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smilingdemon@mastodon.art ("Alastair Temple") wrote:

Because I other things in life have kept me stupidly busy recently and there has been no new art for a while. Here are the pieces that made up my Jumpgates series, completed between 2019 and 2021.

A mix of 2d and 3d techniques were used in creating these.

#ThrowbackThursday #DigitalArt #MastoArt #ArtOnMastodon #ArtByAlastairTemple #Scifi #ScienceFictionArt #spaceship

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• Science fiction illustration showing a "jumpgate" in orbit around an orange gas giant. The jumpgate acts as a portal through which a terrestrial planet can be seen. The jumpgate is face onto the viewer. (remote)
• Science fiction illustration showing a "jumpgate" in orbit around an orange and green gas giant. The jumpgate is at an oblique angle to the viewer and empty space can be seen beyond it. (remote)
• Science fiction illustration showing a set of "jumpgate" in orbit above the moon. Different views are visible through all of the gates, a sleek spaceship is emerging from the central gate. The piece is in black and white. (remote)
• Science fiction illustration showing a ruined ring structure emerging from behind a foreground asteroid. Also visible is a deep space probe in the design of late 20th century probes (uses a 3d model provided by NASA). (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Oscillofun is a #music track with waveforms that double as its music video when plotted on an X/Y oscilloscope (great #demoscene vibes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YyI6_y6kw

Reblogged by jwz:

jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

here's mister Hope himself, explaining that we couldn't have single payer healthcare because there are people employed by the machine that drinks blood and grinds the bones of millions in agony, forcing us to pay more than any other country in the world for some of the worst outcomes of any developed nation - what about those jobs, he protests, that make the world so clearly worse? this was 2006, and last month we saw where the road of despair he helped pave finally leads.

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• “I don’t think in ideological terms. I never have,” Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?” from https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mr-obama-goes-washington/

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

Having fixed by now about half of various plumbing fixtures in my house, the biggest lesson I learned is: don't give up.

When wet, slimy parts are strewn across the floor and that stupid nut just refuses to budge, or that leak keeps resurfacing again and again… it's easy to despair and feel like you'll never put it back together. Which could mean not having water in the entire house for who knows how long?

This is when need to keep breathing and do methodically what you can. It'll work out.

Reblogged by jwz:

Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

Remember: if you see somebody shoot a health insurance CEO, no you didn’t.

jwz wrote:

I saw Goody Osburn shoot the CEO!

Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:

donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

The problem with making plans is, now you have plans

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

wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:

A stunning time-lapse of Earth setting below the Moon's horizon captured by the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya as it orbits the Moon.

Credit: JAXA/NHK

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• Earth slowly descending through the blackness of space, toward and then below the Moon’s horizon as its shadowed surface recedes from view.

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

A bright spot for the web is just how many talented writers we have dropping bangers everyday.

We're in like a golden age of blogging. I love it.

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

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield halts plan to put time limits on insurance coverage for anesthesia during surgery | CNN:

"After sharp criticism from anesthesiologists, an insurance company is halting its plan to limit the amount of time it would cover anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures."

Uh yes. It was criticism from (checks notes nervously) anesthesiologists. https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/health/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-anesthesia-claim-limits

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

The (mostly) quadrennial DTrace conference, the only conference named after a config file, dtrace.conf is coming up next week. It's all online. We'd love to hear from DTrace users, from folks building with DTrace, or about work from related or inspired systems. For more, check out @bcantrill's great post https://oxide.computer/blog/dtrace-conf24

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

joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

time to start getting festive

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• three freshly-groomed pomeranians wearing holiday scarves (remote)

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

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• In several cases, the guns wound up in the hands of violent felons and were used to commit crimes including drug trafficking, international arms dealing and, in one case, the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy attending a high school football game.

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

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• A CBS News investigation found dozens of law enforcement leaders - sheriffs, captains, lieutenants, chiefs of police - buying and illegally selling firearms, even weapons of war, across 23 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., from the Deep South to the Midwest, Northeast and California coast.

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

Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime - CBS News:

"“If I’m guilty of this, every cop in the nation’s going to jail,” Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term."

Agreed. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-selling-restricted-guns-posties/

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

jbigham@hci.social ("Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥") wrote:

@cmuhcii her first project with me (and former PhD student @jsonwu) was on using LLMs to customize user interfaces :: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3586182.3616671

then she worked with us on a synthetic UI generation paper accepted to EECV:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-72691-0_26

and a paper about automating UI design feedback accepted to UIST:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3654777.3676408

2/n

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

jbigham@hci.social ("Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥") wrote:

congratulations to Amanda Li for successfully defending her Masters Thesis yesterday at @cmuhcii

Amanda has worked on a variety of different ML+User Interface Understanding projects while at CMU, most recently looking to understand how GUIs have changed over time, and how that affects design, accessibility, and ML modeling of them.

she is applying for PhD programs now, and you should recruit her!

1/n

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• amanda at her talk, titled, "WaybackUI: A Dataset to Support the Longitudinal Analysis of User Interfaces" (remote)

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

finally killed a nasty & obscure client text-rendering bug… after trying off-and-on for a couple of months. it took me examining hex representations of the data payloads flowing to a service POST operation & then back as results to the client. fooooooook.

the web-based client for my seekrit project service is now properly rendering non-ASCII UTF8 glyphs (like ñ & ű) instead of filtering them out & throwing them away like a barbarian (aka: the “Brute Force & Bloody Ignorance” approach to coding)

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• rabbit massaging pain in neck and looking pained (remote)

Reblogged by jwz:

eldadoinquieto@mastorol.es ("El Dado Inquieto") wrote:

@nyrath It's easy to think about this ⬇️

https://www.badspacecomics.com/post/free-mars

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

From Anthony Fantano on his YouTube channel: Union-busting, plus racist and sexist “jokes” including comments about lynching by dev team, at Distrokid. https://youtu.be/hz0_rWImSaM?si=C73dq1RHo9BSJyuG

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

ahhhhhh, yes. near one of my favorite places in the world

https://youtube.com/live/urwrrLP0t3k?feature=shared

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

Two idiots have grand plans for wrecking the USA.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/05/musk-and-ramaswamy-are-not-qualified-or-disinterested-in-their-plans/

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• Musk & Ramaswamy's plans for dismantling government organizations (remote)

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

astro@webtoo.ls ("Astro") wrote:

Do you know how image srcset and sizes work?
Me neither. And you shouldn’t have to.

Let layout="responsive" find the right values based on your source image, no config needed ✨

Now experimental in 5.0

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• A video showing the effects of adding `layout: "responsive"` to a component, including the generated HTML output. Ends with the text "Responsive images now in v5" (remote)

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we wish a Happy Repeal of Prohibition Day to all who celebrate.
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/12/05.html

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• Screenshot

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

JasonAnthonyGuy ("Jason Anthony Guy") wrote:

Tsunami warning? WTF?

#earthquake #tsunami #sanfrancisco

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• Screenshot: Emergency Alert 2m ago The National Weather Service has issued a TSUNAMI WARNING. A series of powerful waves and strong currents may impact coasts near you. You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now. Keep away from the coast until local officials say it is safe to return.

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

Corporate America politics are fucking terrible.

It’s hard enough just doing your job, but then you also must keep your eye out for that one person who read 48 Laws of Power once, and now thinks email jobs are some machiavellian chess match.

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

CEO Tried to Navigate Hate Incident By Telling Staff His Mentor Was a KKK Member:

"More than 150 employees at the cloud services giant Digital Ocean protested last year after its CEO explained in an all-hands meeting that his former mentor was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, which he said shows how employees can work together despite holding different beliefs." https://www.404media.co/email/12f2e486-e76b-48d0-94d0-da2679f52182/

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

_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

Introducing: "my so-called sudo life"

a new #blog series tracking my journey towards greater digital sovereignty.

"Instead of wallowing in this grief and anger, I have resolved to make this time – these 4 years – matter. It makes me feel better and more empowered to set some high goals, so that by January 2029 I could look back and think to myself: I have grown and helped others during these tumultuous 4 years. I made good use of that time."

https://elenarossini.com/2024/12/introducing-my-so-called-sudo-life/

follow the blog: @ele

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

lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

It's finally done! 🎉 I am so excited to announce "Communicating Chorrectly with a Choreography", the first zine from my research group!

Read online and print your own free copies: https://decomposition.al/zines/

Thread! 👇

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• A stack of printed color copies of "Communicating Chorrectly with a Choreography" by Ali Ali and Lindsey Kuper. (remote)

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

Ready, aim, FIRE THE WEB GUN!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/05/sproing-oing-oing/

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• A) Untensed web shown from front view. (B) Tensed web shown from side view. (remote)