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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Precisionism, a roughly century-old modernist American art movement related to cubism, is a strong influence here. Its practitioners included Joseph Stella, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth. Paul Strand was probably the most prominent precisionist photographer.

Precisionism is concerned with structure and geometry as well as the relationship between humans, machines, and the industrial landscape.

I'm interested in how the precisionists might interpret the world as it's become today.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

These (de-electrified) catenary wires were captured with a Sinar P camera and a 240mm lens on Polaroid 55 film (scanned) along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "high line" in west Philadelphia near the university.

This abstract composition references a 1936 painting, "Electrification", by precisionist artist Ralston Crawford; see https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg%5F72.75

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

De-Electrification, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

All the pixels, none of the rust, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2155416560

#photography

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

2. U.S. Federal Civilian Workforce Size (1980–2024)
• Primary Source: U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Specific Datasets Used:
• 1980–1999: OPM’s Federal Civilian Workforce Statistics reports.
• 2000–2020: OPM and GAO reports on full-time equivalents (FTEs) and total employment.
• 2021–2024: Estimated based on trends from OPM and BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES)

FT perm civ fed employees, excluding mil & contractors.

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

1. U.S. Population Estimates (1980–2024)
• Primary Source: U.S. Census Bureau
• Specific Datasets Used:
• 1980–1999: Historical estimates from the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Program (PEP).
• 2000–2020: Annual estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) and decennial censuses.
• 2021–2024: Projections and estimates from the Census Bureau’s Vintage Population Estimates (e.g., Vintage 2023), extrapolated to 2024.

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jawnsy ("Jonathan Yu") wrote:

Exciting news for fans of typography!

"For decades, software like Adobe InDesign and LaTeX has evaluated multiple lines of text at a time as they decide where to end one line and begin the next. It’s just that the web didn’t use a multiline algorithm. Until now.

We are excited to bring this capability to the web for the first time, in Safari Technology Preview 216."

https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/ by @jensimmons

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

“U.S. population size (blue line): steadily increasing, showing over 40% growth.
Federal civilian workforce size (orange line): largely flat or slightly declining, with minimal growth relative to 1980.

This clearly illustrates how population growth has significantly outpaced the growth of the federal civilian workforce over the past four decades.”

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

no, the federal civilian workforce has *not* ballooned, nor even kept relative pace with population growth.

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ariel@front-end.social ("Ariel Salminen") wrote:

“The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.”

https://adactio.com/journal/21831

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sepheo@social.coop ("Sepheo") wrote:

A co-op "patreon"? https://comradery.co/

Quote: "Comradery is a digital platform where creators can receive monthly payments from supporters, and optionally give those supporters exclusive access to posts and media.

"What makes Comradery different is we are a worker co-op [...] each creator owns a non sellable share of the cooperative, participates in democratic decision making, governance, and day-to-day operation tasks."

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adalheidis@mastodon.art ("Lou") wrote:

Hello #Portfolioday !
I'm an artist and graphic designer from France. I love colouring the most, and I like drawing women with swords just as much.

✱ https://maelissfont.com/en/portfolio/
✱ https://maelissfont.com/en/boutique/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:

Hey mastodon comrades, it's #PortfolioDay baby! Here's some of my latest professional work that's been released.

All of these are for Magic the Gathering as the cadence for release is more frequent than video game work.

The first one is for the recent Lord of the Rings Magic set and the second one with the elf in glowing armour is for the Dungeons & Dragons set.

#mtgart #FantasyArt #MagicTheGathering #LordOfTheRings #DungeonsAndDragons #DnD #LotR #MTGDND #MTGLotR

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brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:

if we really wanted a healthy society, we'd start by teaching people early that you can barely trust anybody who wants to be the CEO of a small to midsized company, nevermind presidents and senators and whatnot.

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

It's been a bit since the @spritely campaign wrapped up, but we decided to post a retrospective, an update on campaign rewards, and some lovely quotes from donors! https://spritely.institute/news/2024-2025-supporter-drive-retrospective.html

PLUS! I promised if we crossed the $90k line I'd do an animation and I KEPT MY PROMISE! Behold, our Porta-Bella mascot, hopping around! (A few of them hopping, even!)

(PSST: .blend here: https://files.spritely.institute/videos/2025-04-08-campaign-success-anim.blend )

Attachments:

• gifv: Porta-bella character(s) jumping for joy! Success!

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

No, George Church has not resurrected an extinct dire wolf species. Not even close.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/08/dire-puppies/

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

straight agree

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/ray-dalio-warns-of-historic-br-AEr2XnWCRKaEIv.eJfHENA

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

sadly true

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• video: 750ccc17f9614cfa.mp4

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capngloval@mastodon.sdf.org ("Denny") wrote:

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tyron@social.lol wrote:

🤔 The highest wisdom is rooted in humble ignorance.

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zicklepop@nyan.lol ("🌸 melanie kat 🌸") wrote:

over the last few months i've been working with @WeirdWriter to port their blog to 11ty. in the process i got to discover an excellent writer while doing something i love, what could be better?
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250406232956/

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

April's dance begins with warmth,
Sunshine kisses the earth awake,
Flowers peek through soft soil,
Colors bursting in joyful delight.

But the sky has secrets to share,
Clouds gather, dark and heavy,
A chill whispers through the air,
Spring's laughter turns to shivers.
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Suddenly, snowflakes swirl,
Gentle and soft, like tiny dancers,
They blanket the blooms in silence,
A surprise in the middle of spring.

Sleet taps on windowpanes,
A mix of rain and icy sparkles,
The warmth hides beneath layers,
As nature plays her unpredictable game.

Yet through the cold, hope remains,
For soon the sun will return,
The flowers will lift their heads again,
In April's ever-changing embrace

[ via https://arghstudios.com ]

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

okay, this looks like a very cool resource for newish circuit tinkerers:

https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/a67fwkvyf1tj00dw

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:

My first draft of the #openEMS tutorial First Lessons For Circuit Designers is now public. https://fasterems.github.io/openEMS-Project/python/openEMS/Tutorials/First%5FLessons.html #electronics

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Nicole needs her own radio button option on the "report " form:

*I don't like it.
*It's spam.
*It violates server rules
*It's Nicole.

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robn@social.lol ("Rob 💚") wrote:

Here, have some kernel or whatever 🥱

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17229

#OpenZFS

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zicklepop@nyan.lol ("🌸 melanie kat 🌸") wrote:

marginalized groups: things are bad
everyone else: so what

— after Switch 2 price announcement —

everyone else: things are bad, my toy costs too much
marginalized groups: so what

★ https://melkat.lol/p/20250403/

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sphakos@toot.cat ("Sage Sharp") wrote:

Bluesky post, but worth it to hear the song "look it up"

https://bsky.app/profile/chescaleigh.bsky.social/post/3lmasqpmenc2s

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Some people, when confronted with an authoritarian government, think “I know, I’ll inform on my personal enemies.” Now they have two problems.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Netanyahu high-fiving Trump like it’s a buddy cop reboot written by the ghost of Kissinger