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Jørgen
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enterprise esolang evangelist (he/him)

may contain music, programming, videogames, 3D, random arguments in Norwegian
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It does indeed seem to be that article
Quote from the cited article: "Personality assessments are an accepted part of recruitment processes. They normally involve candidates taking surveys and guessing what counts as a good answer. Yet previous research suggests that personality types can be encoded in facial features, and that artificial intelligence (AI) can spot them. So Mr Guenzel and his co-authors used an algorithm to analyse the pictures of 96,000 MBA graduates, and extract what they call the “Photo Big Five”—as they rename the Big Five personality traits of agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness. (Before you head to the mirror, it’s not obvious what the AI is seeing.) They then used data on these individuals’ labour-market outcomes to see whether the Photo Big Five had any predictive power. The answer, they conclude, is yes: facial analysis has useful things to say about a person’s post-MBA earnings and propensity to move jobs, among other things."
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Arrupted by @rebane2001.bsky.social - lyra.horse/arrupted/ - interactive glitch art generator which lets you poke at individual bytes in your images

#glitchart
Screenshot of Arrupted, with a distorted and glitched image on the left, and a visualization of the internal image file structure on the right
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Paint Like Pollock by @toms.toys - paint.toys/oil/ - simulate Pollock's drip painting with your own lines and splashes of oil paint

#painting #pollock
A screenshot of Paint Like Pollock, with wavy lines and splotches of oil paint around them
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Cardinal Mini by DISTRHO - minicardinal.kx.studio - a fork of the virtual modular synthesizer VCV Rack running in-browser (note: demo patches assume you have a MIDI keyboard, reading the manual with F1 recommended!)

#synthesizers #modular
A screenshot of the virtual modular synthesizer Cardinal running in-browser, with two VCO modules, the Swerge split-merge and signal summers wired up to each other
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Ernæringsforskere som innser at man kan spare måneder på REK-godkjenning og rekruttering ved å selge inn eksperimentene til kommentarfeltet som måter å gjøre fiktive MDGere sinna
Hank Scorpio smiling and touching his forehead to his hand after saying "What an idea"
October 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Sketching out a theory #synthesizers #eurorack
A two-by-two grid defining an LFO (low-frequency oscillator) in terms of whether it is routable to any part of the synthesizer, or adheres to a specific waveform, arguing that the Doepfer A-145, a Leslie speaker, a contact microphone and the vocalist qualifies as LFOs under different definitions
October 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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ZX81 DOODL by @lootbndt.bsky.social - lootbndt.itch.io/zx81-draw - a tile/character drawing program inspired by the ZX81's character graphics

#pixelart #zx81
A screenshot of ZX81 DOODL, showing two figures walking to meet outside a castle, depicted in ZX81 character graphics
October 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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DRAW 3D by Thomas Hunt - thomas-hunt.itch.io/draw3d - simple 3D modelling tool where you make models by drawing lines between points on a lattice

#art #3dmodelling
A screenshot of Thomas Hunt's modelling tool DRAW 3D, showing a 3D model with two pentagons linked by a square
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Starscapes by Deep-Fold.itch.io - deep-fold.itch.io/starscapes - a procedural generator for painterly backgrounds with mountains and stars

