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Dad joker. Grew up in France, living in California. Engineer at Superhuman. He.

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paulrickards, to genart
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Red hot Truchet tiles in vermillion, magenta, and red violet. Printed on a HP 7585B pen plotter from 1983 on 11x15 watercolor paper. A slight detour of my usual CMY palette 😀

Detail from a pen plot of concentric large overlapping arcs making swirling patterns of movement in many shades of red, pink, and violet. Focus is on the center of an intersection of arcs.
Detail from a pen plot of concentric large overlapping arcs making swirling patterns of movement in many shades of red, pink, and violet. Focus is on the center of an intersection of arcs.

t_i_m,
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@paulrickards indeed! I’m experimenting again with keeping my phone in grayscale and didn’t expect that when I switched the colors back on 😄 (especially since I have a similar version of that with full colors right in front of me)
Really cool looking! It gives me vibes of carpets (70s?) for some reason.

luckytran, to random
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Republicans are trying to take away and criminalize the right to make decisions around our own health, whether that’s the right to wear a mask or the right to have an abortion. Unacceptable.

https://www.wral.com/amp/21433199/

t_i_m,
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@luckytran
“As Republicans have shrugged off Democrats' concerns, they've said they trust police officers not to abuse the power to arrest anyone for wearing a surgical mask out in public.”

Ah yes, that’s been historically not a problem at all. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Police officers and abuse of power, name a better duo.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Justice Alito Is Holding Trump to a Different Standard https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/opinion/alito-trump-insurrection.html?smid=tw-share

t_i_m,
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@jeffjarvis I wish they had countered with the obvious: Trump says he had immunity, yet he tried to remain in power illegally, so either Trump doesn’t think he had immunity or Alito’s hypothetical is wrong.
Not that it would have mattered though because he’s unserious.

sdw, to random
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oh shit. I’m so sorry everyone

t_i_m,
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@sdw it makes you respect the work of our elders making sure all of these things were regularly used so that we could enjoy them…

jeffjarvis, to random
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Oh fuck me. "Great read"? No. Not a damned word. At an event today, A.G. Sulzberger counted how many Biden-age stories The Times has run. I wonder whether he'll include this or hide behind its bothsidesism.

t_i_m,
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@jeffjarvis “Dr. Bob” sounds like a made up name someone would have to come up with on the spot when asked why they were late for work.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Now The Times goes around the world looking for anti-Biden stories.
Biden Loves Ireland. It Doesn’t Love Him Back. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/opinion/biden-ireland-gaza-varadkar.html?pvid=xPJO57nb-gG8xsaU3zCfcXzN&ugrp=c&smid=tw-share

t_i_m,
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@jeffjarvis because I’m sure Ireland loves the other guy. 🙄 Or they can ask Germany, if they want to go by ancestral origin.
And how is that relevant? Do the Irish people care about what we think about the Taoiseach? Of course they don’t.
That kind of oped nonsense is a big reason why I stopped subscribing. So very frustrating.

jeffjarvis, to random
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OMG, I didn't know that the ticker symbol would be DJT. The ego never ends. I can't wait to see red numbers and down arrows next to DJT.
Truth Social owner Trump Media will begin trading under DJT ticker Tuesday https://cnb.cx/3TutLtD

t_i_m,
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@jeffjarvis it stands for “doing jail time”.

(or maybe “delaying justice tremendously”)

jeffjarvis, to random
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And on top of all this, Porter gave up a House seat we will badly need this fall. (Gift link)
What happened to Katie Porter? A lesson for Democrats. https://wapo.st/3PdyVIY

t_i_m,
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@jeffjarvis once I realized that her running meant she (and Barbara Lee) would have to give up their house seat, I thought Katie Porter’s senate run was a mistake. Between Schiff, Porter, and Lee, they should have planned this better. I think Katie Porter ran too early. That’s a shame.

shanselman, to random
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After 21 glorious years, it's finally died. My Aeron has cracked. I shall replace it with another that will likely last 20+ years as well! Fare thee well, sweet prince.

