Joel Gethin Lewis
@joelgethinlewis.bsky.social
Designer, lecturer and artist. https://joelgethinlewis.com
ABSOLUTE INSANITY GOING ON IN MIDDLE EAST Night Minimums up to 33C, world heat records for October smashed and re/smashed. And guess what ..it will get MUCH worse WEEKS of July-weather with Mins 30/35C and maxes >45C. BY FAR; THE MOST HEAT EXTREME EVENT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w agoClass solidarity.
I made TrackOSC: free iOS and macOS app(s) for body, face, hand, text and pet tracking. github.com/JGL/TrackOSC / apps.apple.com/app/trackosc... - thanks to @golan.bsky.social for reminding me to make it.
GitHub - JGL/TrackOSC: A Swift app for iOS and macOS that outputs (almost) all Apple Vision Framework's detection results via OSC. A receiver app for macOS is available too, as well as a multi-platfor...
A Swift app for iOS and macOS that outputs (almost) all Apple Vision Framework's detection results via OSC. A receiver app for macOS is available too, as well as a multi-platform Processing ske...
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TREES ARE GOOD but to the tune of Ebeneezer Goode
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 4mo agoTrees. Trees. Trees. They matter. Plant them. Protect them.
How the jobs figures pan out. Net zero: massive new employment. Return to fossil fuels: mass unemployment. Don't ever let these grifters persuade you they have your interests at heart. They dance to the tune of their funders. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A question for Nigel Farage – why is your nationalist party so obsessed with destroying British jobs? | George Monbiot
Claims that our prosperity depends on oil and gas are bunkum – unless you’re a Reform backer with fossil fuel interests, of course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Yeah I just rent GPUs on Modal. I spun up a cluster on Render. Do you run inference on Salad? You can pay per minute on Vast. I do my training on Berry. They have consumer-grade cards on Spoon. Compute is rather cheap on Innocent. Startups get free credits on Flimsy. I have a discount code for Moon
“Truth—remember when that mattered? Try, if you can, to recall the newspaper in your hand, the bleeding ink on your fingers, the weight of it, as physically dense as the words impactful. Truth was once something you could run your hand over.”
lindsey romain@lindseyromain.bsky.social · 5mo agoi wrote about all the president’s men for @brightwalldarkroom.com — i get into how the film’s texture and tactility gives literal weight to the reporting onscreen, and lament the loss of physical news mediums as a sensory connection to the reality of politics and power.
I wrote something about the current state of social media and political advertising and how it's all a bit fucked, featuring an interview with @worklesshard.bsky.social of Who Targets Me? : www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-th...
The internet is lying to you about politics
Political ads on TV are subject to strict guidelines – but on social media, the rules are weak to the point of dysfunction. Add AI into the mix, and things begin to look downright sinister. It’s time ...
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Thrilled to see Dan @makeitdoathing.com has finally opened the glitchwear.store store for his one-of-a-kind, computationally generated, buyer-customized knitwear. I'm delighted to confirm that these are gorgeous and comfortable garments, too.
PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days
Today I am mostly listening to Elliott Smith.
This would be a great Apple Watch face
Alan@gammacounter.bsky.social · last yr.Watch today is a Soviet-made handwound “medical watch” from 1989 by Slava. The scales help you determine the patient’s heart rate. You must wait until the seconds hand reaches 0 or 30, then count 15 patient pulses. Where the seconds hand is on the scale at that moment is the heart rate.
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.
🦠Watch Peter Whidden's first public talk on Mote: an interactive ecosystem simulation! Mote uses a custom GPU-based physics engine to model hundreds of thousands of organisms, leading to fascinating emergent phenomena: a sandbox that is part game, part research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hju0...
Localhost: Peter Whidden's Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation
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Time to secure your ticket(s). #btconf will be back in Berlin soon. beyondtellerrand.com/events/berli...
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beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin these days with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and frien...
