In 2019 I needed to have a brainscan. My brother mentioned that I could request a digital copy of my scan which has sat on my computer unopened since then.
Turns out that the skull is made out of three plates which join together and create unique fingerprint-like patterns of waves. This is mine across the top of my head; I think I could stitch some other images together to see the two others but that’s trickier!
As mentioned in the post, a humble and sincere thank you to @anniegreens for suggesting this month-long challenge in the first place. I didn't expect it to be quite so revelatory.
@sarajw@bendaubney woww these are so cool haha. I think I saw Jeff's many years ago but this is updated and super cool. Sebadoh (the band) used to have something like this too- several indie band websites have done cool stuff like this over the years and I LOVE them 😍
@starshaped@bendaubney@lynnandtonic well mine hasn't really changed since I got this job, and part of the reason for building it was to get said job, so, yeah.
@cory I love some of the sites people have built with 11ty - and I did briefly consider using it - but I'm glad I went with the relative simplicity of a PHP powered CMS.
@bendaubney haha yeah, same. I will have a couple if we go to a place like The Beer Research Institute like we went to the other day 😂 but I don't buy any for the house.
AI models trained on copyrighted data without permission or citation, deployed to churn out endless content for SEO or to create meaningless and vacuous responses and descriptions: definitely bad.
AI models generating art in any form: the bleakest future imaginable.
@bendaubney I have such weird mixed feelings about all of it. I wrote about it once several months ago and haven't since. I'm just torn. I see SOME benefits (GoblinTools, funny songs, for art mockups, etc) but I see MOSTLY negative aspects and I see ALL companies pushing it in EVERYTHING. It's weird and depressing and a bubble haha.
Absolutely over the moon to learn that my nice local cinema is showing my all-time favourite film next month! And because I’m a member it’s stupidly cheap too!
Which is to say: I’ve just spent £1 booking a ticket to see Being John Malkovich on the big screen in June.
@bendaubney I have! Another wild one! My favorite Streep performance hahaha. And Cage, brilliant as always. Another one I always tell my wife about I don't think she'd watch hahaha
@mahryekuh@bendaubney@bjhess@amerpie I suppose it may be what I’m doing logging/listing links I find interesting (and typically without comment 😅 — I was thinking of it as lazy link blogging)
@bendaubney@maique They are amazing pictures, and unexpectedly sharp (I don't know why I'm surprised), but that makes them somehow seem more real and modern, than some photo of over 100 years ago.
@bendaubney I find myself torn in two different directions on this.
In real life I suppose if we really loved a specific edition of a magazine, we'd buy and keep it. Depending on how much it meant to us, we'd throw it away later, or not.
Online we've been spoiled with so much glorious stuff at our fingertips - we can't print and keep it all. I guess we could download and archive interesting web pages (the Internet Archive is doing that for us, too).
@bendaubney Some bits grow, some die back, some get pruned.
All this data needs somewhere to live, it costs electricity to keep things online - do we really need to have everything online all at once?
People get overjoyed when they find old newspapers in attics from a century or more ago. At some point we'll maybe do the same digitally, finding interesting stuff on old media or hard drives.
@bendaubney 😂 and the best part of this is that the Boss has famously declined being on the Simpsons MANY times. Epic. I love his stuff but yeah we're all gettin older eh 😂🤣😂