Network == Abstraction Layer

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The Network is Just an Abstraction Layer
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I want to draw more women in armor ✨

Print: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/kgehrmann/black-and-gold/

#art #mastoart

I'm surprised my graphic novel "Bloody Mary" already has so many English-language reviews! Looks like the publisher sent out a lot of advance reader copies :)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228142504-bloody-mary#CommunityReviews

"Bloody Mary: A Graphic Biography of Mary Tudor" will be published in the USA this July! 👀 #comics

Bloody Mary: A Graphic Biography of Mary Tudor

An elegant, intimate graphic novel retelling of Mary “t…

Goodreads

European creators, use your voice against genAI! "Billions of creative works are being used as the basis for AI systems without our knowledge, without our consent and without remuneration." ...

You can read and sign the entire letter to the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy here:
https://creators-for-europe-united.eu/

I already signed it. Let's use every little bit of political voice we have!

#openletterCFEunited

Creators for Europe United

Open letter to the Executive Vice-President of the EU Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy to protect Europe’s creative soul.

Creators for Europe United
You can see much more art on my website https://www.kristinagehrmann.com/ !

So I'm working with a couple of professionals on the psychology/childhood development side of the house, and I'm standing in as a professional on the technology side of the house, and I'm trying to figure out what an intentional relationship with technology looks like, and what it takes to build a healthy relationship with a platform like Youtube when you're a kid with a deep and abiding obsession that dominates pretty much everything else in your life.

I'm trying to figure out how to motivate kids to read, when most of the methods I've used in the past aren't working at all.

Oh, and as a side note, I've spent most of this thread talking about kids and young adults because those are the folks I work most closely with, but this problem is perhaps even more extreme with my grandparent's generation.

Folks who grew up without much tech access are now being forced in to situations where they have to use it, and figuring out many of the same methods that kids are using, and it's absolutely unraveling them. I'm less convinced that this can be fixed, but ...

Just check in on your parents and your grandparents and make sure they're not mainline facebook shorts conspiracy theories about the texas floods, okay?

On 23 June 2016 the UK voted narrowly to leave the EU in a vote heavily influenced by lies, misrepresentations, Russian interference and troll farms, Cambridge Analytica and dark money. Arguably it was one of the greatest acts of self-harm ever done by a nation to itself.

#Brexit #CambridgeAnalytica #RussianInterference #OnThisDay

yo dawg i heard you like sdl so we put sdl in yo bootloader

#uboot

As courts have struck down #NIH grant terminations, the agency has charted a new path towards cutting that it hopes can withstand court challenges. My college Anil Oza has the scoop. https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/06/hhs-nih-grant-terminations-legal-guidance-internal-memo/
HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows

Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.

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