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Justin Stach

@stach.uk

I make things better. Undertint – colour for watercolourists: https://www.undertint.app The Water Dictionary – https://www.waterdictionary.net Markset – Markdown previews in Finder: https://www.markset.app

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Bart⚓️@bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Justin Stach@stach.uk · 2w ago

Fuck me sideways, Meta really is a fucking toxic business. Totally ignoring the privacy and hoovering 187,000 lines from a journalist’s Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being off.

Marco Rogers@polotek.bsky.social · 2w ago

I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.

Justin Stach@stach.uk · 3mo ago

More fiddling with my #watercolor experiments. Added where the colours sit on the gamut solid, and what they are. Ran it through a shader to make it look more like watercolour itself, and put it on a white background. All to avoid working on the app’s marketing.

dorian@doriantaylor.com · 4mo ago

another big one for me is how extreme wealth inequality less a moral issue and more a security risk so much money that you're insulated from every conceivable fuckup demonstrably makes you stupid like the power to drag the entire world off a cliff with you and be the only one with a parachute

dorian@doriantaylor.com · 2y ago

what makes wealth inequality destabilizing in the baseline case is the ultra-rich siphon off attention from productive and useful ends and divert it to their idiot vanity projects and then when they run out of trinkets to buy, the only thing left is political outcomes

Justin Stach@stach.uk · 4mo ago

Solid and thoughtful. And I couldn’t agree more with, ‘Any platform that uses an algorithm more complex than ‘people you follow in chronological order’ to be treated as a publisher, and held to account for content’.

Iain Mansfield@igmansfield.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The social media ban doesn’t have to stop every under 16 from using social media - if it stops most of them using it, and causes those who still do to use it less, that's a big win. 10 responses to common objections to the ban. www.edrith.co.uk/p/social-med...

Justin Stach@stach.uk · 4mo ago

Interesting that Starmer, like Corbyn seems to elicit the same visceral but never explicable reaction from normal folks. Makes me wonder just what is it about Labour leaders that prevents them clicking with the general public.