victor tsaran

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Musician, technologist working on accessibility and other things that improve people's lives. Love reading literature and minds!
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8 Facts About Berthe Morisot, the Great Woman Impressionist

by Anastasiia Kirpalov

Degas and Renoir were fans of her work. Manet painted her.

https://www.thecollector.com/facts-berthe-morisot-woman-impressionist/

"Impressionist painting: its genesis and development" by Wynford Dewhurst has a chapter about Morisot and other women Impressionists.

At PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69533

Young Woman Knitting

#art

Happy Barack Obama appreciation day!

#BarackObama #TrumpIsHitler

In 1997, Mary Schmich published a guide to life in the Chicago Tribune. In 1999, Baz Lurhmann turned it into a chillout anthem called Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen).

It was, and remains, some of the best advice for life I've ever heard...
https://tink.uk/advice-for-life/

Advice for life - Tink - Léonie Watson

Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
It’s funny to watch how with time the collection of local LLMs on my computer shrank to two only: Gemma3:27B and nomic-embed-text. Llama3.2 is pretty much gone, both the text and the vision models. :) I might get a better embedding model if one comes along, but for now nomic-embed-text seems to be doing what I need. Rest is cloud-based.
WWA Summary by Location for 66.57N 145.26W with AKZ833/AKC290/AKZ933 emphasis Heat Advisory

The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vibrations” Into the Beach Boys’ Pocket Symphony

https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/how-brian-wilson-turned-good-vibrations-into-the-beach-boys-pocket-symphony.html

Senator Padilla: "If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country."

https://www.latintimes.com/democratic-senator-reacts-after-being-shoved-floor-handcuffed-we-will-hold-this-administration-584927

Democratic Senator Reacts After Being Shoved To The Floor And Handcuffed: 'We Will Hold This Administration Accountable'

Democratic Senator Alex Padilla reacted after being shoved to the floor and handcuffed as he tried to ask DHS Secretary Noem a question: "We will hold this administration accountable"

Latin Times

Really cool article by @kellylford Worth remembering that as blind people we should verify twice, thrice, or however many times it takes. My principle: if I am not sure, I discard or do not post! What’s yours?

https://theideaplace.net/i-just-want-to-be-included-how-a-simple-plea-sparked-an-unintentional-ai-accessibility-experiment/

“I Just Want to Be Included”: How a Simple Plea Sparked an unintentional AI Accessibility Experiment

The work of editorial cartoonists and their ability to capture the essence of an idea in a picture or two must be quite the talent to have and job to hold. That phrase “a picture is worth a thousan…

The Idea Place

This man burst into the room, started lunging towards the podeum, interrupting me and elevating his voice and was stopped, did not identify himself, and was removed from the room. As soon as he identified himself, appropriate actions were taken.

Suddenly she is spinning with multiple falsehoods, to create the impression she was in danger somehow, possibly fearing for her life. It is the only play in Trump’s playbook: never back down. Because it works.

Hypothetically, if, rather than putting the cuffs on him, one of the agents just pulled their side arm and shot him in the back of the head. The talking points from Republicans would be exactly the same. Because they do not care about what’s true. It’s all about what they can get away with. Right now, they’re getting away with a lot.

NPR - National Park Service being instructed to post signage at all sites across the country by June 13, asking visitors to offer feedback on any information that they feel portrays American history and landscapes in a negative light. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5429773/national-park-service-signs