jenga
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Not a bot. I like white ink tattoos, deep jewel tones, romanticism, and post-post-modernism.
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the sky in the ocean in the sky
July 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
the sky in the ocean in the sky
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Hubble’s 35th anniversary with stunning images across space:
Upper left: Frosty Mars with thin water-ice clouds.
Upper right: NGC 2899, a moth-shaped planetary nebula. Lower left: Dark gas clouds in the Rosette Nebula.
Lower right: NGC 5335, a flocculent spiral galaxy.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
Upper left: Frosty Mars with thin water-ice clouds.
Upper right: NGC 2899, a moth-shaped planetary nebula. Lower left: Dark gas clouds in the Rosette Nebula.
Lower right: NGC 5335, a flocculent spiral galaxy.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
April 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hubble’s 35th anniversary with stunning images across space:
Upper left: Frosty Mars with thin water-ice clouds.
Upper right: NGC 2899, a moth-shaped planetary nebula. Lower left: Dark gas clouds in the Rosette Nebula.
Lower right: NGC 5335, a flocculent spiral galaxy.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
Upper left: Frosty Mars with thin water-ice clouds.
Upper right: NGC 2899, a moth-shaped planetary nebula. Lower left: Dark gas clouds in the Rosette Nebula.
Lower right: NGC 5335, a flocculent spiral galaxy.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
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Hello from a mountain in a cloud in a rainforest.
April 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Hello from a mountain in a cloud in a rainforest.
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Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.
A crow's math skills include geometry
Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.
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April 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.
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Ursala Franklin distinguishing between Work making vs Control directing technologies, Holistic craftsperson vs Prescriptive factory technologies is massively illuminating.
So much software & tech defines top down processes, controls prescriptively. Enemy of freedom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_...
So much software & tech defines top down processes, controls prescriptively. Enemy of freedom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_...
Ursula Franklin - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
March 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ursala Franklin distinguishing between Work making vs Control directing technologies, Holistic craftsperson vs Prescriptive factory technologies is massively illuminating.
So much software & tech defines top down processes, controls prescriptively. Enemy of freedom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_...
So much software & tech defines top down processes, controls prescriptively. Enemy of freedom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_...
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The early web was small & crafty, but has all but disappeared in the face of massified broad industrialized technology. Systems all defined on high, users merely going through the flows set before them. Bounding not expands possibility.
March 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The early web was small & crafty, but has all but disappeared in the face of massified broad industrialized technology. Systems all defined on high, users merely going through the flows set before them. Bounding not expands possibility.
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Who wins in this Daylight Savings duel?
This dazzling clock represents Love conquering Time, which was a common theme repeated in France in the early 18th century.
This dazzling clock represents Love conquering Time, which was a common theme repeated in France in the early 18th century.
March 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Who wins in this Daylight Savings duel?
This dazzling clock represents Love conquering Time, which was a common theme repeated in France in the early 18th century.
This dazzling clock represents Love conquering Time, which was a common theme repeated in France in the early 18th century.
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Sea angels capture hearts with their fluttering wings and ethereal transparency. Detailed photos that show off their celestial features are actually closeups – sea angels are surprisingly small!
Meet these tiny but mighty swimming snails at our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit.
Meet these tiny but mighty swimming snails at our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit.
February 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Sea angels capture hearts with their fluttering wings and ethereal transparency. Detailed photos that show off their celestial features are actually closeups – sea angels are surprisingly small!
Meet these tiny but mighty swimming snails at our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit.
Meet these tiny but mighty swimming snails at our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit.
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The necromancer applies kintsugi principles, and repairs her zombies with seams of golden resin. Dead flesh revived with glittering coherence, and every rotten vacancy a star
February 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The necromancer applies kintsugi principles, and repairs her zombies with seams of golden resin. Dead flesh revived with glittering coherence, and every rotten vacancy a star
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Old vampires loathe nothing more than the sound of machines. They remember the world when it was quiet; they remember a time before the hiss of engines, the rattle of pipes, the omnipresent hum of computation, so cruel to their sensitive ears
February 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Old vampires loathe nothing more than the sound of machines. They remember the world when it was quiet; they remember a time before the hiss of engines, the rattle of pipes, the omnipresent hum of computation, so cruel to their sensitive ears
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And just so, wrens were created — long ago, when the first people to come out of the earth trusted Coyote and consumed way too much social media.
And this is why whenever you see an angry wren you should tell it to "touch grass."
And this is why whenever you see an angry wren you should tell it to "touch grass."
February 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
And just so, wrens were created — long ago, when the first people to come out of the earth trusted Coyote and consumed way too much social media.
And this is why whenever you see an angry wren you should tell it to "touch grass."
And this is why whenever you see an angry wren you should tell it to "touch grass."