t_i_m,
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@apenguininspace @shanselman after 21 years, it had a good life but I was thinking the same. I fixed one up three years ago and discovered most parts can be replaced or repaired. It’s a project though and Scott needs to sit down 😄

jeffjarvis, to random
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Peter Baker is an awful journalist, an awful man.

t_i_m,
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@jeffjarvis well, he did cough occasionally, so that really concerns me. I might go for the lunatic, lying fascist fraud instead, who never coughs at all! /s

nclslbrn, to random
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Another test of generative painting, generated by algorithm but painted by hand (exept outline by pen plotter).

t_i_m,
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@nclslbrn I’m curious: were the colors generated and you filled them in, or did you improvise them while painting?
I always find the mix of the two interesting.

MatthewHughes, to art
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Parametric Pirouettes

t_i_m,
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@MatthewHughes is that from the Red Hot Chili Parametric Pirouettes?

t_i_m,
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@MatthewHughes I knew I was taking a chance there 😄 Their logo looks just like that

jacob, to random
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I'm really disappointed to discover that the Fediverse apparently put so little thought into spam prevention. The entire history of email spam is right there to learn from. This current spam campaign is about as sophisticated as an email spam campaign from the 90s, yet apparently there's nothing I can do about it beyond playing whack-a-mole with blocking disposable accounts and servers.

I really hope I'm wrong here and missing something because if not this is super super super disappointing.

t_i_m,
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@jacob is the 20-30 minutes a day just on dealing with spam? If so, that’s enormous.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Some credulous fools, like reporters....
Seeing Haley’s attacks on Trump, some claim her as a member of the resistance https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/18/haley-trump-resistance-gop-primary/

t_i_m,
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@jeffjarvis “some” seems to do a lot of work here. 🙄 You just need two people and $40 and you can write anything you want with “some”.
I wonder if there’s a name for this.

jacob, to random
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Holy shit this Ask A Manager is really something. This dude’s arrogance and total lack of awareness would be shocking if I didn’t see it frequently enough to know it’s a thing. This employer dodged a bullet! https://www.askamanager.org/2024/02/i-was-rejected-because-i-told-my-interviewer-i-never-make-mistakes.html

t_i_m,
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@jacob I chuckled at the title alone, but oh boy it was a dumpster fire!

“I don’t know if it matters but I’m male and everyone I interviewed with was female.”
Ok buddy… I think ultimately it was probably Taylor Swift’s and the Spice Girls’ fault.

paulrickards, to random
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Ok, I caved and bought that $32 “instant” digital camera that prints on thermal paper.

It’s a weird and wonderful shitty camera. The printer is pretty good, using error diffusion dithering but a bit slow. It’s apparently a 12MP camera that can also do 1080p video on the included 32GB SD card. Obs targeted at kids with the built in filters but there’s something about the immediateness that’s fun about it. Wonder how hackable it is?

https://amzn.to/42DSsrS

t_i_m,
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@paulrickards it’s too bad the camera feed is not a thermal printer looking image 😄

Daojoan, to random
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The subscription economy, frankly, sucks.

We’re told repeatedly that it’s just the price of one coffee a month, but the combined cost of every single tool, service, app and game demanding one coffee a month becomes the equivalent of paying for enough caffeine to poison even the strongest constitution.

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/the-subscription-economy-sucks-5324f402491a#7451-d71594e3b06a

t_i_m,
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@Daojoan one aspect of it that I dislike in particular is that it’s not viable for casual users. I used to have a Photoshop license from a company that closed down. I’d use it for a random thing here and there, but I’d never pay the current prices for such tiny things. So now I don’t use it at all, and I was comfortable enough with it that I miss it sometimes.

paulrickards, to genart
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Still plotting large works, this time from the CMY Tangled Plus series. If you look closely, you can see it’s created from a structure of tessellated plus signs and hatched with CMY inks. This one is great seen from a distance as well as mesmerizing to see up close.