#procgen
A screenshot of Deep-Fold's Starscapes, showing a picture with stars, swirls and a sky above green terrain, along with parameters for the generation of a new picture
October 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A snippet from the comic Achewood, showing Ray having typed in the phrase "WHAT'S THE BEST THING YOU GOT" into a search bar
October 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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FWIW, the US Copyright Office concluded in January that just typing in a prompt alone likely wouldn't be sufficient for copyright protection (but allowed that generated works with enough "human contribution" could be copyrighted) www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
Conclusion Based on the fundamental principles of copyright, the current state of fast-evolving technology, and the information received in response to the NOI, the Copyright Office concludes that existing legal doctrines are adequate and appropriate to resolve questions of copyrightability. Copyright law has long adapted to new technology and can enable case-by-case determinations as to whether AI-generated outputs reflect sufficient human contribution to warrant copyright protection. (Highlighted section) As described above, in many circumstances these outputs will be copyrightable in whole or in part—where AI is used as a tool, and here a human has been able to determine the expressive elements they contain. Prompts alone, however, at this stage are unlikely to satisfy those requirements. The Office continues to monitor technological and legal developments to evaluate any need for a different approach.
October 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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*This* is how you make a movie
September 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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There's being a killjoy, and there's being the person who has to go "Everyone out of the sex maze, we're closing"
A snippet of one photo of the maze showing signposted opening hours
September 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Yesterday's project: turning the Raspberry Pi Pico carrier board in the Clacktronics Build Your Own Modular into a mini drum machine #eurorack
September 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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(Songs/videos in alt text)
Picture from Ceephax Acid Crew's video for Eurozone with Andy Jenkinson playing a Juno-6 wearing a sailor hat, superimposed on top of stock footage of a skier A picture from the music video for Takayuki Manabe's The TV Show, with characters from different TV show genres overlapping, with an airliner about to ram into Godzilla, who's been dazed by a giant bowl of noodles Picture from the music video for Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice, with Cristopher Walken in a suit, leaping between walls Picture from the music video of Jacques Auberger's "Rien", with pictures of Jacques and a woman dancing manipulated to exaggerate their movements
September 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Or, actually, I finished one other silly project yesterday - the slightly cursed Low Coast car radio adapter #eurorack
The Tesseract Modular Low Coast - it's a $10 car radio in a modular synth rack
August 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Yesterday's soldering project: the BONKMIX 6-channel stereo mixer module my friend designed defaultmediatransmitter.com/the-bonkmix/ - pretty straightforward build, even though I made things unnecessarily hard for myself by soldering the headers between PCBs last #eurorack
A 6-channel mixer for a modular synthesizer labelled BONKMIX, with the Bonkwave mascot on the bottom, set against a background of the author's very messy workbench
August 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Through the power of a soldering station that actually works, and the help of a friend who's much better at surface-mount soldering, I finally got the Westlicht Performer sequencer up and running #eurorack
A picture of the Westlicht Performer sequencer in a modular synthesizer rack, showing the default startup settings
August 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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As foretold on Cohost
Post by Cohost user @geometric: "Starting an anti cozy games meetup called Chaos Indies. we meet at 2AM in a pachinko parlor, you get a cigarette and bag of illegal fireworks at the door. every game is about gambling. one game's controller is a literal knife. the projector has a strobe light in it. there's an inch of water on the floor"
August 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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However, I now have 2 GB of 3D meshes which (AFAICT) Google themselves added to the Google Poly project
Output from a script which trawls through the Polygone archive of meshes added to the defunct Google Poly portal A 3D giraffe from the Google Poly archive
August 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Useful resource for game jams: polygone.art is an archive of the free CC-BY 3D models uploaded to Google Poly before it shut down

#gamedev #3dmodelling
Screenshot of polygone.art showing a low-poly 3D mesh of a penguin along with tags and download links
August 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Was reading through the old 2004 book Gaming Hacks, which predicted that Half-Life 2 would take "machinima into the mainstream", in a prediction which held up but in a much weirder way than anticipated
Quote from Simon Carless' Gaming Hacks: "Half-Life 2: It's not quite out as I write, but everyone expects this to be the Machinima Engine of the Gods. It promises advanced physics, beautiful graphics, powerful scripting, and advanced facial animation, plus lots and lots of mod support and a huge community that will follow it over. HL2 should be the next big thing indeed. Some people predict that it will take machinima into the mainstream."
August 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Haha yesss, this design rules
The Nokia 5510, with a full QWERTY keyboard on both sides of the screen, like someone tilted the layout of the phone 90 degrees
August 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Yeah of course I know 90s grunge rock, I love uhh
NORRWANA
August 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I will protest the Samsung P110V being on there, having a big hinge to independently rotate the screen and keyboard is a fun idea
The Mobile Phone Museum's image of the Samsung P110V, showing the phone's screen tilted on a hinge to be parallel with the QWERTY keyboard
August 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM