Greg Brown

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practicing recreating a reference picture from scratch in 3d. this is as far as I got in a day. maybe I’ll do the lovely illustrations on the wall one day.. ☺️

Reference photo from Viktorya on unsplash.com #3d #octanerender #cinema4d

High Value Tea Towel.
Twitter is swarmed because everyone’s too excited about Criterion showing the Johnny Mnemonic B&W cut starting today.

Earlier this year a former inmate came to me w/a USB drive of surveillance videos another inmate had picked out of the trash at Men's Central Jail & sold to him for $50 of dope

He hid it INSIDE himself for mths then smuggled it out

Here's what was on it: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-24/fights-beatings-and-a-birth-videos-smuggled-out-of-la-jails-reveal-violence-neglect

Fights, beatings and a birth: Videos smuggled out of L.A. jails reveal violence, neglect

The brutal 20-minute clip is one of a few dozen graphic videos saved to a thumb drive picked out of the trash by one inmate, and later secreted out of the jail by another.

Los Angeles Times
Kai's Power Tools 3.0 (1995)
Spheroid Designer

It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3.

Dan Berger’s dissection/demolition of Cedrick Johnson’s new “post-Black Lives Matter” book is excellent. You can’t tackle racism without tackling police power! https://defector.com/in-the-fight-for-justice-the-police-can-only-be-on-one-side
In The Fight For Justice, The Police Can Only Be On One Side | Defector

In the waning days of the 2023 Chicago mayoral election, the head of the city’s police union menaced that a victory by former public school teacher and Chicago Teachers Union organizer Brandon Johnson would cause as many as 1,000 of the city’s almost 12,000 police officers to quit. And because subtlety has never been a […]

“Regulators and clean-air advocates are increasingly eyeing the pollution emitted by small gasoline engines used to power lawn mowers and leaf blowers as they seek to blunt climate change. Advocates say using a commercial gas leaf blower for an hour produces emissions equal to driving from Denver to Los Angeles.” #ClimateCrisis

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/30/gas-leaf-blower-mower-bans-spread-us-fight-climate-change/11746893002/

Gas leaf blowers and lawn mowers are shockingly bad for the planet. Bans are beginning to spread.

The bans typically apply to new equipment and are popping up from Vermont to California. Proponents say it's good for the climate, health and noise.

USA TODAY
The story in Rage 2 is anemic, which is nice since it means the gameplay isn’t interrupted too much. But it also means the game just ends 30 seconds after the final battle, no denouement or anything?!