Aaryan Pashine

@caizoryan
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graphic design student doing computer stuff.

Documenting tool making experiments here, also an inconsistent mirror of https://feed.a-p.space


ocad u, toronto

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This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces.

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

"In a time of misinformation, in a time of suppression, having this place where people can come and bring knowledge and share knowledge, that is a statement."

#Wikipedia

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.

The Verge
The touchable world can be divided into either grass or computers. At any moment, you are either touching grass, or you are touching a computer.

Was working on this tool last semester, and recently need it for another project where I need to make a publication (a menu) where pages are offset vertically and horizontally.

Finally got it all to work together nicely and have a live feedback/ui to change these offsets and quickly test out different possible layouts.

You can do anything you want! If it’s not too hard and you’re not too tired. Basically, you can do some things, occasionally

Once this land was barren & we built a city on it out of pure HTML. Those that came after thought the city had always been here & that another could never be created but this was wrong. We built it. We can tear down & rebuild.

You can leave substack. You can leave twitter. We can make new things.

3eppp

This technological pro-social age is special and I don't like the idea, almost a prophesy, of humanity regressing to the mean.

But it's getting real mean these days.