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The Queer Games Bundle returns for 2024 gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/the-…

The Queer Games Bundle returns for 2024

Returning for the fourth year the Queer Games Bundle 2024 has landed with various video games, physical games, game assets and more.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)

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@Joyce Donahue

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cuddly chinchilla
For you @Katherine Bond!
@Katherine Bond

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I was sad to find a surprising lack of visual scripting apps for Linux. Apple's Shortcuts app is very powerful and can be incredibly useful. It's not like we don't have the technical ability to make something similar.

So I started working on one myself :blobfoxfloofcofe:

#Linux #GNOME

#linux #gnome

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Kind of as a birthday present (or an excuse to go out) @Andrew Pam and I went to the Art of the Brick Lego Exhibition. It was a fascinating experience. The amount of work that went into each piece was clearly considerable. If you have a chance to go, I would say that it is worth it. Just don't read the artist statements! They had me facepalming and whincing on a regular basis.

The animal room, which includes the two gorgeous polar bears, was my favourite.
The zebra people were probably the most aesthetic work.
The rainbow people have been a favourite with visitors!
The triumphal man and a few others in the room it shared all reminded me of Eastern European art under Soviet rule. I felt they could easily have had titles like: "Man Lifted by the State!"

The Art of the Brick Melbourne: A LEGO® Art Exhibit

Don't miss this incredible art exhibit in Melbourne, with over 100 works and sculptures by Nathan Sawaya created entirely with LEGO® bricks.
theartofthebrickexpo.com
@Andrew Pam

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And yet more from the Big Basin Redwoods State Park.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA

Tiny green redwood saplings in the harsh morning shadow of a massive redwood tree.
#35mm #filmphotography #sfba #analogphotography #believeinfilm
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It looks like you got a shot of milkweed at the base of the tree. It’s a very important part of the ecosystem that supports the Monarch butterfly. A lot of folks in California are growing it in gardens as a conservation effort. We currently have 3 pupae in our front yard (we’ll have several dozens by the end of summer).
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Love Big Basin! The Forest of Nisene Marks in Aptos is also a great location for beautiful pictures.

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The dog next door - Rohan really wants to say "Hi" and get a nice rub as a greeting. Cookies are a bonus, if you have one.

#dogsofmastodon

A large dog sticks his head through a square opening in a lattice fence. The dog has a mostly black head with brown spots above his eyes, a white stripe down the centre of the head that wraps around the nose. He has big brown paws with white toes at the tip. His deep, brown eyes are looking longingly at the camera.
#dogsofmastodon

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First season Dr Who

Rest well William Russell

William Russell obituary

Stage and screen actor who was part of the original cast of Doctor Who

William Russell obituary

Michael Coveney (The Guardian)

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There's yet another open letter from the AI safety crowd. If they want more people to take them seriously, they need to get more specific

platformer.news/tuesday-newsle…

At the same time, there’s no doubt that the AI safety argument has begun to feel a bit tedious over the past year, when the harms caused by large language models have been funnier than they have been terrifying. Last week, when OpenAI put out the first account of how its products are being used in covert influence operations, there simply wasn’t much there to report. We’ve seen plenty of problematic misuse of AI, particularly deepfakes in elections and in schools. (And of women in general.) And yet people who sign letters like the one released today fail to connect high-level hand-wringing about their companies to the products and policy decisions that their companies make. Instead, they speak through opaque open letters that have surprisingly little to say about what safe development might actually look like in practice.

What aren’t the OpenAI whistleblowers saying?

A group of current and former employees say the company has been reckless — but aren’t offering many details
Casey Newton (Platformer)
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Eugen Rochko
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I think the people behind the letter unequivocally subscribe to the idea that the current LLM technology is a path to AGI. It's important to question that assumption. That's the biggest disconnect for me when reading it. Such an assumption directly serves the interests of OpenAI and other LLM companies.

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Microsoft Recall Is Worse Than We Thought #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/Bvt186qt-ew

Microsoft Recall Is Worse Than We Thought

A few weeks back we first heard about Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs but more importantly the addition of Recall a feature which screenshots everything you do ...
YouTube
#linux #YouTube

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Figures in the rain - Lyme Regis

#meerMittwoch #landscapephotography

Two figures stand on a concrete jetty as a rain shower moves along the (Jurassic) coast
#landscapephotography #meermittwoch

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Vampire Therapist is a unique dark comedy narrative adventure with a great voice cast gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/vamp…

#PCGaming #Linux

Vampire Therapist is a unique dark comedy narrative adventure with a great voice cast

Being a Vampire Therapist is not something that's high up on my wishlist of jobs, but it certainly sounds interesting and you can try out the fresh demo now.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #pcgaming