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It's Friday. Treat yourself to 6 minutes of Ursula K. Le Guin excoriating profiteers and championing arts and the artist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
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Ursula Le Guin
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February 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It's Friday. Treat yourself to 6 minutes of Ursula K. Le Guin excoriating profiteers and championing arts and the artist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
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I'm getting into the habit of reading one paper each morning I've never read before, and I'm looking for more reading recs!
Which paper of yours are you particularly proud of? Or which of your papers do you wish would get a bit more attention?
Please share title/link here. Thank you 🌟
Which paper of yours are you particularly proud of? Or which of your papers do you wish would get a bit more attention?
Please share title/link here. Thank you 🌟
February 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm getting into the habit of reading one paper each morning I've never read before, and I'm looking for more reading recs!
Which paper of yours are you particularly proud of? Or which of your papers do you wish would get a bit more attention?
Please share title/link here. Thank you 🌟
Which paper of yours are you particularly proud of? Or which of your papers do you wish would get a bit more attention?
Please share title/link here. Thank you 🌟
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Hi friends - do you have any examples of artists creating their own image datasets from scratch, specifically in order to train ML / AI models?
For example, in order to produce her "Leaves of Manifold" series, Helena Sarin scanned 1000 leaves from her backyard to train a GAN.
For example, in order to produce her "Leaves of Manifold" series, Helena Sarin scanned 1000 leaves from her backyard to train a GAN.
February 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hi friends - do you have any examples of artists creating their own image datasets from scratch, specifically in order to train ML / AI models?
For example, in order to produce her "Leaves of Manifold" series, Helena Sarin scanned 1000 leaves from her backyard to train a GAN.
For example, in order to produce her "Leaves of Manifold" series, Helena Sarin scanned 1000 leaves from her backyard to train a GAN.
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My idols are never men, but moths, the rosy maple with her raspberry lemonade flair, the cecropia who has decorated herself with crescent moons, the luna, whispering, light green through the night
February 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My idols are never men, but moths, the rosy maple with her raspberry lemonade flair, the cecropia who has decorated herself with crescent moons, the luna, whispering, light green through the night
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You are fantastic. You are a phosphorescent mushroom with a thousand eyes. You are a jackal-faced lobster on the moon. You are a grimoire made from moss and pressed wildflowers and the ichor of acorn gods.
February 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
You are fantastic. You are a phosphorescent mushroom with a thousand eyes. You are a jackal-faced lobster on the moon. You are a grimoire made from moss and pressed wildflowers and the ichor of acorn gods.
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Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
February 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
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The news from America is that your rangatira have lost their war against the birds; they lost the instant they went to war with the forest imo, shameful behaviour, like striking oneself
February 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The news from America is that your rangatira have lost their war against the birds; they lost the instant they went to war with the forest imo, shameful behaviour, like striking oneself
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Computational modelling of literary characters (with some pre-digital formalist & structuralist motivations) — slides for our talk at @dhssfau.bsky.social in Erlangen:
slides.com/danilsko/cha...
by @lucagiovannini.bsky.social & @danja.bsky.social
#DigitalHumanities #CLS #DraCor #Computerphilologie
slides.com/danilsko/cha...
by @lucagiovannini.bsky.social & @danja.bsky.social
#DigitalHumanities #CLS #DraCor #Computerphilologie
Computational Modelling of Characters
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January 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Computational modelling of literary characters (with some pre-digital formalist & structuralist motivations) — slides for our talk at @dhssfau.bsky.social in Erlangen:
slides.com/danilsko/cha...
by @lucagiovannini.bsky.social & @danja.bsky.social
#DigitalHumanities #CLS #DraCor #Computerphilologie
slides.com/danilsko/cha...
by @lucagiovannini.bsky.social & @danja.bsky.social
#DigitalHumanities #CLS #DraCor #Computerphilologie
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Why Children's Books? Discussion
Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children have not yet built wide hinterlands: to them, the world is still opaque and full of necessary bewilderment....
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January 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Why Children's Books? Discussion
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Iris Murdoch has this striking idea of "unselfing" - basically, increasing your awareness of the universe at large. Galileo (telescope), Boyle (microscope), Hubble (galaxies) all massively expanded our sense of the unself. Newton (the notion of laws governing all) perhaps expanded it most of all
January 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Iris Murdoch has this striking idea of "unselfing" - basically, increasing your awareness of the universe at large. Galileo (telescope), Boyle (microscope), Hubble (galaxies) all massively expanded our sense of the unself. Newton (the notion of laws governing all) perhaps expanded it most of all
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Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
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Teaching "A Critical Introduction to AI Images" this semester as a visiting prof at RIT's Humanities, Computing and Design department. Here's the reading list I have so far.
January 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Teaching "A Critical Introduction to AI Images" this semester as a visiting prof at RIT's Humanities, Computing and Design department. Here's the reading list I have so far.
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For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
January 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
Making quotes my favorite authors into digital collages has been a fun, recent hobby :D
January 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Making quotes my favorite authors into digital collages has been a fun, recent hobby :D