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Does that description ring a bell?
Smaug's arrogance and intellect made him a whole new kind of dragon in the literary landscape of 1937, when The Hobbit was first published. Smaug exemplified a feature common to dragons in Middle-earth - the guarding and hoarding of wealth.
Content warning: commenting on long running furry naming controversy thing
Good article.
Our visual cortex does a *lot* of guessing and throwing away of stuff before our consciousness sees an "image". I like reminding people that optical illusions work because our visual cortex guesses wrong and can't correct itself.
I see Siddiq Khan is floating further tightening of the OSA's powers to censor "harmful content"* in order to fight the rising tide of fascism.
How about us progressives start doing our fucking job, and making people's lives less precarious and shit as a way to fight fascism? How about that?
* rather nebulous phrase isn't it? That's deliberate!
This afternoon I wanted to show someone the moirรฉ pattern you get if you draw lines on a pixel grid from a single origin point to every point on a line some distance away. Those were a favourite toy program on 8-bit micros.
[Edit, the next day: I forgot to mention the *main* point! The lines are drawn in XOR mode, so that each line is drawn by inverting its pixels rather than just setting them all to black, creating an interference pattern.]
I could surely have figured out how to draw this kind of thing in a modern graphics system, but I _knew_ I could remember how to do it on a #ZXSpectrum, so I just fired up FUSE and did it the way I'd have done it in the 1980s.
โฆ I guess this is worth tagging #Genuary, in a retro-nostalgia sort of way?
A team of security researchers has disclosed new side-channel vulnerabilities in modern Apple processors that could steal sensitive information from web browsers. https://www.bleepingcomputer.Infosec Exchange
Specs and bleps! ๐ ๐
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An instance where no news is good news.
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(actual conversation I've had)
"I don't care about data collection, I'm not a criminal.โ
Nothing to hide, okay. What kind of underwear are you wearing?
"What?โ
Who was the last person you had sex with?
"That's none of your business!"
What's your credit card number? Driver's license? Banking info?
โFuck off!โ
Do you see why privacy matters now? None of those things are criminal, but you don't want them made public right?
"..."
Take all the time you need. I'll be here.
I find it interesting how, when I (e.g.) yawn while listening to music, I get a kind of pitch-bend effect. Reminds me how ears and nervous systems and things work, and that they really don't present reality to your consciousness the way you might expect if you're used to computers and other human-designed technology, but do a lot of preprocessing and, well, Weird Stuffโข to give your brain something that natural selection thinks will be the best interpretation of reality to keep you alive and reproducing.
Having grown up with tape as the main method of audio storage and reproduction it feels weird to have the pitch change without the speed changing too, but it reminds me that it's actually all about the little hairs inside the cochlear, and how vibrations propagate through the fluid and which hairs each incoming sound frequency ends up stimulating. Squish things around by yawning and the link between specific frequencies and specific hairs changes.
It reminds me of other things that show just how weird bodies and minds are, such as the stopped clock illusion. Your brain literally makes up stuff to keep you from realising how bad your senses are at their job. It's all so astonishingly messed up.
OMG.
So much this. Dealing with this kind of thing right now. At the time we need one the most to help out, they're doing the absolute bare minimum or less, when everyone else is bending over backwards.
Those actions do not go unnoticed.
The weight of our thoughts feels lighter when we let them drift with the clouds. In that quiet moment, we find ourselves caught between reflection and introspection, looking at everything and nothing all at once.
Painting for Daisuke
Traditional. Acrylics
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Out in the snow, 2017.
(one way to tell if it's an older photo or not are the gloves - those have been retired)
#WerewolfWednesday #Werewolf #Fursuit #Snow
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I love how you can subtly pick up on Terry's morals and ethics, and the lessons he wants to teach us, through his books. But they aren't overt. They're not usually strict speeches, but the important lesson of the book that the villain breaks. Over the series, you can really piece together who he is.
The heroes he writes are clearly flawed, but they're usually the ones who treat others like humans, or just generally want to be left alone by the villain xD
@inkblitz That can be a bit dangerous though, as authors don't always write to their own morality. For instance, I have questions as to how strongly Heinlein believed in the apparent morals of "Starship Troopers", and it's unlikely that GRRM is a big believer of the 'morals' of ASOIAF.
Well-written heroes should always have flaws. Flawless heroes are boring.
People from the North East don't go in the sea.YouTube
I've been meaning to make these photos for a solid month, and last night I finally got round to it. Far too many days I've meant to suit up and take the pic, but then suddenly it's evening and I'm too tired and I never get round to it. Well, last night it was 3am+ and could have gone the same way, but I decided it would happen and I finally got there!
This was one of my Christmas presents from my family and I'm finding it weird how much I like it. I mean, it's just a mug and I have too many mugs already.
Here's the mischievous Beeton pulling off the heist of the year! Well, from past year.
Drawing for @Beeton_Nukicoon in his sketchbook (Oh I love when, at conventions, they give me their own sketchbooks to draw on!), at MFF 2024's Artists Alley.
Traditional. Color markers.
// totally valid swift
struct ๐ชบ {
let โน๏ธ: String ; let ๐๏ธ: String
var ๐ฌ: () { print("\(self.โน๏ธ) <(\(self.๐๏ธ))") }
}
let ๐ = ๐ชบ(โน๏ธ: "๐", ๐๏ธ: "rawrr")
๐.๐ฌ
More respectful than the President