24”x36” watercolor with a vintage HP pen plotter, created and plotter with Python. 10 hours of plot time.

Detail of abstract colorful plotter artwork of tessellated plus signs each hatched with a variation of densities of cyan, yellow, and magenta. Overall, the hatch strokes make swirling flows of color giving a sense of movement. The edges have a deckled edge from the plus signs.
Detail of abstract colorful plotter artwork of tessellated plus signs each hatched with a variation of densities of cyan, yellow, and magenta. Overall, the hatch strokes make swirling flows of color giving a sense of movement. The edges have a deckled edge from the plus signs.
Low angle and shallow depth of field shot of abstract colorful plotter artwork of tessellated plus signs each hatched with a variation of densities of cyan, yellow, and magenta. Overall, the hatch strokes make swirling flows of color giving a sense of movement. The edges have a deckled edge from the plus signs.

t_i_m,
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@paulrickards as your post shows up right above a post by @colossal, I wonder: have you ever submitted your work to them? If not, you should! If you have, well, what are they waiting for?!
The fact that you’re using vintage pen plotters you repaired yourself adds a great layer to the amazing artwork.
I’d submit your work, but feel like it’s not my place necessarily.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/submissions/

bart, to random
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Chris Dixon nails the problem. The solution: ActivityPub. cc @caseynewton https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034

t_i_m,
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@bart I feel like at the time there weren’t (and still really isn’t) mainstream means of payment that would have easily moved those revenues to the edges of the network.
It probably doesn’t exist also because similar large companies (e.g. PayPal) don’t make it easy because they like the centralized model too.

arstechnica, to random
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Apple aims to run AI models directly on iPhones, other devices

Apple has acquired 21 AI start-ups since the beginning of 2017.

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/01/apple-aims-to-run-ai-models-directly-on-iphones-other-devices/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

t_i_m,
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@arstechnica doesn’t face, scene and object detection count as AI?

“the face recognition, and scene and object detection are done completely on your device”
https://support.apple.com/en-us/109347

paulrickards, (edited ) to genart
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My first large plot in many months: a new Carousel, about 5 hours in, about 2 hours remaining. Cyan and yellow are down, magenta going down now, and finally black. Python generated and plotted on a vintage HP DraftPro DXL on 24”x36” watercolor paper.

See next post for completed plot!

t_i_m,
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@paulrickards it feels very “feathery”, colorful birds like peacocks or pheasants. Really nice!

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Rapper Meek Mill is wondering out loud if Africans have access to streaming music apps like Spotify, and if so, if they listen to his music.

There aren't enough stories about the Africans working at big tech companies, but there are a lot of us. There are many Ghanaians, South Africans, Kenyans, and Nigerians 🙋🏿‍♂️, working in tech.

I often remind folks that Nigerian 7th grade math curriculum includes binary, octal, hexadecimal, statistics and data, algebra, and geometry.

https://youtu.be/2JTnr9XW-lk?si=D4ch-nw-zDkKNiAe

t_i_m,
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@argv_minus_one @mekkaokereke I often think about how remarkable it is that the US is so powerful when so many basic things are completely broken. (education, healthcare, social safety net, etc.)

paulrickards, to art
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Warmup renders for , quite literally, on this cold day. 🥶

Thermal imaging picture showing heat distribution of a cylindrical computer shown in bright white/yellow with a glow of yellow/orange on the wall behind it. The surrounding color is a cool purple/blue. A target in the middle says 70.3 but the exhaust is warmer than that.

t_i_m,
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@paulrickards does that mean you’ll print more of that collection?!

jamesthomson, (edited ) to random
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Nearly 16 years of PCalc hitting day one on the App Store:

iPhone - 10th July 2008
iPad - 3rd April 2010
Mac - 6 January 2011
Apple Watch - 24th April 2015
Apple TV - 30th October 2015
Apple Vision Pro - 2nd February 2024

No wonder I feel tired!

t_i_m,
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@jamesthomson building for the Apple TV is true dedication. 👏🏻

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