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With Nextcloud Hub 8 we introduced Applications for Nextcloud Tables 🚀

You can now combine tables and views into comprehensive applications, directly accessible from the Nextcloud apps menu bar 🎯

You can now make your own #nocode apps in Nextcloud!

youtu.be/kVfa0J6mJbI


Introducing Applications for Tables! | Nextcloud Hub 8

Last year, we transformed data sharing and workflow management in Nextcloud Hub with the launch of Nextcloud Tables.Nextcloud Tables acts as a no-code platfo...
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#nocode

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New article: "Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language"

tesk.page/2024/06/03/libadwait…

#GNOME #GTK #Libadwaita #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GTK4 #Development


Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language

Recently, the Linux Mint Blog published Monthly News – April 2024, which goes into detail about wanting to fork and maintain older GNOME apps in collaboration with other GTK-based desktop environments.
TheEvilSkeleton
#opensource #linux #foss #development #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #gtk4

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Microsoft Copilot helpfully summarizing an obvious phishing email, without alerting that it's a phishing email!

#ai #bullshit

Screen shot of Microsoft Copilot in Outlook - Copilot has summarized a phishing email. Title = Your office 365 password expires today Body = Summary by Copilot. A system notification informed you that your Office 365 password for the account <redacted> expires today. The notification also mentioned that you can continue using your current password.
#AI #bullshit

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I know $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, so to celebrate 1000+ sales (!!!), I'm giving away 1000 PDF copies of How Git Works (honour system: only if $12 is a lot of money for you!)

Here's the link, enter code BUYONEGIVEONE at checkout to get a free copy wizardzines.com/zines/git/

(it'll ask you for a billing address but you can enter a fake address if you'd prefer)


How Git Works

wizard zines
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I was going to post “the 1000 free copies of How Git Works for folks who can't afford it have all been claimed, I'll release more when we sell 2000 copies"

But then I went to check this morning and we've already sold 2000 copies of the zine??? So I guess we're giving away another 1000 copies now. wizardzines.com/zines/git/

more details in this post: social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112552672…

Julia Evans

2024-06-03 12:24:54

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I know $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, so to celebrate 1000+ sales (!!!), I'm giving away 1000 PDF copies of How Git Works (honour system: only if $12 is a lot of money for you!)

Here's the link, enter code BUYONEGIVEONE at checkout to get a free copy wizardzines.com/zines/git/

(it'll ask you for a billing address but you can enter a fake address if you'd prefer)



How Git Works

wizard zines

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"Microsoft should recall Windows Recall" — Security researcher discovers Microsoft's new AI tool is woefully insecure

I am shocked.....not.

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"Microsoft should recall Windows Recall" — Security researcher discovers Microsoft's new AI tool is woefully insecure

The security story around Windows Recall hits a brick wall as it's discovered the data it collects is unencrypted.
Zac Bowden (Windows Central)

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ZOTAC Zone is yet another AMD gaming handheld gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/zota…

#ZotacZone #Zotac #PCGaming

ZOTAC Zone is yet another AMD gaming handheld

Every hardware vendor seems to want a go at making a handheld, and now its ZOTAC jumping in with the Zone.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#pcgaming #zotaczone #zotac
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Legendary Redfox
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I hate Zotac, their RMA in Brazil is garbage and has multiple times violated local consumer law. In addition, their staff is the rudest I have ever seen. I won't pick up a zotac product if I find it for free
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Professor Code
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All of these gaming handheld manufacturers choosing to use Windows makes me think they are not simply ignoring that Linux exists.

I really think it might be (at least in part) because they lack the technical expertise to support a Linux-powered handheld like the Steam Deck.

Valve, on the other hand, had nearly a decade's worth of experience working on Linux before they successfully released the Steam Deck — unlike their previous attempt with the Steam Machines.

#Linux #Steam

#linux #Steam
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Persist Online is a new MMORPG from the developer of the classic Tibia gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/pers…

#MMORPG #Linux #PCGaming

Persist Online is a new MMORPG from the developer of the classic Tibia

After almost 30 years, CipSoft, the veteran multiplayer game developer behind 1997’s Tibia, is back with another MMORPG: Persist Online.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #pcgaming #mmorpg

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Roll the dice to attack enemies in Dice & Fold, try the demo now gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/roll…

#PCGaming #Linux

Roll the dice to attack enemies in Dice & Fold, try the demo now

Dice & Fold is another upcoming game from Tinymice Entertainment and Rogue Duck Interactive, who are also involved in Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder and NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #pcgaming

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Only three months after the Claw, MSI reveal the new MSI Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/only…

#MSIClaw #MSI #HandheldGaming

MSI Claw 8 AI+, credit: Digital Trends (linked in article)

Only three months after the Claw, MSI reveal the new MSI Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld

One problem with a few handheld vendors is that they constantly spawn new models, and it seems like MSI are now doing the same with the MSI Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#msi #handheldgaming #msiclaw
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Jamie Knight
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That label in the top left conveys my thoughts perfectly on anything with AI in the name.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Hades Addict
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Soon my PC/console will be able to do a speedrun of my favorite game while I sit and watch.

