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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Ethics for all, not just for the people you don't like, please.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/11/can-we-demand-an-ethical-standard-for-government/

Attachments:

• Card explaining the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2023 (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

chartgerink@akademienl.social ("Chris Hartgerink (they/them)") wrote:

> The Music Industry Can’t Silence Nemahsis

The music is amazing, the story even more so.

https://www.hearingthings.co/the-music-industry-cant-silence-nemahsis/

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

Here's a fun #3D layered text effect on @codepen https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/vYMdzVy

No text duplication whatsoever, no text-shadow, no JS, no images save for CSS gradients.

All done with #CSS gradients, transforms & #SVG #filter magic! 🪄

Also an entry for this week's
#CodePenChallenge.

#svgFilter #textEffects #code #textEffect #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment #coding #frontend

Attachments:

• All caps multilayer 3D text. Top layer has a dots pattern and an outline as well as a tiny extrusion for this pattern and outline, the next two have gradient fills and a 3D extrusion, while the back one is just a hashed layer. DevTools panel open on the right to show there's no text duplication and no JS at play. The text is contenteditable, so the recording shows it being edited.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

I am *so* sorry!

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

sml@chaos.social ("Samuel") wrote:

Are you tired of seeing strange attractors? Because I am not. After animating the attraction parameters, I decided to do something different: increase the point count to four million to create a more surface-like structure, find interesting shapes and then play around with single source lighting and materials. Here are the results:

#Blender #B3D #StrangeAttractor #GenerativeArt #3DArt #GeometryNodes

Attachments:

• A dense point cloud that creates a complex wavy 3D structure, illuminated from below and rendered against a black background. The particle color ranges from white to shiny golden. (remote)
• A dense point cloud that creates a complex wavy 3D structure, illuminated from the side and rendered against a black background, this time more zoomed in. The particle color ranges from white to shiny golden. (remote)
• A dense point cloud that creates a complex wavy 3D structure, illuminated from the side and rendered against a black background. The particle color ranges from white to pale blue. (remote)
• Another point cloud-based 3D structure, illuminated from behind and rendered against a black background. The particle color ranges from white to metallic pink. (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

@TarkabarkaHolgy speaking from the experience of watching protests in Russia fizzle out after 2011-2012 — this is exactly true.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social ("Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág") wrote:

Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:

The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.

Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

BigJesusTrashcan@kolektiva.social ("Big Jesus Trashcan☑️🏴") wrote:

#Shitpost #MemeAtMeBro

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

On the Internet, we all live in thousands of different fractured realities.

So when someone sounds the alarm, and says "hey this bad thing is happening" it's easy to dismiss it if you aren't personally seeing it.

It's only when that bad thing spreads to its tipping point, that we see it. And by then it's too late.

So remember my series of rants about anti-Latino rhetoric coming from the left. And we'll chat about it next year.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

By the time mass deportations start, we'll have convinced ourselves that every person ICE snatches out of their bed had a Trump-supporting family member.

And that's how you get an entire country to cheer for something unspeakable.

Reblogged by cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche"):

cdm@bookwyrm.social wrote:

Review of "Cloud Atlas" (4 stars): Great book if you are proficient in English

https://bookwyrm.social/user/cdm/review/3970859

Attachments:

• David Mitchell, David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (Paperback, 2004, Vintage Canada) (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

In an attempt to get a sense of control about things before the week starts, I'm trying to make a dent in the disaster that is my office.

I started this little fellow during a playdoh session with the kiddo. I worked on it a couple of times after the initial session, and even cobbled together an armature stand. I had plans, but it's clear they're not happening. So sorry, incomplete little guy, you've got to go. But I'll record you here for posterity.

#clay #doodle #yaombaaa

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• In my left hand, I'm holding what was intended to be a dragon head. Looking at it from it's right side, it has a bit of a classic dragon profile. It has an under bite prominent bumps between its eye sockets and nostrils. From its forehead down its neck runs some bony plates. It is incomplete. I didn't get to teeth, eyes, and scales. Alas. (Shot on a potato phone.) (remote)
• Same dragon head, but from an almost 3/4 view from the right side. (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

VeryBadLlama@mas.to ("Janel Comeau") wrote:

I actually don’t feel as fine as R.E.M. led me to believe I would

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Apparently I'm really in the mood for contemplative performances inside of empty, expansive spaces. Sting at the Panthéon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtjDThed7o

