For any of you who work with image editing on Linux for any reason, you've probably used the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) at some point, well it's getting really close to the long-awaited 3.0 release now.
While Sony are actively making their PC ports worse with forced PlayStation Network accounts even for single-player games, some companies choose to make them better and now Grounded from Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios gets better.
Listened to this conversation with adrienne maree brown this morning on my drive down to the hot springs near Florence, CO. I really enjoyed it, especially the bits on transformative justice.
โTwitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protestโ is riveting firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movementsโ greatest strengths and frequent challenges.
itโs really great! But also probably sort of weird to read now? The core argument is roughly โit is hard to make lasting change based on the very weak ties made on social mediaโ.
Unfortunately current reality tells us something more like โit is hard for (numerous, poor) people to make (positive) changeโ.
Small groups of people who are already rich, powerful, and thickly connected seem to be doing destruction via group chat and social perfectly well. ๐ฌ
and to be clear, I donโt think that invalidates the book; her experience and focus are on things like bottom-up revolution, and I think nothing since she wrote it has disproved her thesis *for that use case*.
But for small, connected groups of the wealthy, SVB, Trump-pilling, and probably more we donโt even know about yet suggest her argument was somewhat incomplete.
Yes, I have been reading this book closely with my grad students for years now but am wondering if it is time to move on.
It crystallized very powerfully what I saw in Occupy and related movements, and the motivation for my latest book, Governable Spacesโthe hope that online self-governance could address the limits she points to.
@ntnsndr @luis_in_brief I imagine you're familiar with it already but Evgeny Morozov's The Net Delusion (2011) seems like it would be an interesting companion read.
"Most are harmless or beneficial gut #symbionts of #animals, but some have turned into #parasites in other body compartments, the most notorious example being #Trichomonas vaginalis in humans."
ah, very cool picture. I didnโt know you are into analog photography. I think I shall start sharing my film photos here on Mastodon as well. Hold my beer =)
Iโm new to Mastodon and Pixelfed. I assume you created this post on Pixelfed, right? How did you manage to display it on Mastodon? I understand there is the same protocol under the hood. However, this is what confusing: I canโt see my Pixelfed post on Mastodon and I canโt see my comment to this post (from Mastodon) on Pixelfed. I thought they all be synced. I Always wanted to find a replacement for instagram, this is a good chance. Thank you.
@iriepixel No, this is my Mastodon account. I don't personally use Pixelfed. But you can follow me from your Pixelfed account and my post will appear in your feed like a Pixelfed post would. And vice versa. You can try and paste the link to your Pixelfed post into Mastodon's search bar to force it to show up if it otherwise doesn't for some reason.
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
At the center of the exhibition will be ๐๐๐๐, a sculpture created by re|thread.
We fetched the open source contributors of all software used in the exhibited artworks, from Linux to p5.js. More than 100k names are displayed, on screens and devices from different eras.
๐จ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, by Steve Ashby, reinterprets color scale data of video sources as control sources for sound creation via note selection, amplitude modulation, and other parameters.
๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, by Nicolas Boillot (@fluate), explores the implications of artificial intelligence imitating human learning and creativity. Can AI fully replace human authors, or does it produce unidentifiable, dubious, or fraudulent works?
๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐, by Fred Wordie, showcases a selection of AI-written letters; Each penned using algorithmic generated handwriting and inviting us to ask whether "I miss you" scrawled on the back of a postcard is worth more than 5000 words of AI love?
๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐, by Jonas Johansson, reflects the artist's connection to his seaside hometown and the bittersweet anticipation of life without his father, a painter of light who inspired him, in this very personal work.
๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐, by Agoston Nagy, is a drawing machine caught in an unending cycle of making very slow movements, echoing ancient methods of conceptualizing ideas in the sand.
๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, by Hรฅkan Lidbo & Per-Olov Jernberg, is a 6ร1 meter touch surface where visitors can discover hundreds of sounds, rhythms and animations, all perfectly synchronized. It is a collaborative musical instrument and visualizer that requires no prior knowledge.
๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, by nar.interactive, is an interactive dance performance that explores the communication of bodily discomforts and the dynamics of witnessing others' pain. The dancer's chronic pain is represented by an interactive costume called the soma extension.
๐น๐ฌ๐ณ๐จ๐ฟ๐น๐ฌ๐ณ๐จ๐ฟ๐น๐ฌ๐ณ๐จ๐ฟ, by Yuvia Maini, discusses the individual pursuit of "presence" in Western mindfulness culture. Stemming from ancient collective traditions, the work explores what happens when the path to inner peace is commodified.
Last but not least, ๐พ๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐?, by Ivana Tkalฤiฤ, is a video installation that examines how digital landscapes, algorithms, and personalized news feeds create "parallel information universes," isolating users within ideological bubbles.
I read this article with great interest about professor Rebecca Roach's inability to find the woman who was Joseph Weizenbaum's secretary at MIT in the 1960s in the department of electrical engineering when he developed the pioneering AI chatbot, ELIZA.
The secretary played an important role, but after an extensive archive and records search, Roach still couldn't find her name.
I feel like this is an "internet, do you thing" problem.
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We once had a local rabbit fall in love with Moki. The buck kept on visiting her and staring in the window at her. She is the right colour and size to be a wild rabbit. Her eyes are even located in the correct place. But, she has short ears and a long tail, rather than the other way around.
Every once in a while, I catch Bruno chilling next to his portrait, but every time I reach for my phone he splits. Today he decided to stick around long enough to get this.
The portrait was finger painted in ink by my daughter for a school art project.
Introducing ex-zd, a lossless+lossy signal compression for nanopore signal data. While lossless can only save about 1-3% over vbz, lossy can cut the file sizes by almost half with no noticeable impact on basecalling or methylation calling accuracy.
Nanopore sequencing is an increasingly central tool for genomics. Despite rapid advances in the field, large data volumes and computational bottlenecks continue to pose major challenges.
This looks quite useful for me! These days, it's all about how much hard disk space we have for nanopore seqs. Who knew those last 3 bits weren't terribly useful ๐
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