Griner v. King to Grumpy Cat.
1 threads
Web Preservation
Link rot, archive.org practice, what is already gone, and how to cite a capture properly.
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