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Intel revealed more Lunar Lake processor details with their new Xe2 graphics gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/inte…

#Intel

Intel revealed more Lunar Lake processor details with their new Xe2 graphics

Intel has provided more details on the upcoming Lunar Lake processors, which will come with an impressive sounding bump in graphical power.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#Intel

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AMD reveal new Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors, plus Ryzen AI 300 Series for laptops gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/amd-…

#AMD #Ryzen

AMD reveal new Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors, plus Ryzen AI 300 Series for laptops

Things are heating up again in the hardware space, with AMD now formally revealing the new Zen 5 Ryzen Processors.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#AMD #ryzen
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Endark
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Definitely interested in seeing how they perform, but not likely to buy one. 7800x3d is just so good. But we'll see!

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Hades II tops the most played Steam Deck games for May 2024 gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/hade…

#SteamDeck #HadesII

Hades II tops the most played Steam Deck games for May 2024

Pretty unsurprising really. Hades II is the most played Steam Deck game for May 2024, with the original also high up in the list.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#SteamDeck #hadesii

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There's no good way to prevent AI models from being trained on art published on the fediverse. But there's work we can do to prevent it and protect the artists who post there. #fediverse werd.io/2024/protecting-artist…
#Fediverse
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Eugen Rochko
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I don't think this is something where looking for a technical solution makes sense. It should be illegal for AI crawlers to collect unlicensed training material, rather than requiring every website to keep up with an every growing list of AI crawlers that are free to ignore robots.txt.
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Ben Werdmuller
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@Gargron It should be, and maybe it even is, but until someone actually stops them from doing it, the problem persists. Some lightweight protections feel important in that context.
@Eugen Rochko

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🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar on Stadtsparkasse Munich and Nextcloud Migration!

Learn how they moved Nextcloud to the cloud while ensuring GDPR compliance.

🗓 June 11, 2024,
🕐 1:00 PM (CET).

Register here:

nextcloud.com/blog/event/webin…


Stadtsparkasse Munich and Nextcloud - Nextcloud

Join our webinar to learn how Stadtsparkasse München is migrating Nextcloud to a cloud-based environment while ensuring GDPR compliance.
Nextcloud

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I’ve got a new camera! Pentax KX. Unlike the Canon Ae-1 Program, it’s fully mechanical. Everything seems to be in working order, except the focusing ring being misaligned and rotating past infinity.

#BelieveInFilm

A Pentax KX 35mm camera placed on a glass table, with the lens cap removed, the lens is a SMC Pentax-M 1:1.7 50mm
#believeinfilm
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Derek Brauders
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apologies for saying this, but does that mean " To infinity, and beyond".

On another note, my second slr was a Pentax ME Super. Lovely camera.

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Why Did He Swap To Debian #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/m4Xrlx06SJE

Why Did He Swap To Debian

Of all the distros someone could wind up on on, how does that distro end up being Debian, what does Debian offer that you don't get better some where elseFul...
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#linux #YouTube
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Mackaj
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Searching around for a few mins doesn't look like bspwm has a future. Development has stopped and I couldn't find any reference to a Wayland port.

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@BrodieOnLinux with another bangar of a video

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The Weirdest Linux Bug Ever Discovered

You've seen a bunch of weird bugs on Linux but I think this is one of the strangest, the can't print on tuesday bug, yes that is an accurate description of w...
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@Brodie Robertson

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Some of the emails I get are truly sad reflections of the complicated and rather sorry state of things we are in. Like this.

(also, apparently #curl is used in another popular game)

"Rainbow 6 Siege Activation issue"

bagder.github.io/emails/2024/2…

Rainbow 6 Siege Activation issue

emails I received
emails
#curl

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In case anyone tries to interact with the Freedesktop Gitlab and notices that it's not working, heads up a migration to Gitlab 17.0 is going on right now
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Quaternaut
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I was installing the latest `cosmic-epoch-git` update from the AUR and ran into a network issue when downloading from a Gitlab source 🙁

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It’s weird when two things pop up around the same time, looking the same. Even more weird when one is a crypto start-up with a billion dollar valuation. And the other an under-funded non-profit in the Fediverse.

