What is a harmonic? Check out the interactive comics about additive synthesis that @aleclongstreth.bsky.social and I made! melatonin.dev/additive-syn...
Introducing ShaderBeam - ShaderGlass' sister app focusing on applying @blurbusters.com CRT Beam Simulation technology to Windows desktop. Re-experience the motion clarity of CRTs on a modern high-refresh display. Free and open source. github.com/mausimus/Sha...
the tech oligarchs crossed the pond for keir starmer to kiss the ring of silicon valley
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11mo agoLook who came with
Concept Art and process work for Rogue One. I worked on this sequence from early concept art to the set build - based (very) loosely around a Ralph McQuarrie sketch from the original trilogy. This shot was so spot-on the concept art that I remember gasping audibly during the screening.
can you imagine ms and nvidia taking down the world economy? no runaway crash like it before
9th day with covid again; still testing slightly positive and still ye old subtle-yet-not-so-subtle swing of sledgehammer; after 5 years+ of learnings afaik no novel acute / chronic treatments in sight? yes, i should have boostered this year; not forgotten my mask on public transport week prior
Grim news from Germany. A black family, who had previously experienced several incidents of racial harassment, was the victim of a suspected arson attack on Monday. One child is dead, the other is in critical condition. A fundraiser for them is here: www.gofundme.com/f/unterstutz...
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Liebe Mitmenschen, heute wenden wir uns mit einer schweren … Wilma Nyari needs your support for Unterstützung für Familie Conde nach verheerendem Verlust
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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · last yr.Die 90er sind zurück, selbst wenn die meisten versuchen, so gut wie möglich wegzuschauen.. taz.de/Feuer-in-Wil...
Interesting article here including a test of the average response time of the Switch 2 screen. The results are awful. It's about as slow an LCD as one could imagine in the modern era. chimolog.co/switch-2-pan...
Cumulative damage due to Covid reinfections is still ongoing. I non-ironically wonder how much of the current state of the world can be traced to actual brain damage.
Danielle Beckman@daniellebeckman.bsky.social · last yr.How does #COVID impact the brain? From bench to bedside, my presentation with @davidjoffe64.bsky.social for the @thewhn.bsky.social is available on YouTube now: youtube.com/watch?v=soJX... #NeuroCovid #LongCovid
Don’t trust anyone who is rude to the serving staff
Omfg It’s Bunsz !@copaceticbunsz.com · 2y agoIf you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
Not disputing the role of tech, but since 2016, the pandemic is definitely a factor, long before AI became a phenomenon, many of us who were teaching noticed students' memory and cognition impacted by COVID. Of course we are all pretending that it isn't, because the pandemic is "over", apparently.
Marieke van Vugt@mvugt.bsky.social · 2y agoAre the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says. I should add to that that repeating the same complex working memory task in a similar population now leads to worse performance than in 2016... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The fantastic game jam @ludumdare.com is sadly not running any events in 2025 as host Mike Kasprzak is struggling financially. While Mike isn't specifically asking for donations, he does have a Patreon which helps cover the jam's expenses. Perhaps we can help? www.patreon.com/c/mikekasprz...
Get more from Mike Kasprzak on Patreon
creating Ludum Dare, videos, and more
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I've been meaning to read this paper on mass extinctions (pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...), and today, I came across this great write-up about it in VoxDev (voxdev.org/topic/energy...). It's a great paper. I am glad I found the time to read it. Below is a short thread.
"I have said it before, and I will say it again—OpenAI may well become the WeWork of AI," @garymarcus.bsky.social writes in a new commentary piece for Fortune. fortune.com/2025/01/27/a...
China just redefined the global AI race—with massive implications for OpenAI, Nvidia, and foreign policy
Silicon Valley’s initial advantage in LLMs evaporated quickly despite export controls, writes AI expert Gary Marcus.
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When I scheduled this episode, I hadn’t even considered what day it would be dropping. Anyway, here’s @danmcquillan.bsky.social talking about AI as fascistic solutionism.
Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 2y agoAI is a form of “fascistic solutionism” that diverts us from serious problems and presents tech that classifies and surveils as a solution. Up next in our premium interviews from DATA VAMPIRES is @danmcquillan.bsky.social! Become a Patreon supporter to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/fascis...
I wrote 'Resisting AI' (subtitled 'An Anti-fascist approach to Artificial Intelligence') to help preempt the kind of convergence of far right politics and the tech sector that we are waking up to today. The struggle against fascistic solutionism continues. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai
Resisting AI
Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Calling for the restructuri...
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Tune into the 1981 BBC LOTR radio play to drop out for a little while: archive.org/details/lord...
1981 BBC Lord Of The Rings : J.R.R. Tolkien : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Tolkiens great masterpiece done better than ever before or since.
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The revolutionary Xerox Alto computer (1973) started GUI computing, Ethernet, the optical mouse, laser printing, and visual word processing. We came across a password-protected Alto disk so I cracked the password. @tubetime.bsky.social looks at the contents: bsky.app/profile/tube...
Tube🌞Time@tubetime.bsky.social · 2y agotoday we fired up the old Xerox Alto (the earliest computer with a graphical OS) and dumped a disk pack that we hadn't imaged before.
Still astounded how people think that the government force-closing a social network that's literally used by 170 million people in the US is just fine or even good. It would not surprise me if they go after VPNs next. They tried this already: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RESTRIC...
RESTRICT Act - Wikipedia
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David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.
It’s sad how CBC has become so wedded to this narrative of Canada Post privatization. Where’s the big article about CUPW’s proposal to reinvent the postal service with postal banking and other community services? What happened to presenting both sides?
the absolute dearth of both intellect and imagination needed to insist not only that this place must operate like twitter to be “relevant”, but that being “relevant” is something defined by some external orthodoxy, rather then the platforms actual users
I used my camera sensor to rescue space photons before they crashed into my driveway, how did I do? Detail of the Rosette Nebula in Monoceros, a H II region approximately 5,200 light years from Earth. 🔭🧪 #astrophotography
disconnect.blog/shame-on-the... "If you thought we were already living in a tech dystopia these past few years, it’s time to buckle up. You haven’t seen anything yet."
Shame on the Elon enablers
Media and politicians created a monster and lost control of him
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OK, that's both routes cleared properly! Here's one last thing I wanted to share - the classic costumes! The low-res look here is so much better than the one Capcom used in RE2's remake:
