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Jeremy G
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I work in academic technology around Boston, MA, USA. Opinions are my own. Also involved in a local arts association, mutual aid, and supporting kids in foster care.
So this has been something that has burned a number of hours (pleasantly) for me over the last few days: https://thomaswc.com/2025.html
Having finished it, I wish I could start it over, but in the style of a community puzzle, on a computer in the middle of a common area. It was plenty enjoyable on my own, but now I have all these thoughts about which things are in certain categories together and nowhere to put them.
Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏from Decorative Patterns of the Ancient World, by Petrie Flinders, 1930: "Octopus" and "Cross Emblems, Pagan and Christian Age"
The book is free on the Internet Archive with over a hundred pages of blackline motifs. I would love to find a similar book with more East Asian, Islamic, or pre-Columbian designs.
https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.39205/mode/1up
#internetarchive #PublicDomain #celticcross #InsularEurope #octopus #OldBooks #design #illustration
@tankgrrl
Yep, recognized your avatar as one I've seen in work chats. Good to see you're on fedi too!
Yep, recognized your avatar as one I've seen in work chats. Good to see you're on fedi too!
Arne BrasseurIt's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.
How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.
But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.
Welp. OpenAI acquired Astral, the developers behind uv, ruff, and ty tools for Python.
How long before there's core functionality in these tools that relies on OpenAI? Or can they get away with just having better integration in their developer tools?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-buy-python-toolmaker-astral-take-anthropic-2026-03-19/
The VergeDiscord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
It's #BandcampFriday tomorrow! What's on your wishlist? I've got my eye on a few albums:
https://rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com/album/what-did-the-blackbird-say-to-the-crow
What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, by Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson
18 track album
@jessamyn
Seconding Eclipse. They were able to digitize some old tape cartridge things I had from my grandfather. Older than cassette or 8 track, apparently the ones I had digitized were used in radio stations for little audio stingers to put in the broadcasts in the 50s or so, I think. They spliced the magnetic tape inside together to run it all through a reel to reel to digitize them. 8 tracks seem like they'd be in their wheelhouse. Not cheap, but reasonable.
@xeroxerox
Seconding Eclipse. They were able to digitize some old tape cartridge things I had from my grandfather. Older than cassette or 8 track, apparently the ones I had digitized were used in radio stations for little audio stingers to put in the broadcasts in the 50s or so, I think. They spliced the magnetic tape inside together to run it all through a reel to reel to digitize them. 8 tracks seem like they'd be in their wheelhouse. Not cheap, but reasonable.
@xeroxerox
Annalee Newitz 🍜This deal is incredible, and it's for the best cause. For the next 19 days, you can get ALL the fiction by me and @charliejane at a special price from Humble Bundle in the US -- and all sales benefit the fantastic folks at the Miss Major Alexander L. Lee Black Trans Cultural Center. #bookstodon #scifibooks
Find our bundle at: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/charlie-jane-anders-annalee-newitz-tor-books
