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A duck that goes singing happily, quack quack. When it meets a cute cat, meow meow, To sing bossa nova.
Traditional. Acrylic painting. Example for what I’ll be working at the TFF’s Artists Alley during this weekend, if you attend, come and say hi!
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Hank Green put out a pretty good video about the whole "dire wolf" situation with Colossal Bioscience. He talks about the good, and the bad of the situation. In short similar to what I speculated yesterday, these are not dire wolves, they're modified gray wolves. Gray wolves aren't the closest living relatives to dire wolves. And that while this is neat, and the research may be useful elsewhere they haven't "de-extincted" anything.
https://youtu.be/Ar0zgedLyTw?si=bwmirBFkyKeeR1Pn
Subscribe to We're Here: https://werehere.beehiiv.com/subscribeTL;DW:1. Dire wolves are probably not that closely related to gray wolves, though Colossal say...YouTube
A young deer is surprised by that butterfly he wanted to shot with his camera and lands on his head. He thinks it's a dream, and if he moves, it will fly away, like those ideas we wait for the most to arrive but we're scared they won't stay or they won't success. In this moment, he just lets it be.
Traditional. Watercolors.
This original piece will be exhibited at the TFF's Art Show this weekend.
It's Mine!
Traditional. Crayons over Denny's tablecloth
This will be displayed at the TFF's Artshow, among other pieces.
Zander and Skylar walking on Pacific Ave. in Santa Cruz, just next to that funny hats store.
Picture for Zander and Skylar
Traditional. Color markers (Copics mixed with other brands)
Every cloud has a silver lining
“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to, Thallinger said: “That means no more mortgages, no new real estate development, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable.”
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figureDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
The last economy we had that wasn't capitalist was feudal. It might not be all that great.
But all the top capitalists are imagining themselves kings and barons, they might like the idea more than you expect.
What an absolute little gremlin. LOL!
https://icy.arcticfluff.eu/@toomanyfoxes/statuses/01JR2JAZP33DC5QM6KW6BW5KGM
Via flickr https://flic.kr/p/1112qUGVxo (John Walton (51)) #Fox #Boticy.arcticfluff.eu
You've finally made it on to one of the lifts at Scotiacon! And then you turn around and see this silly fluffderg staring at you.
HIDE YOUR SNACKS
🧵 @selkiesuits
📷 @HarryHusky
🌍 Scotiacon 2025
⌚ #FursuitFriday
So how long before Trump passes an executive order that US stock markets aren't allowed to go down? 🤣
Earlier today I dusted off an old perlin terrain generator I wrote in Lua, and decided to port it to Principia, rendering the resulting image as a sprite in-game.
It's quite slow, especially with larger sizes, as Principia doesn't use LuaJIT (though the original isn't very fast even with LuaJIT). Principia's step duration limit also hits against it, but it will just continue where it left off during the next step. Nontheless, an interesting Principia level.
https://principia-web.se/level/1199
Generates a 2D terrain using perlin noise and renders it as a sprite. It's quite slow, especially for higher resolution (the bottleneck being the perlin noise calculations which are done in Lua). I wouldn't recommend running this on mobile.Principia
Whether you love or hate how #LLMs have changed the world in the last couple of years, there's some really interesting science behind them, yet some people still act as if the technology is no different to the next-word completion your phone had 15 years ago.
Anthropic have put out an interactive paper about some experiments they've done on one of their models. They test how it plans to make the last word of a line of poetry rhyme with the previous line, what happens if you ask it "What is the capital of the state containing Dallas?" but you suppress its knowledge of Texas, and other weird things to understand how it works. Fun fact: there's a feature that activates when it reads a double-quote in English text, and a completely separate feature that activates when it reads a double-quote in French text, even though they're the same token.
Well worth a read. Whether you're going to make your own, or you're going to write to your MP to ban them, do it based on facts.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model
🏳️⚧️ Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️⚧️
We’re already visible, we need protecting.
Here’s one way you could help:
If you’re in a conversation with someone idly saying something transphobic you could say “that's not the case”, ask them to stop (if it's safe for you to do so), or leave.
Especially if you're a white man:
Your privilege means your words / actions
can have more weight.
It's very easy to repeat things we've heard without considering if it’s baseless or illogical. I've done it too!
> If you’re in a conversation with someone idly saying something transphobic you could say “that's not the case”, ask them to stop (if it's safe for you to do so), or leave.
The approach I prefer is to ask them what they mean, and to make very explicit what they are trying to say. It makes them very uncomfortable putting into words what they are implying.
Mortimer, a young gecko, is lost in the pages of a big book, while Viola, a little deer, watches with curiosity. "The Conquest of Bread". Is it an interesting book? She has no idea what it’s about, but Mortimer invites her to take a look and find out.
Picture for Viola Deer
Digital. Procreate
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I am so grateful to have so many amazing trans friends in my life. Every one of them has taught me so much about how to truly be yourself no matter what others tell you. And every single trans person I know has been so much more joyful and -alive- after determining and embracing who they really are. It never stops being an amazing thing to see, and that courage has inspired my own journey toward finding out who I am. Which is still TBD, but currently sitting at male-ish but gender non-comforming, which is sorta non-binary and sorta 'male is okay I guess but I get to be the one who decides what that means.'
Trans siblings, I see you and you are beautiful, you are amazing, and you are strong. Stay awesome, stay joyous, and thrive.
"What can I do for you, my lady?"
"I need a suit of armour modified," the lady said.
The armourer took her measurements, checked the pieces, and gave her an appraising look. "You've had this a while?"
"Yes. Since before... Ah..."
"Thought so. You'll need new thigh pieces and a wider skirt."
Rant: I don't WANT to hear any DUMB jokes on April Fool's Day tomorrow.
F*ck the silly tricks and pranks.
Seriously....
🤬
Bleh, I knew what I wanted to say yesterday, but by the time I actually sat down and made the post I missed out the part I actually intended to say.
What I meant to say: it's like a cross between Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and Educating Rita. (Although it predated both of them, so I guess Flowers for Algernon might have helped inspire both.)
Content warning: My opinions only, reflecting my necessarily limited understanding, but I haven't bothered to qualify every sentence
Amazon. It’s convenient, it’s everywhere, and for most of us, it’s where we buy books. But over the past few months, something has changed. More and more peo...YouTube
Google is effectively killing AOSP by no longer sharing code until there is a major release from the internal development team.
This will not only be a big blow to AOSP, but it also basically makes it so external contributions will no longer be accepted.
By next week Android will be 1 step away from becoming closed source.
