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

@wtrmt I love that. (Also reminds me of a lot of my father's work from around that time). Eg

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
wtrmt ("Gabriel N") wrote:

@mattblaze

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

If I didn't have a conscience, I'd make a letterboxd for evangelical Christians and absolutely clean up

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

This photo was particularly influenced by two O'Keeffe paintings from her time in NYC, almost a century ago (during her Precisionist period). She lived (with Alfred Stieglitz) in the building at the left edge (the former Shelton Hotel).

See
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/manhattan-34289

and also
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2725/city-night-georgia-okeeffe

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

Eugen-X: Have Elon Musk’s Next Baby

I love a good satirical website. https://www.eugen-x.com/

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

This image plays with the boundaries between realism and more abstract schools like Precisionism and Cubism. While it's a realistic image in the strict sense that it's a straight, basically unaltered photograph of buildings, it deliberately omits elements that might distract from the abstract lines and and shapes that make them up. The black sky (aided by the IR exposure) and harsh, almost threatening diagonal shadows add to the unreal feeling.

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

This was captured early afternoon on a clear day with a Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 50mm/4.0 (@ f/7.1) lens, Phase One IQ4 150 Achromatic Back (@ ISO 200) and Phase One XT camera (10mm vertical shift). 760nm IR filter, which effectively blackened the sky.

This is an abstract view of modern midtown skyscrapers, as perhaps Georgia O'Keeffe might have seen them. The composition is a nod to the Precisionist school of a century earlier, emphasizing the lines and essential geometry of the buildings.

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

Midtown, NYC, 2022.

All the pixels, none of the vertigo, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51893928686

#photography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

What did it take to emulate the PC demo Area 5150?

Get a glimpse of the process of debugging the Lake effect - the most punishing, cycle-counted and downright insane effect in Area 5150 in my new blog post.

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2025/05/emulator-debugging-area-5150s-lake.html

#retrocomputing #emulation

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your art history post for today: by African American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945–2017), “Photo Bloke,” 2016, oil and acrylic on linen, 72 x 48 in., private collection. #arthistory #art #blackart #blackartist #blackartists

From Imani Wiliford, “The Iconoclastic Vision of Barkley L. Hendricks, Hyperallergic, February 11, 2025: ‘“I paint and make art because I like doing it,” the late Barkley L. Hendricks told this magazine in 2016, on occasion of his second solo show at Jack Shainman Gallery. “The subject matter I’m involved with, though, has always been seen as suspect, given the screwed-up culture we live in…. How many white artists get asked about how their whiteness plays into their work?”’

And another quote from the artist, from “BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS with Laila Pedro,” by Andrea Fraser with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2016: “The art of painting is not only about putting paint down. I like to use the texture of the canvas as a vehicle to get the illusion that I’m interested in. People have always connected me with a political situation. I’m more about illusion. When you look at one of my paintings, you’ll see that there are glasses, or a shirt that looks like wool. I want that to be something that resonates with you first, rather than you trying to be connected with the unfortunate situation people of color face. There’s a script that’s been written, whether we like it or not. We’re all a part of it. What needs to happen is for artists to get up and get out of that headlock scenario—out of that script that’s been written that you had no control over.”

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

Shouty guy is shouty.

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

@jwcph I think it's reasonable for me to conclude at this point that you are nothing more than a tiresome, sad little troll, and that there is nothing to be gained from trying to engage with you. I am done being polite.

My best advice to you is to go fuck yourself.

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

It's like Florida has gone out of its way to not provide shade.

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

Can you imagine just how much energy
Florida wastes simply because every parking lot in the state is like a barren desert and people have to crank up their air-conditioning so not to get third-degree burns.

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

Im at the "oh it's not that simple" stage of my essay writing.

Why can't it ever be that simple? Why does it always have to be two things? Why can't it be just one thing?

