been wanting to make some plotter drawings to raise money for all the gaza gofundmes in my timelines so I started trying out the DEM-to-SVG approach with sentinel-1 data estimates of destroyed areas. Gaza's pretty flat so as terrain it doesn't quite have the same effect but the gaps are still a lot. This is a screenshot from a corner of Khan Younis.
new odious discourse category: "the college students who want divestment don't understand how complicated stonks and investment portfolios are, this making divestment impossible"
idk man maybe the complexity rendering lots of people and institutions complicit in a genocide is the problem
One of my students did their final project for CS Ethics on decarbonizing the power grid and made a working model of a utility pole as part of their presentation, like the transformer worked and everything. I love teaching engineers
fun fact: the original lyric was "cut my life into pieces / the body keeps the score" but bessel van der kolk is extremely litigious and didn't appreciate papa roach's musical tribute
got a reminder email that my shopify subscription is about to renew, consider making a purchase today so I can justify this ongoing cost? also I make beautiful plotter drawings https://wares.lifewinning.com/
@kendraserra I tend to distinguish as "during lockdown" if I'm talking about 2020 times? but even that sometimes feels like "back when all of this wasn't normal"
Karl Marx did not spend multiple pages developing an unnecessarily involved case study about linens and coats that cleverly mocks Ricardo just for you to just call everything "enshittification" young lady
can some Obsidian power users please tell me about their setup, it seems super nice and flexible but as far as using it for organizing projects I'm a little at a loss and learning other people's workflows sometimes helps