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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Cinzel seems to have become to fantasy book covers what Trajan was to movie posters.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

mails sent to abuse@sendgrid.com currently bounce with

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yeah i'm sure this is fine.

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davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:

🐘🍎🥖

Attachments:

• video: Elephant trunk appears from below a metal platform and receives an apple and biscuits from human caretaker.

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Stop Calling the Cops"
Sticker spotted in Oakland

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timberwraith wrote:

I love the irony pointed out by this protest tactic.

The cis controlled state will do everything they can to "unwoman" trans women via the law but we're still female enough that cis people will lose their shit if we show fully visible breasts in public.

Notice that the published photos edited out everyone's nipples.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/scottish-parliament-holyrood-trans-protest-supreme-court/

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

LLMs exist to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

It was a wild week for crooked AI! On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by Ben Shindel, who wrote a terrific piece on the fraud at MIT:

https://thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materials-and-fraud-oh-my

Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific for a discussion on AI, materials, and fraud!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1373775425725005874

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Every time I read "example" JS/TS code from well-meaning devrels, I'm reminded that disk is so fast on rich-developers devices now that nobody understands what makes something good or bad at scale. I/O: still not free!

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dymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:

When I say that I can't recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why. *This* is the bar for what the security team for a browser needs to be able to do. A fork where the entire technical team is ten people that can't even keep up with upstream patches is sadly not in the running.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2025/05/17/firefox-security-response-to-pwn2own-2025/

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

“We saw you from across the Museum of Eugenics and liked your vibe”

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

So that's really going to complicate the "let's shit on Biden to distract from the current administration's failures" narrative

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

Anyway, I like the rule of law, even for people I dislike.

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

This guy is still mad at me because I said "likely illegal" in discussing Trump's sketchy (and likely illegal) plane deal. The difference is that over on X I'd be yelled at for using the word "illegal". Here I'm yelled at for "likely".

Never change, Mastodon.

https://federate.social/@jwcph@helvede.net/114530240485631861

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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?

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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