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The Arts Emergency mentoring programme simple, impactful and vital. If you work in the creative or cultural industries and can spare just 1 hour a month to share knowledge and advice with a young person, please sign up to mentor in 2026! 👉
Become a mentor
Registration to be a mentor in 2026 is now open! Arts Emergency mentors support young people in Greater Manchester, London and Merseyside who are interested in the creative and cultural industries and are taking their first steps out of compulsory education.
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Friends, my first tutorial video is up! :) Text particles in Touchdesigner using POPs. (The approach isn't unique to POPs & cld be done w TOPs, SOPs or even CHOPs - 3D textures+UVW mapping. But this provides an excuse to get into POPs :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ed...
A grassroots movement like Arts Emergency rarely lasts or grows as we have.Our work changes lives, but we rely on monthly donations.Those donations are down £50k since 2021. We've cut all we can, now we're appealing to you for £2/month to plug the gap & go on www.arts-emergency.org/donate%F0%9F...
£2 may not seem a huge amount to some, but I promise you it underwrites the most established independent youth service in UK culture, enabling all kinds of wonderful outcomes and opportunities☀️
Arts Emergency@artsemergency.bsky.social · last yr.There has never been a more critical time to be doing our vital and impactful work, and in these tough times we must turn to our friends and allies for help. Please support our £2/month appeal here: www.arts-emergency.org/donate 🚨
For some super arcane deep cuts, I've ported JT Nimoy's "Textension" vector font (1999) and Douglas Hofstadter's "Letter Spirit" gridfonts (c.1987-1996) to p5.js, now available in my archive of p5-single-line-font-resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...
Today I have mostly been listening to Steely Dan.
It's great to see the research and the stories behind the Galloway Hoard slowly being revealed, showing the connected early medieval world 📜🗃️ www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
‘Amazing’ Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland, analysis finds
Lidded vessel is star object in rich Galloway Hoard and came from silver mine in what is now Iran
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We urgently need @emfcamp.bsky.social sponsors - if we do not secure more, we will have to make tough decisions. Tickets cover base costs, but sponsors pay for lovely things like our free childcare and talk transcription. Every little helps! Find out more here:
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Important screenshot from this talk by @joelgethinlewis.bsky.social! (There are many other good parts. Perhaps you should check it out. 🙂) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRiS...
The creator of the ‘Oh No’ webcomic needs help in raising funds so he can continue his legal battle against a shady as fuck board game company trying to claim ownership of all his artwork. Don’t know how these assholes sleep at night. Plz contribute to this if you can, & re-skeet #HelpSmallArtists
Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris
I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for h… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics
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In this #talk that just happened in Berlin at #btconf, @joelgethinlewis.bsky.social wants to remind us again, how we can notice things – hence the name of his talk "Noticing”- lean back, take a drink of your preference and watch this … youtu.be/yRiSfvmu4KA
Joel Gethin Lewis – Noticing – btconf Berlin 2023
With over 20 years of experience blending craft, design and technology to make new media, in this talk Joel will share some of the things that he's noticed a...
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And we still have a couple of tickets left. Come on late birds, use your chance. ;) beyondtellerrand.com/events/berli...
beyond tellerrand – An event about Web, Design and Technology
beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendl...
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Marc Thiele@marcthiele.com · 3y agoOff to Berlin soon. Today: tech check, packing and then Guido and I will drive over. Looking forward to seeing you there! #btconf #btconfBER2023
Back on the #btconf stage after 11 years! Finally. Revealing the next talk of the 2023 #Berlin edition: Joel Gethin Lewis and hier presentation titled “Noticing”. A short description of what this is about here: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2023/speakers/joel-gethin-lewis#talk
Joel Gethin Lewis is speaking at beyond tellerrand 2023 in Berlin
Joel is a consultant, lecturer and artist. He loves designing constraints and curating context for projects as well as being a catalyst for learning for both students and clients, helping them to buil...
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