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“…Populist leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, and populist movements and conspiracy theories such as QAnon and the anti-vaxxers, have argued that all traditional institutions that gain authority by claiming to gather information and discover truth are simply lying.” [2/4]

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Bureaucrats, judges, doctors, mainstream journalists, and academic experts are elite cabals that have no interest in the truth and are deliberately spreading disinformation to gain power and privileges for themselves at the expense of “the people.” The rise of politicians like Trump and movements like QAnon has a specific political context…”[3/4]

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“… unique to the conditions of the United States in the late 2010s. But populism as an antiestablishment worldview long predated Trump and is relevant to numerous other historical contexts now and in the future. In a nutshell, populism views information as a weapon.”[4/4]

— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/ebdIJl9

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“…since 2016. The ecological crisis has intensified, international tensions have escalated, and a populist wave has undermined the cohesion of even the most robust democracies. Populism has also mounted a radical challenge to the naive view of information.” [1/4]

Reblogged by cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche"):

cdm@bookwyrm.social wrote:

Review of "Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle" (5 stars): Among the best series I read

https://bookwyrm.social/user/cdm/review/3970839

Attachments:

• George R. R. Martin: Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle (2011, Random House, LLC) (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

My Fediverse Advice:

* Follow more people. No, even more people than that. Basically, if you find a real person and their posts are good follow 'em
* If you get a good reply to a post boost it. If you make a good reply to a post boost it. Replies are not visible in the feed unless you do this. As long as the post is an OK start to a conversation or interesting boost it.
* Write thoughtful replies. And if you put effort into a reply boost it or probably only the people tagged will see it.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“In 2020, the Biden-Harris team had won almost 69% of the vote in Dearborn. In 2024, Harris got just 36% – with Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, taking 18%.

In Dearborn Heights, Trump defeated Harris by 44% to 38%. Stein received 15% of the vote.”

https://theconversation.com/voters-in-arab-american-strongholds-likely-tipped-michigan-in-trumps-favor-242854

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Just have to say "you voted for Trump". Who's going to wave at my deportation?

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• 58cf8c609970d72e.jpeg

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

And this is why it's dangerous to scapegoat minorities. Once all the white liberals are sufficiently enraged, all they have to do is simply say "here's a Latino that didn't vote Harris" and the mob follows.

I voted Harris. I've been vocal that I voted Harris. Ive written think pieces on it.

Attachments:

• karen.rock.75 now You didn't vote for Harris
• karen.rock.75 now No, we blame people like you.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Historian at the Mass Deportation Latino Memorial:

*wipes tear* no you see, they deserved it because 10% more white Cubans voted for Trump.

My grandfather waved bye as ICE pulled his neighbor's child from his bed. I think it was a paperwork error.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

We don't appreciate how wicked the snares of Theridiidae spiders are.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/10/you-have-to-admire-their-cunning/

Attachments:

• Illustration of gumfoot webs (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

jdp23@gotosocial.thenexus.today ("Jon P") wrote:

@fromjason yeah really. solidarity FTW.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I'll never forget that at the height of Latino scapegoating it was leftist trans women who called it out for what it is, unapologetically, and without caveat.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Fortunately in this case, I'm out-of-network.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/10/so-thats-how-they-missed-me/

Attachments:

• The conservative network that has poisoned the online world (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

alchemistsstudio@mstdn.social ("The Alchemist") wrote:

Make life 'bear'able again!

This raku pottery bear, 'Dances with Light' is a matryoshka doll of the gay. A little gay bear, made by a not so little gay bear who also happens to be a potter.

rakupottery.ca/product/danc...

#art #pottery #raku #ceramics #gaybear #MastoArt

Attachments:

• A handmade raku fired clay bear that is various shades of metallics, including bronze, golds, silvers, browns. (remote)
• A side view of the same bear (remote)
• A view of the opposite side of the bear. (remote)
• A close up of the face of the bear. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

But it's not meaningful change we seek.
Especially if it requires the least bit of personal sacrifice. We want revenge. We want to see suffering. And if collective punishment is required, then so be it.

The idea that there are good states and there are bad states, and if you live in a bad state, well then, you deserve what is coming to you, is white supremacy.
Californians voted to NOT to end slavery.

Where are the calls for economic sanctions for our friend in the west?