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
glitter@bbs.kawa-kun.com ("glitter lollipop") wrote:

it’s like a bar graph of the us economy

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Crucial Cover for May 18: Nothing Compares 2 U by Aretha Franklin

https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/neatnik/20250518

#CrucialTracks #Cover #Music

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

how to get smart again - postcards by elle:

"Not every book or movie has to be critically acclaimed and award winning, but I want to purposely choose media that forces me to think and reflect for a bit because I don’t think I’ve heard myself think in a while."

I am somewhere along this path, too. https://postcardsbyelle.substack.com/p/how-to-get-smart-again

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

The August 1979 BYTE magazine issue on Lisp is a snapshot of the language in its early days.

The editorial is really interesting as it mentions Lisp was the preferred language of Gary Kildall. The editorial on Kildall and Lisp: "[...] the alternative "M-expression" form of LISP, with special characters noting relationships, is perhaps the most elegant and natural form of expression for many problems."

https://archive.org/details/BYTE%5FVol%5F04-08%5F1979-08%5FLisp/mode/2up

#lisp #retrocomputing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Holberg@mstdn.social ("Mats Holberg 🇺🇦") wrote:

Yeah, I was the guy at Costco today with a cart full of Midol and chocolate.

I haven’t mentioned this in a while. A couple years ago I found out how many lives of people who menstruate are interrupted every month because they can’t afford hygiene products.

I now work with a service club to make period kits for homeless youth. Everything they need for a cycle: tampons, pads, liners, wipes, Midol, chocolate, etc.

I mention this because I didn’t even know about period poverty. Maybe you, too?

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

@jwcph Anyway, I’m not going to apologize for caring about the details here. That seems more like a “you” problem.

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

@jwcph Under the rule of law, the way we figure out if something is illegal is by analyzing the conduct in question against the law. (And both the facts about this airplane scheme and the law itself aren’t completely clear here; there’s not enough information to categorically say it’s illegal. I do think it PROBABLY is, as I said).

We don’t just declare “that guy is a criminal, so this must be a crime”. That’s what fascists do.

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

Advocates for science need to stop giving creationists the privilege of leeching off science for clicks.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/18/stop-letting-creationists-host-your-ideas/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’”- Isaac Asimov

Podcast bros really dialed this up to 11. Any half assed theory is as good as science even if it makes no internal sense.

It’s tragic the internet has made people even more misinformed.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shoq ("Shoq") wrote:

Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna207395?utm%5Fsource=fark&utm%5Fmedium=website&utm%5Fcontent=link&ICID=ref%5Ffark

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mangochutney@social.lol ("Alex Hoffmann") wrote:

Bei uns im Ort ist heute Verschenktag. Heute früh habe ich also meine Bücher durchgesehen, um zu prüfen, ob welche davon verschenkt werden können. Dabei bin ich auf ein Buch von J. K. Rowling gestoßen. Das ist dann direkt im Altpapier gelandet. Wo es hingehört.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
daisy@cloudisland.nz ("Daisy Leigh Brenecki") wrote:

Sometime just after 4:35pm Pittsburgh time tomorrow (Sunday—I think it's still Saturday there as I write this), I was supposed to walk on stage at @pycon and receive the Community Service Award.

I won't be doing that in person, because I'm transgender, and the event is in the US.

My AU passport has an X gender marker, so I can't even get an ESTA or visitor visa to enter the US, and even if I could it is a country that is even more wildly unsafe for people like me than it was a year ago.

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

what a slimebag

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/musk-s-pac-sued-for-not-paying-q6NHC825R%5Fy9MrMF4deaYw#cdda858a-f8d3-411f-b361-a1c5aef1013e

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink special @ Promiscuous: Wellness Influencer -- Bacardi mango Chili rum, starry, grenadine, lime

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• gifv: 08ef75377b8b5c59.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

But, time debating how Biden could or should have been convinced not to stand for
reelection is time wasted when we have none to spare. There is a fascist in the WH, Congress is controlled by a fascist cult of personality. 4/