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'Complect' (2024)

A new interactive #art installation based on crustose lichen and their interconnectivity.

The drawn lines are weaved from conductive wire connected to Raspberry Pi Picos. They all link together, and the parts speak to one another, with electricity flowing through their protozoan boundaries following their own rhythms and patterns, changing the lights and shadows.

Based on research from a residency at Artlink Fort Dunree (2022-23).

#art


The best news I've seen about "AI" lately: People have wisely concluded that these systems are untrustworthy.

axios.com/2024/03/05/ai-trust-…


in reply to Tomáš

no it's great! Varvara has 4 arms and sometimes people forget to draw the extra arms. Varvara and Uxn are in excellent company!


Saw a bug in #Helldivers 2 where a player had their arms stuck out the whole game, so they basically did a Jack Sparrow run across the map.

Wish I recorded earlier + more, because it was so funny.

youtu.be/pANkJA8wEFk



Australia’s chief scientist takes on the journal publishing monopoly

“Journal publishers have one of the highest profit margins of any industry, taking in an estimated $20bn US a year.

Five major players control more than half of the market, led by Elsevier, with a profit margin of nearly 40% – in excess of Apple, Netflix, Google and Amazon.”

theguardian.com/australia-news…



How it feels to look at any replies on X/Twitter now

in reply to James Britt

This is an AI-generated image. One of the hands has 4 fingers. The cheese also looks more like a sponge than a cheese.



Creating New Standards With The IETF #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/CUlfvvrBWPU




The rare songbird the Jerdon's Courser is critically endangered in #India's Eastern Ghats region from #palmoil #deforestation. Help them to survive and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket palmoildetectives.com/2024/03/… via @palmoildetectives

in reply to Muse

The 'ten-minute edit' I did to finish a package on the morning we switched to our video server for playback was because I'd spent 20 years editing, progressing from an inexperienced novice to proficiency on a new non-linear system.

The photographer who couldn't complete the package hadn't practiced with the new system/program, even though we had on-site instructors working with us for over a month.

Mark In, Mark Out, Edit. Do it until the keystrokes become familiar. (It's not unlike touch-typing.)

I did feel sorry for Greg (I'm a computer geek, after all, and a gamer), and said so to the Operations Manager and Chief Engineer, but they said, "That's on Greg."



Welp, it’s early March in the Midwest & the ticks sure seem to be enjoying the warm temperatures.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

One of the many reasons why I take climate change personally. I HATE ticks!
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I think that needs a content warning!
With a mild winter in the UK we fear another bad tick year. Absolute horrors. We love to walk fluffy bear in the woods, but have to stay on wide paths in a tick summer.


Out in #ProcB: "Advances in understanding bat infection dynamics across biological scales", a review of what's known and what's not about viral circulation and spillover in bat populations. A great synthesis emerging from U.S.-South Africa partnership, led by EcoHealth Alliance's Cecilia Sánchez!

dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2…

(And I note, on #InternationalWomensDay, an international collaboration of mostly women ECRs )

#OneHealth



the alan wake team writing a gripping and complex genre bending meta narrative to justify enemies spawning directly behind you

Lynnesbian reshared this.




8 in 10 lizards could be at risk due to deforestation sciencedaily.com/releases/2024…

Deforestation Could Put 84% of North American Lizards at Risk, Study Says ecowatch.com/deforestation-liz…

#America #environment #wildlife #lizards #deforestation



Ten years since anti-deforestation pledge, corporate world still not doing enough #environment #forest #forests #deforestation #corporations news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ten-…



Jerdon's Coursers have a distinctive melodic song and are fighting for survival, critically endangered from #palmoil #deforestation in #India. Use your wallet as a weapon and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket palmoildetectives.com/2024/03/… via @palmoildetectives

in reply to Muse

"A prince who has to remind others he's a prince … isn't much of one."
-- Sioned, Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn


I know which corner in my village I want this sign!
in reply to Muse

So many darn pony clubs around here!
Hey, you kids! Get your ponies off my front lawn!


I make cupcakes and look! The cat has already put a paw print in the frosting!



Somehow #flying always ends up being much worse than I think it will be

Robert Reich nailed it - youtu.be/eTzaMXXelew?si=JNs73D…



in reply to Jen Sorensen

in reply to Stamets™

@Stamets Thanks for sharing your story. Sounds like this is the case for a lot of people -- they just need a hand from someone who actually cares.


The Jerdon's Courser is a rare nocturnal bird belonging to the family Glareolidae. They are endemic to #India in the Eastern Ghats region. They are threatened by #palmoil #deforestation. Help them to survive #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife

palmoildetectives.com/2024/03/…





GE-Proton 9-1 brings a whole lot of fixes for Linux / Steam Deck gaming gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/ge-p…

#Linux #SteamDeck



Proton Experimental fixes up Apex Legends, Epic Games Store, Warlords Battlecry III gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/prot…

#SteamDeck #Linux



Wine 9.4 brings updated vkd3d, initial OpenGL support in the Wayland driver gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/wine…

#Wine #Linux



it's rare we go live on the main channel but here we go #Linux #YouTube youtube.com/live/9sTUSTORFDo



I was told that this piano is 150 years old.
How does one even play it?
@Andrew Pam
in reply to Muse

Someone could have wanted something like this in a corner for the look of it. A young artist may have created this for a university project: I have seen things like this happen.


in reply to Muse

@Bob Lai "No judgment, no fear of failure."
Good formula for life!

in reply to Muse

Google Image Search shows the original photo was posted here:

instagram.com/turnipian/

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