That’s the story of an unlikely couple: #Farcaster and #Newsmast.

Both built around channels, or communities. The success of Farcaster shows the potential in the #Fediverse.

blog-pat.ch/an-unlikely-couple…

#SocialMedia


An unlikely couple

Farcaster, meet Newsmast. It’s weird when two things pop up around the same time, looking the same. Like Hollywood releasing two versions of the same story, in the same year.
Michael Foster (Patchwork Blog)
#Fediverse #Socialmedia #farcaster #newsmast
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Nathan Schneider
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the similarities are there (though I think the basic idea is very similar to, say, FB groups and subreddits). But more important, it seems to me, are the differences. In Farcaster, everything from storage to content to channel creation are financialized.

As with crypto vs. open source in general, it's a question of whether making the economic layer explicit will attract or repel people.

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New music video from #BlossomsBand! Filmed on 16mm ☺️

youtube.com/watch?v=C5UWge0rP-…

#NP #NowPlaying #16mm


Blossoms - Gary

Pre-Order the new album, Gary, released September 20th: https://blossoms.orcd.co/garyThey saw him disappear into the darkness that wet nightMr Scott hasn’t s...
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#NowPlaying #np #blossomsband #16mm

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¡ Feliz día de la #bicicleta!

Recuperamos un texto de hace unos años:

Internet en bicicleta
sursiendo.org/2018/10/internet…

por @jacobonajera que nos comparte una de sus metáforas sobre su andar en las tecnologías e internet desde la artesanía…


Internet en bicicleta | Sursiendo

Si hago un recorrido por uno de mis primeros contactos con la artesanía, este sería, sin duda, andar en bicicleta. Porque para mí significa aquella experiencia…
sursiendo (Sursiendo)
#bicicleta @jacobonajera

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IT-Awards by CloudComputing-Insider: Vote for Nextcloud! 💙

The voting is now open for the prestigious annual awards by CloudComputing-Insider. Click below to learn how to vote and support Nextcloud!

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Vote for Nextcloud in the CloudComputing-Insider Award 2024 - Nextcloud

Nextcloud is once again nominated for a CloudComputing-Insider Award. We count on your support to become a winner once again in 2024!
Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)

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Tutorial de Cifrado con GPG

por @moribundo

¿usas cifrado #gpg en tus emails? ¿lo usas en otros archivos?

#CuidadosDigitales
#gnupg

moribundo.flounder.online/blog…

ALIAS "BLOG"

moribundo.flounder.online
#GPG #cuidadosdigitales #gnupg @Moribundo Insurgente

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More Truchet tiles, this time on a grid. These are so endlessly fun to iterate with.

CMYK archival inks on 11x15 watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot

A pen plot of concentric overlapping connected arcs and circles of many different colors. There’s groups of arcs in a 2x3 grid with strokes flowing from one group to another, almost like tassels on fabric.
Detail from a pen plot of concentric overlapping connected arcs and circles of many different colors. There’s groups of arcs in a 2x3 grid with strokes flowing from one group to another, almost like tassels on fabric. This detail focuses on one group of arcs where you can see the strokes are CMYK inks.
Detail from a pen plot of concentric overlapping connected arcs and circles of many different colors. There’s groups of arcs in a 2x3 grid with strokes flowing from one group to another, almost like tassels on fabric. This detail shows the strokes from one group to another.
#art #mastoart #CreativeCoding #artist #generativeart #penplotter #artforsale #artforsalebyartist #penplotterart #penplot

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The future of democracy doesn't lie just with Trump or Biden—it begins, I argue, in our everyday organizational lives, which we now live largely online: theconversation.com/why-the-fu…

Why the future of democracy could depend on your group chats

Americans associate with each other more online than off these days. How people interact in digital communities could have a big impact on democracy.
The Conversation

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In what ways can we respond to the social and ecological challenges of our time from a space of connection, rather than looking for quick fixes and following familiar authority? Introducing a new hybrid in-person and online leadership course beginning April 2025. emergencemagazine.org/event/se…

Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (UK)

In what ways can we respond to the social and ecological challenges of our time from a space of connection? Join us for our new Seeds of Radical Renewal leadership course combining an online workshop and in-person retreat.
Emergence Magazine
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Firefox 130 is bringing a game-changing feature: automatic alt-text generation for images using a fully private on-device AI model! 🙌🏾

Initially available in the built-in PDF editor, our aim is to extend this to general browsing for screen reader users. hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/expe…


Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Firefox 130 will feature an on-device AI model that automatically generates alt-text for images, integrated into its built-in PDF editor.
Tarek Ziadé (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)

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