Andy Stalick

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Front-End Developer, Photographer, Hacker
Pronounshe/him
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LocationAustin, Texas
title: Fish Decoy
artist: Unidentified
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
notes: Carved fish decoys are one of the earliest forms of American folk art. […]
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=31555
Fish Decoy

Carved fish decoys are one of the earliest forms of American folk art. Hunters around the Bering Sea first used small bone or ivory decoys for ice fishing around 1000 AD.

Smithsonian American Art Museum
A Project 2025 Adviser Just Defended Slavery in Haiti

Speaking at a congressional hearing, Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the far-right Center for Immigration Studies, argued that Haiti would have been better off if colonization—and, by extension, slavery—had continued for decades.

The New Republic

"It’s important to remember that before Pearl Harbor, support for Mussolini and Hitler were strong among America’s business leaders; many, for instance, hoped the fascists would sweep away both Bolshevism and the “class traitor” Roosevelt." #history #fascism #politics #uspolitics

https://daily.jstor.org/genesis-of-the-modern-american-right/

Genesis of the Modern American Right - JSTOR Daily

During the Great Depression, financial elites translated European fascism into an American form that joined high capital with lower middle-class populism.

JSTOR Daily
title: Horace Greeley
artist: Unidentified Artist
source: National Portrait Gallery
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.77.9
"ProPublica, the nation’s leading nonprofit investigative newsroom, is in search of a full-stack senior product engineer to lead work on our publishing systems and core website." If this sounds like you, I'd love to work with you. https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4403685006 #getfedihired #journalism #engineering #jobs
Senior Engineer, Web and Publishing Products

New York, New York, United States

The video.requestVideoFrameCallback() method is soon coming to all browsers. This means you'll soon be able to run code on every frame of a playing <video>, which can be useful to, for instance, update a <canvas> at the same time.

Here's a quick demo video showing how I used this to compute the average color of a video frame (by dropping the frame into a canvas and getting the image color data), and set the page's background color to it.

“I think it’s very dangerous, and people are scared, mostly because having mismatched documents can affect their work, their ability to get on a plane, or to show someone who they are.”

In a new article for #Austin Free Press, I spoke with the local #trans community about how they're responding to the latest attack on our rights, which blocks us from updating identity documents. https://austinfreepress.org/identity-crisis-austin-trans-community-dresses-for-battle-with-texas-attorney-general-paxton/

#News #Texas #KenPaxton #transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #USpol #politics #HumanRights

Identity Crisis: Austin trans community dresses for battle with Texas Attorney General Paxton

Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking down names as he spearheads a ban on trans Texans changing the genders on their driver’s licenses.

Austin Free press

what does Elon Musk do while his companies take on Government contracts?

He tweets dangerous, irresponsible, idiotic and incendiary suggestions that assassination attempts on Donald Trump are orchestrated by the President and Vice President of the United States.

Make no mistake, that’s what Musk is suggesting.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-us-government-must-reconsider-elon-musks-role-as-a-defense-contractor/

The U.S. Government Must Reconsider Elon Musk’s Role as a Defense Contractor

Elon Musk’s latest unhinged claims aren’t “bad takes”—they’re national security risks. Is it time for the U.S. to cut ties with a defence contractor who’s fanning political violence? For a petulant edgelord, Elon Musk exercises far too much influence on American technology, space exploration,

@Westenberg