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kristinHenry

@kristinHenry@vis.social

Independent Researcher, Artist, and Maker

Accidentally studied in alphabetical order: Anthropology, Biology, and Computer Science.

Love collaborations and occasional commissions!

#DataViz #DataArt #GenerativeArt #art #SciArt #SciComm #CreativeCoding

https://ko-fi.com/artatomic
https://www.patreon.com/KristinHenry
https://buttondown.email/ArtAtomic

Admin here on vis.social, and also datavis.social (as https://datavis.social/@kristin). Posting more of my art as https://artatomic.social/@KristinHenry

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burritojustice, to random
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ok this seems bad https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/what-you-need-to-know-about-record-breaking-heat-in-the-atlantic/

kristinHenry,
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@burritojustice crying

gretared, to random
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My child is trying out for a thing and I find myself overly emotionally invested in the outcome ๐Ÿ˜ญ canโ€™t wait for the college process

kristinHenry,
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@gretared for the college thing, it's super important to have ranked choices and expect to get into your 3rd choice, which is still super great. So maybe top choices are stretches, and have a few great realistic picks, and then safeties.

Happy to pep talk over meal, any time.

kristinHenry, to random
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After three days of various medical appointments, including an at-home-blood-draw, I'm seriously looking forward to tomorrow.

I get to go visit the Yayoi Kusama installation at SFMOMA, and lunch, and more art....more and more art! Yes!

kristinHenry, to random
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What is the more general discussion, like outside of Mastodon, about Microsoft Recall travesty?

I recognize that who and what I read is heavily influenced by data-safety-ethics-rights and so on.

Are average computer users aware of the dangers?

As a recovering Cancer patient, having Microsoft track my interactions with my doctors....ummm..NO!!!!!!

It's going to be hard enough to get my insurance to actually cover my care without that.

kristinHenry,
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By the way, my family's monthly health insurance payment is around $3,500 an month. And our deductible is what? Twice that? I need to double check that.

But it's insane. Even with Obamacare, it's still insane.

And the insurance company gets to override what my doctors say should be part of my recovery care.

kristinHenry,
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@TomLarrow I'm thinking I really need to switch back to Ubuntu again. Ugh.

I was on linux for years, and then had to learn how to get my work done on Windows for work. That made a lot of stuff a lot easier. But...ugh.

kristinHenry,
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@TomLarrow Oh my god! So much this!

I just want to go about my life, and do my work, and not be harvested by some greedy tech-co.

It's so very colonial, abusive, so many things that are not good at all.

kristinHenry,
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Um, so, as a part of today's insurance controlled health care...I've had life saving procedures declined by my insurance, including the initial colonoscopy that should have been covered by rote just because of my age let alone my symptoms that indicated a tumor.

In addition to focusing on my path to recovery, I and my family have to start the battle with our insurance company.

We're already planning on how to deal with what we expect to be our deductible around $7-8k. Just to keep me alive.

kristinHenry,
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I'm fortunate, that we can deal with this.

But I'm motivated to find out how to eliminate this for others. We need actual universal healthcare, that is not tied to employers.

We need this now!

seachanger, to random
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preparing another playlist to beam out live into the multiverse via KFSKโ€™s transmitters across a bunch of remote ass islands in alaska (and kfsk.org), starts a little after 7 pm AK/ 8 PST

kristinHenry,
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@seachanger will the whales remember our songs?

artcollisions, to random
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Y'all, I'm either too tired/overwhelmed to converse or too cranky and afraid of pissing everyone off, so, it's a lot of radio silence here lately.

kristinHenry,
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@artcollisions hugs

Gargron, to BelieveInFilm
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Hopefully a slightly less common angle on a famous landmark. San Francisco.

๐Ÿ“ท Canon AE-1 Program
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Kodak Vision3 250D
๐Ÿ”ญ Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.

kristinHenry,
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@Gargron It's beautiful from every angle.

I once had a teacher make us all walk across the bridge. It was gorgeous, but terrifying. But beautiful.

kristinHenry, to random
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I'm just so happy to be alive, and that I might actually be Cancer free. Yeah, yeah, more tests before it's sure....but I might actually be cancer free now!

So, if I'm even more socially awkward than usual, please forgive me...and celebrate with me!

Even if it turns out I might actually need Chemo....I'm gonna focus on the recovery I'm in now.

kristinHenry,
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Plus, seems like everyone in my medical care team keeps saying things like "You're young!"

After working in tech, and being a woman-over-30 in the world in general....this medical perspective on my age is ....ummm...liberating and empowering!

kristinHenry,
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Like, in the public sphere, there was the brief moment when I was the perfect age. Then I became an invisible old-hag.

Really, it's so refreshing to get the medical perspective of my age...that I am not old.

That part of my cancer recovery is to be thriving again.

kristinHenry, to random
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Watching John Oliver's show, and that photo of Nancy Reagon on MrT's lap...and my kid says "WTF?!"

I reply quietly with "Yeahhhh, the 80's were weird."

Editing to add: my kid just turned 20. Not a little kid.

DAIR, to random
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"When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference...Mr. Altman even insinuated that the similarity was intentional, tweeting a single word 'her' - a reference to the film in which I voiced a chat system, Samantha, who forms an intimate relationship with a human."

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-voice-rcna153180

kristinHenry,
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@DAIR these dudes have such a huge problem with consent, and violation of agency.

tixie, to random
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iTerm, can you NOT PUT FUCKING AI in my terminal. I don't need AI in my fucking terminal ffs.

Damn, tech bubble is fucking rotting everything

kristinHenry,
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@tixie Yikes! I make enough mistakes on my own, and I know what a mistake usually looks like....it kinda blows up, right?

But AI guestimating? WTF do we do with that?

seachanger, to random
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I asked my small biz customers to pay by check or e-check and many actually have! I have to invoice them separately so itโ€™s tedious but the real ones are down. well, the real ones plus the lady from Texas who told me she was happy to start getting in the habit of paying for things by check due to the 15 minute city people eventually using credit cards to shut down commerce from longer distances ๐Ÿค—

kristinHenry,
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@seachanger @mivox I was confused too. Thank you for explaining.

Astonished that anyone would believe that. wow.

artcollisions, to random
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Just saw a cybertruck on 66 going towards DC. There goes the neighborhood. ...

kristinHenry,
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@artcollisions I thought they were all recalled, recently.

kristinHenry, to drawing
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Thinking about a string of thoughts as a string of beads today.

I didn't get around to posting yesterday's drawing here, but it's on my Patreon and Ko-fi:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/97661100
https://ko-fi.com/post/InkyDays-February-2024-Q5Q5TZZTP

kristinHenry,
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By coincidence, after drawing bees, I came across several stunned bees on the sidewalk, while on my walk.

It's cold and windy out there in San Francisco, so be careful not to step on any stunned bees on the sidewalks.

kristinHenry,
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I had soot-sprites on the brain today, so I drew some.

All of my drawings, so far, for this month are posted for my supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi in this month's #inkyDays posts:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/103440051
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-May-2024-V7V6XLITF

#ink #drawing #art #GenerativeArt #IterativeArt #MastoArt

kristinHenry, (edited )
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Before starting today's drawing, I saw some posts about World Bee Day. So, I decided to draw some dancing bees, even though I drew some a few days ago.

Here's an in-progress shot.

kristinHenry,
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Drawing a squiggly wiggly imaginary creature for today's drawing.

I managed to finish it just before my first at-home blood-draw visit, which was quick and easy. He was wearing a mask, which put me at ease right away.

Here's an in-progress shot.

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Playing with this chemistry inspired network pattern for today's drawing.

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