announcing: picodevil, my new tool for livecoding visuals by chopping up video with patterns picodevil.com
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picodevil is here to help you livecode visuals! let's chop up some videos with patterns!
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Kyle Geske
@stungeye.com
Peg city weirdo. Game dev educator. Open Democracy MB co-founder. Born and raised on Treaty 1 land in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Learn to question. Question to learn.
Springer Lake in Nopiming Provincial Park is a proposed ecological reserve recovering from the 2025 fire. It is also controlled by a secret military training base that burnt in the fires. It's time to get this destructive military training base out of a sensitive provincial park. #mbpoli
There should be disclosure rules for AI images used in election campaigns, and generating likenesses of your opponents should not be allowed.
Matthew Froese@matthewfroese.bsky.social · 4d agoSo I’ve been continuing my review of #Winnipeg civic election happenings - and of course, there are more AI slop renderings of the incumbent mayor that don’t look anything like him. This one is from Mike Vogiatzakis on July 24, and that definitely isn’t Scott Gillingham on the left:
There should be disclosure rules for AI images used in election campaigns, and generating likenesses of your opponents should not be allowed.
Matthew Froese@matthewfroese.bsky.social · 4d agoSo I’ve been continuing my review of #Winnipeg civic election happenings - and of course, there are more AI slop renderings of the incumbent mayor that don’t look anything like him. This one is from Mike Vogiatzakis on July 24, and that definitely isn’t Scott Gillingham on the left:
1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
arxiv.org
Ours just came back on after 12 hours. Well done MB Hydro crews! What a storm.
Manitoba Hydro@hydro.mb.ca · 6d agoStorm update: We’ve restored power to around 10,000 customers and continue to work safely to restore power as soon as possible. (1/2)
brings me right back to 1993 ❤️🔥 ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▒ ▞ ▒ ▞ ▒ ▞ ▒ ▞ ▒ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▒ ▞ ▒ ▞ ▒ ▞ ▒ ▞ ▒ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▞ ░ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▞ ▓ ▒ ▞ ▒ ▞ ▒ ▞ ▒ ▞ ▒
Patty Mints@causeways.bsky.social · 2w agomore fun with chars
Paged Out! is a free tech zine about programming, hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, and demoscene, where each article is one page long.
Paged Out!@pagedout.bsky.social · last wk.Paged Out! #9 is live! Read, share, enjoy! pagedout.institute?page=issues.... We are running final QA on all PO! issues that should be available on Lulu (www.lulu.com/spotlight/pa...) in a few days! In case you want to support us, we have a Patreon now - www.patreon.com/PagedOut
1998 was 3rd/4th year of UofM for me. My musical tastes were in the process of shifting from grunge, punk, and ska to techno, jungle, and trip hop. Shout out to Monday nights at the Palladium, Die Maschine, and 91.1 & 101.5 FM on Friday nights for the musical influence.
Matthew Perpetua@fluxblog.bsky.social · 2w agoNew playlist THIS WAS SUMMER 1998, taking you back to the summer when everyone only wanted that thing, that thing, that thiiiiing 👙 Spotify open.spotify.com/playlist/2sw... ☀️ Apple music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🏖️ YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Naturalist’s Library Online edition of William Jardine’s 40-volume series on natural history, published 1833–1843. Includes 1,300 hand-drawn illustrations of birds, mammals, insects, and fish.
The Naturalist’s Library
A complete digital edition of William Jardine’s 40-volume series on natural history
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Although the publication schedules aren't equivalent, some remaining #Winnipeg hyper local news sources: @TheLeafNews.ca (Wolseley): theleafnews.ca The Manitoban (UofM): themanitoban.com The Projector (RRC): theprojector.ca Stylus (Music): ckuw.ca/stylus The Uniter (UofW): uniter.ca Others?
@westendcassidy.bsky.social · 3w agoRest In Peace, Free Press Community Review. The last source of "hyper local" news in the city that let folks know what was going on in their community.
Lovely collection of pure logic puzzles, no guessing. Free to play. No ads. No subscription. Expanded game content available to purchase, which feels like a humane business model.
Free Online Logic Puzzles, Sudoku, Nonograms, Kakuro & More | Puzzle Lair
Puzzle Lair brings Sudoku, Killer Sudoku, Calcudoku, X-Sudoku, Kakuro, Ripple Effect, Crossmath and Nonogram together in one clean, free site. Solve daily logic puzzles, track your stats and climb the leaderboards.
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this week's diy, the washing machine's triple-solenoid water inlet valve assembly, replacement oem part ordered, seventy-five bux, not bad i'll need to detach three internal hoses, one external, and three electrical terminals, not bad
The Pov-ray ray tracer blew my mind when I first saw it 30 years ago. The idea of tracing the path of the rays of light in a scene (backwards!) was just so mathematically beautiful and the results were stunning.
videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · 2mo agopov-ray, ray tracing software, promotional screenshot, windows 3.11 (1996) web.archive.org/web/19961224...
For ten years now I've hosted a #PiHole DNS server at home, blocking nearly all web and app ads at the network level. It blocks 1.6 million known ad/spam hosts, accounting for 34% of all requests from devices on our home network. Runs incredibly smoothly on a Raspberry Pi (2015 B).
And now part of the RRC Polytech Exchange District campus!
Brent Bellamy@brentbellamy.bsky.social · 2mo agoAmazing (and huge) LEGO model of Winnipeg’s Union Bank Tower. -Canada’s First Skyscraper-
Such incredible local talent! You can find tracks from all four artist/bands on my 5.5 hour playlist of awesome local tracks from 2025.
Manitoba (Extended) 2025
Playlist · ⋆˚꩜｡ · 95 items · 1 saves
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Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · 2mo agoFour Manitoban artists — Begonia, Boy Golden, JayWood and Propagandhi — have a shot at becoming the first local musicians to win the prestigious Polaris Music Prize after earning a spot on the award’s official long list of 40 notable albums released last year.